Apart from being a village in Hampshire, Ropley has a station at the top of it’s hill that has become renown throughout the preservation movement as being a hub for steam; it being both a home to a large fleet of large steam engines but also a place where steam engines are re-born. These delights…
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
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 🙂
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F0llowing yesterdays review of the Bachmann BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4 Tank, today we have a look at
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
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
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!”
The third Halloween Entry is a yet-to-be introduced member of the Locoyard fleet making a spectral debut!
The second Halloween Entry is a giant pumpkin at the station. Reports that this is in fact a satsuma are as yet, unconfirmed!
Loco Yard 