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    Navan Branchline

    in General Chat

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    On Kingscourt, I used to go out with a girl from there around 15 years back, and remember visiting the old station building while the tracks were still in place. 

    I found some old square freight shipping slips in the old office, which I have somewhere up the attic

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    Whiterock

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted · Edited by skinner75

    59 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

    An incredible number - 228 - Leopards were hi jacked and burned. Ulsterbus was run in those days by the remarkable Werner Heubeck - an Afrika Korps veteran from the Herman Goering Division. Heubeck was known for rescuing vehicles in highly risky settings - doubtless deploying skills he’d learned in Tunisia. The RUC despaired of his lone jogging round Belfast in the 70s as a prime target for IRA kidnap! 

    A hell of a lot were destroyed by fire too down in Cork, Kells Transport Museum
    https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/gallery/haunting-photos-show-corks-abandoned-26935945

    https://www.corkbeo.ie/culture/whats-on-news/gallery/abandoned-bus-graveyard-16432007

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    Interesting pictures...

    in Letting off Steam

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    On 13/7/2025 at 5:01 PM, spudfan said:

    This says it all.

    "RNLI make appeal after lifeboat station was blocked by cars in Bundoran"

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    I'm sure if they got a shout they would just smash the glass, and release the handbrake? Would still use up their time all the same

    An Update on the State of the Model Train Industry

    in News

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    On 19/5/2025 at 7:40 PM, Ironroad said:

    Yes he did, but please read the CNN news extracts I posted earlier which explain what is in place for at least the next 85 days or so.

    All shipments sent via commercial carriers will have a tariff of 30% applied.

    All shipments sent via the post office with a value of $1 up to $800 will be subject to a 54% tariff, but with a option for the consignee to pay a flat tariff of $100.

    So if IRM/AS are offering their US customers a choice between having orders shipped by mail or courier a simple rule of thumb can be applied to minimise the tariff being paid by US customers.

    It makes no sense to send an order with a value of $334 or less via the mail, because the minimum tariff such a order would be subject to would be $100, whereas the maximum tariff sent via courier (@30%) would be $100.

    And It makes no sense to send an order valued between $335 and $800 via a courier because it would incur a tariff of between $101 & $240. Whereas sending that same order via the mail incurs a maximum tariff of $100. 

    So the simple rule of thumb is to send all orders valued between $335 and $800 via the mail and all others via courier. 

     

     

     

     

    Looks like the Orange One has done away with the below $800 thing:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c939q47xlleo

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    Check your insurance details

    in Letting off Steam

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    36 minutes ago, spudfan said:

    Had an under floor leak in the kitchen. It was not easy to find the source as water travels. Removed kitchen units and repaired the leak. Replaced the kitchen units. Man from the insurance company said he assumed I would be claiming for new kitchen units, but I said "N0". The units were O.K., a bit scratched here and there from being shifted but perfectly servicable. So I just claimed for the work done and new lino for the floor. It  was not a lot of money. They would not pay all of the modest, honestly stated sum as they said the house was under insured by a certain percentage so deducted this percentage from the payout. This was despite the fact that I did not claim to replace kitchen units which would be much more expensive for them.

     

    As one of my friends says - "you are insured for everything but a claim!"

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    Latest C Rail box

    in Irish Models

    Posted · Edited by skinner75

    36 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

    You’d think you had the perfect shot, then get the photos back a few days later and that perfect shot was ruined!

    I remember sneaking a camera into a gig years ago - around 1990 I'd say.

    I cleaned condensation off the viewfinder, but not the lens! Looked all good through the viewfinder, but all shots came back like I was standing in a fog bank! 😂

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    Thinking of buying an EV?

    in Letting off Steam

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    5 minutes ago, Broithe said:

    It's the same sort of thing as the water-powered cliff elevators* do. Fill up the tank on the one at the top, use the excess weight to pull the lighter car at the bottom back up, after if has emptied it's tank, allowing for the difference in passenger weights in each car - and repeat with the two cars in sequences, as often as the water supply will allow you to.

    The difference with the train here is that the energy from lowering the weight is being stored in a battery, rather than dragging another empty train back up, via a cable, as the heavier one comes down, then using that stored energy to drive the train back up. And the whole thing is just a lot bigger - in every way.


    *I think the one in Bridgnorth operates this way.

    Inclined Plane is the term with respect to railway wagons linked by cable, isn't it?

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