Originally posted on LET THE STARS OUT:
An enchanting experience reliving the golden era of travel, I took a ride on Dartmouth Steam Railway. You just have to try it! Celebrating 150 years this summer, the heritage steam railway stops at Kingswear, Greenway Halt (for Agatha Christie’s summer home), Churston, Goodrington and Paignton. I chose to…
Originally posted on 52 Weeks of Bill's Life:
To do this theme justice I have to tell a story – I have always wanted to take pictures of steam trains and the North Yorkshire Railway Company was close by on my recent vacation. Great so Jeff, the brother in-law, and I worked out the timetables…
Good evening, Today marks the fifty anniversary of the last ever “Atlantic Coast Express” when 34023 Blackmoor Vale left Padstow heading for London Waterloo on the 5th September 1964. One of the most famous named trains in British Railways that had for so long linked London with the holiday locations on the North Cornwall’s Atlantic Coast had ceased…
Rather remarkably, somehow I managed to skip this this beautiful locomotive when reporting about my visit to the Bluebell Line (click here to read more.) This was probably because I only saw it briefly as it pulled away with the line’s Wealden Rambler. It had been many years since I had seen this locomotive in…
Originally posted on Calling All Stations:
As you may well know, I originally got this hobby in my teens, being forced to take a break when I ran out of space and went to uni. Spin forward 10 years and I now have a large quantity of rolling stock that I inherited from the offset, some of…
Originally posted on Model Railroad Imagineerings:
Recently I had lunch with a co-worker who was born and raised in India. We talked about her home state, Indian food, and then on to tea. From tea we took a side step to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, a favorite two foot railway of mine. My friend asked…
Whilst class 37/0 locomotive D6975/37275 (click here for more) was in action during my last visit to the South Devon Railway (click here for more), upon exploring Buckfastleigh I soon found that it was one of a number of heritage diesels to be found on the site. This allowed for the opportunity to practice my…
It’s been a long time coming, but we have at last updated the look of the website. 5 featured blog posts will now appear on the top of the screen, but if you scroll down the home page you will soon see all the other blog posts in age order (newest first). The old look…
A great looking miniature railway will have to visit it one day. 🙂
Following from yesterdays ramblings and being gifted a little free time this afternoon, I sat back and watched this fantastic film of Southern steam on YouTube. It is one of a set that I’ll be watching in due course. Some of the footage in this video was taken in the 1930’s. From observing this, I…
Loco Yard 