Today the Heritage Lottery Fund announced that the Mid Hants Railways “Canadian Pacific – engineering a future from the past” bid has been successful in its application for funding. The project to overhaul the railway’s flagship steam engine Merchant Navy class No. 35005 ‘Canadian Pacific’ and restore two wooden framed Bulleid carriages will provide employment…
Good evening, A few weeks ago Dave wrote a brilliant post on Authenticity within in the railway heritage world (which can be found here) which inspired me on 2 projects featuring Canadian Pacific (bet you’re all surprised about that!) The first of these projects being to track down Canadian Pacific’s original nameplates. As many people know;…
Good evening, It wont be a big surprise to regular readers that my latest post is about a Merchant Navy class locomotive but unlike most of them this isn’t about 35005 Canadian Pacific but rather her younger sister 35006 Peninsular & Oriental S.N. Co. The project team were pleased to announce that on Wednesday 11th March, P&O passed…
Good evening, I had the pleasure of attending the Mid Hants Railways Spring Steam Gala this year with fellow LocoYard writers Dave and Alex and it has to be said that the Watercress Line held another fantastic steam gala. With us attending the gala being on Valentines Day we weren’t sure what to expect,…
Good evening, Whoever said working with steam locomotives was a glamorous job needs to have a work with me after our teams efforts over the last couple of weeks. Since my last post in November I have working on Canadian Pacific several times but with the main tasks focused around scrapping the dirt off the…
Good evening, Clan Line steaming towards Ropley As many people know the legendary Clan Line is coming to the end of her ticket and is due to undergo its 10 yearly overhaul. This leaves the question of who will take her place hauling the VSOE trips around the Surrey Hills. Last week MNLPS announced to its…
Good evening, As reported last year, almost exactly to the day, www.railwaytouring.net announced that 5972 Olton Hall was to run a special in June before being “taken to the Warner Bros Museum for the rest of its days”. The tour sold out so quickly that they ran a second tour in July. Today it was announced…
Good evening, Regular readers might remember that in May 2014, Dave visited the Watercress Line where Britannia had just had her forward driving wheels removed in the Ropley wheel drop. He jokingly called her the “BR Standard Atlantic” and that nickname has stuck. However after some hard work and elbow grease this week she is no…
Good evening, Today is part 3 of my mini series looking at the layouts that were on display at the South Hants Model Railway Club 2012 Exhibition. I uploaded the first 2 parts before Christmas and forgot about the third, so today I am catching up so up first we have: – Portskerra Up first…
With the creation of the new Model Railway’s Exhibition page I thought it would be a great time to upload some photos from exhibitions I attended before I started writing for LocoYard.com. So today we are looking at the Victory Model Railway Clubs 2013 Exhibition. So up first we have: – St Vincent Road –…
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