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ESNG meeting – 9 October 2022
A pleasant autumnal Sunday afternoon, and good to see nine ESNG members in attendance. Especially good to have a visit from Paul, the ESNG Midlands branch. The usual suspects were there, of course…. With Paul back in town, the outer … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 5 October 2022
After two non-meetings, it was good to see a whole six members turn out for Wednesday’s meeting. Not least, the treasurer was back after a nasty bout of non-covid lurgi. Allan ran a long train of hoppers, passing Mr Atfield’s … Continue reading
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
