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Potpourri #1067
Just a short post today – I’ve had a busy week, ending up with a day’s Safeguarding training for church. Necessary, but slightly mind-numbing. I did come across these two videos. One, the original O’Dell County Traction layout. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged inspiration, prototype, railway, Southern Railway
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ESNG meeting – 1 March 2023
We met for another pre-meeting work party, and the five of us sorted out a number of odds and ends on the fiddle yard. In particular, we think that we have fixed the microswitches that were playing up, and added … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 26 February 2023
A quiet but sociable last meeting for February – 6 members present. We knew that several people were otherwise engaged, so we settled for a quick 2×0 layout, and got down to running trains. Long and sometimes fast trains passing … Continue reading
Random thoughts
All sorts of odds and ends today. I was amused by these cartoons. All too true! Mojo has been a bit low for railways this week. So I did a bit more on my German WWII command vehicle for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Minories, N gauge, Southern Electric
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Potpourri #1066
Some YouTube finds today. Stuttgart’s new tunnelled station will open eventually…. And whilst we’re all speaking German, I don’t know why, but it’s rather fun…. Jago Hazzard goes all trolleybus… A long look at the Southern Railway. Rather random commentary, … Continue reading
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A grand day out
Allan sent me some pictures taken at Eastleigh this week: Had a trip out to Eastleigh on Monday with Sean and Lucas. Was planning to go down by train. But after talking things through we decided to go by car, … Continue reading
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Tonbridge MRC show 2023 #2
I guess the last post had my favourites from Tonbridge. But there were plenty of layouts to see, and here are most of the rest…. We’ll start with Feltham Road (OO). Loco shed layouts are the current in-thing, I guess, … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibition, model railway, N gauge
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Tonbridge MRC show 2023 #1
Saturday morning and a visit to the Tonbridge show – by train. I was going to do this in 2019, but there were engineering works and a replacement bus service, so I just didn’t bother. Then came covid…. The trip … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 15 February 2023
I wasn’t at Wednesday’s meeting, as Maxine and I had slipped away for a couple of days to see friends in Chichester. We had a very relaxing time, and enjoyed seeing the sea at Wittering. The weather was kind to … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 12 February 2023
A pleasant afternoon with seven members present. We ran some trains, and socialised a lot. An interesting layout – a 4×0 modular set up. Dave was concerned that there wouldn’t be room for him in the middle of the layout, … Continue reading
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