Positive news has come out of Leiston Works Railway (LWR), who want to reinstate the rail line from Buller Road and Main Street to then connect with the award-winning Leiston Long Shop Museum, which is the once the home to the foundries of Richard Garrett & Sons Limited. This line was abandoned in the late 1960s…
Here are a series of pictures I took in Rogiet, Gwent on May 4th 2013 of 34067 Tangmere, an SR Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 steam locomotive as it stopped to take on water. This was actually the first time I ever got to see a steam locomotive up close. I was sat at home…
In the past day or two, the Flying Scotsman has made it to national and international news after making its first test run since completion of its overhaul on the East Lancashire Railway. In doing so, it has shown that there is plenty of substance behind its claim to being the world’s most famous steam locomotive. …
Click on the picture to reveal the final Advent Calendar picture of 2015! A Very Merry Christmas from the locoyard team to all our followers!
On 21st December 2015, the world’s most famous steam locomotive steamed for the first time since the overhaul commenced and almost exactly ten years since its last excursion hauling the ‘Christmas Lunch Excursion’ run by Vintage Trains on 17 December 2005. There is some work still left to complete ahead of the loco making its first…
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture (Copyright Dave Bushell – http://www.wychminster.wordpress.com)
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture (Copyright Brian L Dominic – The Mid-Derbyshire Light railway (www.mdlr.co.uk) – It’s Christmas Eve, and the Over Haddon Christmas tree glows brightly beside the church at the end of the village street. This is, of course, a garden railway…………)
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Brought to you with thanks to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and copyright holder Richard Beckett. Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture! Do you want to contribute to the locoyard advent calendar? Click here to find out how you can!
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