The latest free edition of UK Heritage Hub’s fantastic e-zine full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors is ready to be downloaded. Enjoy! Click here to download and read it! Please note that submissions for Issue 34 are now open. If there is a topic or article that you would like to…
Last October, regular contributor Nick Littlewood sent some fascinating pictures of Sheffield Victoria Station (click here to read more), the main station on the former Great Central Railway. They showed some of the last views of this station, giving us a unique look at the station. Fortunately for us he has very kindly found some…
Please do not forget everyone to download issue 33 of UK Heritage Hub’s fantastic free e-zine! Click here to download and read it! It is full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors is ready to be downloaded. Enjoy! Please note that submissions for Issue 34 are now open and the deadline…
It may have been around for a while, but Bachmann’s 45xx/4575 model is still an important model in the firms range. It is an essential type for GWR branchlines, so an important addition to the Loco Model Reviews Page. So let’s see how good the model is!
Following from yesterday’s blog post (click here to read) looking at the Great Western Railway and STEAM, the Museum of the GWR comes a fantastic article originally published in March 1942 “Railways” Magazine. This is of course another brilliant contribution from Nick Littlewood who has very kindly sent these into Locoyard. The article is presented in…
The latest free edition of UK Heritage Hub’s fantastic e-zine full of brilliant articles from a wide variety of authors is ready to be downloaded. Enjoy! Click here to download and read it! Please note that submissions for Issue 34 are now open. If there is a topic or article that you would like to…
Issue 32 of UK Heritage Hub’s brilliant ezine has been published (click here to download and read it). Please note that submissions for Issue 33 are now open, the deadline for submissions being 13th January. If there is a topic or article that you would like to write or pictures of UK Heritage published, why…
Yesterday Hornby released details of their 2014 range. Due to other commitments I was unable to publish any details yesterday and I’m sure by now many of you had looked through the new offerings and possibly even pre-ordered a few of them! 2013 was not the best of year’s for Hornby, with supply problems, a…
The West Country class were one of Southern Railway’s Chief Mechanical Engineer OVS Bulleid’s idiosyncratic designs. They were classified as Mixed Traffic locomotives, mainly so that authorisation to build would be granted – these are essentially an express locomotive design. Originally all were built with “air smoothed casing” to facilitate cleaning through mechanical washers, they…
There is no shortage of interesting articles in this month’s UK Heritage Hub. This is a free magazine created by numerous different authors from around the country. Don’t miss out and click here to download and read it! Please note that submissions for Issue 32 are open, the deadline for which is 22nd December. If…
Loco Yard 