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Chiltern Model Railway Exhibition 2018 #2
How did the show match up with last year? There was a lot more ‘N’ and 2mm modelling on show, but overall I felt that there were less ‘inspirational’ layouts than last year. But this is of course a subjective … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 17 January 2018
A fairly quiet club evening – and sorely missing the Cha(I)rman’s tea making expertise. But there were some interesting trains on view. Derek ran this Peco Jubilee and Dapol Gresley coaches. A mismatch in both time and region, but a … Continue reading
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Tagged ESNG, ESNG Meetings, Germany, modular layouts, N gauge
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Chiltern Model Railway Exhibition 2018 #1
Time out with Mr Atfield on Saturday, visiting two shows north of the river (Thames). We started at the Brentwood toy fair. These things are a real lottery for ‘N’ gauge – it’s OK if you want to buy Hornby … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibition, inspiration, N gauge
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ESNG meeting – PlayDay 14 January 2018
Just the eight of us at yesterday’s PlayDay, but we had a pleasant afternoon running trains. We quickly put together a large circuit… And Simon was soon running some USA freight….. Dave brought his quarry along, and was testing locomotives … Continue reading
Modular model railways – the pros and cons?
Dave emailed me recently about exhibiting our ‘N’ gauge modular layout at local exhibitions. His comment was (in part)…. Hi – not having much success with exhibitions at the minute. The larger ones don’t seem interested in modular layouts…. We … Continue reading
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Tagged ESNG, Layout design, modular layouts, N gauge
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Virgin on the unreadable?
An article in the papers today caught my eye: Virgin West Coast train firm stops selling Daily Mail Virgin Trains has announced that it has stopped selling the Daily Mail newspaper on its West Coast trains. A spokesperson for Virgin … Continue reading
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Tagged humour, inspiration, railway, travel
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Holborn Viaduct
This is a layout idea that has been bumbling around for a few months. It all started with a thread on RMweb, describing some possible ideas for the 2mm Association Diamond Jubilee layout challenge. This involves developing a cameo layout with … Continue reading
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Tagged inspiration, Layout design, Minories, model railway
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ESNG meeting – 3 January 2018
First club night of the new year, and despite the Chairman not being there due to anti-social working hours, 13 members enjoyed a varied procession of trains on the layout. Mind you, Ian doesn’t look too excited by proceedings in … Continue reading
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More on the detail trap
More on the detail trap from The Erratic and Wandering Journey…. Out of Context? I recently re-blogged René Gourley’s post, in which he quoted Marty McGuirk’s comment on Georgia O’Keefe: “Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It … Continue reading
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Tagged inspiration, Layout design, model railroad, model railway
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Canals, spies & politics – the Crossrails that weren’t built
A very interesting article from the Ianvisits blog. Crossrail under London is nothing new….. 018 will be the year that Crossrail is completed, and the Elizabeth line is born, yet it could have looked ever so different had previous plans … Continue reading
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Tagged London Underground, prototype, railway
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