Following from the story of the visit to The Great Gathering at the National Railway Museum, York (click here to read) and UK Heritage Hub’s blog post on the event (click here to read it), today we publish pictures taken of each A4 Pacific locomotive in a slideshow.
After the visit to the NRM and with my modelling brain in gear, I had a think about Hornby and their limited production run of 500 pieces of each A4 class locomotive in 00 scale in “The Great Gathering” range. Bearing in mind how good the Hornby A4 model is (click here for the review)…
On the first day of the 75th Anniversary of Mallard breaking the world speed record for steam traction, my friends at UK Heritage Hub published some of the first pictures of “The Gathering” here on Locoyard which gave an excellent background (click here to read it) to why all six surviving Gresley A4 Pacific locomotives…
Today’s celebration is actually a day late, as yesterday marked Locoyard’s first anniversary of
The series of posts about my journey in becoming a steam enthusiast was missing a few parts, mainly due to a lack of photographs, however I have just found a few more pictures of an early memory that
1997 was a significant year for the Watercress Line, as it marked it’s 20th anniversary as a preserved railway. My father and I visited the line twice that year. The line’s impressive home fleet was supplemented by some very special visitors. Continuing from last week’s post, here are a selection of photographs of the Watercress…
Loco Yard 