News from the Early Military Railways Special Interest Group

[Peter Capon]

Sunday 19 December saw the groups second on line meet and it proved an interesting one for all, firstly myself, Peter Capon then David Gibbs and James Hodgkiss, unfortunately our fourth member did not make it, Terry Maltman but we hope he can make our next meeting.
After a little confusion we got talking and started to share information about early military railways with a large leaning towards WW1. I showed drawings from an experimental railway built around Aldershot for trials along with a couple of other early photos and drawings.We discussed modelling we had done and projects for 2022 followed by a very interesting set of photos from David's WW1 collection which is extensiveIt would be lovely to have more interested modellers who model or plan to model military subjects and our next planned meeting is for 23 January 2022 at 1000hrs where I will show further early military photos and drawings from the RE archives and David will give us access to further WW1 photos as well as general discussions on modelling tips and experience.

[Noel Bucknole]

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[Dave Cooper]

Hi All,

Just curious. How early is early ?

Would we be including anything from the 1800's perhaps....I expect 'non-UK' wars could feature here as well.

Make-shift wooden tracks up to the trenches for munitions etc . I could envisage a nice diorama or two.

Regards,
Dave