Good evening, Tonight we are finishing our look at the layouts from the South Hants Model Railway Club show in November 2015. So without further ado let’s have a look! Pwllheli (P4) Pwllheli is a P4 gauage layout owned by South Hants Model Railway Club member Jonathan Buckie. Pwllheli is situated in north- west corner…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at another one of my favourite layouts from the South Hants Model Railway Club show in November.
To end 2015, we have the final update on progress of the overhaul of Merchant Navy class 35005 Canadian Pacific. Please click on the following link to read more: http://preservation.watercressline.co.uk/blog/entry/final-canpac-update-of-2015 Happy New Year!
The Watercress Line’s carriage shop has published a blog post on progress on Bulleid coach 1456, part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Canadian Pacific project. Full details can be found at: http://preservation.watercressline.co.uk/blog/entry/around-the-world-in-80-railways-carriage-shop-blog-21-12-15 Picture credit: Ali Steele
Good evening, Following the popularity of my previous reviews of the BigJigs heritage range, they have kindly sent me another loco to review and this time I went for one of the more famous locomotives in the range – the A1 Steam Trust’s Tornado. Class: Peppercorn A1 Pacific Use: Express Passenger Region: London and North Eastern Railway Era: 1948-1966…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at another one of my favourite layouts from the South Hants Model Railway Club show in November. The layout in question is a P4 layout called London Road owned by Jolyon Wilkinson. London Road was originally built in the 1980s as a four road suburban terminus, representing the LNWR…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at something rather special that is often overlooked and forgotten. Commander B is the oldest surviving Hawthorn Leslie locomotive in the world, built in Newcastle works in 1899! She was originally named Newcastle but when she arrived Hollycombe was renamed after the collection’s founder, Cdr. Baldock. The engine was purchased…
As was illustrated in this morning’s Advent Calendar blog post, Canadian Pacific’s boiler has been moved from Eastleigh to Ropley. Read all about it in the following link – preservation.watercressline.co.uk/blog/entry/canpacs-boiler-moved-to-ropley
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at a rather interesting story that was in the newspapers recently about the worlds most famous train.The National Railway Museum asked people across four continents to name five trains or engines they had heard of and the Scotsman topped the poll. It came out just ahead of the Rajadhani…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at my favourite layout that I saw at the annual Portsmouth Model Railway Exhibition hosted by the South Hants Model Railway club last weekend. The layout in question is an EM gauge layout called Westcliff which is a “what might have been” based on the Dorset seaside town of…
Loco Yard 