A Happy New Year to you all!  I’m sure none of us could have predicted how 2020 turned out.  I hope that you all keep safe and 2021 gradually improves.  And that we’ll begin to see ESNG club nights start up again and perhaps even an exhibition or two (exhibition, what’s an exhibition) as time goes on.  Meanwhile, we’ll be back on Zoom next Wednesday.

Just one photo to start the year.  Waterloo around 1900, full of elegant LSWR coaching stock.  Something to get the modelling juices going.  It also highlights the problems with modelling any significant station.  The platforms are either full of people – as platform 1 here – or empty as on the adjacent platform.  It’s very difficult to make these changes between full and empty realistic…..