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Tolworth Showtrain 2024 – 2

Next up is the familiar, but always interesting, Elbow Lane (OO). A show favourite was Drws-Y-Nant (2mm finescale) a station between Bala and Dolgellau.  A simple passing station, but with a very strange piece of trackwork into the goods siding, … Continue reading

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Tolworth Showtrain 2024 – 1

Saturday morning I got to my first railway exhibition since August.  My shoulder is on the mend, so I joined Derek and Derek for a visit to this always good show.  Arriving early to enjoy a bacon roll and coffee … Continue reading

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Mid Kent Model Railway Exhibition

Friday, five of us bundled into Allan’s van, and headed for Maidstone to visit this new exhibition.  It not only gave something railway-orientated to do between Christmas and New Year, but it was good to go to a show on … Continue reading

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Tolworth Showtrain 2023 – 3 – Narrow or overseas

Our final visit to Tolworth looks at the narrow gauge and overseas layouts.  We’ll start with Blackmoor (OO9).  A close to scale model of  Lynton and Barnstable station.  What isn’t there to like?  And it’s all excellent modelling, as well. … Continue reading

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Tolworth Showtrain 2023 – 2 – UK layouts

We’ll carry on our visit to Tolworth with a look at the UK based prototypes.  The first layout might have been included in my favourites.  I have seen Fawley (OO) a number of times, and it is an interesting prototype.  … Continue reading

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Tolworth Showtrain 2023 – 1 – some favourites

Last Saturday morning was spent with Messrs Dawes and Atfield visiting the Tolworth Showtrain exhibition.  It’s usually a good show, and this one was no exception.  I took pictures of most of the layouts and as with Uckfield a few … Continue reading

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Tolworth Showtrain 2019 – 2

I do enjoy catching favourite layouts for another look.  Netherwood Sidings (O) is one of those, with its DC overhead electrics and endless mineral wagons in the siding.  They were having an ESNG type problem when I passed by – … Continue reading

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Tolworth Showtrain 2019 – 1

Another exhibition visit last Saturday, this time to the Tolworth Showtrain exhibition, arranged by the Hampton Court MRS.  I took both Derek’s – Atfield and Apps – with me and we had a pleasant morning looking at a good show.  … Continue reading

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Believe it or not spot….

If your drivers keep going on strike, what do you do? “SNCF targets autonomous trains in five years” An autonomous locomotive in northern France is controlled by a “téléconducteur” at the control centre in Lyon.  Strike-hit French Railways is rapidly … Continue reading

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France 1976

Unusually, my hosts on holiday actually wanted to see some of my old photographs, especially university ones.  These are of a visit to France in 1976, to two monasteries in fact.  One near Rouen, and the other in the Loire … Continue reading

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