Category Archives: ESNG

Ron flies North

With apologies to Biggles – I remember as a kid reading lots of Biggles stories, and he flew north, south, east and west in various books.  As Ron has failed to invade Europe, his holidays this year have been similarly … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 15 December 2021

The last meeting of 2021 (apart for a Zoom gathering after Christmas.)  A good meeting with eight members present, mostly well masked against Omicron, garlic, or any other nasty emission… The usual variety of trains were on the move.  Derek … Continue reading

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More Stuttgart – the Danish junction #2

And here are the construction photos.  I’ve just ‘dumped’ the lot without comment, but do note the impressive multi-level baseboards.  There are also a few useful techniques on show – ballasting and a use for bottled water!!!! Thanks again, Kim, … Continue reading

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More Stuttgart – the Danish junction #1

You’ll recall that I posted a few pictures of a most impressive junction built by our Danish friends and exhibited at Stuttgart.  But I knew that I’d seen some better pictures somewhere.  So having put in a request through Allan … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 5 December 2021

The third meeting of the week, and once again we seemed to hit the Rule of Six.  I’ll let Paul introduce the proceedings:  A third ESNG meeting in a week with just 6 attendees. The running session was enjoyable as … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 1 December 2021

My birthday evening was spent at the second ESNG meeting of the week.  Just the six of us, but that is quite OK with all the Covid cases about at the moment.  We had the usual relaxed evening running, and … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 28 November 2021

A busy week this week.  Three ESNG meetings, due to the vagaries of the calendar and the church hall being unavailable on one Sunday this month. Six members attended a pleasantly relaxed afternoon running trains. Dave brought along two of … Continue reading

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More Stuttgart 2021

Having seen Stefan’s comments on the show, I couldn’t resist another post on Stuttgart 2021.  He writes Everything (well – almost) is back at its place, pictures will be exchanged, mails written: an really very fine exhibition found it’s end.  … Continue reading

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Well, at least Duncan got there!!!!

I was going to ‘borrow’ a few pictures of Stuttgart 2021 from Facebook, but Duncan emailed me: Davida and I spent a couple of days at Stuttgart last week. Although we were masked the whole time, it wasn’t as strange … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 17 November 2021

Bumper evening this evening – 11 members present!  The Treasurer was beside himself!!!  Here we have the usual suspects, some showing how not to do social distancing. And with lots of members came lots of trains, including…. Great Western splendour … Continue reading

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