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Category Archives: Exhibitions
Seaboard Southern NMRA show, 17 September 2022
Saturday was the local NMRA group’s annual meet at the Charis Centre in Crawley. Although I am modelling less American railroads than in the past, it’s a local show and well worth a visit. Even better, Simon picked me up … Continue reading
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Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway 2022 #2
The great thing about the B&WLR is that the railway is a ‘real’ narrow gauge locomotive, not a miniature railway. The locomotives have all had previous lives in Welsh quarries, or German railways. Our spot in the engine shed (cleaned … Continue reading
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Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway 2022 #1
A busy but very satisfying weekend was spent at the Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway – a fine mixture of model railways and 2′ gauge narrow gauge. A good number of ESNG members helped through the weekend, but Allan, Derek … Continue reading
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2mm Scale Association Diamond Jubilee Expo – 3
And finally, the micro layouts. These were mostly entrants to the Diamond Jubilee Challenge layouts. The 2mm Scale Association ran a layout challenge to celebrate their Diamond Jubilee in 2020. Entrants were required to build a small 2mm scale layout … Continue reading
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2mm Scale Association Diamond Jubilee Expo – 2
Today, we’ll look at the ‘medium’ sized layouts, that takes in anything that isn’t tiny and isn’t enormous. These are the sort of layouts that the average punter could build – not ‘lifetime’ layouts like those in the my last … Continue reading
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2mm Scale Association Diamond Jubilee Expo – 1
Plenty of blogging to get on with. I’ve got another set of photos from Germany, as Ron once again goes in hunt of the elusive strudel – and no doubt immediately eats it. But first, an account of a most … Continue reading
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Blast from the past….
I’ve spent a few happy hours sorting out the ESNG archives – and throwing out a lot of paper whilst hopefully holding onto the key documents. If nothing else, the AGM and the exhibition details need to be kept for … Continue reading
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Our next exhibition….
Should be fun! 2ft narrow gauge AND a model railway show! And a big whoops – dates were wrong on the flyer…….
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ESNG exhibition 2022 – the rest
And so to the other, non-modular layouts. We had an interesting variety on show. Nick Falconer brought along Bahnbetriebswerk Königshafen for its first show. The layout represents a small German locomotive service depot (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw for short) with facilities … Continue reading
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ESNG exhibition 2022 – Nmod
I didn’t take many photos of the show, as my phone spent the day connected to our e-commerce terminal. But I did sneak a few shots just before opening time. So today it’s the N-mod layout, next time the other … Continue reading
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