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An interesting railway factoid…..
After the hectic Sunday, just the four ESNG members turned out for last night meeting. So no trains ran. We had a good chat and went home. However…… Having watched Queen Elizabeth fine Christian funeral, and enjoyed the impressive pomp … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Minories, N gauge, Southern Electric
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ESNG meeting – 18 September 2022
An busy club night this afternoon – eleven members and a visitor. I made the correct call in thinking that there would be plenty of trains to run and test after TINGS, so I didn’t take anything to run. The … Continue reading
Seaboard Southern NMRA show, 17 September 2022
Saturday was the local NMRA group’s annual meet at the Charis Centre in Crawley. Although I am modelling less American railroads than in the past, it’s a local show and well worth a visit. Even better, Simon picked me up … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibition, model railroad, N gauge, NMRA
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A tribute and a little modelling
After a momentous week in the UK, I wondered how to respond to the passing of Queen Elizabeth. I came across this little cameo by John Whitehouse on a Tramway Modelling Facebook group. No doubt Philip is saying, “I’m not … Continue reading
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Odds and ****
Moving onto my next project, I decided to spend a little time maintaining and building a new N-club module. I wanted to make a conversion board from 2-track N-club to 4-track N-mod. I had a module in stock, that was … Continue reading
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St Chant II
Many moons ago, in the early days of ESNG, Martin Micklewright built a little layout on a 4′ x 2′ module called St Chant, and later extended it by another 4′ with a largely scenic section. It appeared at a … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 7 September 2022
A busy club night tonight – nine members and two visitors. It was especially good to see Ian Carter after a very long time (you should give up golf, Ian) and John B was up from deepest Rye to buy … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 28 August 2022
Last Sunday in the month, and time for the ESNG to convene again. A fine turn out of 10 members today. Simon was running a series of American locos and a long passenger train. Action on the main line, British … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 17 August 2022
We pause our exploration of Manx trains for another ESNG meeting. It was an easy Wednesday, as we didn’t have to set up a layout – I realised on Sunday that with the summer holidays no one was using the … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 14 August 2022
Despite the very hot afternoon, five intrepid ESNG members gathered to play trains. We’ll start with Brian’s video of the afternoon, as it includes the set up. We don’t really move that fast…. But where were the Hill’s Angels???? (Probably … Continue reading
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