Just a very quick post tonight showing the rare sight of three Thomas the Tank Engine locomotives lined up at Locoyard. 11 Oliver is currently for sale – click here or on the picture below to read more – NOTE – this will be only available here until Sunday 17th February 2013 at midnight –…
Following on from my previous post, this is one of the final of this series of memories and a fantastic one at that! One of my most fond steam memories from my younger years came from a visit to the West Somerset Railway when it was celebrating its 21st anniversary in March 1997. An incredible…
One simple reason for the steam enthusiast to want to visit the Great Western Society at Didcot Railway Centre is fairly simple – it houses the largest collection of GWR loco’s and rolling stock in Britain. Last Sunday’s blog post looked at the Didcot site and as promised we will now look inside the engine…
As promised in yesterdays post, here are a few pictures taken at a visit to Buckfastleigh in 2010. That day, pannier tank 57xx 5786 was shunting stock around the yard. Meanwhile the beautiful (in my humble opinion) and only surving Collett Goods class 2251 0-6-0 number 3205 ran services. Meanwhile, a few other locomotives were…
Loco Yard 