The Great Gathering

75 years ago today, the eyes of the world were on the United Kingdom. LNER A4 4-6-2 4468 ‘Mallard’ broke the world speed record for a steam locomotive, and still holds it to this day. To celebrate the 75th Anniversary, the National Railway Museum brought together all 6 remaining A4 pacifics. Here we see the…

Hornby Mallard takes the Brookes Castle Power Test

LocoYard has very kindly given me access to this blog to do blog posts on the various things I am up to. So today being the 75th anniversary of the Mallards speed record for steam of 125.88mph I thought it would be appropriate to get my Hornby Mallard to take on the Brookes Castle Power…

A4s In Profile

On the eve of what is billed as one of the greatest railway events of the decade, it was decided we should republish our A4 locomotive profiles. Here are 3 of them, in build order; 60009, 4489 & 60008. The Concluding 3 will follow after the event. Tomorrow, a special blog post will be posted…

All Change!

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…

Speedy Streak – Bittern At 90

As you read this, for the first time in at least 45 years, all 6 remaining LNER A4 pacific’s are on the same depot, and fittingly, that is York, 50A, now the home of the National Railway Museum. 60007 ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ arrived last Monday from its home base of Grosmont on the NYMR, joining…

Class 37/9 D6836

Following from last week’s blog post look at the Watercress Line’s class 50 50027 Lion, today we look at another heritage diesel at Ropley – class 37 /9 D6836.