South of England Summer Steam Spectacular!
This is a special video made for UK Heritage Hub looking back at an incredible summer of steam! Enjoy!
Reminder! UK Heritage Hub Newsletter Issue 26
Tonight’s blog post is both a reminder to download and checkout UK Heritage Hub’s latest ezine (click here to download and read it) and also a note that submissions for Issue 27 are still open – the deadline for which is 9th September. If there is a topic or article that you would like to…
Both Red Beauties?
The National Railway Museum is a fantastic collection of railway objects, all of high historical importance. In the Station Hall, some of the more opulent exhibits can be found.
Lydham Manor
As with it’s fellow Paignton and Dartmouth Railway based cousin 5239 Goliath that featured on Saturday (click here to read more), 7827 Lydham Manor has for many years been one of the stalwarts of the line’s fleet. It also shares a similar history in it’s preservation; being an ex-Barry scrapyard locomotive.
Bachmann Announce LBSCR H2 Brighton Atlantic Class
Yesterday at a Bachmann Collectors Club event at the Bluebell Railway, Bachmann announced their intention to produce a model of an ex-LBSCR Brighton Atlantic steam locomotive. This is a significant development in the Model Railway industry, showing an increased interest in pre-grouping types of steam locomotive.
Early Railway’s
In stark contrast to the previous blog post looking at modern traction in the National Railway Museum, York (click here to read more), today we look at locomotives and carriages, some of which are replica’s, that remind us of the early days of railways in the UK. We begin with elderly 1829 built Shutt End…
Model of the Week – BR Standard 4MT class 2-6-0 76079
At the time of going to press, 76079 is the newest member of the 00 scale locoyard fleet of model locomotives. The real thing has featured on the website before (click here for more) and the Bachmann model has also been reviewed (click here to read the review). Today, we look at the history of…
NRM “Modern” Motive Power
The National Railway Museum is home to many significant locomotives and of course, not all of them are steam locomotives! It would be wrong to not include some of them in the series of blog posts that have been published in the past few weeks on the NRM! As ever I beg for forgiveness if…
Reminder! ‘Anything Goes’ at the Gwili in September!
Don’t forget about this fantastic event! Please click on the text here or the picture above to find out more!
Catalunya (Model Railway Layouts of Pecorama – Part 3)
Following on from Part 1 and Part 2 of a series of blog posts looking at the model railways of Pecorama, today we look at the brilliant Layout Catalunya.
Loco Yard 