Originally posted on Model Railroad Imagineerings:
Recently I had lunch with a co-worker who was born and raised in India. We talked about her home state, Indian food, and then on to tea. From tea we took a side step to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a favorite two foot railway of mine. My friend asked…
Whilst class 37/0 locomotive D6975/37275 (click here for more) was in action during my last visit to the South Devon Railway (click here for more), upon exploring Buckfastleigh I soon found that it was one of a number of heritage diesels to be found on the site. This allowed for the opportunity to practice my…
Collett Goods number 3205 is a favourite locomotive of mine and I was very happy to see it, albeit briefly in the rain on my last visit to the South Devon Railway (click here for more). The locomotive has been repainted in lined BR Green which suits it very well in my opinion. I noticed…
Good evening, Tomorrow 60163 Tornado will be charging down the Great Western Mainline hauling the Devon Belle. What makes this trip special is that it will be the last time she will haul mainline passenger trains whilst wearing the British Railway’s Express Blue livery, at least for the foreseeable future . Both myself and Dave…
Good evening, Today I thought I’d do another post looking at photos I have taken before joining the LocoYard team and today we are looking at some from the Isle of Wight steam railway in 2013. Living in Portsmouth means this is technically my local heritage railway with it only been 10 miles away as…
During the heavy rain that accompanied my visit to the South Devon Railway (click here for more), a low growl could be felt as I arrived at Buckfastleigh. But this was not thunder, although at first it seemed that it might be. It was the sound of an English Electric class 37 diesel, a machine…
The Bluebell Railway not only has an incredible collection of locomotives, but has a fleet of historic carriages that is also quite exceptional. Around 70 carriages make up a collection of vehicles that range from the Victorian era through to British Railways mark one’s of the 1950/60s. Tonight’s blog post looks at some of this…
One of the worst kept secrets of steam locomotive colour schemes was discovered a long time before Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Castle (click here for more). It is a secret that many of a western persuasion would probably keep to themselves… The secret being that Great Western Railway locomotives painted red look very good.
A highlight of our holiday in Devon was a ride in the Devon Belle observation car (click here to read all about it.) However, we did see a little more of the line whilst waiting at stations and on the return trip. Bellow is a gallery of the remainder of this delightful trip on this…
With the exception of the picture at the top of this blog post, every picture you will see here was taken from the “Devon Belle” Pullman observation car on the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway (PDSR) . The carriage is one of two that ran on the Southern Railway’s Devon Belle express from London Waterloo…
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