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A Minories of my own – 4 – all contributions gratefully received
I have a sheet of plywood sitting on the lounge floor, to mark out the layout trackwork. But it won’t get done tonight! However, some helpful advice has been received! Phil wrote….. Hi, Jon! Have you seen Jago Hazzard’s channel … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Minories, N gauge, Southern Electric
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ESNG modelling updates
Some snippets from around ESNG and friends…. Chris has been wagon building. Hi Jon, hope all is going well. Just finished these two ex LSWR wagons. I have found your Ludgate article and photos very interesting! With best wishes, Chris … Continue reading
Potpourri #1006
FineTrax parcel should arrive today. In the meantime, here are a few inspiring photographs. As ever, apologies if I have missed the copyright on these. West Croydon station in Southern Railway days. This station had an interesting layout, and pre-grouping … Continue reading
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Tagged inspiration, prototype, railway, Southern Railway
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A Minories of my own – 3 – location, location, location
I’m still working on the baseboard design for the layout. I’m minded to wait until the FineTrax points arrive in the post, so that I can check that the published templates match the real thing. The problem with a layout … Continue reading
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Vaccines are coming!
Exactly….. With most of us, they’d be bored out of their minds…..
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ESNG meeting – 2 December 2020
ESNG members have been getting ready for the meeting – Allan and Phil please note! Meanwhile, back at the meeting…. An evening where the technology seemed to come out on top. Allan kept appearing, freezing, and disappearing, and this was … Continue reading
A Minories of my own – 2 – underneath the arches
Moving forward, I need to select the height of the arches under my Minories. An obvious place to start is the South London prototype. We could also move out to Liverpool or Fenchurch Street to the east of London for … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Minories, N gauge, Southern Electric
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A Minories of my own – 1 – planning
It’s time to move on from my (occasional) Covid-19 diary, to something new. As you, gentle reader, may well realise, I have spent the last couple of months trying to work out a layout that I actually like. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Minories, N gauge, Southern Electric
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We would have been in Stuttgart – 4 and really the last one…
I thought that I’d done with these, but here are a few more Stuttgart memories from Allan. Starting in 2018…. The rather delightful module that came from Japan with Mr Kato. It was built by a secondary school class, some … Continue reading
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Training the next generation?
A great picture from Sean of the layout he built for his son: “Here’s a picture you can use of Lucas getting his first layout for his 7th birthday. Keeping it going with the youngsters” It seems to have gone … Continue reading
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