Hornby Gresley N2 Class Model Review

A rather unplanned and surprise locomotive model review this week! This is a review of Hornby’s 00 scale version of Gresley’s successful N2 class – a popular model train subject since Hornby Dublo days.

Dukedog 9017 – A Vanishing Act!

In 2009, I witnessed the spectacle all steam enthusiasts love to see – a locomotive creating a massive cloud of steam that it disappeared in! Mistakenly I assumed that this was blowing steam out of every valve but I’ve been since corrected that the cause is likely to be caused by water coming out of…

Bachmann SDJR 7F Class – DCC fitting guide

The past few days has given much time for reflection, but it is now time to get on with the good old “bread and butter” Locoyard articles! And today, we see a DCC chip fitted to

Locoyard 2013!

Well after a roundup of all the model activity, steam activity and web site stats, it is now time to look forward into 2013. Of course, this is dependent on things going to plan so I’m afraid none of this is set in stone. With that in mind, here goes! Steam Action! One of the…

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for locoyard.com. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 45,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 10 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

Happy New Year!

The picture above was taken earlier today of a North Pole-bound Christmas train at Locoyard station. It was taken whilst waiting for Santa Claus to board, with the maroon and gold pannier tank at the helm. Although the presents wagon is now empty, supplies of Kit Kats, Polo’s and Campbells soup are amongst the much…

2012 Locoyard Steam Round-up

Today’s post is a far shorter one than yesterday’s, so please do not be put off! This blog started life as one to share Model Railway experiences. This soon spread to my strong interests in the real thing and as a result

2012 Locoyard Model Round-up

It is hard to believe that this time last year locoyard.com did not exist. The layout did though, as did the thought to start blogging. The blog started on 12th January (which was introduced with the picture below), though the blog did not become locoyard.com until 9th June. Today we look at all that has…

Apple Green 60163 Tornado – 2010

In anticipation of the review of Bachmann’s model of 60163 Tornado; today we look at few pictures of the real 2008 built beast, taken 22nd August 2010.

UK Heritage Hub Newsletter Issue 15

As is often the way, the plan to not publish a blog post today has not transpired! This is simply because UK Heritage Hub have published their fifteenth newsletter. As always it is an excellent piece of work that is highly recommended by Locoyard.com. Click here to view it. Happily, a couple of Locoyard pictures…