LMS Patriot Project

TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

We are building a working steam locomotive as a National Memorial Engine, recreating a Remembrance link established after the Great War and lost in the 1960s. None of this type of express passenger locomotive – the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) ‘Patriot’ class - survived when steam traction ended in the 60s on British…

The North Staffordshire Railway Part 3.

TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

Brian Sullivan returns to give us Part III of his North Staffs Railway talk, using historic digitised photos taken by “Tommy” Tomalin.  This talk covers the lines that ran to Stone and then onwards to Stoke, with a look at the Trentham Gardens branch.  We then turn left at Stoke and run to Market Drayton to meet the…