BR Standard 4MT Tank and other Swanage Railway Stock

Today we almost round-off the report from last week’s visit to the Swanage Railway, with a few pictures of BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T 80104 and other stock, including brake vans and cranes.

Rebuilt West Country Pacific 34028 Eddystone

Our “stead” for the day whilst visiting the Swanage Railway was the rather magnificent rebuilt West Country Pacific 34028 Eddystone.

Diesel Power

Whilst at the Swanage Railway on the 13th April, I noticed that there were many diesel locomotives to be seen, many of them visitors as it was the day after the line’s diesel gala.

Gallery of Views of the Swanage Railway

The Swanage Railway runs a short but very picturesque route from Norden to Swanage, passing through the magnificent Corfe Castle (above) and Harman’s Cross.

M7 Tank 30053 – Lined BR Black (late crest)

Earlier in the week, I had the pleasure of visiting and traveling on the Swanage Railway in Dorset with Mrs Locoyard and as is always the way; there will be much coverage on the visit in the next few days.

The Most Famous Steam Locomotive’s – final blog post

Place Locomotive Votes Percentage 1 4472 – Flying Scotsman 105 19% 2 3801 – NSWGR C 95 17% 3 60114 – WP Allen 82 15% 4 1 – Thomas the Tank Engine 77 14% 5 4468 – Mallard 71 13% 6 60163 – Tornado 38 7% 7 3717 – City of Truro 24 4% 8…

RESULTS PUBLISHED! The View From Locoyard – UK Heritage Hub Newsletter Issue 21

You will be very pleased to learn that the results from the biggest poll conducted by http://www.locoyard.com can be seen in UK Heritage Hub magazine “The View From Locoyard” is in it! Enjoy! Click here to download and find out more! Many thanks to UK Heritage Hub’s Rowan Jackson for supplying the above photograph, which…

Voting is now Closed!

Tonight’s blog post is a just quick note to let you all know that the poll to find the most famous steam locomotive is now closed. Results will be announced on 10th May in issue 21 of UK Heritage Hub. If you join the UK Heritage Hub on Facebook (click here) or follow them on…

The Locoyard Hall of Fame…

Some of you may have noticed that during the past few week’s; blog posts have been published that have looked at each of the nominated steam locomotives that were in the poll to find the most famous steam locomotive. Today we bring all these blog posts together in the Locoyard Hall of Fame…