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Dingleberry, Part Two

11th May 2021 Going Postal 0

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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Shunting into Summer

31st March 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

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…]

Hobbies

Shunting 14 – finally some movement

11th March 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

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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Shunting – the unlucky 13th?

4th March 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

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…]

Backs built up
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Shunting to the Dozen

23rd February 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

A twelfth piece about a model railway – who’d have thought it.   Some progress this time on a number of stalled fronts, so happy with the work that has been done. Last time saw [more…]

Nearly done
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The Eleventh Shunt

8th February 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

Things have moved on a bit this episode, with some visible progress for once! I must thank you all for your kind words in the unread comments, which do spur me on to do a [more…]

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The Shunting Tenth

1st February 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

Usually around this time of the week I start to think about what I could possibly write about shunting. Most of the emails are cleared, the meetings sorted out, the minutes done etc and the [more…]

Weighbridge and garage
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9. Shunting again

25th January 2021 Sweaty Dave 0

Once more a piece about Trains while the world of news whirls around us like a Tornado… I had a less active week this week, having been distracted by the installation of Telegram and the [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week Seventy Six

17th January 2021 Going Postal 0

Monday Morning all. Well, it’s AstraZeneca day at last. The rollout started this morning and fittingly the first person to vaccinated with the Oxford-AstraZeneca developed vaccine was 82-year-old dialysis patient, Brian Pinker, in an Oxford [more…]

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