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ESNG meeting – 5 January 2022
The first meeting of 2022 was a bit of a non-event. As Paul sums it up…. The first ESNG meeting of 2022 was abandoned owing to a shortage of staff. The rule of six wasn’t threatened with an attendance of … Continue reading
New Year resolutions
It’s not wise to make New Year resolutions – they just get broken (see yesterday’s post.) But is also seems wise to put together a list of railway projects for 2022. I need a list and some direction to get … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Minories, N gauge, Southern Electric
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ESNG meeting – Zoom – 29 December 2021
The very last meeting of 2021, for a chat on Zoom. Paul added his usual assessment on Facebook. An ESNG Zoom meeting this evening, less than half a dozen attendees, but plenty of topics covered. I don’t think the words … Continue reading
A Minories of my own – 15 – reboot?
I was just getting back into my Minories, and coming to terms with the Finetrax points and making the point blades. Then I saw this (I thought it must be coming, as Wayne Kinney has already done it for a … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 15 December 2021
The last meeting of 2021 (apart for a Zoom gathering after Christmas.) A good meeting with eight members present, mostly well masked against Omicron, garlic, or any other nasty emission… The usual variety of trains were on the move. Derek … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 5 December 2021
The third meeting of the week, and once again we seemed to hit the Rule of Six. I’ll let Paul introduce the proceedings: A third ESNG meeting in a week with just 6 attendees. The running session was enjoyable as … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 1 December 2021
My birthday evening was spent at the second ESNG meeting of the week. Just the six of us, but that is quite OK with all the Covid cases about at the moment. We had the usual relaxed evening running, and … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 28 November 2021
A busy week this week. Three ESNG meetings, due to the vagaries of the calendar and the church hall being unavailable on one Sunday this month. Six members attended a pleasantly relaxed afternoon running trains. Dave brought along two of … Continue reading
ESNG meeting – 17 November 2021
Bumper evening this evening – 11 members present! The Treasurer was beside himself!!! Here we have the usual suspects, some showing how not to do social distancing. And with lots of members came lots of trains, including…. Great Western splendour … Continue reading
More ill gotten gains
I recently had a text from a lady down in Smallfield, whose father, at the age of 98 (!!!) had decided to give up ‘N’ gauge modelling – having started it in his 80’s. After looking at what he had … Continue reading
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