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Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway 2020
A recommended day out if you live in the southeast of England. The first Sunday in May is the first operating day of the year for the Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway. It will also be their model railway themed … Continue reading
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Today’s links
Something for everyone today. So you think that the London Underground is dirty and noisy? Try the New York Subway! Goodbye to the Isle of Wight ex-London Underground trains. A bumpy ride bur great fun. Tram bowling – yes, tram … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 2 January 2020
First meeting of the year and a respectable 9 members turned out to run trains. I guess that most of us are too old to remember what a New Year hangover is like…. Plenty of trains in the fiddle yard…. … Continue reading
Odd modelling ideas #22
A really interesting structure – First Quincy No. 2 shaft house (Wisconsin.) Inside, iron ore would have been processed. The rooflines follow the flow of ore down through the building. Just like western American mines built on hillsides, they used … Continue reading
Happy New Year 2020!
A Happy New Year to you all! I hope that it’s a good one and plenty of modelling gets done. I will try and do a little more modelling this year. With retirement this should be possible, but there seem … Continue reading
Post-Christmas links
First, a little modelling challenge. How about a “Book nook” Book nooks are defined as “mini worlds created within your bookshelf”, usually as a diorama of an alley. The idea seems to have originated in 2018 from a Japanese artist … Continue reading
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And for next year….
Surely this must be on my bucket list for next year? Perhaps an ESNG expedition??? And meet the builders….
Happy Christmas!
From Facebook…. Christmas trees bound for Texas in November 1964. SP box cars loaded by conveyor at Kirk, Minnesota, Christmas tree grower. The company had 1,750 feet of rail spur and could load 32 cars. They used 180 railroad cars … Continue reading
A Victorian Christmas tragedy
From the Guardian: Charles Dickens’s final Christmas turkey lost by Great Western Railway Rediscovered letter records that 30lb bird was dispatched by train but transferred to a replacement coach service that caught fire. Charles Dickens’s stoic response to the destruction … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 18 December 2019
Last ESNG meeting of the year, and I wasn’t expecting many to turn out on a cold, wet, night just before Christmas. But there were 10 members present, including the Cha(I)rman, despite his early milk round the following day. The … Continue reading
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