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A little Redhill local history
I’ll report back on the show next time. But for now, a little local history (at least it is if you live in Redhill). From the Surrey Mirror: The grisly tale of the tunnel between Merstham and Coulsdon South Anyone … Continue reading
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Tagged inspiration, prototype, railway, Southern Electric
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ESNG meeting – 6 April 2017
Two days to the exhibition and 11 of us met up for final planning and to run a few trains. The layout was full of trains, some on test for Saturday. Martin’s Eurostar lost a power car with a broken … Continue reading
ESNG exhibtion – 8 April 2017 – on Saturday
A final reminder for local readers that the ESNG 2017 show is on Saturday! As for the show contents, here’s a quick reminder….East Surrey N Gauge are 20 this year, and totally logically are holding their 19th annual exhibition in … Continue reading
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Swanage
Bit hectic at the moment, so here’s a picture from Mr Dawes of Swanage in the sun, with two Bullied Pacifics in Swanage station. A contrast to when my father visited the station site in 1973! But I do like the … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #398
From the Daily Telegraph… Incredible train ‘disappears’ through block of flats in China’s ‘Mountain City’ Architects and planners in a Chinese city have designed a novel way to make space for an essential train route – by building it through … Continue reading
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1971 – April – “Gricers” reach Wales
The April 1971 edition of Railway Magazine contained an article informing us that there were still seven classes of steam locomotive operating in Malaysia. They had certainly all gone by 1985 when Maxine and I took a train from Kuala … Continue reading
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Tagged humour, narrow gauge, prototype, railway
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Blatant tourism interlude
Back from Singapore last weekend, having worked for 10 days solid. But there was time to take a few photos. So here’s a little tourism as a diversion from the usual trains. I did find time to visit the Asian … Continue reading
A question of gauge
In March 1995, ‘Back Track’ had an interesting article on the gauge of railways, with particular reference to the GWR broad gauge and the 4′ 8.5″ ‘narrow’ gauge. Railway history is often thought of as a battle between these gauges, … Continue reading
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What’s in a name?
A good article from the BBC, exploring how ten London Underground stations got their peculiar names: How tube stations got their unusual names Scan a map of the London Underground for the first time, and you’ll likely notice that it … Continue reading
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Shunting ad infinitum
You may recall that I found this plan of a small urban goods yard in Brighton, and commented on its suitability for a model. (All maps from the National Library of Scotland site, under creative commons.) Wandering around south London, … Continue reading
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