Originally posted on 52 Weeks of Bill's Life:
To do this theme justice I have to tell a story – I have always wanted to take pictures of steam trains and the North Yorkshire Railway Company was close by on my recent vacation. Great so Jeff, the brother in-law, and I worked out the timetables…
Good evening, Today marks the fifty anniversary of the last ever “Atlantic Coast Express” when 34023 Blackmoor Vale left Padstow heading for London Waterloo on the 5th September 1964. One of the most famous named trains in British Railways that had for so long linked London with the holiday locations on the North Cornwall’s Atlantic Coast had ceased…
Originally posted on Calling All Stations:
As you may well know, I originally got this hobby in my teens, being forced to take a break when I ran out of space and went to uni. Spin forward 10 years and I now have a large quantity of rolling stock that I inherited from the offset, some of…
A great looking miniature railway will have to visit it one day. 🙂
A great look at the Jacobite, this trip is very high up on my bucketlist and is something I am planning to do in a couple of years 🙂
Good evening, Tomorrow 60163 Tornado will be charging down the Great Western Mainline hauling the Devon Belle. What makes this trip special is that it will be the last time she will haul mainline passenger trains whilst wearing the British Railway’s Express Blue livery, at least for the foreseeable future . Both myself and Dave…
Good evening, Today I thought I’d do another post looking at photos I have taken before joining the LocoYard team and today we are looking at some from the Isle of Wight steam railway in 2013. Living in Portsmouth means this is technically my local heritage railway with it only been 10 miles away as…
Last year I had the good fortune to attend the Watercress Line’s Spring Steam Gala and what a Gala it was. Originally it was planned to be an event where you able to see three of the National Railway Museums 4-4-0s in steam together. However as everyone knows the legendary GWR 4-4-0 City of Truro…
Good evening, Today I got to see Oliver Cromwell hauling this weeks Dorset Coast Express. She was due to haul next weeks service but with the FBU strikes the train has been cancelled. This is the first time I have seen the Britannia class locomotive in person and she did not disappoint.
Today marks the 100th anniversary since the outbreak of the First World War. To commemorate this historic date the NRM have done a brilliant piece looking at recreating a First World War ambulance carriage.
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