First visit to the Watercress Line 2013 part 2 – Ropley
Last Sunday, after exploring Alton (click here to read that article) I dropped into Ropley. As ever, there was much going on there;
First visit to the Watercress Line 2013 – Chasing a Schools Class and Exploring Alton
December 2012 was an excellent steam-filled month, with three visits to the Watercress Line, two mainline tours and a visit to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (see the Steam Diary to read more). With the exception of a visit to Eastleigh’s miniature railway (click here to read), January has been much quieter, but today’s…
The Future of Mainline Steam?
I am sure many of you have read or heard through the heritage railway press that the future of Mainline Steam is currently resting on whether the Office of Rail Regulation pass legislation to remove a cap on fines for late running services caused by charter trains. Currently, the cap stands at £5,000, but…
UK Heritage Hub Newsletter Issue 16
UK Heritage Hub have just published their sixteenth newsletter and it is a cracker! Locoyard.com warmly recommends the UK Heritage Hub’s free e-magazine magazine to all its followers. Click here to view it. Unfortunately due to a lack of recent material, locoyard were unable to supply any content this time, but hope to for next…
2012 Locoyard Steam Round-up
Today’s post is a far shorter one than yesterday’s, so please do not be put off! This blog started life as one to share Model Railway experiences. This soon spread to my strong interests in the real thing and as a result
UK Heritage Hub Newsletter Issue 15
As is often the way, the plan to not publish a blog post today has not transpired! This is simply because UK Heritage Hub have published their fifteenth newsletter. As always it is an excellent piece of work that is highly recommended by Locoyard.com. Click here to view it. Happily, a couple of Locoyard pictures…
Christmas on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway
We continue looking at Christmas Steam, but this time look at a very wet Havenstreet on the Isle of Wight. War Department Hunslet Austerity WD198 Royal Engineer was in charge of services (above). Although a Santa Special, Santa was not to be found on
71000 Duke of Gloucester sunbathing in the Winter Sun
After seeing 60163 Tornado in Winchester on Monday, Simon of Brookes Castle tipped me off that 71000 Duke of Gloucester was outside in Eastleigh’s yard, so I popped down to have a look. This unique BR standard pacific has been out of action for a few months now, hopefully it will be back soon. The last…
LBSCR E1 Class at Havenstreet
Many of you may have found through reading in the press that the only surviving LBSCR E1 class has moved from
Watercress Autumn Steam Spectacular 2012 Locomotive Line-Up – Updated
This Friday 7th to Sunday 8th September is an important weekend for the Southern steam enthusiast as it is the Watercress Line’s Autumn Steam Spectacular. In antcipation of this; today we look at the planned steam locomotive line-up for the event, in order of build date. UPDATED 4th September – S15 class 825 has been withdrawn and…
Loco Yard 