Good evening, Tonight is just a quick look at a certain locomotive I went to see last weekend. The Flying Scotsman was hauling a lunch train from Salisbury to Southampton and back. I took my place on a bridge just outside of Southampton Central and waited for her to arrive soon with members of the…
A great round up by New Build Steam with the latest news from all the new build projects 2013 Prince George Latest developments for the LNWR George V 4-4-0 are that the smokebox has been on display at Quorn on the Great Central Railway (pictured above – photo by Geoffrey Wilkins,… Source: News round-up (2),…
This coming weekend May 28th-30th is the GWSR’s annual Cotswold Festival of Steam, This year with the theme “Swindon built” to celebrate 175 years since the GWR’s Swindon workshops opened. 8 locos will be in steam for the event operating an intensive service, including steam runs to Laverton over Stanway Viaduct (not usually possible any…
Last Thursday morning I was rushing down to my local station early. For once, this wasn’t because of an early morning meeting, but rather because something special was about to happen. In this case, the something special was the visit of a steam train (locomotive), the Flying Scotsman. Once a holder of the world record […]…
As of yesterday, Saturday 21st May, the GWSR’s share offer “Broadway: The Last Mile” has reached the incredible sum of £500,000 in just 6 weeks! This should be plenty of money to keep our volunteers occupied for the rest of the year in progressing towards Broadway. However there’s still a long way to go to…
Last weekend was the Beds and Bucks Narrow Gauge Modellers Open Day and I was invited to bring a layout. Taking my first layout to its first exhibition was a little daunting. I’m pleased to say everything worked quite well and people liked the layout, the locos and the slow running. I was very touched…
Tonight we have a quick blog post, just to say that the General Steam Navigation project can be found in this months edition of Steam Railway magazine! It’s great to see our GSN in print and hope it helps attract support and donations for the project and on a personal note its nice to see…
Yesterday, on Monday 16th May 2016 35006 P&O made her triumphant return to steam after over 30 years of painstaking restoration by volunteers at Toddington on the GWSR. Thanks to the generosity (and slight disorganisation 😉 ) of my co-bloggers (thanks again chaps!), I went along to the shareholders’ and supporters’ launch ceremony. When I…
Good evening, Icons of Steam in February (on my brithday as it happened) announced that its rebuilt West Country class 34046 Braunton would be returning to steam as long last classmate 34052 Lord Dowding. This technically means she will become a member of the Battle of Britain class with Lord Dowding being named after the…
An interesting look at a railway far away from our usual locoyard fodder -Glenbrook Vintage Railway – http://wp.me/p4fOIC-B5
Loco Yard 