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Category Archives: Jon’s layout ramblings
St. Leonards West Marina
Just a quick post today, as my energies are directed in being ‘useful’ at a wedding at church. Probably means making lots of tea and coffee! Next post will be of Sunday’s ESNG meeting. I came across this rather fine … Continue reading
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Tagged Engine shed, Layout design, Southern Railway
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A sort of Minories of my own – 25
Progress continues in the loft. From the original design…. I have built the British Finescale point and crossover. I made a few minor changes to the point instructions that improved ease of construction. I also mastered Code 40 fishplates, horribly … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Minories, N gauge, Southern Electric
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A sort of Minories of my own – 24
Was it really nearly a year ago that I reported on my sort-of Minories? I seem to have been totally diverted onto other things over 2023. But before we get back to that…. I recently posted an idea for end … Continue reading
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A modelling review of 2023
New Year’s Day, and time to reflect on 2023. Starting with ESNG itself, we have, I think, had a steady year. We’ve had enough members attending meetings to run trains at all but a couple of meetings. And just occasionally, … Continue reading
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Tagged Lehigh Valley, On my workbench
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Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…
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
Repost – Wisbech & Upwell doodles
No inspiration today, so here’s another very popular post from the past. I’m still doodling….. Been doodling around with track plans for the Wisbech & Upwell tramway, home to GER tram engines and latterly O4 shunters with side skirts over … Continue reading
Valley City Street & Interurban Railway
Whilst we’re off playing trains for the day, here’s a little layout suggestion. I’ve always rather liked this Model Railroader plan from 2002. The Valley City Street & Interurban Railway was a real 1.2 mile interurban based in Valley City, … Continue reading
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Tagged ESNG, Layout design, modular layouts, N gauge
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Modelling the KESR
After Wednesday’s trip on the Kent & East Sussex Light Railway, I was reminded what a lovely prototype it is for branch line or light railway modelling. So here are the station plans, taken from the National Library of Scotland … Continue reading
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Tagged ESNG, Layout design, modular layouts, N gauge
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Non-action update!
Sorry for the lack of posts recently. My modelling mojo (and writing mojo) had run a bit low. I have managed to buy myself two more NGS Ferry Vans, making four in total. Lovely models…. The models are not as … Continue reading
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Finishing all those projects #3
Well, for “finishing” say “doing something I should have done ages ago.” Modelling over the last couple of weeks has been a complete rearrangement of the railway room. Most importantly I got fed up with having two work benches in … Continue reading
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Tagged ESNG, model railway, N gauge
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