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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

 

 

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