Today’s meeting was attended by a very select band and after the important business of teas and coffees had been dealt with, we got down to discussing signal boxes and other buildings. A number of buildings were displayed on the table, and we set about discussing each of them in turn. First up was the […]
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Wednesday 19th August 2026
Moving on from the previous meeting’s theme of diesel and petrol railcars our theme today focussed on the steam hauled variety. Auto-coaches were in abundance, and I don’t know what the collective noun for auto-coaches is but there were a lot of them. Roger had an H Class in BR livery running round pulling or […]
Wednesday 5th August 2026
Today’s theme was diesel and petrol railcars and DMUs. Paul W and Rob both ran their Heljan AEC railcars with Paul’s in a green livery and Rob’s in a red and cream livery. It was interesting to see how despite both models being identical in all other respects how different they looked in their respective […]
Saturday 25th July 2026
Today’s meeting was severely disrupted by traffic problems on both the M2 and the M20. The Saturday Lunch Club, who were meeting for the first time at The George in Molash following an abrupt change in our hostelry of choice, was probably worst affected. Due to the traffic problems for both customers and staff lunch […]
Wednesday 15th July 2026
Our theme of the day was bogie wagons and vans and after the circuit was set up the action began and first out of the blocks was Fred who ran among other things a GWR siphon G van, a Southern bogie luggage van and a nicely weathered bogie well wagon carrying a diesel engine. Martin […]
Wednesday 1st July 2026
Taking advantage of the temporary lull in heat waves we assembled at Badlesmere where our focus of the day was on Private Owner Vans and Tank wagons. Once the circuit was up Paul W ran an LNER F Class with some salt wagons and Fred ran a Class 121/122 railcar. David Ho ran a train […]
Wednesday 17th June 2026
The circuit was worked pretty hard today with a lot of members running stock mainly in line with our focus on Welsh, Scottish and European. The Welsh contingent was well represented as Paul W ran a Brecon & Merthyr Keir Stuart 0-6-0T pulling some north Wales private owner wagons, Bill ran his GWR 43XX No […]
Wednesday 3rd June 2026
Today our focus was on maroon and red locomotives and stock. Once the circuit was set up Tim ran a GWR pannier that he had just picked up on e-bay for £100 and which will reappear in due course in London Transport red. In keeping with today’s focus the pannier was pulling an ex-GWR bogie […]
Saturday 23rd May 2026
David L gave a very interesting and informative talk on the history of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway starting with the early days of the London & Croydon Railway and the London & Greenwich Railway and their eventual merging with the London & Brighton Railway in 1836 to form the LB&SCR. Brighton station […]
Wednesday 20th May 2026
Our focus on the circuit today was again on Private Owner Wagons but this time on those from outside of Kent. John D was first out of the blocks with his GWR 14xx pulling a Pickfords container on a GWR container wagon, a Westbury Iron Works 10-ton wagon and an Edward Eastwood 10 ton wagon. […]
Wednesday 13th May 2026
This was another of the extra meetings for members to work on their own projects. Dave B continued working on the EMU that he had picked up for a song (almost literally) at a recent show. The model is coming along really well and is almost ready for Dave to apply transfers. They are likely […]
Wednesday 6th May 2026
Today’s focus on the circuit today was Kentish Private Owner Wagons and the lie was quickly given to the suggestion that we didn’t have many as over thirty of Kent’s finest appeared on the circuit and the modelling table! Having set up my train of private owner wagons with my SECR H Class, an annoying […]
Saturday 25th April 2026
After making teas etc, I spent 45mins setting up the diorama, only to find an old controller that I had bought with me had decided to pack up. A quick rewire with one of the Roundy’s controllers and hey presto all back in action. I then demonstrated how the layout worked using the new EKOGG […]
Wednesday 15th April 2026
No commentary on today’s proceedings which focused on anything Great Western but these are a few pictures of that day.
Wednesday 8th April 2026
In the first of our sessions dedicated to working on layouts or our own projects eight of us assembled at Badlesmere and got on with it. Roger was working on one of Geoff’s bargain basement wagons on which he had carried out a cut and shut operation and was now adding strapping and other detail […]
Wednesday April 1st 2026
Our focus for today was on diesel shunters. On the circuit while Fred was running his 08 with a short train including a shunter’s truck, an engine from a Class 47 diesel on a well wagon and a brake van. Rob got out the big stuff from across the pond. This consisted of a big […]
Saturday March 28th 2026
Today we had short presentations with photographs from three members on their own layouts and first up was me talking about my layout based on Margate Sands station and set in 1911. This was the first station in Margate and for seventy years the terminus of the short branch off of the SER line to […]
QCD at the Alexandra Palace 21/22 March 2026
First thing on Friday morning Tim picked up a big white van and then picked up Bill, David L and yours truly before heading on over to Badlesmere. There we loaded the layout up into the van before going on to Gravesend to pick up Roger. With our setting up team now complete we set […]
Wednesday March 18th 2026
Today on the circuit we were looking at horse boxes and specialist stock. Today’s runners and riders were John P with his GWR 14xx 0-4-2 with a Conflat wagon, John B his Hudswell Clark 0-6-0 pulling a mustard van and Rob with his 0-6-0ST “Elizabeth” with an assortment of wagons. Roger ran his D8 diesel […]
Wednesday 4th March 2026
Today’s theme was 0-6-0 tender engines; well, that was the theory anyway. However, Martin kicked off proceedings by running a Class 117 3 Car DMU and then a Class 121 single car DMU. John P then ran a BR Class 45xx 2-6-2 Prairie and explained that this was really a 0-6-0 tender engine but with […]
