Bad Weather!

Today’s Bad Weather has given a good excuse to publish a few pictures taken in 2011 of Ropley on the Watercress Line, in terrible weather conditions. Rather than snow, it was torrential rain on the day which made for some great

Locoyard’s 1st Anniversary!

Today’s celebration is actually a day late, as yesterday marked Locoyard’s first anniversary of

Busy Christmas Scenes at Ropley

Today’s Blog Post is a selection of Santa Special pictures and scenes from around the site taken

Christmas on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway

We continue looking at Christmas Steam, but this time look at a very wet Havenstreet on the Isle of Wight. War Department Hunslet Austerity WD198 Royal Engineer was in charge of services (above). Although a Santa Special, Santa was not to be found on

Christmas at Medstead and Four Marks

A selection of Christmas scenes from Medstead and Four Marks, Saturday 15th December 2012. There’s still time submit your pictures to be published on Locoyard.com on Christmas Day! Click here for more details.

Santa’s Other Train – 925 Cheltenham on the Mid-Hants Railway

Hauling Heavy Santa Services this December on the Watercress Line with U class 31806 has been the National Collection’s

Santa’s Train – A Hard Day’s Work for 31806 on the Mid-Hants Railway

U class 31806 has been hard at work throughout

Sleeping Giants at Ropley

With the excuse of taking more pictures of Christmas steam (for material for the Locoyard Advent Calendar!) , last Sunday I spent a few hours on the Watercress Line. It was a fairly gloomy day, which really added to the already ample

Mainline Steam! The Bath Christmas Market

Those who caught this morning’s Advent Calendar Post would have seen an advanced preview of today’s blog post. Yesterday (December 8th), 34067 Tangmere worked “The Bath Christmas Market”; a mainline steam excursion running from

December – Ropley Locoyard

A quick post tonight to round off last Saturday’s visit to the Watercress Line. After soaking in the festive atmosphere at Alresford; last Saturday’s visit ended (as it often does!) with a visit to