Tonight we have a very special blog post, pictures and text are brought to you from of Thomas Barnes. Thomas has kindly written a piece about Australia’s Most Famous Locomotive – NSWGR C 3801. Thomas can be found on Facebook (click here) and the locomotive has a Group page (click here) so after reading this…
This time last year on Locoyard, a blog post was published on the “Cockney Coronation Society“. This was, of course an April fools Day joke! However, not wanting to be too predictable there is no April Fools Day joke here this year, but a lighthearted blog post none-the-less!
Nominations can no longer be submitted to go through to the vote for most famous steam locomotive. The poll will go live in the evening of Thursday 4th April. Many thanks for all your submissions!
Nominations are now closed – click here to vote!
UK Heritage Hub have just published another fantastic newsletter and as usual “The View From Locoyard” is in it! Enjoy! Click here to download and read it!
Please click here or on the pictures below to find out more details on how to vote for the most famous steam locomotive in the world!
A memorable part of the day at the the Watercress Line’s Great Spring Steam Gala 2013 was a tour of the Medstead Wagon Works.
It was a visit to the Science Museum in London that sparked the quest to find the most famous steam locomotive (click here to read more). However despite that, there had yet to be a proper article on the three locomotives to be found there, so here (at last!) it is!
Until the end of March 2013, we were accepting nominations for locomotives considered to be the most famous! This competition was started in UK Heritage Hub’s e-magazine (Click here to download and read it). A poll is now live for all nominated entries – click here to vote!
Saturday 23rd March 2013 will see the re-opening of the rail link between Sheffield Park and East Grinstead.
Loco Yard 