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Excuses, excuses….
Trigger warning – serious modelling posts will follow soon. At the moment I’m on strike supporting Gary Lineker. Agree with him or not, he should be free to speak (and I agree with him.) But talking of excuses, at least … Continue reading
More IOW
Now this photo is enough to get ones mojo working! Posted on Facebook by David Goulty. There are just so many interesting details in the photo…. From Flickr – superb photo of ex IWCR No 12 in SR colours – … Continue reading
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ESNG Open Day 2023 – a month to go
The modelling mojo has been rather low recently. And as regulars here will notice, I’ve been a bit short on ideas for posts. I need to rearrange the railway room, I think, so I can find things. But I have … Continue reading
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IOW photodrop
Short of inspiration for the blog and modelling this week, so here’s a photobomb of some Isle of Wight photographs. I’m sure I should have recorded the photographer in places here, so apologies to all. If nothing else, this is … Continue reading
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Potpourri #1067
Just a short post today – I’ve had a busy week, ending up with a day’s Safeguarding training for church. Necessary, but slightly mind-numbing. I did come across these two videos. One, the original O’Dell County Traction layout. This was … Continue reading
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Potpourri #1066
Some YouTube finds today. Stuttgart’s new tunnelled station will open eventually…. And whilst we’re all speaking German, I don’t know why, but it’s rather fun…. Jago Hazzard goes all trolleybus… A long look at the Southern Railway. Rather random commentary, … Continue reading
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A grand day out
Allan sent me some pictures taken at Eastleigh this week: Had a trip out to Eastleigh on Monday with Sean and Lucas. Was planning to go down by train. But after talking things through we decided to go by car, … Continue reading
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Tonbridge MRC show 2023 #2
I guess the last post had my favourites from Tonbridge. But there were plenty of layouts to see, and here are most of the rest…. We’ll start with Feltham Road (OO). Loco shed layouts are the current in-thing, I guess, … Continue reading
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Tonbridge MRC show 2023 #1
Saturday morning and a visit to the Tonbridge show – by train. I was going to do this in 2019, but there were engineering works and a replacement bus service, so I just didn’t bother. Then came covid…. The trip … Continue reading
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Potpourri #1065
It’s been a busy week, so nothing too original today! Yesterday morning was spent helping run our toddler group. And I spotted a pre-school version of that world famous Rule 1 – Percy goes High Speed! Give him a few … Continue reading
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