Good evening, Tonight we are looking at a great video I came across yesterday featuring LMS carriage 7827. On loan from the National Railway Museum since 2003, this LMS carriage, 7828, has been restored by a dedicated group of volunteers. The carriage was built in 1925 at Derby’s Carriage and Wagon Works on Litchurch Lane.…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at ESNGBlogs final part of his report from the London Festival of Railway Modelling My final post on ‘Ally Pally’ is to look at O gauge, the ‘senior scale.’ There seems to be a vogue for O gauge shunting layouts at present. The Model Railway Club’s Happisburgh Goods (pronounced ‘Haze-burr’)…
Part 2 of esngblogs look at the London Festival of Railway Modelling that look place this weekend. As I finish writing this, my thoughts are again with Brussels. What importance is our hobby compared with all that is going on in Belgium, and almost day-by-day around the world? But perhaps this is just the time…
An interesting look at some of the rolling stock on the North Norfolk Railway. Squire’s Portable Bar By guest blogger Don Campbell Steam Preservation Railways are becoming ever more popular and, with the increased revenue, the Societies have been ploughing more and more money into restoring not only locomotives but also old rolling stock –…
Hotham Valley railway train leaves from Dwellingup every weekend and public holiday. We purchased the tickets online as we were only down there for one day and didn’t want to miss out. The ca… Source: Hotham Valley Steam Train
On a frosty, sunny February day I escaped to the Kent marshes for a day out on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. Here’s Hurricane looking lovely in her blue livery. She hauled my train… Source: Sun, Steam and Steak – a Day on the RH&DR
A great article by Robert Demaine of the National Railway Musuem looking at how some locomotives were named differently during the First World War. Named locomotives in the First World War The naming of railway locomotives has often been a practice heavy with symbolism and at no time more so than during the Great War. Thanks…
Originally posted on Locksands Life:
As we get through January, I thought I might look at one or two Christmas presents – but this isn’t one of them. This is a sort of buckshee extra. I performed what I might call a trifling kindness for Henfield Museum and the author of a book about the…
Originally posted on Kindadukish's Blog – I am not a number, I am a free man (The Prisoner):
“A grand day out………………..” The regular steam train enters the station Although I am scheduled to go on an official visit to see the Flying Scotsman train next Friday, I decided at short notice to go…
Originally posted on esngblog:
A few more very old pictures from my album. This was a school railway club trip to the Bluebell Railway, I think. Steam on British Railways had finally died in 1968, so to go to this little preserved line and see old steam locos in operation was something special. And note…
Loco Yard 