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Secretary of the East Surrey N Gauge railway club

NRM Shildon exhibition – 2025 #2

Little trains today.  Just a few layouts that caught my eye from all Allan’s photos.  Typically, I’ll start with a little N gauge layout, Settrington.  Based on part of the Yorkshire Wolds railway, this line shows that you don’t need … Continue reading

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NRM Shildon exhibition – 2025 #1

Allan had a long trip last weekend to help Nigel from West Sussex at the Shildon exhibition. After a long journey up to Locomotion NRM Museum at Shildon. We are already to go for this morning. Stand could not be … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 2 April 2025

A full six regulars turned out for our working party on Wednesday afternoon.  As per usual, three people did the work, and three sat around chatting and drinking tea.  However, we managed to improve the alignment of tracks on the … Continue reading

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Potpourri #1126 – Trains and buses

Sean, Lucas and Allan took Leonard to the Beckenham & West Wickham show…. A rare outing today at the Sydenham show for Leonard but ran well especially as hasn’t run for 2 years. Allan claims that he was too busy … Continue reading

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Potpourri #1125

Well, I seem to have run out of exhibition pictures to post!  So just a few odds and ends today. The shoulder is mending, and the new bathroom is well on the way to being fitted.  I should be modelling … Continue reading

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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2025 #4

The last selection of layouts from the show. I’ve still got pictures of 19 layouts, but I’ll just post my preferred selection.   Starting with an industrial interlude.  Fen End Pit (16mm NG) is well travelled, but I always enjoy the … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 23 March 2025

The warm weather must have brought the ESNG members out of hibernation, as there were ten of them around on Sunday afternoon. It’s always possible to find a Class 66 in a livery that you’ve never seen before…. USA goods…. … Continue reading

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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2025 #3

I think that I may get four posts from this show – there was such a good number of fine layouts to see. It’s interesting to see people’s reactions in the forums. Some thought it quite average – just shows … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 19 March 2025

A small working party today, as some couldn’t make it, and Chris and I were late.  not much work was completed – we started off looking at improving one set of corners, then found that the other set were the … Continue reading

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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2025 #2

We’ll start today with a couple of very large, and actually quite old, layouts.  Like Copenhagen Fields, these things take time to mature, and occasionally need a refresh.  Bournemouth West (OO) spent some time off the exhibition circuit, changing ownership … Continue reading

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