Swingers
Retired Engine Driver John Anthony has submitted a guest blog post, sharing the working an unfitted freight. Without further ado, here is John’s fifth piece on his driving experiences!
The Art Of Conducting a Thunderstorm
Retired Engine Driver John Anthony has submitted a guest blog post, sharing the art of driving a steam locomotive. Without further ado, here is John’s fourth piece on his driving experiences!
Capturing history with lines and curves
Tonight we have a very special guest blog post from a fantastic artist, Stephen Bedser. Stephen has previosuly written for LocoYard about how he came an artist who specialises in heritage scenes (click here) and he is nowly kindly agreed to write a mini series looking at how he does his paintings. I would strongly…
Guest Blog Post from Edward Farms – Weathering Part 4
Tonight we have the fourth blog post brought to you by Edward Farms. Edward has a fantastic website that I urge all Locoyard Followers to check out ! If you missed it previously, you can catch up with the other blog posts in the series by clicking here I will now leave you in Edward’s…
Stories from the Atlantic Coast Express
Good evening, As part of the Mid Hants “Canadian Pacific – Engineering a Future from the Past” project (if the Heritage Lottery grant is successful) they will be creating a historic record (oral, video and displays) of how steam trains were used for evacuations from London in the Second World War, immigrants travelling from Southampton in…
Sheffield Victoria Station part 2 – a guest contribution from Nick Littlewood
Last October, regular contributor Nick Littlewood sent some fascinating pictures of Sheffield Victoria Station (click here to read more), the main station on the former Great Central Railway. They showed some of the last views of this station, giving us a unique look at the station. Fortunately for us he has very kindly found some…
19th Century GWR Locomotives courtesy of Nick Littlewood
Following from yesterday’s blog post (click here to read) looking at the Great Western Railway and STEAM, the Museum of the GWR comes a fantastic article originally published in March 1942 “Railways” Magazine. This is of course another brilliant contribution from Nick Littlewood who has very kindly sent these into Locoyard. The article is presented in…
Sheffield Victoria Station – a guest contribution from Nick Littlewood
Regular contributor Nick Littlewood has kindly sent some fascinating pictures of Sheffield Victoria Station. Sheffield Victoria was a main station on the former Great Central Railway. Opened 15 September 1851, the station took on great importance by the unique Woodhead Line that linked Sheffield, Penistone and Manchester. However, Beeching’s second report in 1965 recommended consolidation…
1938 Hornby Dublo Advert – courtesy of Nick Littlewood
Nick Littlewood has once again sent in a gem! This time it is an original advert for Hornby Dublo found in December 1938’s edition of LMS Magazine. In keeping Mallard 75 celebrations it featuring an A4 class model that Nick and I think is Sir Nigel Gresley. Do you agree? Feel free to comment!
More 1937 Coronation material courtesy of Nick Littlewood
Following from the excellent 1937 Coronation brochure (click here for more), Nick Littlewood has sent some more contemporary scanned images to help us look a little deeper into the 75th Anniversary of LNER A4 class 4468 Mallard breaking and setting the world speed record for steam. This time we look at Railway Magazine’s August 1937…
Loco Yard 