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Links for the middle of the week
I’ve got a set of photos to post from the excellent Farnham show, but that will have to wait till later in the week. For now, here are some of the links that I’ve come across recently. If you are … Continue reading
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Jon’s modules – fettling Aldersford
We’ve been meaning to carry out some maintenance on Aldersford, our late President Martin’s N-club modules, based on the Southern Railway station at Ford. The boards had warped, making running at last year’s ESNG show a little unreliable. With a … Continue reading
Posted in Jon's layout ramblings, Layout design, N Club International
Tagged ESNG, Layout design, modular layouts, N-Club International
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ESNG meeting – PlayDay 8 October 2017
A surfeit of pictures this week – well at least it cuts my pontificating….. Some club meetings just seem to go very well indeed. Sunday’s PlayDay was a very pleasant afternoon, and 10 of us had a very sociable afternoon … Continue reading
Croydon MRS show 2017 #2
Another old favourite worth seeing again was The Glyn Valley Tramway, an 009 model of Glynceiriog, the passenger terminus of the line that then continued to the slate quarries. Lots of excellent detail, but it can’t be the slate area … Continue reading
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Croydon MRS show 2017 #1
Having successfully differentiated Farnham from Fareham, it was off to the Croydon MRS exhibition at Warlingham. It was a very good show, with some excellent layouts, perhaps spoilt in places by poor lighting. BH Enterprises were in a very dim … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibition, model railway, N gauge
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ESNG meeting – 5 October 2017
Not a bad turn-out on Thursday, and plenty running for much of the evening – then at 9:15pm, everyone put their trains away, and the hall emptied. So I got my trains out and running….. Paul was celebrating a new … Continue reading
Odd or even?
This is a question I’ve heard discussed before – does a train look better with an odd or even number of coaches/wagons? (Note: American readers modelling mile long double-stacks, please move on now – you will have lost count long … Continue reading
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Tagged Hints and tips, inspiration, Layout design, model railway
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Seaboard Southern NMRA show, 30 September 2017
Saturday was the local NMRA group’s annual meet at the Charis Centre in Crawley. I’ve missed the last two Seaboard Southern shows, as they clashed with other family commitments, so I was pleased to get to this one. An easy … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibition, model railroad, N gauge, NMRA
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Two views of modelling – 2
And from the other end of the October edition of Model Railroad Hobbyist, Joe Fulgate asks, ‘Are we making the hobby too complicated.’ A rather different perspective…. Are we making the hobby too complicated? As I look at the “ever … Continue reading
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Two views of modelling – 1
The next two posts will have two differing, but perhaps slightly contrary views of our hobby. Both come from the (free) Model Railroad Hobbyist e-magazine. It’s all American, and sometimes has little of interest, but it’s free, and occasionally comes … Continue reading
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