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Congratulations, Tony.
Apparently your book was the third best seller of Transport Treasury's books this summer - which looking at the books it beat ......
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Yes, Dave, the Royal Mail's International prices are a nightmare for anyone trying to trade. I was sending a book to Australia and the guy at the counter asked for £20 plus (so doubling the price of the book - it was Tony's latest).
However, if you study their rates and are prepared to do some the work yourself - the cost just about halves. Perhaps this guy is a bit lazy re keeping the costs down to his customers?
I had a look at the Addresspal thing, as Sean suggests, but note that you're still landed with not just the VAT but a charge for them telling you what you owe. Bearing in mind that it's all done by computer and no human hands touch it - it makes the average Company for Theft and Murder look reasonable in their dealings.
I've deleted the expletives about the Little Englanders who took us out of the EU.
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As requested.
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To quote Captain Mainwaring - "Stupid Boy - Don't give him your name, Beaumont!".
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"Of course, this is going to take a lot of time, money, and manpower – we plan to launch a fundraiser over the next few weeks, which will hopefully include a surprise or two."
OK, IRM, who much are you goi ng to pay me not to spill the beans about your first Irish steam loco?
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More bargains from my stable - Health warning - don't read if you suffer from high Blood Pressure, a weak heart etc........
See:
OR you could hang around and get my new CIE verison for about €20
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First, thanks for the various pointers to evidence which has helped me get these wagons sorted out (I hope).
The first two will be the grey variants and if they sell, then I'll produce the "Brown" variation which Mr Flange has illustrated above. JB tells me that they had a BROWN roof as well as body, so that'll add a bit of colour to your trains - hopefully for Bangor 2024, (DV).
Now, a short update.
I signed off the artwork for both wagons ("Snail" and "Broken Wheel") about ten days ago and have a date when they are supposed to be made at Chirk, near Wrexham.
I live in hope that I'll have them for Blackrock.
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14 hours ago, leslie10646 said:
I'm horribly torn between "Andromeda" for Her Indoors, who loves 37s and has seen this one growling through Goring and a Full Bling Glasgow Eastfield Scotty Dog one. The Full Bling ones (minus the West Highland Terrier) used to pass our timeshare in the Dovey Estuary en route to Aberystwyth - you could hear them clearly from tow miles away as they restarted from Dovey Jct!!!
"Wish" registered!
Actually, John, I was thinking of one in BR Green as it was close-ish to UTA green and simply say that the UTA had one over on trial (after some fiddling with the wheels, a la Jinty ..... Trouble is, they're a later sixties job and the story doesn't sit well with GN locos in blue and mahogany coaches.
Of course I could invoke Lord Blarney's Rule Number One - "It's My Layout and I'll run what I like on it! (And I do).
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I'm horribly torn between "Andromeda" for Her Indoors, who loves 37s and has seen this one growling through Goring and a Full Bling Glasgow Eastfield Scotty Dog one. The Full Bling ones (minus the West Highland Terrier) used to pass our timeshare in the Dovey Estuary en route to Aberystwyth - you could hear them clearly from tow miles away as they restarted from Dovey Jct!!!
"Wish" registered!
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On 18/8/2023 at 9:43 AM, Northroader said:
Perhaps, Leslie, if you can do a photo of beneath the loco looking up, folks can get a better idea of how the leading coupled drivers are mounted?
I'll oblige later this week.
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For the Class 37 men - 37.884 erupting through Goring with EMUs for scrap - appropriately on the anniversary of Vesuvius erupting.
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"Leander" this time, really going hard! DON'T TURN THE SOUND UP - YOU'LL BE DEAFENED!
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Your urban scenic work is absolutely brilliant. Heartiest congratulations.
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PM sent to you - despite your offensive comments about the wonderful country which Boris Johnsonovich and his evil sidekick Jacob Free-Bogg(s) (for all) conned the thickos living here into voting for oblivion.
For once a man who knew the area wrote the book about its railways - Patrick did a great job.
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7pm this evening. VERY obviously handheld by a photographer on a bit of unstable sheugh and using a Mickey Mouse camera - still it's a bit of fun .......
"Bahamas" by the way, returning from Bristol near Goring and really shifting.
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I've just realised that I have Bob's model of the brake van on the Valencia line downstairs. I could have a go at replicating the train!
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On 17/8/2023 at 10:42 PM, Tullygrainey said:
To clarify what I posted on 13.08, Smallbrook Studio does indeed sell individual parts from its ranges of kits. An email specifying your needs is all that's required to initiate an order.
Alan
Like Alan, I've had this from the Horse's Mouth, as I pointed Michael at this thread. Alas, Michael has just spent a weekend (at least) in hospital hence the delay to me posting this.
He will be especially forthcoming if you're modelling something out of the ordinary - he is a great fan of Rowland Emett, so the zanier the better.
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Thank you Mr G More for posting the article about Drew - I knew that he was a clever man, but the thought which he clearly put into every aspect of his modelling just shines through.
I wonder if a modern electric model could manage the loads which his locos took with ease!
Bob, never mind the lining, it's a jaw-droppingly nice model of a most unusual loco - as I said above, the contents of those boxes just get better and better.
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I'm glad I had my trip through it last month - at an average 100mph, top speed 118mph (according to the info screens).
Yes, Arran's right - the SBB people must me a little upset!
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Sorry, John, it definitely says it's a KIT!
It would be a daft CR loco to do - just five of them.
I was sure (over ten years ago) that Hornby would do a CR "Dunalastair Class 4-4-0. Still waiting!
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Time for more of Bob's modelling genius. I think that this is a 47 Class, built 1879 - 1887.
If you think the engine's nice, wait until you see the TRAIN!
Individual photos of the wagons, which are masterpieces, tomorrow.
Bob, what comes out of these boxes, just gets BETTER and BETTER!!!!
Leslie
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Wonderful, David.
Where are you exhibiting, so I can put it in my diary!
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On 16/7/2023 at 1:34 PM, Branchline121 said:
Reminds me of these Swiss yokes:
They used electricity to heat the water, without the use of fire! Although looking cool, I'd imagine they were a bit of a hassle, as they were only built like this for the war and reverted soon after.
I believe I had seen this strange beast before and it seems a pretty nutty idea - but if you've been to the Swiss Transport Museum in Luzern, you'll see the staggering complexity of the earlier Swiss electric locos and railcars.
Maybe Peter Scott of the RPSI should make No.105 with a pantograph for when the main lines in Ireland are electrified? Personally, I favoured a small small nuclear reactor - no shortage of steam!
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On 27/7/2023 at 3:38 PM, Darius43 said:
From an old album of photos from an Interail trip that I did with some friends from Belfast between school and university.
Berlin ‘83
Looks a bit different now…
Cheers
Darius
A good use of your time, Darius.
You didn't explain that your photos were all taken from the West. When I was there (but in the EAST) in 1973, I did take a minute off from steam trains to walk down the Unter den Linden and visit the Brandeburg Gate. The avenue was a smart tre--lined street ending at the Gate which was heavily guarded! The British Embassy was a small shop between two of the Linden Trees - with photos in the window from the four corners of the Realm - including a fine shot of Derry's Walls!
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All-Island Strategic Rail Review makes 30 proposals to develop railways in Ireland
in What's happening on the network?
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There is a page in the September "Today's Railways" (European edition) on this report.
So, there'll be trains through Armagh again? All I have to do is live to be 102!
And Banbridge!!!!!
I note that the cost of the Northern Ireland section is equal-ish to the price of a couple of aircraft carriers - so all we have to do is persuade Rishi / Kier Starmer to cancel the next one and get on with it. If Ireland can do without a big army / navy / airforce - then so can we? Oh, and we could rejoin the EU and let sanity return .........