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ESNG meeting – 5 February 2025

Before we return to Alton, a few pictures from Wednesday’s club meeting.  I was once again expecting a quiet evening, having heard that a number of members were still under the weather.  However, we ended up with six members attending.  … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 2 February 2025

I was expecting a quiet afternoon, having heard that a brace of Derek’s were hors de combat.  However, we ended up with nine members plus our junior attending.  It was a busy afternoon on the rails, although later on armchairs … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 15 January 2025

It was a busy end of week, and I forgot to write this meeting up!  With so many meetings in quick succession, I wasn’t sure how many would turn up, but we ended up with a very respectable eight members … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 12 January 2025

The temperature crept above zero and the ESNG members came out in force!  10 members, two visiting friends from the West Sussex mob, and a smallish offspring.  Our treasurer recovered enough from his cold to attend and collect all that … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 8 January 2025

And so to 2025.  The first meeting of the year had been delayed a week for perhaps obvious reasons.  However, we might have done better to meet New Year’s Day.  Redhill was just at the northern limit of Wednesday’s snow … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 29 December 2024

Last meeting of the year, and eight members obviously needed a break between Christmas and the New Year.  Just a few pictures of the meeting (and a few fuzzy ones….) Brian was less fuzzy…..

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Mid Kent Model Railway Exhibition 2025

This show in Maidstone is an ideal outing for that period between Christmas and the New Year.  So Derek, Chris and I piled into Allan’s van for a visit, arriving early enough for a fry-up in the café before the … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 18 December 2024

Twas the last meeting before Christmas…..  Six hardy members gathered to run a few trains. We three kings….  Or wise monkeys? Terry’s USA goods, and Frank’s UK goods…. And that’s the sum total of my pictures, I’m afraid.  I’d had … Continue reading

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ESNG meeting – 8 December 2024

A blustery Sunday afternoon gathered eight members to play trains.  Most of the usual suspects! Derek’s technicolour railcars…, Chris’s Desiro EMU… Double heading, electric and diesel from Allan… T’other Derek’s BR passenger (that also ran as a slip coach train … Continue reading

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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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