Originally posted on esngblog:
The preserved North Norfolk Railway does what it says on the can – it is part of the old Midland & Great Northern Railway, running along the north coast of Norfolk from Sheringham. These days, it tries to run appropriate stock, even if it is Great Eastern in origin. However, in…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at the January Update from the General Steam Navigation project, the unrebuilding of a Merchant Navy has long been talked about since Barry with the amount of Merchant Navy’s surviving the cutters torch. We are happy to confirm that the 35011 General Steam Navigation team will be hosting…
Earlier this month, Hornby announced a number of new product lines to be released later this year across their brands. With the resurrection of their old Thomas the Tank engine range, Hornby is looking to cater for more than just the mainly adult dominated scale model market by producing a range of battery powered toy…
Simon mentioned on Twitter not so long ago that we’re yet to have a Bulleid themed blog post this year. So tonight we end this drought with a few pictures to enjoy!
Tonight we are looking at a rather interesting piece by Graham Muz. As regular readers of my blog will I know I often assist a number of the model manufacturers and commissioners with support, advice and research in conjunction to models that they are in the process of developing. This post is a ‘comment piece’…
Seeing as it is Saturday evening, it seemed the ideal timing to report on the Kent and East Sussex Railway’s Saturday Gang! They have started the year by publishing an update on the end of 2015. The gang work on maintaining and overhauling the railway’s fleet of locomotives. In the latest update, details of work on eight…
A great article by Robert Demaine of the National Railway Musuem looking at how some locomotives were named differently during the First World War. Named locomotives in the First World War The naming of railway locomotives has often been a practice heavy with symbolism and at no time more so than during the Great War. Thanks…
Stephen Bedser has long been a good friend and contributor of this website. Stephen is a talented artist who’s art has graced these online web pages and long may it continue to do so! Capturing the raw beauty of industrial heritage through water colours requires talent of which this author is deficient, but fortunately for…
Originally posted on Locksands Life:
As we get through January, I thought I might look at one or two Christmas presents – but this isn’t one of them. This is a sort of buckshee extra. I performed what I might call a trifling kindness for Henfield Museum and the author of a book about the…
Originally posted on Kindadukish's Blog – I am not a number, I am a free man (The Prisoner):
“A grand day out………………..” The regular steam train enters the station Although I am scheduled to go on an official visit to see the Flying Scotsman train next Friday, I decided at short notice to go…
