It’s funny how certain moments in your life stand out and become memorable. Over the years I’ve had the privilege of seeing many steam locomotives, but one in particular is seeing 92220 Evening Star in steam on the North York Moors Railway. At the time I was very young and Evening Star seemed to be…
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…
Few steam locomotives create as much debate amongst railway enthusiasts as does Bulleid’s Q1 class. The quirky looks are considered ugly by many, whilst others admire the type for daring to be different and see beauty in it’s outline and performance. Whatever your opinion of the most powerful 0-6-0 built in the UK, it is…
Our partners at UK Heritage Hub have just published the ever fantastic e-zine full of fantastic articles. As usual, check out “The View From Locoyard”! Enjoy! Click here to download and read it!
One of the jewels in the crown of the magnificent National Collection is the only remaining LBSCR tender locomotive – 214 Gladstone.
Our Model of the Week is the beautiful LSWR T9 class 120. Possibly one of the best looking models available in 00 scale, the locomotive also has an interesting history that we will look at today.
The fate of this locomotive has always been a controversial one. Merchant Navy class 35029 Ellerman Lines was once one of the pride’s of the Southern Region’s steam locomotive fleet. Although it avoided death in a scrapyard, this locomotive did not survive another cutters torch completely and will never be steamed again. It now serves…
This is the start of the first official weekend of the summer holiday period of 2013 and to mark it; here are some period railway posters. To make things a little interesting and seeing as it is high time that we have something exciting for locoyard followers to get involved with, today we invite you…
Whilst the Great Gathering event was taking place in York, another ex-LNER locomotives were unable to join in with the celeberations. The Flying Scotsman, the world’s most famous steam locomotive could be seen in the NRM workshops. Withdrawn from service in 2006; the Flying Scotsman has been undergoing one of the most controversial restorations of…
Nick Littlewood has once again sent in a gem! This time it is an original advert for Hornby Dublo found in December 1938’s edition of LMS Magazine. In keeping Mallard 75 celebrations it featuring an A4 class model that Nick and I think is Sir Nigel Gresley. Do you agree? Feel free to comment!
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