Category Archives: Exhibitions

Canterbury MRS exhibition 2024 #3

Posted on January 26, 2024 by snitchthebudgie

Today we have the final selection of photos from the Canterbury show.  They may be last, but are definitely not least!  If any exhibitors read this (or any other of my blogs), this is personal preference and any criticism is … Continue reading →

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Canterbury MRS exhibition 2024 #2

Posted on January 24, 2024 by snitchthebudgie

We continue today with some almost favourites.  The first layout perhaps should have been a favourite, but is definitely an old friend.  Alpenbahn (N) started back in the early noughties as an ESNG modular layout modelling, as the name suggests, … Continue reading →

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Canterbury MRS exhibition 2024 #1

Posted on January 22, 2024 by snitchthebudgie

Last Saturday, I once again paid a visit to the Canterbury show courtesy of the Dawes bus service.  The weather had perked up a bit, and 5C seemed almost tropical compared with the past few days.  As ever, the Kent … Continue reading →

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Mid Kent Model Railway Exhibition

Posted on December 30, 2023 by snitchthebudgie

Friday, five of us bundled into Allan’s van, and headed for Maidstone to visit this new exhibition.  It not only gave something railway-orientated to do between Christmas and New Year, but it was good to go to a show on … Continue reading →

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Stuttgart 2023 #5 – Tea and Lego

Posted on December 14, 2023 by snitchthebudgie

A highlight of the show is the Thursday night ‘lock in’ party.  After the show closes for the night, tables are laid out along one aisle, and each country presents its food and drink for inspection and consumption.  There are … Continue reading →

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Stuttgart 2023 #4 – Other layouts

Posted on December 10, 2023 by snitchthebudgie

As usual, there were a number of stand-alone layouts invited to the show.  The following photos capture a number of them – and there was some inspiring modelling to be seen. Fleischmann brought along their N-gauge layout based on the … Continue reading →

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Stuttgart 2023 #3 – Modules

Posted on December 6, 2023 by snitchthebudgie

Today is just a bit of a photo dump of some of the many modules on show.  Just my choice of pictures, and ones that caught my eye – most I can’t remember where they came from!  The helix was … Continue reading →

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Stuttgart 2023 #2 – The ESNG contribution

Posted on December 4, 2023 by snitchthebudgie

Today’s just a pictorial guide to the modules on our branch off the main layout spine.  We start with Richard, and the German airbase, then a bridge, and a demolition site….. And his distribution depot…. Moving onto my modules, starting … Continue reading →

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Stuttgart 2023 #1 – Getting there

Posted on December 2, 2023 by snitchthebudgie

Our Stuttgart visit is over for another year.  Every year, N Club International have an enormous N gauge meet in the Stuttgart Messe, generally sharing the hall with other hobbies and things.  There is a good mixture of stand alone … Continue reading →

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Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…

Posted on November 30, 2023 by snitchthebudgie

Before posting some pictures from our German trip, here’s a quick report from my workbench.  All this should have been done months ago, but predictably it all got built after October’s wedding trip.  There’s nothing like a good deadline to … Continue reading →

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