60163 Tornado – A BR Blue Christmas

Yesterday; 60163 Tornado ventured South, hauling the Cathedrals Express from Peterborough to Winchester; which is where I saw her. I also had the pleasure of meeting with my good friend

Good Luck and thank you to all Locoyard followers! 34067 Tangmere

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

Ashford Open Day 1992 – Prologue to My Journey in becoming a Steam Enthusiast

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

Back to British Railways at Locoyard

After the logistical headache of getting every model onto the layout for Locoyardfest, it has now been time to put them away again. Rather than going back to having a large selection of models, I’ve stuck with those in British Railway colours. I will try to be a little more sensitive to eras in the…

71000 Duke of Gloucester – The Diamond Jubilee Express

This morning I had the pleasure of both meeting Simon of Brookes Castle and also seeing the unique British Railways Standard 8 class 71000 Duke of Gloucester at Eastleigh station. Brookes Castle has a great blog that is definitely well worth following! The Duke of Gloucester was immaculately turned out for the tour and was a…

Locoyardfest 2012

Arguably the biggest railway event in the UK is currently in full swing in York. Railfest is the coming together of many locomotives from the National Collection, preserved lines and the mainline. Seeing as I was unable to attend and also for a little fun, I decided to run my very own Locoyardfest! The challenge was…

56xx 6619, looking up at the coaling tower… (models on display part 3)

Above is Mainline 56xx 6619 in front of the coaling tower. I wrote an article on this model previously. It is my intention to obtain a Bachmann chassis in the future to get this working on the yard, inspired by Brookes Castle excellent review.