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Secretary of the East Surrey N Gauge railway club

Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway #2

Posted on May 10, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Twaddle-less Thursday today.  Just loads of pictures of the B&WLR trains.  I was surprised at the number and variety of locos in steam (plus one diesel).  Most of the photographs were taken at the far terminus of the line – … Continue reading →

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Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway #1

Posted on May 8, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Summer has arrived on the May Day bank holiday weekend – unheard of!  On Sunday, we paid a visit to the Bredgar & Wormshill Railway (B&WR), and their model railway exhibition. It proved to be an excellent day out.  Kerry … Continue reading →

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Full steam ahead

Posted on May 6, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Some excellent photographs from Simon this time, who writes…. A few pics from my trip on the KESR a couple of weeks ago – got to open gates, shovel coal and drive the loco! Beautiful mogul, Norwegian, built in Trollshaven. … Continue reading →

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ESNG meeting – 2 May 2018

Posted on May 4, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

We moved club night forward a day, as the hall was being used as a polling station on the Thursday.  And although a number of members can’t make Wednesdays, we still had a very respectable turn out of 10 people. … Continue reading →

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Global Rail 2018, Didcot

Posted on May 2, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

A few more of Ron’s photographs today, this time from the German Railway Society’s Global Rail 2018 at Didcot. Braulage – German H0m SüD Harz Mena Brea – Italian H0 Kendorf – German Z Eastwood Vermont – USA HO Nippon … Continue reading →

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Mid-Hants Railway

Posted on April 30, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

A few shots of the Mid-Hants Railway from Ron.  Note the beautiful spring weather….

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Little and often

Posted on April 27, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

Wise words from Jason Shron of Rapido Trains: Last year, I hardly made it down to my model railroad room. It became more and more difficult to face what is supposed to be my favourite place in the world. Thinking … Continue reading →

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This is what sound should sound like…..

Posted on April 24, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

There’s been a bit of discussion recently on a couple of forums about sound on model railways.  (Including the horrors of being on a stand next to a modern diesel depot with all the locomotives on loud tick-over – or … Continue reading →

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ESNG exhibition 2018 #4

Posted on April 22, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

We’ll start today with a few shots of people.  It was good to see Kerry and Invicta there, and they seem to be selling a few things. John and NScaleCH didn’t do as well…. BH Enterprises must have had a … Continue reading →

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ESNG exhibition 2018 #3

Posted on April 20, 2018 by snitchthebudgie

On the Wednesday night after the show, we thought that there might be a low turn out of members.  Correct, just the six of us.  However, we had thought ahead and asked Paul to bring some Kato track along.  We … Continue reading →

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