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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2024 #2
Back for a second layout selection. The Royal Albert Bridge (N) is a lovely scenic roundy-roundy. If you are going to have a continuous run, why not have some spectacular engineering! Hope-under-Dinmore (EM) is a fine display of pre-grouping modelling, … Continue reading
London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2024 #1
Saturday, I decided to head for Ally Pally for the exhibition. I missed last year due to rail driver problems, I do like the venue, and I had a complementary ticket for being a member of World of Railways. All … Continue reading
London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2023
I bottled out of fighting my way to Ally Pally last weekend. I gather that it was a very successful show and very well attended – Allan described Saturday as a scrum, and it was difficult to get near anything. … Continue reading
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Model Railway Journal no. 274 – Wise words
I took the day off from visiting exhibitions last Saturday – nothing very close, and I had already posted flyers to all 5 of them. So, a more reflective blog today. I’ve started to get just the one model railway … Continue reading
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An interesting concept?
Received an email today: Hello, Hoping this will be of interest to your members. Over the last year or so I’ve been developing a soundscape system for my model railway. Basically it’s a set of web pages that pipe controlled … Continue reading
Epsom Show – 2019 #2
Herstmonceux in ‘OO’ models the LBSCR in Sussex. A rural location, but as with anywhere south of London, the opportunity to run plenty of trains up to the ‘smoke’. Fintonagh (O-16.5) models an imaginary terminus on the 3′ gauge Clogher … Continue reading
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Epsom Show – 2019 #1
I often miss the Epsom & Ewell MRC show at nearby Epsom. Some years it has been the same weekend as our ESNG exhibition, and others the week after – and after our own show, I’ve had enough of model … Continue reading
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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2019 – #3
Last visit to Ally Pally – I guess that next week I shall be blogging about N Gauge Southeast. It’s been a busy few days working through the final details! Another favourite from the show was Eccleston (P4). In some … Continue reading
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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2019 – #2
And on with the layouts! Ballyconnell Road is unusual – 3mm/ft scale is unusual in itself, but this layout is 15.75mm gauge, representing the Irish 5′ 3″ lines. I also really like the circular layout plan. And another road – … Continue reading
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London Festival of Railway Modelling – 2019 – #1
Last Saturday it was my annual pilgrimage to the London Festival of Railway Modelling at Alexandra Palace. As usual, I went with my ex-work colleague Malcolm (unfortunately Peter can’t make it up the hill from the station these days.) It’s … Continue reading
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