Svanda at Lenham

Ex Swedish railcar runs under NSB ownership on Svanda

The weekend saw the first exhibition of the year with Svanda which hasn't been out much of late. This time to the SNCF Society's winter meeting. Norwegian layout at a French meeting? No I didn't get it either. Not that I woke up much before 2 o'clock anyway.
Svanda has built a reputation for 99% reliability and so it was here, mainly due to Nigel's unstinting tweeking beforehand and the quality of the locomotives - not my dubious tracklaying.
It's got one more show in the book, whether that will grow post it's appearance in Continental Modeller this month I don't know. We may have exhausted the South East shows now.

Fencing

A little working up of the station end of the 009 layout with no name. Various bits of unrelated fencing and other bits of fluff.

Golden spikes

I watched all of the presidential inauguration yesterday. Aside from any political views on this there was one phrase that I thought I heard '...we're going to build more... railroads.'
Really? Now? At this point in history? By Americans?