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A place to post loosely related projects and activities where they might entertain. Very unlikely to present a consistent narrative.

 

0.87 is the ratio between 1:76 and 1:87, two scales which I work to when I play with model railways. Both the scale ratios are obscure. For those modelling the railways of the British Isles, the existence of both scales has been inconvenient and uncomfortable ever since they both emerged in the 1930s. For anyone, it should be obvious that picking a scale ratio simply because it broadly represents in actual millimetres (or fractions of actual millimetres) a prototype imperial foot is a silly thing to do.

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UK FREMO Spring 2024 meeting

Last weekend we held another FREMO meeting in our habitual venue -- should you have seen my posts on earlier meetings tehn you may recognise the various doodads that are usually found on the walls of school gyms in many of the photos. But that doesn't detract from some really good modelling. We agreed it was a good weekend. As a newish group and because we're quite isolated from the more expert groups in mainland Europe, we're putting a lot of effort into getting the planning right since it is o
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UK FREMO summer meeting

Onc more it's come around to a UK FREMO meeting, which will take place this weekend. Most of the UK FREMO members are attending, along with invited guests who help fill the driving roster and add to the conviviality. There will be something like fifteen of us (or maybe a few more) over the two days.   The arrangement, made up of modules mostly from the group, is H0 to NEM standards with code 75-80-ish track and gentle curves, and we run to a timetable (reminds me I need to check over i
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February 2023 FREMO UK meeting - some impressions

Just back from a good weekend playing trains at the lastest UK FREMO group meeting. It was great to meet up with the regular crew and also to have some newer faces along to run trains. Allowing for occasional incidents, everything was governed by the timetable and run against a 4 x fast clock.   These are some of my dodgy mobile phone photos and as usual they fade into dottiness pretty quick, but hopefully you can get an impression of the action. At each meeting it's great to see scene
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FREMO UK July 2022 unofficial meeting

Just back from a good weekend in the country running H0 model trains to timetable with fast clock and waybills.   Hopefully these photos give a flavour. As in previous posts I'm using the phone camera which takes away all precision and produces an impressionistic result, but this can be nice even though a greater depth of field might be more realistic.   Everyone with a module has much work to do either filling in the gaps and adding detail, or just putting something on the b
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UK FREMO meeting July 2021

Following the lifting of legal restrictions earlier this month in England, and observing the good practice we have all got used to in the last 16 months, the UK FREMO group met last weekend (unofficially -- this was not a formal FREMO event).   Over the period of the pandemic everyone has been able to make progress in various areas from rolling stock to scenery, timetables to waybills. The new abilities we shared made the event more enjoyable than the last one way back in February 2020
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