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All sorts of odds and ends today. I was amused by these cartoons. All too true! Mojo has been a bit low for railways this week. So I did a bit more on my German WWII command vehicle for a … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Minories, N gauge, Southern Electric
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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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Tagged exhibition, model railway, N gauge
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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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Tagged exhibition, model railway, N gauge
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ESNG meeting – 15 February 2023
I wasn’t at Wednesday’s meeting, as Maxine and I had slipped away for a couple of days to see friends in Chichester. We had a very relaxing time, and enjoyed seeing the sea at Wittering. The weather was kind to … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 12 February 2023
A pleasant afternoon with seven members present. We ran some trains, and socialised a lot. An interesting layout – a 4×0 modular set up. Dave was concerned that there wouldn’t be room for him in the middle of the layout, … Continue reading
A sort of Minories of my own – 23
Marking time a bit with this post. I’ve spent the last couple of days completing the control panel. All the switches, buttons, and the controllers themselves have been mounted on the panel, and the panel recessed in the baseboard. As … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 1 February 2023
Back again for the Wednesday meeting. It was a slow start, so we waited to set the layout up, but members then started to arrive, so we ran trains. In the end eight members came through the door (and left … Continue reading
A sort of Minories of my own – 22
Not too much progress on the layout. I have had a large sort out of my boxes for storing wiring and switches and rationalised them both – and found a number of things that I had lost. And the good … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 29 January 2023
Not a good start to the afternoon when I received this photo from Allan & Derek, returning from the Eastleigh exhibition….. A car fire (seen in the distance) had held them up on the M3, but they rolled in to … Continue reading
Three interesting layout designs….
‘Ian from Cumbria’ linked to his layout blogs on RMweb. He has developed three excellent plans, and I reproduce them here. The location is somewhere in the West Country, but the principles could be moved almost anywhere. First, Tredethy Wharf, … Continue reading
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