Simon from Brookes Castle has become an incredible contributor to http://www.locoyard.com. His volunteer diary has been amongst the most popular of blog post series. These blog post’s tell his story as a new volunteer working on the full strip and inspection of Merchant Navy Pacific 35005 Canadian Pacific.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 190,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 8 days for that many people to see…
This is just a short blog post showing three pictures taken on the layout today. Bachmann 45xx 4555 (above) has well and truly been run-in – expect a review and DCC fitting guide in the not too distant future!
As the newest edition to the locoyard fleet hauls the last train of 2013, I would just like to wish everyone a very happy 2014. I wish you all the very best and look forward to sharing 2014 with you all!
The volume and breadth of articles published here and significantly in UK Heritage Hub’s ezine has been remarkable. Today we summarise the past year’s UKHH blog posts and what a selection they are too……. Locoyard has become the blog of choice from UK Heritage Hub. In the coming year you can expect this partnership to…
Issue 32 of UK Heritage Hub’s brilliant ezine has been published (click here to download and read it). Please note that submissions for Issue 33 are now open, the deadline for submissions being 13th January. If there is a topic or article that you would like to write or pictures of UK Heritage published, why…
The last model of the week blog post for 2013 is a (renumbered) Bachmann BR Standard class 9F class. The model has previously been reviewed (click here for more) and being such a solid performer is a regular runner here at Locoyard. Today we look at the history of this powerful prototype.
As promised yesterday evening, here are some more pictures taken on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, showing a decorated terrier tank engine. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the readers and contributors of this blog during the past year and wish you all a very merry Christmas.
The season of Santa Special’s is always special on heritage railways. As a result of lots of hard work by volunteers, the Christmas spirit is fantastic, with Santa, presents, mince pies, Christmas music and decorations aplenty! This is as true on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway as it is on any other, as can…
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture!
Loco Yard 