The Great Gathering: a remarkable reunion of locomotives and boilers.
Some very interesting points about the 6 surviving A4 pacific locomotives!
UK Heritage Hub Newsletter Issue 34
The latest free edition of UK Heritage Hub’s fantastic e-zine full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors is ready to be downloaded. Enjoy! Click here to download and read it! Please note that submissions for Issue 34 are now open. If there is a topic or article that you would like to…
Sheffield Victoria Station part 2 – a guest contribution from Nick Littlewood
Last October, regular contributor Nick Littlewood sent some fascinating pictures of Sheffield Victoria Station (click here to read more), the main station on the former Great Central Railway. They showed some of the last views of this station, giving us a unique look at the station. Fortunately for us he has very kindly found some…
Simon’s journey into the world of Volunteering – Entry 6
Nigel Kendall http://www.steamweb.net Following the bad weather the South of England is having at the moment I thought this photo of Canadian Pacific in the snow was well-suited. In the horrendous winter of 62/63 35005 thunders up through New Milton with a Bournemouth to Waterloo 2-hour express. The steam effect is enhanced by another fast-disappearing…
World War 2 Boat Plane Trains
Hey everyone. Whilst reading reading a book called “The Railway Journeys of my Childhood” by Brigadier John Faviel I noticed a reference to a sighting of a rather special train. The train entering the Clapham cutting drawn by Brigadier John Faviel
Model spotlight! GWR 45xx Prairie Tank 4555
Although the Model of the Week series has come to and end, we still will look at the history of the prototype’s represented by model locomotives in special blog posts, of which this is one! Today is a special look at a GWR member of the Locoyard fleet of locomotives. This is a Bachmann model…
New Bachmann Branchline Train Gift Packs/Sets
On Friday Bachmann have released details of 3 new train gifts pack and 4 trains they will be releasing in 2014. The gift packs have been designed to evoke the nostalgia of Britain’s historic railways. Like the Hornby train packs they feature certificates and exclusive products, these packs make wonderful gifts for the seasoned collector or…
Preservation Volunteering Diaries
The footplate crew of the T9 share some stories Due to the popularity of my volunteer diaries working on Canadian Pacific http://www.LocoYard.com, the blog of UK Heritage Hub, will be introducing a new series of posts featuring other stories from the preservation world. As part of our ongoing recognition of the amazing volunteers who run and…
Reminder! UK Heritage Hub Newsletter Issue 33
Please do not forget everyone to download issue 33 of UK Heritage Hub’s fantastic free e-zine! Click here to download and read it! It is full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors is ready to be downloaded. Enjoy! Please note that submissions for Issue 34 are now open and the deadline…
GWR 3031 Achilles Class – Dean Single – Locomotive Profile
A newly built 3050 Royal Sovereign Photo source: Wikipedia The Dean Single was a passenger steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899 under the direction of GWR’s chief mechanical engineer William Dean. The locomotive class was known by many different names such as 3031 Class or Achilles class, both named…
Loco Yard 