Today and tomorrow are likely be the last two days that the unique Southern Railway 4 cylinder 4-6-0 850 Lord Nelson will run before withdrawal. Maunsell’s powerful brutes boiler ticket expires at the end of this year and as a result will require a full overhaul if it is to steam again. For this reason, we…
Merry Christmas Everyone! Thank you to everyone who visits or contributes to www.locoyard.com. We’ve had a fantastic year and look forward to a hopefully even better one in 2016. To mark the day, we have a slideshow of Advent Calendar blog posts (you may need to view this from a computer.) Special thanks go to Brian Dominic, Richard…
Last weekend I was simply having a wonderful Christmas time on the Isle of Wight! The steam railway ran services late into the evening on Saturday 19th December, giving an opportunity to enjoy a ride on a steam train without the usual trimmings of the Santa Special season. The railway were also serving a Christmas carvery, although…
Click on the picture to reveal the final Advent Calendar picture of 2015! A Very Merry Christmas from the locoyard team to all our followers!
On 21st December 2015, the world’s most famous steam locomotive steamed for the first time since the overhaul commenced and almost exactly ten years since its last excursion hauling the ‘Christmas Lunch Excursion’ run by Vintage Trains on 17 December 2005. There is some work still left to complete ahead of the loco making its first…
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture (Copyright Dave Bushell – http://www.wychminster.wordpress.com)
The Watercress Line’s carriage shop has published a blog post on progress on Bulleid coach 1456, part of the Heritage Lottery Funded Canadian Pacific project. Full details can be found at: http://preservation.watercressline.co.uk/blog/entry/around-the-world-in-80-railways-carriage-shop-blog-21-12-15 Picture credit: Ali Steele
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture (Copyright Brian L Dominic – The Mid-Derbyshire Light railway (www.mdlr.co.uk) – It’s Christmas Eve, and the Over Haddon Christmas tree glows brightly beside the church at the end of the village street. This is, of course, a garden railway…………)
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After a particularly pleasant trip to the Isle of Wight, I had a remarkable and very enjoyable trip on the island’s charismatic, friendly and atmospheric preserved railway. The line is a remnant of a former extensive network of railways that amongst other things has an incredible collection of rolling stock. During our visit, my wife, mother-in-law and…
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