The Watercress Line’s Spring Steam Gala 2016 was especially fitting for its location. The theme being Guildford shed (70C,) a location not too far from the railway. The railway was host to two visitors – the familiar and beautiful T9 class 30120 and the Bluebell Railway’s Maunsell Q class 30541 on it’s first outing away…
This weekend (20th and 21st February 2016) I shall be conducting tours of Ropley’s works with Becky and new volunteer David. The tours shall be free to passengers on the railway, although donations for the Canadian Pacific project would be happily received if you are able to! Timings will be displayed at Alresford and Alton. Where…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at the latest update from the 35011 General Steam Navigation project which went live today. Being a member of the 35011 team I am obviously thrilled about the great progress that is made with the project and I hope lots of you are interested in the project and would…
Good evening, Yesterday I posted all my better photos from the Mid Hants Gala and I mentioned that at the start of the day I had 2 shots I wanted to get with the first being the Ivatt hauling the freight in the morning which turned out as planned. The second of these shots was…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at my shots from this years Watercress Line Spring Steam Gala which with me being on the 35011 General Steam Navigation stand all day meant my chances to get photos were limited. That being said I had 2 photos I wanted to get at the start of the day…
One of my fav engines is the humble 350hp diesel shunter, an o60 chassis with a marine engine of which the Mid Hants has at least 4! One of them was on shunting duty today and here it is Looking forward to the release of the Dapol O gauge model later…
Good evening, Tonight we are featuring a blog post by the always brilliant Inglenook South who takes a look at the Hornby 466 class EMU. I do have a soft spot for these units but I dont think I will ever purchase one myself I doubt pre-grouping GWR and Network SouthEast trains would mix well…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at one of my favourite layouts I saw at the Southampton Model Railway Club Exhibition in the form of Wantage. Wantage is an O Gauge layout which is closely based on the Mills Street terminus of the Wantage Tranway Company owned by D. S. Cox of the Crawley MRS.…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at the upcoming Watercress Line gala which starts tomorrow and will be featured on Locoyard in the upcoming weeks. Traditionally Dave does the preview post but as I type this he is showing a troop of Brownies around Ropley so this time it’s up to me so here we…
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Another fine layout at the Alton show was Dock Green, an O gauge shunting layout set in East London in early British Railways days. Full marks, too for the layout name, bringing back memories of watching ‘Dixon of Dock Green’ on black-and-white television on a Saturday evening. As usual, I enjoyed…
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