Today was an exciting day for the Mid Hants Railway and as the railway received initial Heritage Lottery Funding to restore Canadian Pacific and a set of Bulleid carriages. The grant was lead by David Snow, the MHRPS Vice President and achieved a brilliant result in securing the first stage of the grant. It’s great…
This video shows Steam in the South of England during the first few months of 2014. Many highlights have been picked out for this video from the first half of this year, so sit back and enjoy! February 8th – 35028 ‘Clan Line’ chatters through Chilworth with the ‘British Pullman’ March 1st – 44932 heads…
Last Sunday during a trip to Alton, I saw for what is probably the last time in Hampshire (for me at least), U class 31806. This weekend is likely to be this locomotive’s last on the Watercress Line, so if you want to see it, this might be your last chance! It is seen above…
While away chasing the Great Britain VII, UK Heritage Hub’s roving reporter, James Corben, was hoping to chase one of Ian Riley’s Black 5s from Inverness to the Kyle of Lochalsh. Unfortunately, 44871 derailed in Glasgow the night previous to this trip, and so was unable to head north to haul this train along this…
The picture above shows one of the highlights of a ride on the Kent and East Sussex Railway – Tenterden Bank. The section from Rolvenden to Tenterden has an impressive gradient of 1 in 50, requiring the driver to open the regulator and fireman work very hard indeed! Today we look at yet another star…
Today’s blog post looks at locomotive that has been looked at in some detail before on this blog, both in model and real form. This locomotive used to haul heavy coal trains in Wales, but now hauls heavy tourist laden trains. It was the most powerful star of the Kent and East Sussex Railway’s…
Moving home continues for this author, but here’s another blog post looking at a star of the Kent and East Sussex Railway’s gala (click here for more), a USA dock tank. Charismatic and varied, the fleet of light steam engines working on the Kent and east Sussex railway gala had two locomotives that could be…
Fortunately, another quick break from moving home has allowed another blog post to be squeezed in! After looking at what is a common prototype (albeit a locomotive with a story to tell) in austerity saddle tank 23 Holman F Stephens (click here to read), today we look at something very unusual. It is was avery…
After what seems forever we are back!!! On Wednesday morning I received a text from our project leader saying that Alrington had given us a couple of crane operators for the afternoon. Yes the day of the big lift has arrived. The beast upon my arrival.
Last weekend, the Asperger’s Flyer travelled to two heritage railways, a big undertaking for the charity and the first time that there had been two consecutive events at two different railways. Quite an achievement for the charity, which only started two years ago. On June 7th and 8th, The Aspergers Flyer made a victorious and…
Loco Yard 