Following from the excellent 1937 Coronation brochure (click here for more), Nick Littlewood has sent some more contemporary scanned images to help us look a little deeper into the 75th Anniversary of LNER A4 class 4468 Mallard breaking and setting the world speed record for steam. This time we look at Railway Magazine’s August 1937…
Nick Littlewood has sent some very topical scanned images that fit perfectly with the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of LNER A4 class 4468 Mallard breaking and setting the world speed record for steam. The images supplied here are scanned from an original copy of the 1937 LNER brochure for the Coronation Express, featuring 4489…
Last year, it was still in the early days of this blog when the Watercress Line’s Spring Gala was reported on in the post There was no smoke, but there was a fire… As comprehensive as this blog post was, it did not include many pictures, so at long last today we catch up!
34007 Wadebridge is currently the Watercress Line’s only operational Bulleid Pacific. It is pictured at Ropley on Fathers Day in wet conditions.
Tonight we have the last back-dated blog post from the North York Moors Railway in 2011, featuring ex-LMS Black 5 class 45428 Eric Treacy at Grosmont.
An excellent Blog Post from the National Railway Museum that I wanted to share with locoyard followers. Enjoy! 🙂
Whilst A4 4464 Bittern was hitting headlines yesterday on the mainline, Bulleid pacific 34067 Tangmere was hauling the “The Bath and Bristol and is captured in these pictures at Eastleigh station, where it paused for a moment. I hope you enjoy the pictures of this mainline regular!
Following from last week’s blog post look at the Watercress Line’s class 50 50027 Lion, today we look at another heritage diesel at Ropley – class 37 /9 D6836.
Tonight’s star is BR Standard class 76079, a locomotive that is in the locoyard fleet of 00 scale models (click here to read a special feature on the model). This locomotive’s mainline performances earned it the nickname the “Pocket Rocket” and it was this locomotive that brought me back to the hobby in 2009. These…
Ropley is without doubt one of the best places to see heritage steam and diesel locomotives. I have never visited the site without there being plenty to see, which is one reason I go there whenever possible!
Loco Yard 