Some great news coming out of the Great Central today LEICESTER’S WORLD CLASS RAILWAY MUSEUM ON TRACK! HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND EARMARKS FUNDING AND RELEASES DEVELOPMENT GRANT. The Great Central Railway, The National Railway Museum and Leicester City Council are delighted to announce plans for a new railway museum in the city are firmly on track. The new attraction, “Main…
Good evening, As seeing Dave is having laptop issues and my wife has taken my son out for the day I thought today would be the perfect time to do something LocoYard.com hasn’t done this year, a model train review. The locomotive I am looking at today is an old model but the real life…
Good evening, Today we have some a bit different in the form of a railway photo guide. One of the most popular search terms on Locoyard is for photo guides of various railways, so I thought I’d try one featuring the Isle of Wight of Steam Railway so without further adieu. Isle of Wight Steam…
50 years ago Canadian Pacific was being recoaled and watered at Nine Elms following her morning trip up from Weymouth and was preparing for her return trip. Fresh out of an intermediate overhaul and with electrication being installed on the South West mainline this was going to be her best chance of breaking the…
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Thanks to local photographer Darran Rafferty for sharing these superb pictures of a steam train coming into Dundalk today. The Dundalk Railway Heritage Society, in conjunction with the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, ran an excursion from Clarke Station to Connolloy Station in Dublin. You can check out…
Good evening, It’s been a couple of months since I have written a volunteer diary entry on my experiences working on Canadian Pacific but with most of the work focused around cleaning the frames and various components on the locomotive it seemed sensible to hold fire until I have something actually interesting to report. The big…
Tonight we have a very special guest blog post from a fantastic artist, Stephen Bedser. Stephen has previously written for LocoYard and today we are at his final part of his mini series on how his does his paintings. To catch up on his previous posts you can new find it on his own dedicated page…
The Isle of Wight Steam Railways latest attraction is the newly built Train Story museum, the £1.2 million project which was funded by the Hertiage Lottery and opened to the public in April 2014. Train Story is a huge exhibition space, enabling the Railway’s truly impressive historic collection of locomotives, Victorian and Edwardian carriages and…
Good evening, When I visited the Isle of Wight railway in May 2014 the biggest disappointment for me was my camera died before I could get any photographs of the lines brilliant freight train. What made this freight train extra special was that the train was operated with a historically-representative single brake van during the morning.…
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Hello Welcome to my final post in our mini series looking at Merchant Navy class locomotive Canadian Pacific. My recent blogs posting about her stripping down for costing and parts inspection has proved very popular and have taken the decision to write a mini series looking at her history. The…
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