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Shunting on again – part 4

14th December 2020 Sweaty Dave 0

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…]

Hobbies

Shunting about – part 3

7th December 2020 Sweaty Dave 0

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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Hobbies

Shunting Foundations

23rd November 2020 Sweaty Dave 0

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 0

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 0

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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Arts

Shunting dusted off

13th January 2020 Sweaty Dave 0

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 0

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 0

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 0

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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