Following from the excellent 1937 Coronation brochure (click here for more), Nick Littlewood has sent some more contemporary scanned images to help us look a little deeper into the 75th Anniversary of LNER A4 class 4468 Mallard breaking and setting the world speed record for steam. This time we look at Railway Magazine’s August 1937…
Nick Littlewood has sent some very topical scanned images that fit perfectly with the celebration of the 75th Anniversary of LNER A4 class 4468 Mallard breaking and setting the world speed record for steam. The images supplied here are scanned from an original copy of the 1937 LNER brochure for the Coronation Express, featuring 4489…
Nick Littlewood has sent some more images of the Golden Arrow from two sources – The Book of Railways by Arthur Groom 1950 (above and below) and from The Railway Magazine Feb 1974 (bottom).
Nick Littlewood has been kind enough to send a scanned copy of a 1950’s postcard of the Golden Arrow, that had to be shared! What a fantastic illustration! They don’t make them like that any more!
Tonight we have a very special guest blog post from a steam engine – a very famous steam engine too! W.P. Allen is in the poll to find the most famous steam locomotive (poll is now closed) If you want to find out more, be sure to click on the links in the blog post. …
Upon a request for a picture of 6000 King George V on twitter, Nick Littlewood went way beyond the call of duty and sent in this fantastic selection of pictures that just had to be published! Locoyard followers would do well to follow Nick (@NickPLittlewood) on twitter; as he publishes a plethora of fascinating railway…
Tonight we have a very special guest blog post from a fantastic artist, Stephen Bedser. Stephen has kindly written an article about how he became an artist who specialises in heritage scenes. I would strongly recommend you visit http://www.cornishinc.co.uk to see more of his fantastic works. Stephen can also be found on twitter (click here),…
Fellow twitterer Nick Littlewood has been kind enough to send these photographs of a Princess at Paddington Station. I strongly advise followers of this blog on twitter to follow Nick (@NickPLittlewood), as he always has something interesting to post! Nick has also since contributed photographs of GWR King class 6000 King George V so be…
Today we review of a very much appreciated Christmas present (thank you Mrs Locoyard!) Without further ado, we look at Bachmann’s LNER A1 class.
Last week saw the last of a series posts charting my steam adventures of my youth which are charted in the About page. So that there is some continuity and to pick up the Steam Diary where the About page finishes comes a few posts from a visit to the Bluebell Railway in 2009. We…
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