preservation

I came across this on Facebook. A BD container (3/054). One of six of the fibreglass variety built to Lot 3274 at Mickleover Ltd between October 1959 and January 1960. Collection from Barnsley. Facebook Marketplace: Railway carriage very rare – Antiques and collectables – Barnsley Cheers Jan

Good evening. I've recently joined Western Thunder and, having a layout of my own, I thought it might be of interest to other members. I don't want to just take ideas from others, maybe some of mine can help others as well. The layout's name is as above. It's based on the real West Kirby...

Good evening!! I had my registration approved a couple of days ago, so I thought I ought to introduce myself. My name is as above but my username will be explained shortly!! I model in O gauge, blue diesel late 1970s/early 80s. I've been building a layout based on an actual location since...

This is the first in what may be a sporadic survey of wagons in what might loosely be called preservation. These examples have ended up at the Yeovil Railway Centre at Yeovil Junction (well, actually the GWR's Clifton Maybank branch). These pictures were taken under the supervision of my father...

Hi All For you steam & LMS/BR people here is a taster, see my Flickr link for a further selection including night photos. This was from a Russ Hillier Photo Charter as a part of the the 50th Anniversary of the end of steam at Barrow Hill. Dave

Southampton, like many other places in the country, participates in Heritage Open Days, albeit, in typical Southampton fashion, without really telling anyone about it. A pity because one of the attractions was getting into the Eastern Docks to visit some of the heritage projects based there. The...

So, last weekend, we went camping in Purbeck with friends and among the many attractions of this part of the world - and extremely handily for our campsite at Harman's Cross - was the Swanage Railway. I've always felt that it's Corfe Castle, rather than Swanage that is the principle attraction...

...yesterday. steve

Just been running the bar at the EOR gala, and grabbed a few shots of the 45 that's arrived with it's nose off.. JB.

Hi all, Just thought I'd post some pics of my latest venture. Seeing as we're never going to move away from the Telford area and the fact that I've only 4 years left in the RAF I decided to get myself another hobby. So off I toodled to the Telford Steam Railway and signed up on the dotted line...

Hi all, just came across these photos that I took on a visit to the SVR last year which might be of use to some of you GWR folk [attachment=7:34r9tok7]DSCF3309.JPG[/attachment:34r9tok7] [attachment=6:34r9tok7]DSCF3310.JPG[/attachment:34r9tok7]...