Today is Back to the Future Day, when Doc. Brown and Marty travelled to the 21st October 2015 in the second film. However, the third film, contained two locomotives, both of which can be seen today. Before we get started, Back to the Future is one of my favourite movie trilogies of all time, and…
Last week, for my Birthday, I visited the Severn Valley Railway. I have wanted to go to the line for such a long time, and I was finally able to visit the line, which is noted to be one of the best and most popular in the country. I started my journey at Kidderminister, and was greeted…
The North Norfolk Railway’s annual steam gala was held on the weekend of the 6th to the 8th March, and what a spectacular weekend it was. The visitors were LNER Class D49 Morayshire, which was visiting from Scotland, a 4-4-0 locomotive designed by Nigel Gresley, courtesy of the National Museum of Scotland and the Scottish Railway…
The third railroad I visited while I was in the United States of America was the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad. After the fantastic trip on the day before, this was quite a different story. My family were visiting Alamosa to visit the wonderful Cumbres and Toltec Railroad, so we decided to visit this railroad as…
As I stated when I first wrote for this blog, I have a model railway, which I have been working on since I was very young. It has had many iterations, but this one, the third incarnation is the longest that I have had the model railway. As you can see in the images below,…
Welcome to Locoyard’s Model of the Week Blog Post! Today we have an example of arguably one of the most versatile steam locomotives ever constructed – the Stanier Black 5!
BR Standard classes are popular model prototypes, so much so that in the 2013 MREmag and RMweb Poll, the two most wished for classes of 00 scale steam locomotive were standard classes (the 2MT and 3MT 2-6-0’s). But even with that said, it was a surprise to many when Hornby announced it was going to…
Although not quite up to the standard of Hornby’s 4MT 4-6-0 model, Bachmann’s model is never-the-less a reasonable model and can be found very cheaply. It is no wonder that one has found it’s way into the Locoyard running fleet, particularly one in Bachmann’s rich rendition of Brunswick Green. A review of the model will…
This is the first BR standard class locomotive to feature in the Model of the week series. Once again, we shall be looking at the history of the prototype, illustrated by pictures of Bachmann’s rendition of the model (click here for the model review).
This week’s model of the week is another regular performer at Locoyard
Loco Yard 