7th December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture courtesy and copyright of Peter Francis!
6th December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture courtesy and copyright of Kieran Hardy!
5th December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture courtesy and copyright of Jack Peake 2014
4th December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture – Hornby’s Smokey Joe has been wrapped under Christmas tree’s since 1983, today we see the real thing!
3rd December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
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2nd December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture courtesy and copyright of Dave Bushell wychminster.wordpress.com)
1st December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
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Ropley Update
Steam gala’s on the Watercress Line present great opportunities to explore the workshops to see how various overhauls and restoration of different locomotives are progressing. Even considering the recent departures of all but one of John Bunch’s locomotives, the railway has an impressive fleet. The fate of this one locomotive, BR standard 5MT class 73096…
A Tasty Sighting!
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…
London Transport Pannier
One of the worst kept secrets of steam locomotive colour schemes was discovered a long time before Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Castle (click here for more). It is a secret that many of a western persuasion would probably keep to themselves… The secret being that Great Western Railway locomotives painted red look very good.
Loco Yard 