This week’s model review is Hornby’s super-detail version of what is claimed to be the world’s most famous locomotive – 4472 Flying Scotsman. The LNER A3 class is an ever popular prototype and it was high time it was reviewed here on Locoyard! Before we begin, I must apologise for this model’s lack of smoke…
A brief blog post tonight with a picture from 15th October 2011 of Battle of Britain class 34067 Tangmere on the return leg of a mainline excursion (The Swanage
Today we have a very brief glimpse at Bachmann’s BR Standard 9F class and find out how to fit
August’s visit to the Bluebell Railway proved to be one of the most productive visits to a preserved line for photographs. Arriving early, I spent some time with the tripod in the engine shed before the crowds arrived, taking photographs. Today we look through some of these
The latest addition to the Locoyard fleet is likely to be used as donor locomotive for the SER 01 project. In the meantime it will be DCC chipped and reviewed, so today we start with fitting the DCC decoder. Fitting a DCC chip to
Most of the readers of the Locoyard blog must be very confused that the final part of “my journey in becoming a steam enthusiast” involved me giving up being an enthusiast and finishing the final part in an overly melodramatic fashion! How could that possibly be the end of the journey? Well, in short, it…
Following last week’s review of the Hunslet Austerity saddle tank; today we look at another Austerity design, this one more unloved than most! Bulleid’s 0-6-0 Q1 class was the most powerful 0-6-0 ever built in the UK. The design was very unconventional and gave it a unique appearance. Previous articles have been written on the…
Another short post tonight; this time giving a motive power update. In the next few days and weeks there will be
Seeing as there were a record number of hits to Locoyard website yesterday, I thought it not fair to give you all no blog post update today. Unfortunately I’m still unwell, so it’s a short one! Here are a couple of pictures of
This weekend has allowed a good amount of time for working on the layout and projects. In hindsight, it should of been a good opportunity to simply operate the layout, as having caught some serious man-flu; coughing, headaches and tiredness meant full concentration wasn’t on the cards. I should have sat back with a cup…
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