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Low modelling mojo – still – but a couple of things caught my eye whilst wasting time on-line.

Holloway Road in the 1950’s.  Lots of period detail, including the lad wearing an ex-RAF flying jacket!

A lovely shot of suburban and interurban in Philadelphia.

John Atkinson caught this CEP in my favourite livery….

Geoff Nichols captured Redhill as I remember it, with Brabazon House and the old cinema as I remember it.  My old company had a floor in Brabazon working on Thames Water projects.  It was redeveloped, the firm moved there, and I spent my last couple of years at work able to trainspot.  As for the cinema, it has been redeveloped as a block of flats, and the fine Grade II facade allowed to deteriorate so much that the developer ‘had’ to demolish it.

This reminds me of ESNG track-laying….

Still, I’ve cut the lawn.  It may be no-mow May, but May is coming to an end, and the grass was approaching tropical dimensions!!  And I added a kit of my favourite aircraft to my stash….

More content next week.  There are two ESNG meetings, and I have Mr Dawes’ bus photos to post.

Just a few odds and ends for a wet Wednesday!

An interesting station in South Wales, Amman.  The GWR branch (left) terminates end to end with the MR branch (right).  Some potential for a continuous layout with two sets of end to end operation?

Small is beautiful.  A little Wisbech tram layout in OO.

Please EFE, shrink your OO models to N!  Still an all time favourite class of (3) locomotives. (Picture Mike Morant.)

Two videos of the Crumbles tramway, Eastbourne.  The trams went to Seaton, I think.

And to end on a period note…..

And just a few photos and ideas today.

A rarely photographed ex-SECR J class 0-6-4T, near Petts Wood and heading for Victoria.  The area was a lot more built up when I regularly used this footbridge some 30 years later.

I would have been catching an RT on the 94 though, as part of my route to school.

How to squeeze another railway onto the already crowded Isle of Wight.  A great idea to model the island without having to choose a station.  Make it a Colonel Stephens line, and the options are almost endless!

‘Arcadia’ is the KESR in ‘S’ scale in 6″6′.  It would also make a good micro in any scale (perhaps on the IOW, with that turntable.)

And what you need to run on it….

Troublesome trams (in Amsterdam).  That’s almost poetic…

A rather different modular system….

This must be worth modelling – but who dares add a ‘Jetex’ rocket to power it?

I’m having a rather relaxed blogging week, so here are just a few internet findings.

I can’t help adding in a few Jago Hazzards.  It’s difficult to be informative AND amusing!

Meanwhile, back at the ESNG running night……

Finally, a long video.  Interesting to see another nation’s approach to modelling, with some nice scenes and some good ideas.