A few days ago the Kent and East Sussex Railway Saturday Gang recently published a new update. The group work in the railway’s locomotive workshops in Rolvenden, overhauling and repairing the light railway’s fleet of locomotives. Details of work on six steam locomotives and Ransomes and Rapier 30-ton Steam Crane DS81 are provided in the latest…
The real Hogwarts Express is currently at the Warner Brothers Studios in London for the Studios Tour. While the locomotive is currently not operational, there is another way to travel behind the train that took Harry Potter to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry… At the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, at the Universal Studios Orlando…
Good evening, Our hobby is rather brilliant but sometimes it can be soul destroying. Last weekend Tangmere was hauling the Royal Wessex from Three Bridges to Weymouth and after seeing some of the great shots from the outward leg when I got home from work, I thought I would try to photograph her on the…
On Sunday, 6th September, I had a few days in Blackpool to see the world famous illuminations, and of course take a ride on the tramway. The Heritage Trams were out in the evenings to give tours to visitors of the lights, with the illuminated trams being used. The Western Train being a personal favourite…
Tonight we are looking at something rather different and another first for LocoYard in the form of a wooden train review and not just any wooden train; the Mid-Hants own Black 5 45379.Class: Stanier Black 5 (5MT) Use: Mixed Traffic Region: Midland/Scotland Era: 1934-1968 Preserved examples: 4767 (BR 44767) George Stephenson – North Yorkshire Moors Railway 4806…
https://www.change.org/p/st-modwen-save-our-historic-railways-buildings Another week, and another petition on Change.Org to save more of the historical buildings of our railway past. This time, a petition has been set up for St Modwen Developments Ltd. in Wolverton, where their are plans to build houses on the site and demolish the original buildings. While this country does need more houses, it would…
Today Queen Elizabeth II became the United Kingdom’s Longest reigning Monarch. In 2012 when locoyard’s model railway was in operation, her Diamond Jubilee was marked by a special Royal Train. The model was chosen because the prototype was built in the same year the Elizabeth II was crowned, giving an idea of how long her 23,226 days 18…
Icons of Steam have a collection of remarkable steam locomotives. Where possible the locomotives are kept in working order and where possible on the mainline. The locomotive in the collection that is in the news currently is world famous 46100 Royal Scot. Today Royal Scot was delivered to the Severn Valley Railway, where it will run a…
I set out with a little trepidation on Sunday after the previous failures out on the mainline had left me wondering how much worse it could get for mainline steam. I needn’t have worried. Brittania stormed through the whole day showing everyone just what steam on the mainline should be like for passengers and linesiders…
Tonight we have yet another picture from the Kent and East Sussex Railway in the 1990’s. For a short period of time, the light railway was home to a 3 car ‘Hastings’ Diesel-Electric Multiple Units (DEMU.) The Hastings DEMU was a class built specifically to run through from London to Hastings, a feat made difficult for…
Loco Yard 