London Road

Good evening, Tonight we are looking at another one of my favourite layouts from the South Hants Model Railway Club show in November. The layout in question is a P4 layout called London Road owned by Jolyon Wilkinson. London Road was originally built in the 1980s as a four road suburban terminus, representing the LNWR…

Plans to steam into Buxton spring forward

Negotiations between Derbyshire County Council and Peak Rail have been ongoing for some time, looking at options for extending the preserved line into the Peak District National Park and onwards to Buxton.  The main sticking point has been that around eight and a half miles of the former track bed has since closure as a railway been converted…

Locoyard Model Railway 2.0 Update

In what admittedly is probably the longest model railway development in history, things have unsurprisingly been progressing slowly.  There are plenty of reasons for this, the most obvious being life getting in the way!  But I thought it time for an update anyway. The layout is to be located in a box room – a room…

Commander B

Good evening, Tonight we are looking at something rather special that is often overlooked and forgotten. Commander B is the oldest surviving Hawthorn Leslie locomotive in the world, built in Newcastle works in 1899! She was originally named Newcastle but when she arrived Hollycombe was renamed after the collection’s founder, Cdr. Baldock. The engine was purchased…