Imagine a rural world before the Internet, home deliveries, mains gas and mass car ownership. How would you get your coal to light your fire at night? Where would your newspapers come from? If you were to move house – how would you? What about all the foodstuffs grown locally – how would these be taken…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Medstead! Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture! Got a picture that you’d like to submit for the Advent Calendar? Email it to locomotiveyard@gmail.com
Our railway heritage is so rich that there are often commemorations of significant milestones at different dates. This year marked a significant commemoration of 40 years of service of perhaps the most celebrated of British Railways trains – the High Speed Train (HST), also known as InterCity 125 or by its less glamorous TOPS classification of class 43.
A J39 in the snow… Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture! Got a picture that you’d like to submit for the Advent Calendar? Email it to locomotiveyard@gmail.com
Christmas is on its way… And that means that it’s nearly time for the locoyard Advent calendar! Tune in each day to see more! If you’ve got a picture that you’d like to submit for the Advent Calendar, please email it to locomotiveyard@gmail.com and we’ll love to share it (credit will be given)
Much progress has been made with the Canadian Pacific project. We have three updates below, one from the beginning of the month when the firebox was removed and two more recent entries, the first covering the delivery of the new tender top and the second an update from the carriage shop. If that wasn’t enough,…
The Watercress Line’s Autumn Steam Gala 2016 was an excellent three days for those who love to see a lot of steam engines in action. There were three visitors to the railway, with the headliner being 46100 Royal Scot on its first visit to the line. It was joined by the only surviving Ivatt 4MT, no. 43106…
The Watercress Line’s Autumn Steam Gala is shaping up to be a cracker! Earlier today I took a few snaps of one of the three visiting locomotives – S&DJR 7F 53809, that arrived earlier today. The other two visitors will by be 46100 Royal Scot and “the flying pig” – the Severn Valley Railway’s Ivatt…
Exciting news from Hornby today! Hello and welcome to a very special edition of The Engine Shed.Well, what a week it’s been. Keen viewers of our Social Media pages will not have missed one or two carefully placed clues, alluding to the subject of this week’s blog. After much speculation in forums and the like, we…
In previous Canadian Pacific updates, we have seen that the disassembly of the boiler and firebox of the mighty Merchant Navy class steam locomotive 35005 Canadian Pacific has been progressing and that unfortunately the condition between the outer and inner firebox is far worse than expected. In the latest update, the extent of this is…
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