Category Archives: ESNG

Saturday, and exhibition time again (avoiding cleaning my youngest’s new property.) Allan couldn’t think of a suitable breakfast near Fareham, so we diverted to the Station Yard Cafe in Alton – for the usual excellent breakfast. We then trundled down … Continue reading →

The next day, Allan went down to the coast to visit the Worthing show. Here are a few photos, in very random order….

We’ll finish off the Folkstone show with another batch of layout photos. Five Mile House (OO) models the East Coast main line in 1935. Trains in the landscape, and a pleasant watch. (The layout is a lot longer than my … Continue reading →

And so on to Folkstone. We’ll start with Nick Falconer’s venerable Konigshafen (N), returning to the Folkstone show after 30 years – and still running well. This is a different layout from the Konigshafen that went to TINGS – Nick … Continue reading →

Another morning out with some ESNG members, taking in two Kentish exhibitions. Having gone around the Folkstone show, Allan suggested dropping into Headcorn on the way home. Two very different locations and venues, but both rather different. The Folkstone show … Continue reading →

For our final TINGS selection, we’ll start with little and large…. A neat little tram layout. And the diminutive French Verneuil-les-Vignes…. In contrast, the Northumbrian NGS group’s Long Hirston, a very large N-mod layout. East Anstey Station on the North … Continue reading →

Where to start? There were quite a few layouts that caught my eye. A favourite was the double layout, St Andrews and Guard Bridge. I especially liked the viaduct of Guard Bridge and the way the line curves away into … Continue reading →

Today, I’ll just show the NCI layout. This was all controlled by the iTrain software, leaving most of us just to entertain visitors. We did have some good conversations with visitors, who were very interested in the format of the … Continue reading →

My weekend was spent at TINGS (The International N Gauge Show), exhibiting an N-Club layout with some of our Stuttgart German friends. They provided a few modules, the digital control, and the fiddle yard, but the rest of the layout … Continue reading →