Tonight I’m rather cheekily posting part of the Locoyard article to be found in edition 34 of UK Heritage Hub, though with different pictures! The message is just as important here… Calling all potential bloggers out there! We are looking for new authors! Volunteers, enthusiasts, modellers are all welcome to apply!
Some very interesting points about the 6 surviving A4 pacific locomotives!
The latest free edition of UK Heritage Hub’s fantastic e-zine full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors is ready to be downloaded. Enjoy! Click here to download and read it! Please note that submissions for Issue 34 are now open. If there is a topic or article that you would like to…
Last October, regular contributor Nick Littlewood sent some fascinating pictures of Sheffield Victoria Station (click here to read more), the main station on the former Great Central Railway. They showed some of the last views of this station, giving us a unique look at the station. Fortunately for us he has very kindly found some…
Although the Model of the Week series has come to and end, we still will look at the history of the prototype’s represented by model locomotives in special blog posts, of which this is one! Today is a special look at a GWR member of the Locoyard fleet of locomotives. This is a Bachmann model…
Please do not forget everyone to download issue 33 of UK Heritage Hub’s fantastic free e-zine! Click here to download and read it! It is full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors is ready to be downloaded. Enjoy! Please note that submissions for Issue 34 are now open and the deadline…
Fiction has done much to keep the magic of steam engines alive in the public consciousness. JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series of novels and films that followed are one of the most recent successes, with it’s Hogwart’s Express that departed from London King’s Cross platform 9¾. The locomotive that starred in the role of Hogwarts…
Originally posted on Chasewaterstuff's Railway & Canal Blog:
Railway Restoration Team Wins National Award Class 119 vehicle W51073 as it emerges from the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway’s restoration A team of volunteers from the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway has won the prestigious Railcar of the year award for their work in restoring a rare class 119…
Where would southern model railway enthusiasts be without Graham ‘Muz’ Muspratt? A lot worse off, that’s for sure! Some interesting developments here on both Bachmann and Hornby fronts. Southern Railway, Fisherton Sarum, Canute Road Quay & Westhill Road Further to my last post with the first Bachmann E4 class Engineering Prototype pictures I am now also…
Originally posted on Max Stafford's Kennel:
Just a quick post to advise that I have now set up a dedicated blog covering my weathering and effects work, as opposed to the more general layout and build projects here. See http://www.albaweathering.com Thanks.
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