We’re open!

After Ellis finished the revised edition of Railway Carriages In The British Isles in 1965 there was a distinct falling off in his literary output, and in truth the new generation of railway book buyers might have become impatient with his discursive, somewhat anecdotal, style, preferring plainer text and deeper research into archive sources. At…

And about time too! At long last we have an opening date. We shall be opening at 59 Scotgate, Stamford PE9 2YQ at 9:30 am on Monday 15 February. Our opening hours will be as before – 9:30 – 5:00 every day except Wednesdays and Sundays. We usually close for lunch 1:00 – 2:00. My apologies…

Our favourite publishers keep on putting out new books and we haven’t seen any of them since August. The Guvnor recently spent a happy afternoon on the phone to our supplier, discussing the new releases and ordering heaps of them. The supplier was to motor across with them today, and have a look at the new…

Although we may have counted wrong, it was quite hard to pin them down, storming up the gradient, rotating grandly on the turntable, batting round the loop, double headed, single headed, thirteen engines in steam is an awful lot. Unless it was fourteen. So where do you go to see thirteen engines in steam? Just…

I was surprised how long it is since I last posted on the blog, and embarrassed to see that I promised a map of how to reach 59 Scotgate from the Station. I made the map some while ago and somewhat optimistically left copies in a stout envelope stuck to the shop window under cover…

There is nothing like Statfold, this year there were sixteen engines in steam – so wherever you stood, wherever you waited there was always something going one – a great sense of highly-organised activity and a terrific atmosphere. This post is simply a catalogue of those sixteen engines (or would be – unfortunately I only…