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  1. Horsetan
    Those look like incredibly clean mouldings. I wonder if the model could be made to run using Faller-Car parts or similar?
  2. Horsetan
    The ZX81 was resolutely black-and-white, like its predecessor the ZX80. Its flat keyboard was unaffected by drinks spilled on it and it came with 1k RAM as standard. You could get a plug-in 16k RAM module that went in the back of it. It was no feckin' use at all. Colour didn't really come about properly until the ZX Spectrum, Commodore VIC-20 and C64. Also the ORIC-1, plus contemporary BBC Model B and Acorn Electron. There, I'm showin' me age now, so I am.
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    Seen those. There are probably enough photos to create a jigsaw of the track layout, and I'm sure I have a signalling diagram somewhere, albeit after the Ballinrobe branch was closed. ...or Mullingar.
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    I still have the album somewhere. I look back fondly upon those days, those rare oul times before Bono became holier-than-thou. I'm not sure we have sufficient working engines to maintain an Irish Plandampf, never mind the H&S . You'd need to build a few more WTs, J15s, K1/K1a, B1 and B2, plus V or VS, to run a worthwhile service.
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    It was far more interesting before the track was rationalised and resignalled for CTC
  6. Horsetan
    The Skoda Rapid coupé is supposedly the one to collect. It was the one that Autocar magazine actually liked.
  7. Horsetan
    Claremorris has so much potential as a layout, yet finding complete information for a particular time period is indeed difficult to find.
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    Excellent, thanks. Looks like 560 has acquired a solid handwheel on the smokebox door by 1961, as opposed to the "open" pattern wheel, or separate handles.
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    The J.P. O'Dea collection at NLI turned up this 1959 view of 560 at Cork: http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304698 Depicted out of service, with rods removed, and displaying the "garden shed" cab which itself is showing obvious signs of being attacked by the tin worm. Cast numberplates still retained. ....out of the many hundreds (thousands?) of Irish railway photos he took, it looks like only two involve J26s!
  10. Horsetan
    Were there any FGW-liveried HSTs? Or are they now too valuable to put on public display?
  11. Horsetan
    Australia's fascinating....
  12. Horsetan
    Wonder what the cause of the mechanical failure was?
  13. Horsetan
    You could always follow Keith Richards' example. The fella's pretty much self-embalmed thanks to all the drink and drugs. Mostly drugs.
  14. Horsetan
    Wheels may not be a problem for an etch-only pack, but castings will be.
  15. Horsetan
    I thought it was going to be a kit only?
  16. Horsetan
    I think I can see where this is leading..... It's going to have to be 560 with the garden shed cab, no?
  17. Horsetan
    There is a bit of a sting in the tail with the Hornby Class 31, since a fair few of them have suffered from flawed mazak underframe casting, which either leads to fracturing of the ends of the casting or expansion, causing the plastic body to distort and then shatter in the area of the cab front. Do keep an eye on this. The same type of thing notoriously affected the Heljan Class 47 which, not content with being too wide, then became too long.
  18. Horsetan
    David Geen's website is years out of date, unfortunately, and he has no control over it. Only way to contact him is by post or phone these days, or catch him at finescale shows. The 4mm scale Mitchell range is in reality run under David's control, not Pete's.
  19. Horsetan
    ^^ Have ye seen Father Shortall? He'd be about eighty now....
  20. Horsetan
    The Great Southern book is here. Fascinating photography....
  21. Horsetan
    David Geen, not Pete Waterman.
  22. Horsetan
    Everyone's waiting for the Hattons / DJM attempt at a OO King. Should be finally released in 2017/2018. I'm sticking with the Malcolm Mitchell kit, which is the definitive model for 4mm scale.
  23. Horsetan
    The Skodas were particularly good rally cars.
  24. Horsetan
    That was the "Achtung Baby" tour.
  25. Horsetan
    I'd like to second this motion.
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