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A Tornado hits Redhill!
Friday, and I’m back at the same spot in Redhill, waiting for the replica Peppercorn A1 Pacific ‘Tornado’ to pass through. It’s an interesting comparison to the Scotsman, and is a larger locomotive with a boiler that barely leaves room … Continue reading
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The Flying Scotsman visits Redhill
20 years ago, a Saturday morning treat for my son, Michael, was a visit to Redhill station to do a little trainspotting. There was plenty to see, with engineer’s trains in the sidings, ‘Dutch’ class 33’s, Mainline livery 47’s on … Continue reading
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Model cost increases
There has been a lot of discussion recently on the price increases for ‘N’ gauge stock imposed by Graham Farish and others. There are some good thoughts in this month’s Railway Modeller from Ben Ando (of NGS and Revolution Trains … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #37 – Cranes
Redhill has seen a little excitement over the past week, with the arrival of a tower crane to help build their new Sainsbury store. It involved a road closure, a certain amount of confusion, and a chance to examine some … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 18 May 2016
There was a fair turn out on Wednesday. The treasurer had recovered from his close encounter of a hatch-back kind. But the chairman had gone down with a nasty stomach and didn’t risk the journey south to Earlswood. We ran … Continue reading
And two more links…..
Lots of good links about at the moment…… I liked this BBC article about “The man who has photographed every train station in Great Britain.” Not least for the excellent pictures of some far flung stations. Passengers on the 15:52 … Continue reading
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Four links and a club update
ESNG has an updated website – as Eric Morecambe would say, same words but in a different order. It’s all written in the free Mobirise software and should work on your mobile phone. I’ll add a few more pages soon…. … Continue reading
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Martin’s layouts
Martin was involved in a good number of projects, and I’ve tried to describe some of his model railways below….. (Update: I’ve added the missing photos!) Corfe Castle N-gauge Layout: Martin’s home layout, not seen by many club members, is a … Continue reading
Martin Micklewright RIP
It’s always sad to lose old friends, and although we have not seen him recently, Martin’s passing, age 88, leaves a big gap in the ESNG membership. Derek Atfield has put together a brief biography of a most interesting life, that I … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – PlayDay 8 May 2016
Sunday’s PlayDay was well attended, and we soon had a large circuit up and running. The usual suspects were present. Miles, as ever, brought an excellent cake, and as the photo below shows, helped eat it. Mr Apps showed how … Continue reading
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