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Potpourri #1119
First modelling challenge of the year. It’s really a diesel disguised as a steam loco, but it’s a special train on the Okaido tram system, so a ride on both tram or train would be fine! Snow may be arriving … Continue reading
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Review of 2024 – and looking into 2025
Happy New Year everyone, and it’s time for a quick look back and forward. No new year resolutions, though, as they won’t last the month! 2024 was rather interrupted with my broken shoulder, that took out four months of modelling … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 29 December 2024
Last meeting of the year, and eight members obviously needed a break between Christmas and the New Year. Just a few pictures of the meeting (and a few fuzzy ones….) Brian was less fuzzy…..
Mid Kent Model Railway Exhibition 2025
This show in Maidstone is an ideal outing for that period between Christmas and the New Year. So Derek, Chris and I piled into Allan’s van for a visit, arriving early enough for a fry-up in the café before the … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibition, France, model railway, N gauge
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And on Boxing Day….
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Happy Christmas!
Christmas greetings and blessings to all our readers! If you’re thinking of going away by train this Christmas, you might have done better during the 1930’s!
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Potpourri #1118
Running down fast into Christmas, so a few more random pictures…. Modelling challenges. The loco comes from France, circa 1880. I think that it can stay there! The Pacific Electric Railway is such an interesting prototype. Here’s the LA Central … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 18 December 2024
Twas the last meeting before Christmas….. Six hardy members gathered to run a few trains. We three kings…. Or wise monkeys? Terry’s USA goods, and Frank’s UK goods…. And that’s the sum total of my pictures, I’m afraid. I’d had … Continue reading
Potpourri #1117
An early Christmas present. I’ve been discharged from the hospital fracture clinic. My shoulder is well advanced in healing, and free moving (though not totally back to normal.) The doctor said I’m doing very well, and keep on with the … Continue reading
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Potpourri #1116
Back to relative normality on the blog, having got past all the Stuttgart posts. Dave was back in the northeast, and took these pictures of viaducts and bridges, plus a few of the Newcastle model railway exhibition. The bridges….. And … Continue reading
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