18th August 2018 Saturday at BadlesmereRob M Working through Sarre’s exhibition sequence of train movements kept John P employed for the afternoon, with minions uncoupling, carrying out minor track repairs and purloining pencils to annotate the master copy. It was great fun as some locos and stock had been substituted for the expected ones today. […]
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2018 Winter into Spring
April 21st 2018 EKOGG in FavershamRob M To mark the 150th Anniversary of Colonel Stephens, Ross conducted us around the many minor railways that had been engineered by Stephens or which had become part of his “empire”. On the tour, photos showed the Colonel, his lines, motive power and rolling stock. Models were also included; […]
Autumn 2017
Faversham – Saturday, December 9thRM With Santa hat and twinkling lights, Chris Nuttall set the scene for our Christmas Quiz. “Which steam engine runs on paper?” was the question that we all puzzled over, with a sneaking feeling that there was a bit of a twist involved. With names picked from the hat, teams huddled […]
Summer 2017
Friends Open Day – Saturday July 15th – Badlesmere(Photos: Ian Earl, Ross S & RM) We raised our glasses to “EKOGG and Friendly Modelling” then welcomed our visitors. As well as 21 of us, we had some 39 people drop by; family, people from the village and modellers from Kentish groups. We’d slotted four displays […]
Spring 2017
Thanet Group’s Open Day – Saturday April 29th Birchington’s sunny streets were full of EKOGGers as I approached Kearn Hall. Inside Chris and the others were holding the fort on Sarre, which after a shaky start was running with locos on every siding, in the fiddle-road and on the ground. They told me it works under the […]
Autumn 2016
Badlesmere – Wednesday December 12th RM The “Circuit’s” baseboards were all joined up when I stepped into the hall. Very impressive. People had been busy setting out tables to support it and now the tweaking was taking place with Paul fixing latches. He had his team sticking down underlay at the same time. The “Sarre” workers suffered a minor setback […]
Summer 2016
July 13th Wednesday at Badlesmere – RM When the fourteen of us were having lunch around the work table we heard about the Pett Show. Chris and Jim looked after our sales table, allowing Roger to man the GOG stand. They did a fantastic job for us so we will now be able to send […]
Spring 2016
June 8th 2016 – Wednesday at Badlesmere – Ross Shimmon – writing & photos We are well settled into our new home. It doesn’t take the more able-bodied members to take the Edington Boards from their shelves and onto the trestles. It’s a treat to be able to erect the whole layout and have space to walk […]
New Year 2016 & Autumn 2015
AGM February 13th Two dozen of us and visitors piled into the Fleur hall for our AGM. (A dozen had joined for lunch earlier.) Our searching out a new home for our test track was the hot topic. Although we have some possibilities lined up, members are continuing to look around, with Paul Weeden and […]
High Summer 2015
August 22nd – Working party – Ross S A small, but select, group decided to do some work to catch up at the barn in preparation for the first public appearance of Edington Junction in September. Colin Curtis worked on the path leading up to the lamp hut and John P continued building the fencing […]
Into Summer 2015
July 18th – Saturday session – RM – photos by Ross S & RM Even with the summer’s twice a weekly meetings there were ten of us. The sun was shining and the bees, by the door, buzzing for maximum honey production. Up in the loft a Standard tank and SR G6 were on the circuits. […]
Early Spring 2015
May 2nd 2015 – At the layouts – John Plumpton [photo – Ross Shimmon] We started with continuing the station platforms, when David G arrived with an almost completed platform canopy. David and Barry discussed the best way to drill square holes in the platform to secure the canopy. Ross arrived with a mock-up of […]
Winter 2014
December Faversham Meeting: Geoff won the Christmas Quiz, despite his having dined with us before hand; usually a recipe for becoming comatose. Wide ranging Questions from railway modelling to the origins of Broad Street station were set by Roger and caused lively banter amongst those 16 of us armed with paper and pens. John P broke out […]
Autumn 2014
Autumn 2014 – Mid-week sessions David G and John P have organised Wednesday sessions when we can assist with construction of Edington, run stock and model, or drop by for a chat. October 22nd was cool but sunny so we lunched outside in our jackets. Roger continued his battle with “Sale Items”, before we turned our […]
Summer 2014
August 16th At the layouts Despite living there for most of the week David G and John P early. They certainly had a lot to show those who hadn’t visited for their mid-week sessions: track now extended to Edington’s limits, some of it painted; buffer stops had sprouted; several points were motored and more being […]
Winter 2013/14
2014 February 8th – AGM & Model Display: The largest display of models and competition entries that I can remember surrounded us at our AGM. Twenty-two members displayed some two dozen projects, including EKLR buildings, loco frames and whole rakes of wagons. A similar number of models were in the competition; from signals to tunnel mouths, with […]
Autumn 2013
October 30th – Working Party: Notes from Nigel Grant My repeated requests to the Meteorology Preference Service turned up trumps and we were blessed with an amazing autumn day. Ten brave souls turned out, including Alastair’s son Douglas, who clambered around the balcony. Everyone quickly found their niche and got on with a daunting number of […]
Summer 2013
August 31st: London & South Western locos walk away on longest freights. We busily coupled three link wagons into rakes until we went cross-eyed, then shunted them to the outer circuit where Geoff’s little B4 pottered along. It had 37 on before taking a rest. With 7 more behind, Ross coupled up his B4 and away […]
Late Spring 2013
May 18th: Nailbourne has movement. It was back in its original site, everyone passing piles of boxes to clear the area. John P. and Ross soon fitted a retaining strip along the nearby test circuit to protect trains from members working round its boards. Stuart positioned footbridge and buildings so that we could see how the […]
Spring 2013
First Layout visit – March 16th It was a dark and stormy afternoon when we returned to the layout loft , but at least the snow had thawed. After the great clean out the first wheels turned: Geoff’s LBSCR “Terrier” on Cavedale, then Barry’s sure-footed SECR D1 test running circuits. The layout had survived winter […]
