The First World War officially ended on the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918 – Armistice Day. The act of a Two Minute Silence began on the anniversary of Armistice Day in 1919 by those who did not want to forget the millions killed, injured and affected. Now generally called…
As well as its own Named Trains such as the Atlantic Coast Express, the Southern Railway ran many Ocean Liner Specials to carry the passengers from the liners that docked at the railway’s Southampton Docks to London. Arguably the most famous of these Ocean Liner Special’s was the Cunarder. The Cunard Line had some of…
Good evening, Following the popular mini series looking at the history of 35005 Canadian Pacific (which can be found here), I was lucky enough to come across one of her former fireman on Facebook. As part of the Mid Hants “Canadian Pacific – Engineering a Future from the Past” project (if the Heritage Lottery grant…
After a few days with posts featuring real life locomotives we are back to looking at some of the model layouts of Fareham RailEx. Hayling Island As long term readers of the blog know, I am a big fan of the old Hayling Island Billy Line (here’s my UK Heritage Hub article on the line…
Good evening, Today we are looking at some more of the great layouts that were on show at the Fareham MRC Railex show last weekend. Abbostone Up first we have Abbostone an O Gauge finescale layout built by the Winchester Railway Modellers. Abbotstone represents a Midland Railway through station on the route from the midlands…
Good evening, On Saturday I had the good fortune to attend Fareham & District Model Railway Clubs annual show called “Railex” held at Lakeside, Portsmouth. The show uns every year over the first weekend in October and is a very popular and well run event. Today I will be looking at 2 of the layouts on…
Good evening, Today is part 2 of my mini series looking at the layouts which were on display at the South Hants Model Railway Club 2012 Exhbition that was this weekend. Up first we have Cartsdyke Yard a 7mm gauge LNER based layout which has featured on this blog before but with different locomotives and…
With the end of the summer railway season we are moving quickly towards the winter model railway exhibition season. So over the next few days we will be looking at various show layouts I have photographed over the years. So starting with the the South Hants Model Railway 2012 exhibition which was held on Saturday…
Good evening, Yesterday rebuilt Bulleid Light Pacific locomotive no 34046 Braunton hauled the Solent and Sacrum railtour out of London Waterloo heading for Salisbury, on the return trip she travelled down the south coast to Fareham before thundering up the Portsmouth direct to London Waterloo. Itis quite rare that a steam service is allowed up this…
Good evening, Today was the last Dorset Coast Express service of the season, the weekly express which runs from London Victoria to Weymouth is a favorite of mine and allows me to see some great mainline steam before working on 35005 Canadian Pacific inside Eastleigh works. The last service was hauled by unrebuilt Battle of…
Loco Yard 