Locomotives Your loco photos both Diesel and Steam ........ Drop them in here. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:21:48 +0000 Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:21:48 +0000 Platform1mrc.com http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?forums/locomotives/ The Wensleydale Railway Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:21:34 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-wensleydale-railway.4697/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-wensleydale-railway.4697/ invalid@example.com (Rob Pulham) Rob Pulham I am posting this thread in the hope that I will have much to share in the coming months as the preservation season gets under way.

Starting today when Tornado came visiting for a couple of weeks and came up the branch light engine while running driver experience and cab rides. I say cab rides plural but despite there being 4 trips each way advertised it only came out and back the once. The good news is that the sun was out and I had the camera to hand....

The Wensleydale Railway]]> 58 Flying Scotsman - Detailed footplate ride on the SVR - BBC iPlayer UK 2017 Sat, 25 Oct 2025 11:17:40 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/flying-scotsman-detailed-footplate-ride-on-the-svr-bbc-iplayer-uk-2017.7060/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/flying-scotsman-detailed-footplate-ride-on-the-svr-bbc-iplayer-uk-2017.7060/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b087k5rf/flying-scotsman-from-the-footplate

Jim :)]]> 4 Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway Hunslet Event Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:36:22 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/embsay-and-bolton-abbey-railway-hunslet-event.6968/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/embsay-and-bolton-abbey-railway-hunslet-event.6968/ invalid@example.com (Rob Pulham) Rob Pulham

On Thursday evening they have a small get together for their volunteers and invited us to join them. They lined up a number of the Hunslets across the front of their shed to create a photo opportunity but...

Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway Hunslet Event]]> 7 Rt. Revd. Eric Treacy MBE LLD Thu, 08 May 2025 21:26:55 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/rt-revd-eric-treacy-mbe-lld.6943/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/rt-revd-eric-treacy-mbe-lld.6943/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth Rt. Revd. Eric Treacy MBE LLD

Flicking through a number of old magazines passed to me by a friend here in Telford, I came across a supplement published by The Railway Magazine in December 1990, “Eric Treacy: The Classic Years.”

Treacy’s photographs are now in the National Archive collection at Kew They are ©Crown Copyright and covered by an Open Government Licence which permits copying of images in the collection for non-commercial use. This covers the...

Rt. Revd. Eric Treacy MBE LLD]]> Early Small Petrol-Powered Rail Inspection Vehicles Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:31:58 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/early-small-petrol-powered-rail-inspection-vehicles.6868/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/early-small-petrol-powered-rail-inspection-vehicles.6868/ invalid@example.com (Roger Farnworth) Roger Farnworth
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/27/early-small-petrol-powered-rail-inspection-cars/]]> 3 Deltic ... shmeltic Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:25:06 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/deltic-shmeltic.6859/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/deltic-shmeltic.6859/ invalid@example.com (Chris M) Chris M
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About a year ago I bought the Dapol OO scale plastic kit of this locomotive. The kit is supplied in grey plastic, rudimentary instructions and with no windows. I did some preliminary painting but have only now got around to assembling it.

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I wasn't expecting any dramas and indeed the first part...

Deltic ... shmeltic]]> 15 A week "Down South" Mon, 24 Jun 2024 14:38:04 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/a-week-down-south.6696/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/a-week-down-south.6696/ invalid@example.com (Keith M) Keith M
A week "Down South"]]> 17 Peak rail gala Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:42:35 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/peak-rail-gala.6646/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/peak-rail-gala.6646/ invalid@example.com (Andy_Sollis) Andy_Sollis
a first in heritage railways was visiting GBRF loco Class 69008 (formerly a Class 56 but re engines with the GM engine from a Class 66.) making its debut on a passenger train.

note it had to be coupled to its family relative a class 47, as the 69’s (and same when 56’s) were air brake only, where as the heritage stock is the older Vacuum braked. The Class 47 acts as a kind of converter.
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Like old family friends. You can still see...

Peak rail gala]]> 1 Pendennis Castle with 9 on at Kidderminster Railway Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:18:57 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/pendennis-castle-with-9-on-at-kidderminster-railway.6343/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/pendennis-castle-with-9-on-at-kidderminster-railway.6343/ invalid@example.com (Rob Pulham) Rob Pulham
]]> 3 So ... I bit the bullet Wed, 01 Mar 2023 07:11:07 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/so-i-bit-the-bullet.6044/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/so-i-bit-the-bullet.6044/ invalid@example.com (Chris M) Chris M
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Even though I model USA I have always had fond memories of these locomotives which were still operational when I was a boy. This is the streamlined version (only 5 of a total of 30 were built this way). The streamlined versions were mostly painted green and...

So ... I bit the bullet]]> 14 Modern Train Construction UK on BBC iPlayer Thu, 04 Aug 2022 20:26:23 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/modern-train-construction-uk-on-bbc-iplayer.6098/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/modern-train-construction-uk-on-bbc-iplayer.6098/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
If you can put up with the typically childish presenters I found this to be quite an interesting look into Derby works today (pity no steam engines though), the manufacture of aluminium and the first electric railway in the UK.

A glimpse into the HS2 tunneling activities from casting the tunnel segments and a tunnel boring machine included....

Modern Train Construction UK on BBC iPlayer]]> 2 Another Steam Special today, the "Yorkshireman". Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:27:45 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/another-steam-special-today-the-yorkshireman.6054/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/another-steam-special-today-the-yorkshireman.6054/ invalid@example.com (Keith M) Keith M View attachment 34553 View attachment 34554 Managed to get to the Nottingham/Chesterfield line by our village just in time for this, the "Yorkshireman", drawn by "Bahamas", only a couple of average phone photo's, but the loco was pulling well on the uphill stretch!
Keith.]]> 1 BR - North Eastern - 1966 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:52:54 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/br-north-eastern-1966.5819/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/br-north-eastern-1966.5819/ invalid@example.com (paul_l) paul_l
Thought this may be of interest



Paul]]> Steam special in Chesterfield today. Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:31:58 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/steam-special-in-chesterfield-today.5776/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/steam-special-in-chesterfield-today.5776/ invalid@example.com (Keith M) Keith M
View attachment 31082]]> 12 Introduction to the workings of Stanier 8F 8233 Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:48:25 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/introduction-to-the-workings-of-stanier-8f-8233.5775/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/introduction-to-the-workings-of-stanier-8f-8233.5775/ invalid@example.com (Jim Freight) Jim Freight
Much of which is common to many steam locos :-



Jim]]> 2 JNR C62 17 at the SCMAGLEV and Railway Museum, Nagoya Japan Sun, 08 Aug 2021 12:51:10 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/jnr-c62-17-at-the-scmaglev-and-railway-museum-nagoya-japan.5641/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/jnr-c62-17-at-the-scmaglev-and-railway-museum-nagoya-japan.5641/ invalid@example.com (au_skoota) au_skoota
One of the stops planned was for a visit to LEGOLAND Japan in Nagoya. A good friend of mine - upon discovering that I was in Japan and was staying at LEGOLAND - insisted that I should make time to visit the "SCMAGLEV and Railway Museum", the official museum of the JR Central Railway company. The museum, my friend told me, is located next door to the railway station that...

JNR C62 17 at the SCMAGLEV and Railway Museum, Nagoya Japan]]> Meanwhile, at Sydney Central Station.... Sun, 08 Aug 2021 04:45:22 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/meanwhile-at-sydney-central-station.5455/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/meanwhile-at-sydney-central-station.5455/ invalid@example.com (Gary) Gary
I will get a video posted up at a later date.





Meanwhile, at Sydney Central Station....]]> 11 Southern Railways ugly ducklings - SR Q1 Class Sat, 07 Aug 2021 09:29:03 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/southern-railways-ugly-ducklings-sr-q1-class.5636/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/southern-railways-ugly-ducklings-sr-q1-class.5636/ invalid@example.com (paul_l) paul_l


Paul]]> 6 The Royal Duchy. 01/08/21 To Par Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:52:33 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-royal-duchy-01-08-21-to-par.5626/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/the-royal-duchy-01-08-21-to-par.5626/ invalid@example.com (60019Bittern) 60019Bittern 3 North British Sun, 11 Jul 2021 09:06:04 +0000 http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/north-british.5608/ http://platform1mrc.com/p1mrc/index.php?threads/north-british.5608/ invalid@example.com (paul_l) paul_l


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