After seeing The Great Gathering at the National Railway Museum, York (click here to read more), what better way was there to continue the celebrations than going home with a bottle of Flying Scotsman and a bottle of Mallard Beer! So here is a vague attempt at a taste test, just in case any of…
Farewell 69563!
Following from the story of the visit to The Great Gathering at the National Railway Museum, York (click here to read) and UK Heritage Hub’s blog post on the event (click here to read it), today we publish pictures taken of each A4 Pacific locomotive in a slideshow.
With Gresley’s A4 Pacific’s hogging the limelight for the past few weeks, it seems only fair to look an example of their great competitor – Stanier’s LMS Princess Coronation class. As is the tradition of this series of blog posts, we look at the history of the prototype, illustrated with pictures of the Hornby model…
After the visit to the NRM and with my modelling brain in gear, I had a think about Hornby and their limited production run of 500 pieces of each A4 class locomotive in 00 scale in “The Great Gathering” range. Bearing in mind how good the Hornby A4 model is (click here for the review)…
On the first day of the 75th Anniversary of Mallard breaking the world speed record for steam traction, my friends at UK Heritage Hub published some of the first pictures of “The Gathering” here on Locoyard which gave an excellent background (click here to read it) to why all six surviving Gresley A4 Pacific locomotives…
Locoyard’s latest edition to the fleet is Bachmann S&DJR 3F Jinty number 23 (catalogue number 32-233). Today we review the model, that is also produced by Hornby in their “Railroad” range (click here for the review).
Tonight is just a gentle reminder about the appeal for Sir Haydn. Please click on any of this text or the picture above to read more. Thank you 🙂
At 33 arches in length, Hockley Viaduct is a substantial feat of engineering. It is located a few miles south of Winchester, adjacent to the M3 and is the largest remaining, single piece of evidence that there once was a railway line that linked Southampton to Didcot. Although wound-down for passenger services prior to it,…
The Derwent Valley Light Railway (DVLR) (also known as The Blackberry Line) was a privately owned standard-gauge railway running from Layerthorpe on the outskirts of York to Cliffe Common near Selby in Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1913, and closed in sections between 1965 and 1981. Between 1977 and 1979, passenger steam trains operated between Layerthorpe and Dunnington – the entire length of track at that time. In…
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