The announcement over the two-carriage rattle-trap train’s tannoy told us this we’d reached the terminus and bid us ‘Welcome to sunny Skegness’. Bearing in mind this was December on the East Coast, these wry words [more…]
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…]
Part Three of the Postcard from Romania covered our visits to the indoor and outdoor sections of the terrific Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei), a jaunt to Satu Mare on the wild [more…]
My grandfather spent his working life as a fireman on the railways and my father, having grown up living next to a busy railway line, was a big railway enthusiast so it’s perhaps not surprising [more…]
Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Evening Shunting fans. Latest updates for you… With the weather being somewhat chilly, there has been little excuse to get on with tings… The Shunting Dozen outlined some work on the 3 way point wiring, [more…]
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