Bachmann GWR 49xx Hall Class Review

Class: GWR 49XX Hall Class Use: Mixed Traffic Region: Western Era: 1928-1965 Preserved examples: 4920 Dumbleton Hall – South Devon Railway 4930 Hagley Hall

Winter Scenes at a real Loco Yard

After several locomotives having returned from visits to other railways, Ropley loco yard is back to looking

The Watercress Line’s Last Public Service Trains of the Season – Part 1

As with many other preserved line’s, last Sunday 4th November saw the last day of public service trains on the Watercress Line in 2012. The upcoming month of December will see steam return to

Happy Bonfire Night from Locoyard

Just a quick blog post this evening to wish all Locoyard followers a Happy Bonfire Night! I hope you all have or are enjoying this season’s fireworks 🙂

Thomas the Tank Engine takes part in Movember!

Click Here to find out more about Movember and how one of your really useful engines can take part!

BR Standard 4MT Class Tank 80151

F0llowing yesterdays review of the Bachmann BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4 Tank, today we have a look at

Bachmann BR Standard 4MT Class Tank Review

Class: BR Standard 4MT class 2-6-4 Tank Use: Mixed Traffic Region: All Era: 1951-1967 Preserved examples: 80002 – Keighley and Worth Valley Railway 80064 – Bluebell Railway 80072 – Llangollen

Bachmann 49xx Hall DCC Fitting Guide

As some of you guessed correctly, Locoyard’s ghost train in the Halloween blog post was indeed a Bachmann 00 scale GWR Hall class. 4936 Kinlet Hall is going to be put through it’s paces before long, but in the meantime we learn how to fit a DCC chip to

Happy Halloween from Locoyard!

The most horrible Halloween Blog Post has been left for Halloween Day. A terribly painted 0-6-0 is named Pumpkin, before being broken for parts. All that’s left is to say is “Happy Halloween to all Locoyard followers!”