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Horsetan
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The Official Irish 'Might Have Beens' Thread
Horsetan replied to minister_for_hardship's topic in General Chat
The idea of a double-tracked / electrified West Clare, and/or unified double-tracked CDR/L&LSR system, would have been intriguing. Full front-line service for the 800s should also have seen them able to work to Westport, Achill, Sligo, Limerick..... A double-tracked Achill Line - now there's a thing. The combination of these fuels, and the resultant exhaust emissions, also led to experiments with afters-burners. -
Not a follower of Flat racing (I prefer NH and point-to-point), but Pat Eddery was probably the Flat jockey for the 1980s. Like many, he lived to ride and preferred the company of horses to people but, when it was all over, the whole point of his life and focus evaporated. Alcoholism claimed him, and had a terrible knock-on effect on his wife and children.
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An "art project" (sic) with violence attached? That's a new one. Graffiti is basically a waste of perfectly good paint.
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Bear in mind that the drawings are for the original "S" (and may include the drawing produced in Dundalk, dated 1925), but I don't think Richard has managed to locate any drawings produced for the rebuilds in 1938, i.e. the form in which 171 exists today. Probably because it was their flagship?
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Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester have the GA drawing of the K2 - click here for image and details, but now seem very coy about whether you can buy a copy or scan for research purposes.
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Update: I can access the Photo Albums via PC, albeit in a roundabout way (there seems to be no direct link) with full upload / expansion facility, but this seems to be the only method. Android only gives viewing access (no uploading allowed at all), and i-Pad/tablet no access to albums at all - it's as if they didn't exist.
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New look is grand, but noticed a couple of things: I generally have three methods of access: PC, i-Pad/tablet, or Android phone (Xiaomi Note 4G) and can't quite get my head around the following: 1. On i-Pad, I can't see my own photo albums; 2. On Android phone, I can see my albums, but have no means of uploading to them, or adding new albums; Are my settings wrong? Note: not tried PC access yet.
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Careful now.
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What's the alternative? Lobbing turf at it?
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The Branchlines T&D kits are all still available. Ye'd need to do a bit of scratchbuilding to extend the 2-6-0T into 2-6-2T no.5, though....
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Do they go up to "11"?
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Happy Birthday
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Reminds me of the Paul Gascoigne goal against Scotland in the Euro96.
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Maybe one day we might see the J15 "Z" boiler etch up there.....!
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I'm tempted to try a Park Royal kit for 21mm gauge purposes......
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What is the measurement of the asymmetrical bogie wheelbase in millimetres? I still have a number of US diesels to sell, and - who knows - one might just be suitable for ye....
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That goal was sheer class.
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"If it's there ye want to be, I wouldn't be startin' from here", etc. If there's any room left over, they could have a space for Adavoyle Junction, and then maybe the tourists who'll be visiting the whole thing can be shown some proper Irish finescale modelling....
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Drink!!!!!!
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Dangerous place to live....
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If ye're Father Jack Hackett, sure ye're probably immune to the stuff anyway....
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Badger's Mount sounds like a location in "Midsomer Murders"....
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2977 is I think the only one left with most of its fittings still present. 2978 doesn't have the original internals anymore, although the exterior is much as it was.
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Forth coming Shale Wagon release
Horsetan replied to Flying Scotsman 4472's topic in Irish Model Freight
There goes that, then.
