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Shunting along

1st March 2023 Sweaty Dave 3580 Comments

I know it has been remiss of me for not following up on the article of 16th of January. I’d planned to write one around once every two weeks as the layout progresses but time [more…]

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Shunting dusted off

16th January 2023 Sweaty Dave 2442 Comments

I’ve not frequented this site as often in the past – the last year or so, though #FFriday with a beer or two is always worth a visit and the gaffer continues to get his [more…]

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Hobby Days And Open Days

12th August 2022 Always Worth Saying 1831 Comments

I think I told Puffins that my winter hobby day project (when I can’t get into the garden) was an engine shed for my model railway, Charlisle. Based on the old Kingmoor steam shed, long [more…]

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Busy Days at Cop Junction

8th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 4178 Comments

Cop junction lies just north of Charlisle, an English cathedral city on Network Rail’s West Coast Main Line somewhere between Preston and Motherwell, possibly within a giant spike in the border penetrating well into Scotland [more…]

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Welcome once more to Dingleberry

8th July 2021 Going Postal 2139 Comments

We return once more to the land of the lost and weary traveller that is Dingleberry, a curious place of indeterminate location, populated entirely by people who wish they were somewhere else but are unable [more…]

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Dingleberry, Part Two

11th May 2021 Going Postal 3525 Comments

Part two, How To Drive a (Model) Train Welcome back to the sleepy town of Dingleberry, “somewhere” on the UK rail network, a destination found only by the terminally lost and those who were foolish [more…]

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Welcome to Dingleberry

21st April 2021 Leopard 2942 Comments

It isn’t my fault, honest, you may recall a certain nameless puffin of this parish who has a thing for shunting and the associated models who some time ago started to make a small model [more…]

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Shunting into Summer

31st March 2021 Sweaty Dave 2933 Comments

The lighter nights are arriving, the cold finally thawing out – spring is here, even in the north. We last left this story at the point where both main tracks were running and we had [more…]

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Shunting 14 – finally some movement

11th March 2021 Sweaty Dave 3026 Comments

Last time we covered the ongoing struggle with the three way point which is still not resolved, mine buildings construction and the start of track laying. Oh and the introduction of new loco. The Andrew [more…]

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