When a locomotive’s boiler ticket comes to an end, it is either laid up in an overhaul queue or within a matter of weeks the overhaul commences and a quick return to steam happens. This, of course, depends on two factors; condition of the locomotive and the key factor, what funds are available. One such…
Our friends at UK Heritage Hub have published the brilliant e-zine and as usual “The View From Locoyard” is in it! Enjoy! Click here to download and read it!
It is really import that you sign both petitions to save the Northern Museum’s that represent such an important part of railway heritage. Please click here for UK Heritage Hub’s excellent article, which contains links to the petitions.
Earlier in the week the Director of The Science Museum, Ian Blatchford, announced that as well as cutting back the London museum; one of the satellite museums in York, Manchester or Bradford may have to close. This is a result of spending cuts of a further 10% after around 25% of cut-backs recently. As a…
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UK Heritage Hub has published another brilliant newsletter and as usual “The View From Locoyard” is in it! Enjoy! Click here to download and read it!
The East Kent Railway, partners of the UK Heritage Hub, are proud to announce its first ‘proper’ Diesel Gala for many years to be held over the weekend of the 27th and 28th July 2013. The 2 ½ mile railway near Dover will be celebrating its industrial mining connections by running an intensive timetable using…
Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the re-opening of the Watercress Line’s Ropley to Medstead and Four Marks station. An excellent article of how this happened can be found on the railway’s website. To mark the occasion, a slideshow of photographs has been put together from the many visit’s to the line that have featured…
Today’s special photograph has been kindly submitted by Rowan Jackson of UK Heritage Hub. LNER A4 pacific 4489 Dominion of Canada has been subject to an incredible cosmetic restoration and the picture above shows the before and after shots. I’m sure you will all agree that the National Railway Museum have done an excellent job…
Anyone who uses google (so pretty much everyone with an internet connection) will know that today would have been Frank Hornby’s 150th Birthday.
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