2013 has been a remarkable year for a steam and model railway enthusiast and it has been a pleasure to report on it here on http://www.locoyard.com. Today we reflect on the past year’s many blog posts that involved poll’s, competitions and guests…. Poll’s: The poll to find our favourite colour that 60163 Tornado has been…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 190,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 8 days for that many people to see…
The volume and breadth of articles published here and significantly in UK Heritage Hub’s ezine has been remarkable. Today we summarise the past year’s UKHH blog posts and what a selection they are too……. Locoyard has become the blog of choice from UK Heritage Hub. In the coming year you can expect this partnership to…
As this blog post went to press, this website has recorded 200,317 views in it’s 22 month lifetime!
Seeing as October is now being called Stoptober as part of a campaign to encourage people to quit smoking, I felt it was very apt that we have a no smoking theme at locoyard, for the day at least. I have therefore put together a new photo gallery of all pictures of heritage diesels that…
Every now and then, it’s worth checking out http://www.locoyard.com and looking through the webpages, as there is plenty of content. Over 3000 images, 40 web pages and over 580 blog posts with a variety of topics on heritage and model railways can be found. The blog started life as a model railway diary and to…
Just before the weekend, I’m very happy to report that http://www.locoyard.com broke the 150,000 views barrier. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all locoyard followers for tuning in so regularly and making blogging so worthwhile. To celebrate, here are some pictures taken around the layout. All of these are new images, with the…
Farewell 69563!
This model is surplus to requirements and is currently For Sale. For more details please click here.
Tonight’s blog post itself may be a little short, but if you look at the menu’s above, you will see that there have been some changes to the structure of this site. These are to both try and make things a little more simple but also reflect some of the changes to the yard, particularly…
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