The Summer of 2014 has been a bumper season for Mainline Steam in Southern England, despite Fire Risks and FBU Strikes threatening to hamper this. This video showcases some of the best bits from July and August. 44932 – Royal Wessex – July 5th: Netley, Brockenhurst 45407 – Royal Duchy – July 6th: Taunton, Dawlish…
Click HERE for the BRAND NEW UKHH e-zine Issue 44 (Released 11/09), ready for you to download and have a read of at your leisure. Featuring a varied array of articles and images, from across the length and breadth of the country. Our thanks to everyone, whom continues to contribute to this fast expanding enterprise.…
Today marks an important day for this website, for it marks the first time that we have been able to sing the praises for model trains in a national campaign! Today John Lewis Insurance, as part of their Your Toy Story campaign features the train set and so, in our unique way we will explore why we…
Please note that this article has been superseded, please click here for the updated blog post. It’s been a little while since we’ve commented on new model releases on this blog and to be honest a big reason for that is that it is becoming hard to keep track (excuse the pun) of the…
Rather remarkably, somehow I managed to skip this this beautiful locomotive when reporting about my visit to the Bluebell Line (click here to read more.) This was probably because I only saw it briefly as it pulled away with the line’s Wealden Rambler. It had been many years since I had seen this locomotive in…
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Recently I had lunch with a co-worker who was born and raised in India. We talked about her home state, Indian food, and then on to tea. From tea we took a side step to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a favorite two foot railway of mine. My friend asked…
Whilst class 37/0 locomotive D6975/37275 (click here for more) was in action during my last visit to the South Devon Railway (click here for more), upon exploring Buckfastleigh I soon found that it was one of a number of heritage diesels to be found on the site. This allowed for the opportunity to practice my…
It’s been a long time coming, but we have at last updated the look of the website. 5 featured blog posts will now appear on the top of the screen, but if you scroll down the home page you will soon see all the other blog posts in age order (newest first). The old look…
Following from yesterdays ramblings and being gifted a little free time this afternoon, I sat back and watched this fantastic film of Southern steam on YouTube. It is one of a set that I’ll be watching in due course. Some of the footage in this video was taken in the 1930’s. From observing this, I…
Blog post writing is a funny thing. Sometimes a post can take days or weeks to evolve into something worth publishing, or sometimes it can end up being deleted, whilst others are spontaneous and are written and published without hesitation. A short while ago I had an idea to publish blog posts, each with an…
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