Today this blog celebrates its’ third birthday! Three years ago a model railway diary went online and since then it has evolved into the site you see today. Many thanks to all of you who have helped in making http://www.locoyard.com; the blog of UK Heritage Hub, such an enjoyable experience. We celebrate today with a…
Yesterday (13th December 2014,) this blog passed a significant milestone by reaching and passing 500,000 views, about a month before the site turns three years old. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed, taken interest in, supported and joined in with this growing website. What started as an online modelling…
Today marks an important day for this website, for it marks the first time that we have been able to sing the praises for model trains in a national campaign! Today John Lewis Insurance, as part of their Your Toy Story campaign features the train set and so, in our unique way we will explore why we…
Tonight I just wanted send a quick message to say “Happy Mothering Sunday!” There are many mothers around the country who not only tolerate but even encourage us to love our hobbies – in fact there are many who are take an active part! It is therefore only right that we say thank you to…
As many of you know, tonight is Children In Need and we are making a special mention of it to support the cause. As well as Children in Need, don’t forget that Devious Diesel and Thomas the Tank Engine are also tacking part in Locoyard’s Movember campaign and YOU can join in with this! Click…
Thankfully the events of Halloween did not stop us with our Movember 2013 campaign! In fact , even Devious diesel has joined in with Locoyard’s campaign, to try to get as many model locomotives from around the world wearing mustaches!
Locoyard’s Thomas the Tank engine spends every November on the layout to celebrate Movember. This year he decided to arrive early and on the morning of Halloween, Thomas was being prepared for a day’s work. Thomas likes visiting locoyard, as it’s always full of steam locomotives and this year is no exception. He got chatting…
As this blog post went to press, this website has recorded 200,317 views in it’s 22 month lifetime!
Those who have been following the blog for a while may have started to notice that some tweaking of photographs has been happening lately!
Although the weather isn’t fantastic in the UK at the moment, it is a little warmer on the whole. So an important delivery arrived today – the Ice Cream Wagon!
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