Summer, Devon 1990s
(Almost) a wordless Wednesday!
An American Visitor for the Devon Riviera
Baldwin built S160 class 2-8-0 no. 2253 has been moved to the workshop of Adam Dalgleish Engineering Ltd in Stockton-On-Tees for its overhaul to commence. The target for completion of its overhaul is 2017 and is part of a ten year loan agreement for the locomotive to run on the Paignton and Dartmouth steam railway. Although the American machine…
Braveheart is on its Way Back
Tonight we have a short blog post to report on progress of an overhaul of a British Railways Standard class locomotive in Devon. A few days ago, the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway published pictures of their BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0, 75014 Braveheart’s boiler arriving back from Crewe at Churston on their Facebook page (click…
Dinmore Manor
After April’s trip to the north east of England and no less than four rides on different railway’s, last week’s trip to Devon was less rail themed with two rides, one on Bickington Steam Railway and another on the South Devon Railway. But with that said, I still managed to sneak a few minutes in Kingswear,…
A New Home For A Prairie
The Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway (P&DSR) have sold prairie tank 4588 to a private owner. The locomotive has moved to Tyseley Locomotive Works, where its overhaul will commence. Once overhauled, 4588 will move on to Peak Rail.
Holiday Snaps!
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…
A Room With A View
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…
Greenway Tunnel Walk
As part of the 150 celebrations on the Paignton & Dartmouth Steam railway this weekend they put on a one off special event which took place yesterday evening. A block was put on so that people could walk through Greenway Tunnel. It was a must do for me as I have been up and down…
So Near and Yet So Far…
For those of you who have followed this blog for some time, it will probably come as no surprise that this year’s summer holiday destination was Devon! This is a reason why blog posts have not been quite as plentiful as usual, as I have been far away from locoyard HQ (well a lot further…
Lydham Manor
As with it’s fellow Paignton and Dartmouth Railway based cousin 5239 Goliath that featured on Saturday (click here to read more), 7827 Lydham Manor has for many years been one of the stalwarts of the line’s fleet. It also shares a similar history in it’s preservation; being an ex-Barry scrapyard locomotive.
Loco Yard 