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ESNG modular systems
The ESNG works to two N-gauge modular systems. With our show coming up, perhaps a quick reminder of the standards is in order. The first is N-mod. This is an adaptation of the USA N-Track system, the main difference being … Continue reading
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West Highland Railway, 1975
A long day down in the UK West Country yesterday, looking at computer models of flooding in the Somerset Levels. So I’ll post some more of my old holiday snaps! I hope to post another traction design article in a … Continue reading
ESNG Exhibition 2014
I have been putting together the (hopefully) final plans for our 2014 show. It’s a more of a challenge this year, as we are changing venues, largely due to increased hall charges. We knew our old venue very well, and … Continue reading
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Black Swans? Dispatches from the front line of climate change.
It seems there are three things not to talk about in polite company – politics, religion and climate change. I can’t be that polite, as only politics is off limits…. However, this article gives a good history of the Dawlish … Continue reading
Somerset levels, February 2014
The damage to Dawlish is a bit of a side show to the ongoing flooding of the Somerset Levels. I did learn last week that ‘Somerset’ is a derivation of ‘Summer Land’ – in days gone by people only lived … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 6 February 2014
Another slow start to tonight’s meeting and we thought we might not get any trains running. The Cha(I)rman was absent, claiming an early milk round the following morning, and Martin (snr) opted out of the drive from Leatherhead, claiming that you … Continue reading
Dawlish flooding
The latest gales and high tides have wrecked the iconic ex-Great Western Railway line along Dawlish Warren and the seafront of Dawlish town. It’s a far cry from the usual picture of GWR Kings and Castles on a sunny summer’s … Continue reading
Off my trolley – branchlines 2 – North Hollywood
One of my many diversions away from railways is reading (almost anything). This includes crime fiction. One of my favourite authors is Michael Connelly and his Harry Bosch police procedurals – set in Los Angeles, and especially in the Hollywood area. … Continue reading
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Severn Valley Railway, 1971
A few more snaps from the Bartlett archives. These were taken on a school railway society trip, I recall. Again this was the early days of preservation. A lot of my film was taken up with the carcass of 70000 … Continue reading
The (very little) night mail
Fascinating article from the BBC on the Post Office Railway (otherwise known as mail rail). This driverless narrow-gauge line carried mail for over six miles from sorting office to sorting office under the streets of London from 1927 to 2003. That fount of all knowledge … Continue reading
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