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What’s at the ESNG show?
With just three days to go, and with a number of last minute changes to the line-up, here’s what there is to see on Saturday. Despite the changes, I think it will be a good show! Layouts N-Mod (x3) From … Continue reading
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Tagged ESNG, ESNG Meetings, exhibition, N gauge
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Bullet trains for India?
India’s train system is a remarkable piece of engineering, with some 71,000 physical miles of track, 41,000 miles of network and 7,172 stations – a colossus which carries 23 million passengers each day and 8.4 billion every year. All at soil-scraping … Continue reading
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Tagged bullet train, India, prototype, railway
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Jon’s modules – ‘Earl’s Wood’ progress
Progress on Earl’s Wood continues, aided by a week off work. The photos below show the exit from the layout with scenery and ballast complete (apart from a hoover to pick up any odd debris). The trees hide the exit … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 2 April 2015
Last meeting before the show! And a good turnout, with 11 people at the meet. We obviously all preferred running trains to watching politicians go head-to-head on television – what a no-brainer. Had the Hon. Treasurer had stayed in to watch the debate? Then … Continue reading
Book review – “The ‘Booster Locos’ CC1/CC2/CC3”
Apart from a few trees, my only purchase at Alexandra Palace was the ‘Southern Way Special Edition No 11’, on the early Southern Railway electrics, CC1, CC2 and CC3. I can recommend this book as an excellent read, and especially … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, prototype, railway, Southern Electric
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London Festival of Railway Modelling 2015
My usual companions couldn’t make this year’s trip to Alexandra Palace for the London Festival of Railway Modelling, so I was undecided whether to go. But Derek said that if two of us were going, it was worth him driving, … Continue reading
This would make a good model!
This has great potential as a set piece on a preservation-era layout. I can imagine a locomotive, broken trailer, police cars in attendance, and the curious Great British Public looking on. And a good way of using up a non-working (or … Continue reading
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At least you can’t see the details in ‘N’….
The Daily Telegraph has come up with this gem of a headline: “Model railways showed an idealised England until ‘sexy scenes’ came along – Forget housewives in headscarves or children waving from the road, the latest figures from Buffers Model … Continue reading
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Jon’s modules – ‘Earl’s Wood’ returns
Over the past couple of months I should have been getting my modules into a viewable condition for the show. But work and life in general has conspired against me. And more to the point, I was having a general … Continue reading
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Tagged ESNG, layout design, modular layouts, N-Club International
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New trains for old
The HST125 must be one of the railway design greats. But their 40 year reign as an iconic sight on British tracks is coming to an end. The BBC reports: A new Japanese train is arriving on British shores today … Continue reading
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