‘Arachnids in the UK’ featured giant spiders taking over a Hotel in Sheffield and our hero saving the day. Well, I am afraid you missed some…… Robert had been busy for our Halloween steam up! The tunnel was quite eerie, billowing steam added to the effect. Unfortunately not many of our junior Read more about Where is Dr Who?[…]
With apologies to Steve Wright’s serious jockin’! Midlothian Science Festival ran an event in The National Mining Museum at the Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange. ESME were asked if they would like to put up a display to support the event which aims to bring all sorts of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) activities together. Read more about Serious STEM, no ‘A’![…]
Over the years ESME has received a lot of help both financially & in kind without which we would not have made anything like the progress we have. Having reached two significant milestones of completing the first loop upon which we can run trains again and funding for the Heritage Centre & Museum, it was Read more about Sponsors Day[…]
It was a damp and misty start to the day, but our intrepid Roving Reporter Robert was there and filed this report with the News Desk…… Another success story at Almondell and today we received the very first visiting locomotives from other clubs. The honour of being the first ever visiting loco to steam around Read more about 7¼ Post AGM Visit[…]
Five years and five days…. ….. since we acquired the site at Almondell and WHAT a five years it has been! 2018 though goes into the annals of ESME history as being the year we said a sad final good bye to Newliston and entered a melancholy phase of nowhere to run on a Sunday Read more about Family & Friends Day[…]
Standards are improving, but is this the new look for drivers at ESME? Seen at Bo’ness at the SRPS ‘Meet Thomas’ event, their ‘Fat Controller’ decided to show how it should be done. And very smart he looked too.
And there it was, the email we had all been waiting for, the official blessing to start testing the 7¼” Circuit ‘C’! Almondell Track ‘now ready to go’ Sender: ESME Secretary 13th July at 8:07pm Hello Members, I am pleased to tell everyone that circuit ‘C’ has been completed with all the required ballast and Read more about You Have One New E-Mail…..[…]
Last year’s visit to the Isle of Bute with the portable track and a small exhibition created a lot of interest which led to the Isle of Bute Trust extending an invitation to this years Rothesay Gala. Flushed with the success of last years trip Peter decided to offer an extended portable track and Read more about Trains On The Prom…..[…]
Dale Lyon of Concrete Scotland – ExpLearn has been busy on behalf of our club (ESME) delivering the RailwayWorkX program to secondary schools over the past few months. These events have been ably supported by a few of our engaging members. So far, we have seen pupils from: The Braes High School – Falkirk, Larbert Read more about RailwayWorkX – An Update[…]
Congratulations go to Alec for a clean sweep at the 25th Model Engineering and Modelling Exhibition held at Doncaster Racecourse. A number of ESME members were there to see him clean up with a first plus the Myford Trophy for the Best Locomotive in the Show and the Barry Gordon Challenge Cup for ‘Best in Read more about First Past The Post[…]
