6th December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture courtesy and copyright of Kieran Hardy!
5th December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture courtesy and copyright of Jack Peake 2014
4th December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture – Hornby’s Smokey Joe has been wrapped under Christmas tree’s since 1983, today we see the real thing!
3rd December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
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2nd December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
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1st December – Locoyard Advent Calendar
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A Tasty Sighting!
Rather remarkably, somehow I managed to skip this this beautiful locomotive when reporting about my visit to the Bluebell Line (click here to read more.) This was probably because I only saw it briefly as it pulled away with the line’s Wealden Rambler. It had been many years since I had seen this locomotive in…
A Fitting Memorial
Collett Goods number 3205 is a favourite locomotive of mine and I was very happy to see it, albeit briefly in the rain on my last visit to the South Devon Railway (click here for more). The locomotive has been repainted in lined BR Green which suits it very well in my opinion. I noticed…
Thunder Without Lightning: The Growl Of A 37
During the heavy rain that accompanied my visit to the South Devon Railway (click here for more), a low growl could be felt as I arrived at Buckfastleigh. But this was not thunder, although at first it seemed that it might be. It was the sound of an English Electric class 37 diesel, a machine…
London Transport Pannier
One of the worst kept secrets of steam locomotive colour schemes was discovered a long time before Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Castle (click here for more). It is a secret that many of a western persuasion would probably keep to themselves… The secret being that Great Western Railway locomotives painted red look very good.
Loco Yard 