Today we have a short video showing restoration progress of Bulleid Open Third carriage 1456, from images taken over several months up until March 2016, all condensed into a few seconds. This is part of the Heritage Lottery Funded ‘Canadian Pacific’ Project. These shots were taken and edited by Senior Trainee Ali Steele. Please visit http://www.watercressline.co.uk/canpac for more details on the…
I was only able to attend the final day of this S & D fest but boy did I have a good day! The stations were all renamed and they had made a terrific effort to bring in some great loco’s. Put that together with sunshine and blue skies all day and you have a…
Last Saturday I was lucky enough to visit the West Somerset Railway for their Spring steam gala commemorating the 50th anniversary of the closure of the much lamented S&D line. The stations were all renamed after suitable S&D stations for the week, and an impressive loco lineup was formed, with GWR locos banished into the…
This excellent sped-up video was filmed by David Franklin. It condenses into one and a half minutes the busy locomotive yard in Ropley on the morning of the first day of the Autumn Steam Gala 2015. Enjoy! Royalty Free Music: Slow Motion – http://www.Bensound.com
The marvellous models on this page were scratch built, which is an incredible feat. However, most surprising of all was the medium used – cardboard. These are just a small selection of EG Best of Winchester’s collection of hand made cardboard models.
An update on progress of the Heritage Lottery Funded Canadian Pacific Project has been published. Work continues in cleaning the driving wheels (that reveals something of interest), the frame extensions are straightened and the bufferbeam support welding repair is completed. Please click on the following link to read the report in full: http://preservation.watercressline.co.uk/blog/entry/wheely-interesting Please help support the Canadian…
Some great layouts on show, I have always thought about adding snow to my layout as it does give the layout a rather unique apperance. On Saturday the Norfolk and Suffolk Narrow Gauge Modellers held their second Open Day. I went to their first Open Day last year and I’m very pleased it is becoming…
Today is International Womens Day and as part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Canadian Pacific Project we have a very special article that looks at some of the earliest women to work on railways. It is fascinating to read the level of inequality in society at the time – women had to masquerade as men and…
On Saturday 5th March, I visited the annual Spring Steam Gala, and once again, what an event! The weather was cold, miserable and on the other days of the event, the weather had been quite sunny. The visiting locomotives for the event were; LMS Ivatt Class 4, No. 43106, 2-6-0 ‘Flying Pig’, courtesy of the…
Originally posted on sgoldswoblog:
Last Thursday morning I was rushing down to my local station early. For once, this wasn’t because of an early morning meeting, but rather because something special was about to happen. In this case, the something special was the visit of a steam train (locomotive), the Flying Scotsman. Once a holder…
Loco Yard 