Trains

Big Shed

19th June 2019 Sweaty Dave 0

In my last piece I talked through the attempt to refurb a lawnmower, replacing the rusted body, which is now back to happily chewing all it crosses, without spitting bits out at random. As long [more…]

Jack The Signalman

27th November 2018 Going Postal 0

Back in the late 1800s the railways were at full expansion, British know how and industrial might was being exported to the four corners of the globe, throughout the Empire every country wanted a piece [more…]

Return to Brigg

1st October 2018 Joe Slater 0

A few weeks back I did a piece on the spectacular Alishan mountain line in Taiwan. One day, I might do something on the Gono line around the wild, craggy northwest coast of Honshu. Or [more…]

Meet the Anglo-Argentines

21st September 2018 Guardian Council 0

By the late 1920s, and after six decades of almost uninterrupted economic growth at around seven to eight per cent per year, Argentine per-capita GDP had reached 80% of US levels. It had surpassed per-capita [more…]

Meet the Anglo-Argentines

14th September 2018 Guardian Council 0

Argentina, that vast expanse of lost opportunities, is not what commonly springs to mind as a very anglophile country. Luckily, the dislike is mutual, since that botched attempt of La Reconquista de las Malvinas (or [more…]

Postcard from Taiwan

16th August 2018 Joe Slater 0

The Alishan Forest Railway runs from the coastal plain into the heart of Taiwan’s empty highlands. It was built in 1912 by the Japanese for the purpose of transporting timber from the mountains for the [more…]

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…]

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…]

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…]