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Uckfield MRC exhibition 2025 #1
My favourite show comes around again, and I got there – just! I’ve missed several shows I wanted to go to due to other commitments, so I took off straight after church on Sunday 19th for a rather wet drive … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 26 October
October has been a funny five-week month with club meetings at odd intervals. The last Sunday of the month saw the clocks going back, and as many as nine ESNG members playing trains. I arrived very late due to a … Continue reading
Bluebell Railway ‘Giants of Steam’
Friday 17th October, #1 son Michael paid a quick visit to the Bluebell, as a punter rather than a volunteer, to see their ‘Giants of Steam’. All four locomotives in action were ‘new-builds’. He managed a ride behind all four … Continue reading
Farnham MRC exhibition 2025 #2
I may as complete the narrow gauge layouts first. Ulvaryd (Strand) HOe takes us to Sweden. Worton Court (O16.5). The Neuberg Project (HOm) models the same imaginary station on the Swiss Rhaetian Railway, in 1913 and 2013,steam and electric. Llawryglyn … Continue reading
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Farnham MRC exhibition 2025 #1
Another exhibition missed! Both Saturday and Sunday were busy so I failed to get there. And this show definitely deserves two posts, thanks to Allan again. I especially wanted to see the 2mm room. We’ll start there with Jerry Clifford’s … Continue reading
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Folkestone MRC exhibition 2025
And so to October 5th, and the Folkestone show…. As usual, photos from Allan…. An aerial view of proceedings….. Good to see John Brightwell and Alpenbahn (N) out and about…. Good to see the Lyme Regis branch (N) run by … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 15 October – and a show
Forgot to write up Wednesdays meeting. Not much to say, really. Four met for a minor working party and chips, then a fifth came along for the evening. And a few trains took to the tracks. I even ventured to … Continue reading
Fareham Railex 2025
Going back in time to October 4th, and catching up on some photos. A selection from Allan’s many pictures of the show. Melin Dolrhyd (009). Very simple and very satisfying. Little trains passing through some attractive scenery…. Lisworth Bay (N). … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 12 October
A pleasant autumnal Sunday afternoon, and seven members out to play. Perhaps there was as much chat as trains, but we all had a good afternoon. Derek was running mail trains again. First this rather luminous unit… Then a Britannia … Continue reading
Canals
Some final photos from Dave. First, the delightfully named Bugsworth Basin…. And then Gnosall, looking towards Newport.
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