One of the more recent additions to the Locoyard fleet is GWR small prairie tank number 4555. It will be reviewed in due course, but for the time being here is the guide to fit a DCC decoder.
Swindon’s STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway tries to give visitors an impression of what Swindon was like during it’s heydays in the past. One of the exhibits – 42xx class 4248 is displayed as a dismantled steam locomotive, if it was in the works.
Over the years that LocoYard.com has been doing his model railway reviews he has featured most of the big express locomotives from the “Big Four” railway companies. The Southern Railway had its Merchant Navy’s, the LNER had its A4, the LMS had the Streamlined Coronation class and finally the Great Western had its Castle class. These beautiful machines from…
Whilst reading “The Railwayman’s Pocket-Book” which had the fabulous castle class locomotive 7007 “Great Western” on the cover I found a great diagram on the Great Western Railway head lamp codes thought I would do a post on them. The head lamps arrangement was a method of classifying trains so they could easily by identified…
As we approach Christmas Day, I think it’s highly appropriate to have a blog post published on a Star! Simon of Brookes Castle has very kindly written this blog post detailing the history of the Broad Gauge Star class, which has been illustrated with pictures taken at the museum by Dave. This locomotive is a…
260 of GWR class 2301, or “Dean Goods” were built between 1883 and 1889. They were the first GWR type to have inside frames only and were were well regarded machines.
One of two surviving 94xx class locomotive’s, 9400 was the first and one of the last steam locomotives to be built by the GWR. A member of the National Collection, it currently resides in STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway. Hawksworth’s 9400 class were the heaviest class of pannier tank to be built…
This Morning’s Advent Calendar Blog post revealed a decorated GWR Manor class, 7819 Hinton Manor and this evening we look at an undecorated example! This is 7821 Ditcheat Manor, a locomotive that can be found on display at STEAM, the Museum of the GWR, Swindon.
Completing the reviews of cheap Hornby 0-6-0 steam engines is today’s look at Hornby’s half-cab pannier tank. It’s been in the catalogue since 1980 but had a significant makeover in 2001 and as such is one of the more reasonable cheap models in the Hornby range. Without further ado, let’s have a look at this…
Without doubt the “Star” exhibit of Swindon’s STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway is the only surviving GWR Star class locomotive, 4003 Lode Star. Simon of Brookes Castle has very kindly written the following blog post detailing the history of this locomotive, which has been illustrated with pictures taken at the museum by…
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