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Shunting on again – part 4

14th December 2020 Sweaty Dave 4277 Comments

We left this tale of woe with some constructed baseboards, track on order and awaiting a chip for the loco. One good thing – three baseboards make an excellent workspace where items quickly spread to [more…]

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Shunting about – part 3

7th December 2020 Sweaty Dave 3591 Comments

With three baseboards built and fitted together and a fourth ready to go, we have a stable base for the layout. Yes, another two boards will be added later to give a full loop but [more…]

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Shunting Foundations

23rd November 2020 Sweaty Dave 3319 Comments

As mentioned recently, I’m building a new model railway. The baseboard dimensions have been confirmed – a number of sections, each 40 inches x 23in as these can fit into a cupboard for storage. At [more…]

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Shunting in a new direction

11th November 2020 Sweaty Dave 4230 Comments

As the nights draw in and the lockdowns only get more stringent, thoughts run to more positive times. Nostalgia is a powerful thing, particularly at the moment as everyone loves to think back to happier [more…]

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Shunting forwards and backwards

19th February 2020 Sweaty Dave 3539 Comments

Some you win, some you lose. Modelling, like life isn’t a smooth, seamless journey without problems or setbacks. Ok that’s a bit dramatic. We left this saga at the point where most of the layout [more…]

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Shunting dusted off

13th January 2020 Sweaty Dave 3697 Comments

Christmas is always a time that makes me nostalgic, harking back to the time when you looked forwards to presents that didn’t induce a hangover or keep your feet warm. It’s also a time when, [more…]

Arts

Shunting Review

13th July 2018 Sweaty Dave 3529 Comments

Some of you who have stumbled upon this wonderful site in recent weeks and months may be wondering what various references to shunting and occasional photos of a railway scene are all about. You may [more…]

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Shunting to the end

21st May 2018 Sweaty Dave 3155 Comments

If you remember back at the start of this series, I came up with the idea of a ‘winter project’. Well it is no longer winter, even in the North, so time to bring it [more…]

Engineering

Shunting into colour

23rd April 2018 Sweaty Dave 3177 Comments

A shorter update this time, primarily due to other activites taking precedence – not weather related over the past weeks, but the Easter holidays threw routines out of the window. The eldest came home and [more…]

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