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| 3650 | Pictured in private owner blue livery | 27 | March 2020 |
| Iron Duke | 3 | April 2020 | |
| Interchangeability of loco parts | 9 | April 2020 | |
| 1014 | The County Conundrum - There's Lots in a Name | 17 | April 2020 |
| 1363 | The Big Thirteen - Lucky for some? | 24 | April 2020 |
| 1466 | #MuseumFromHome - 1466, Didcot's Pioneer | 30 | April 2020 |
| 3822 | No. 3822 Built to Serve | 7 | May 2020 |
| Taking the Water (Locomotive water troughs) | 15 | May 2020 | |
| A Valve by Any Other Name Could be a Gear | 22 | May 2020 | |
| We're NOT Going on a Summer Holiday (Locomotive names) | 29 | May 2020 | |
| Under Pressure (Locomotive boilers) | 5 | June 2020 | |
| 1363 | 1363 - Survivor Extraordinaire | 12 | June 2020 |
| Is Everyone All Whyte? (Wheel arrangements - pt 1) | 19 | June 2020 | |
| Is Everyone Still All Whyte? (Wheel arrangements - pt 2) | 26 | June 2020 | |
| 2999 | Award Nomination for the Saint | 3 | July 2020 |
| Are You Single? (Single wheelers) | 10 | July 2020 | |
| Decoding an Engine (Shed codes and route availability) | 17 | July 2020 | |
| Auto Working Wonders | 24 | July 2020 | |
| 6023 | All Hail the King | 31 | July 2020 |
| 4144 | Prairie Pondering, Part One - Primary Prairies | 7 | August 2020 |
| 6106 | Prairie Pondering, Part Two - The Prairie GTI | 14 | August 2020 |
| 5572 | Prairie Pondering, Part Three - Prairies in the Wild | 21 | August 2020 |
| A King-size education for trainspotters (Locomotive names) | 28 | August 2020 | |
| Lubrication? We Are at a Total Loss... | 4 | September 2020 | |
| The 'Ten Year Ticket' (Boiler certification) | 11 | September 2020 | |
| 1014 | 1014 ‘County of Glamorgan’ - The TRUE Story | 18 | September 2020 |
| 93 | Railmotor Requiem | 25 | September 2020 |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 1 | 2 | October 2020 |
| Hydrostatic Hyperbole ? (Hydrostatic displacement lubrication) | 9 | October 2020 | |
| A Tender Behind! (Locomotive Tenders - Part 1) | 16 | October 2020 | |
| Another Tender Behind (Locomotive Tenders - Part 2) | 23 | October 2020 | |
| 08604 | Spooky Shunting Spectacular (08 Shunters) | 30 | October 2020 |
| 5322 | The Iron Warhorse | 6 | November 2020 |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 2 | 13 | November 2020 |
| An Injection of Pure Genius (Steam Injectors) | 20 | November 2020 | |
| A Long Term Round Up (4709, 1014, 7202) | 27 | November 2020 | |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 3 | 4 | December 2020 |
| Chiming with Chimneys | 11 | December 2020 | |
| A Guest for Christmas (Recollections of Ted Abear) | 18 | December 2020 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons Part 1: Into the Swamp... (Crocodiles) | 15 | January 2021 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons Part 2: A Case of Hay Fever? (Pollens) | 22 | January 2021 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons Part 3: More Ribbit than Rivet? (Toads) | 29 | January 2021 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons Part 4: It’s Go Go on the MOGO but No Go on the ASMO (Car carrying wagons) | 5 | February 2021 | |
| Working This Out Was A Real (Tractive) Effort! (Calculating Tractive Effort) | 12 | February 2021 | |
| Actually, Totally Cool! (GWR Automatic Train Control) | 19 | February 2021 | |
| Going Underground, Going Underground... Part 1 (The GWR and the Metropolitan Railway) | 26 | February 2021 | |
| Deeper Underground - Part 2 (The GWR, Smithfield Meat Market and Mica Vans) | 5 | March 2021 | |
| The 10 Things Treasure Trail (Some curious facts about some of our locomotives) | 12 | March 2021 | |
| Fire Fly | Broad Gauge Banter Part 1: Broadening Your Horizons? (Gauges and gauge conversion) | 19 | March 2021 |
| Broad Gauge Banter Part 2 - This Train Sucks! (The South Devon Railway and the atmospheric system) | 26 | March 2021 | |
| This is Just Purrfect (A significantly dated review of the GWR's Feline Services Division) | 1 | April 2021 | |
| The Ten More Things Treasure Hunt (Some curious facts about some of our locomotives) | 9 | April 2021 | |
| 1340 | The Return of the Little Warrior | 16 | April 2021 |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 4 | 23 | April 2021 |
| 22 | Busman's Holiday? (The GWR's Diesel Railcars) | 23 | April 2021 |
| 1466 | No. 1466 - The Pioneer's Progress | 7 | May 2021 |
| 1338 | The Cardiff Connection | 14 | May 2021 |
| 5 | Ancient Artefact - Part 1 | 21 | May 2021 |
| 5 | Ancient Artefact - Part 2 | 28 | May 2021 |
| (All about locomotive wheels) | 4 | June 2021 | |
| Luxurious Saloons? Super! (The GWR Super Saloon carriages) | 11 | June 2021 | |
| Yorkshire Gold in a Didcot Mirror (Comparisons with visiting Lambton Tank locomotive) | 18 | June 2021 | |
| Fire Fly | The Lampyridae Legend | 25 | June 2021 |
| 1466 | The Pioneer's Progress - Part 2 | 2 | July 2021 |
| Oh, six two? Part 1 (A survey of 0-6-2 Tank Engines on the GWR, and elsewhere) | 9 | July 2021 | |
| Oh, six two? Part 2 (A survey of 0-6-2 Tank Engines on the GWR, and elsewhere) | 16 | July 2021 | |
| The Yanks are coming (The USA S160 class) | 23 | July 2021 | |
| 6697 | Oh, six two? Part 3 (A survey of 0-6-2 Tank Engines on the GWR, and elsewhere) | 30 | July 2021 |
| They Also Served (Locomotives that served the UK in time of war) | 6 | August 2021 | |
| 18000 | The Turbine Twins (The gas turbine locomotives ordered by the GWR) | 13 | August 2021 |
| 2999 | Very Virtuous Vehicles? Part 1 (The Saint Class) | 20 | August 2021 |
| 2999 | Very Virtuous Vehicles? Part 2 (The Saint Class) | 27 | August 2021 |
| 2999 | Very Virtuous Vehicles? Part 3 (The Saint Class) | 3 | September 2021 |
| The ‘Glamorous World’ of Steam Locomotives? (The boiler washout) | 10 | September 2021 | |
| 1466 | The Pioneer's Progress - Part 3 | 17 | September 2021 |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 5 | 24 | September 2021 |
| Trials and Tribulations - Part 1 (Locomotive exchange trials) | 1 | October 2021 | |
| Trials and Tribulations - Part 2 (Locomotive exchange trials) | 8 | October 2021 | |
| Why is That Engine, That Shape? | 15 | October 2021 | |
| Oh the horror! ... (Some particularly unattractive locomotives!) | 22 | October 2021 | |
| Oh the horror! Part 2 ... (Some more particularly unattractive locomotives!) | 22 | October 2021 | |
| Wye were the Kings at Chepstow? (Load testing and the final days of the Kings) | 5 | November 2021 | |
| Hidden Treasures (The Centenary Carriages and No. 9635) | 12 | November 2021 | |
| 1466 | The Pioneer's Progress - Part 4 | 19 | November 2021 |
| A Priceless Pooch (The Southern Railway Terriers) | 26 | November 2021 | |
| 14:48 Time for a Design Classic (Genesis of the 14xx Class) | 3 | December 2021 | |
| Hidden Treasures Part 2 (The Dreadnought Coaches) | 10 | December 2021 | |
| Hot Stuff? (Carriage Steam Heating) | 17 | December 2021 | |
| A Guest for Christmas 2 - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (Further recollections of Ted Abear) | 24 | December 2021 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons: Let's Face The Moosic And Dance! (Milk Tanks and ROTANK) | 14 | January 2022 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons: Old King Coal (Loco Coal wagons and Coal Stage) | 21 | January 2022 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons: Brewing Up Some Smashing Undersea Oddballs? (TEVANs and CORALs) | 28 | January 2022 | |
| Ready for Inspection? - Part 1 (Inspection Trollies) | 4 | February 2022 | |
| 4079 | The Return of The Champion - Chapter 6 | 11 | February 2022 |
| The Mechanisms of Non-Explosion! (Pressure relief valves and cylinder drain cocks) | 18 | February 2022 | |
| Ready for Inspection? - Part 2 (Inspection Trollies) | 25 | February 2022 | |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 7: Is this a Record? | 4 | March 2022 |
| 1466 | The Pioneer's Progress - Part 5 | 11 | March 2022 |
| Sleepers and Sleepers (Sleeper Coaches, Sleeper Wagons and Sleepers!) | 18 | March 2022 | |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 8: A Champion Award? | 25 | March 2022 |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 9: From Defeat to Victory | 1 | April 2022 |
| 4079 | The Return of the Champion - Chapter 10: Go for Launch! | 8 | April 2022 |
| The Halls of the Mighty - Part 1: Evolution | 15 | April 2022 | |
| 5900 | The Halls of the Mighty - Part 2: The Classic | 22 | April 2022 |
| 6698 | The Halls of the Mighty - Part 3: The Next Generation | 29 | April 2022 |
| Oil be All Right (The GWR experiment with oil firing locomotives) | 6 | May 2022 | |
| Blast Sharpeners, Jumper Tops and Illegal Jimmies (Draughting) | 13 | May 2022 | |
| GWR Steam on the Road? (GWR Lorries) | 20 | May 2022 | |
| A Right Royal Round Up (Royal references in the Didcot rolling stock collection) | 27 | May 2022 | |
| The Great Western Royal Family - No Kings Allowed, Part 1 | 3 | June 2022 | |
| 1466 | The Pioneer's Progress - Part 6 | 10 | June 2022 |
| The Great Western Royal Family - No Kings Allowed, Part 2 | 17 | June 2022 | |
| Control Freak?! - Part 1 (GWR locomotive controls - the fireman's side) | 24 | June 2022 | |
| Control Freak?! - Part 2 (GWR locomotive controls - the driver's side) | 1 | July 2022 | |
| Cosmetic Wagon Restoration (A programme of work to improve appearances) | 8 | July 2022 | |
| Brown - Part 1 (Hydras and Lowmacs) | 15 | July 2022 | |
| Brown - Part 2 - A Nest of Vipers (Pythons) | 22 | July 2022 | |
| Brown - Part 3 - The GWR's Monstrous Regiment (Monsters) | 29 | July 2022 | |
| Brown - Part 4 - Fruity? You Must be Bananas (Fruit vans) | 5 | August 2022 | |
| For Those About to Roll - Fire! (The science of fire and firing) | 12 | August 2022 | |
| Personality Profiles - Sir Daniel Gooch | 19 | August 2022 | |
| 100 Not Out (The Blogger's 10 favourite things at Didcot) | 26 | August 2022 | |
| Welcome to 10 River Gardens (The story of family saloon No. 2511) | 2 | September 2022 | |
| D9516 | A Bearly Believable Tale (The story of the class 14 diesels) | 9 | September 2022 |
| 1466 | The Pioneer's Progress - Part 7 | 16 | September 2022 |
| The Universal Saddle Bag? Part 1: Origins (The pannier tank) | 23 | September 2022 | |
| The Universal Saddle Bag? Part 2: All Panniers GREAT and small | 30 | September 2022 | |
| The Universal Saddle Bag? Part 3: The Blue Pannier | 7 | October 2022 | |
| The Universal Saddle Bag? Part 4: The Less than Universal Version | 14 | October 2022 | |
| The Universal Saddle Bag? Part 5: The Oddball (The 15xx class) | 21 | October 2022 | |
| The Universal Saddle Bag? Part 6: Mutant Monster Panniermania! | 28 | October 2022 | |
| The Big Bang (GWR gunpowder vans) | 4 | November 2022 | |
| DL26 | The Rat (Our Hunslet diesel shunter) | 11 | November 2022 |
| The Special Branch (Special Saloon No. 9002) | 18 | November 2022 | |
| The Sleeper Agent (Sleepers and Sleeper Wagons) | 25 | November 2022 | |
| French Bogies (No sniggering at the back about that title .. !) | 2 | December 2022 | |
| (De Glehn and his compounds and their influence on Churchward's GWR) | 9 | December 2022 | |
| A Silly Seasonal Symphony (We three Kings of Swindon Works - sorry but it is Christmas) | 16 | December 2022 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons: Think MINK! (Metal bodied vans) | 6 | January 2023 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons: Think (more) MINK! (Wooden bodied vans) | 13 | January 2023 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons: Your Chariot Awaits ... (Shunter's trucks) | 20 | January 2023 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons: The Emergency Services? (Tool and Riding Vans) | 27 | January 2023 | |
| 100 Years and 4 Castles, Part 1 - The North on the West | 3 | February 2023 | |
| 100 Years and 4 Castles, Part 2 - Per Ardua Ad Astra | 10 | February 2023 | |
| 100 Years and 4 Castles, Part 3 - The Castles Arise | 17 | February 2023 | |
| 100 Years and 4 Castles, Part 4 - The Reign of the Castles | 24 | February 2023 | |
| 100 Years and 4 Castles, Part 5 - The Last in Line and the ‘Castle G.T.I.’ | 3 | March 2023 | |
| 100 Years and 4 Castles, Part 6 - The Visitors… | 10 | March 2023 | |
| 100 Years and 4 Castles, Part 7 - Our Guest Speaks! (Lawrie Rose) | 17 | March 2023 | |
| SERIOUSLY Old School! (Furness No. 20, Gerald Dickens and Hook Norton beer) | 24 | March 2023 | |
| Didcot’s Rarest Railway? (The Lamson, and other, cash railways) | 31 | March 2023 | |
| A Victorian Treasure Hunt… (Didcot's locos and rolling stock built in the Victorian era) | 7 | April 2023 | |
| A Convertible but Not a Soft Top… (The convertible coaches 6824 and 820) | 14 | April 2023 | |
| A Specific Pacific (The Great Bear) | 21 | April 2023 | |
| 2409 | The Other Blue King (Hunslet 2409 'King George') | 28 | April 2023 |
| D1023 | The Diesel Away From Home… (Western Fusilier) | 5 | May 2023 |
| 1014 | The County Set (David Bradshaw on progress with 'County of Glamorgan') | 12 | May 2023 |
| The Heavy Tank Squad – Part 1 (Heavy freight tank engines) | 19 | May 2023 | |
| The Heavy Tank Squad - Part 2 (Heavy freight tank engines) | 26 | May 2023 | |
| 1466 | The Pioneer's Progress - Part 8 | 2 | June 2023 |
| The Heavy Tank Squad - Part 3 (Heavy freight tank engines) | 9 | June 2023 | |
| 7202 | The Heavy Tank Squad - Part 4: The Final Frontier | 16 | June 2023 |
| Four Castles - The Tyseley Job | 23 | June 2023 | |
| Making a R.O.D. for My Own Back | 30 | June 2023 | |
| Personality Profiles - Frederick Hawksworth | 14 | July 2023 | |
| Mysterious Medical Marvel (coaches with medical connections) | 21 | July 2023 | |
| The Last Post (Transporting mail by rail and the TPO) | 28 | July 2023 | |
| Guided by a North Star (The four GWR locos to carry this name) | 4 | August 2023 | |
| The County Set -Part 1: Churchward's First Version | 11 | August 2023 | |
| The County Set -Part 2: Churchward's Second Try | 18 | August 2023 | |
| The County Set -Part 3: Let Hawksworth have a go | 25 | August 2023 | |
| The Lost Cousins of No 2519 (Ancestry of the Dean Goods) | 1 | September 2023 | |
| 31 270 | Fun, Fun, Fun With A Thirty One! (The Brush Type 2s) | 8 | September 2023 |
| Personaility Profiles - Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 15 | September 2023 | |
| Have a Brake ... (Hand, steam, vacuum and air) | 22 | September 2023 | |
| A Communication (about) Breakdown (Travelling Breakdown cranes) | 29 | September 2023 | |
| A Singular Locomotive (Single wheelers) | 6 | October 2023 | |
| 1466 | The Pioneer's Progress - Part 9 | 13 | October 2023 |
| The Pooley Weigh (Weighbridges and Vans) | 20 | October 2023 | |
| Decoding the Past (Lamp codes, reporting numbers and headboards) | 27 | October 2023 | |
| Iron Duke | Iron Duke - The BIG Name in 18th Century Heavy Metal | 3 | November 2023 |
| Passengers - Broadly Speaking (Broad gauge passenger coaches) | 10 | November 2023 | |
| How the Other Half Travel - Broadly Speaking .. (A first class carriage) | 17 | November 2023 | |
| Going Loco Personality Profiles - the Armstrong Brothers | 24 | November 2023 | |
| Gerroff My Manor (The Manor class locomotives) | 1 | December 2023 | |
| Hidden Treasures - The Topflight Toplights (Toplight coaches) | 8 | December 2023 | |
| A Bit of a Slip Up? (GWR slip coaches) | 15 | December 2023 | |
| (A winter autotrain journey from Trowbridge to Chippenham) | 22 | December 2023 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons - Me Old China (China Clay Wagons, including 92943) | 12 | January 2024 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons - Engrained History (Grain Wagons, including 52239) | 19 | January 2024 | |
| Wonderful Winter Wagons - Something Smells Fishy (Fish Wagons, including 2671) | 26 | January 2024 | |
| 1363 | The Lucky Thirteen (Current Restoration and Overhaul) | 02 | February 2024 |
| Let's Watch the Trailers (Autotrailer No. 92) | 09 | February 2024 | |
| The Other McAlpine Engine at Didcot (Hudswell Clarke No. 31) | 16 | February 2024 | |
| Centenaries - As Far As The Eye Can See ... (The GWR centenary coaches) | 23 | February 2024 | |
| 93 | Watching the Trailers - the one that wasn't, then was, but now isn't again... | 1 | March 2024 |
| 4079 | A Century Celebration (of 4079 Pendennis Castle) | 8 | March 2024 |
| (Performance tests on 4074 Caldicot Castle) | 15 | March 2024 | |
| They Came, They Went, And Nobody Really Noticed Much ... (The Krugers) | 22 | March 2024 | |
| A Four-Wheeled Avonside Shunter (The 1101 Class) | 28 | March 2024 | |
| Was THIS City Built on Rock & Roll? (The City Class) | 5 | April 2024 | |
| THIS City KNEW it Built on Rock & Roll (City of Truro) | 12 | April 2024 | |
| THe City of the Future? (City of Truro after withdrawal) | 19 | April 2024 | |
| The Dean Goods' Younger Brother (The 2251 Class) | 26 | April 2024 | |
| Lancashire and Yorkshire (L&Y tank 51456) | 10 | May 2024 | |
| The Shed 1 - Let's Get Organised (The organisation of GW loco sheds) | 17 | May 2024 | |
| The Shed 2 - Bricks & Mortar (Shed buildings) | 24 | May 2024 | |
| The Shed 3 - All the World's a (Coal) Stage and Ashes to Ashes | 31 | May 2024 | |
| The Shed 4 - Keeping it Going (The maintenance schedule) | 7 | June 2024 | |
| The Shed 5 - Holiday Snaps (Through the magic of film our shed has travelled the world) | 14 | June 2024 | |
| Little Didcot (The story of a model railway) | 21 | June 2024 | |
| A Little Bit of This, A little Bit of That (The Dukedog story) | 28 | June 2024 | |
| A Genuinely Lifting Experience (The Didcot Lifting Shop) | 5 | July 2024 | |
| So, You Want to be an Engine Driver? (The long career pathway) | 12 | July 2024 | |
| 1363 | The Forgotten Forebears (The 1361 class) | 2 | August 2024 |
| Old School Brake (933 Dean Passenger Brake) | 23 | August 2024 | |
| Galloping Away With Enthusiasm (Galloping Alice absorbed from the M&SWJR ) | 6 | September 2024 | |
| These Weren’t the Prairies that You Were Expecting From Us … (Stanier's 1946 locomotives) | 23 | September 2024 | |
| 1466 | The Pioneer’s Progress Part 11 – Smoke Rises from the West … (1466's 'First Fire') | 4 | October 2024 |
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