The View From Locoyard – UK Heritage Hub Newsletter Issue 19

UK Heritage Hub have just published another fantastic newsletter and as usual “The View From Locoyard” is in it! Enjoy! Click here to download and read it!

The Most Famous Steam Locomotive?

Please click here or on the pictures below to find out more details on how to vote for the most famous steam locomotive in the world!

Gallery of Non-Runners!

Tonight’s blog post is a little unusual! To fill in some of the blank spaces in the “Loco Models“ page, I’ve taken a few pictures of ongoing and future projects that could add some variety to the Locoyard fleet! Enjoy!

Medstead Wagon Gang

A memorable part of the day at the the Watercress Line’s Great Spring Steam Gala 2013 was a tour of the Medstead Wagon Works.

Eurotrack International Exhibition 2013 – Roundup

Today we finally wrap up looking at the International Exhibition of Model Railways 2013, starting with a brief mention of the model railways not covered previously. Unfortunately due to time constraints I was unable to capture more than glimpse of some of these layouts, so this is literally a whistle stop tour!

The Science Museum

It was a visit to the Science Museum in London that sparked the quest to find the most famous steam locomotive (click here to read more). However despite that, there had yet to be a proper article on the three locomotives to be found there, so here (at last!) it is!

Model of the Week – Unrebuilt West Country Class – 21C123 Blackmoor Vale

With the opening of the Bluebell Railway’s northern extension tomorrow, a model of one of the line’s locomotive’s seemed appropriate. So here we have, unrebuilt West Country Bulleid Pacific 21C123 Blackmoor Vale!

New Forest Steam – Exbury Gardens Steam Railway

Whilst on a lovely (though very muddy!) walk with Mrs Locoyard on 9th March, we briefly passed through Exbury,

The Most Famous Steam Locomotive?

Until the end of March 2013, we were accepting nominations for locomotives considered to be the most famous! This competition was started in UK Heritage Hub’s e-magazine (Click here to download and read it). A poll is now live for all nominated entries – click here to vote!