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Tara mines "temporarily" stop
skinner75 replied to Lev Pavliuk's topic in What's happening on the network?
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/zinc-price-slide-claims-first-victim-irish-mine-closes-2023-06-20/ -
May make for an interesting place to visit if you are in Berlin for a weekend city break: https://youtu.be/PDKyQo-I5NY
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Tara mines "temporarily" stop
skinner75 replied to Lev Pavliuk's topic in What's happening on the network?
Unless there was a drop in the price of zinc & it makes more sense to sit on it till the price comes back up -
Tara mines "temporarily" stop
skinner75 replied to Lev Pavliuk's topic in What's happening on the network?
They mentioned the price of zinc currently being low, so no point in mining something if the return isn't great -
Looks like the Taras may not be seen for a while... https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0614/1389062-tara-mines/
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Dunno about lids, but looks like a red Tara with blue graffiti to me
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https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/live-bus-jammed-under-low-27103488 https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2023/0612/1388682-cork-bus-crash/
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Did they ever double-head that yoke?
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A friend was drinking cans of this the other day - €2 a can in Dunnes
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€50?
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Found this on Adverts - may be just what is missing from someone's railway room!: https://www.adverts.ie/other-antiques-collectables/antique-and-collectibles/30297790
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Cost of buying the extra land to extend to 4 lines between Malahide & Connolly would be quite the sum I'd wager!
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They'll work out at a nice price per signal with that charge on top!
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Came across this today - may be no more than wishful thinking, but still https://www.galwaybeo.ie/news/galway-news/closed-irish-rail-line-track-8448347
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Hattons flash sale - Dapol Class 59
skinner75 replied to mmie353's topic in British Outline Modelling
Ooh - smoke generator fitted on the top end models. This would be a great feature on a 121/141/181 -
Reminded me of this:
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I really hope they don't electrify all lines here - I hate the look of overhead wires, and you can't pretend you are 'back in the day' when there are overhead wires above a steam loco for example! Then you read about something like this below, and think 'the planet is screwed': https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/09/mind-boggling-methane-emissions-from-turkmenistan-revealed
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WinRar will do the job on Windows, available at: https://www.win-rar.com/
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mgwr preserved railway Connemara Railway project.
skinner75 replied to ttc0169's topic in What's happening on the network?
'It's only temporary unless it works' as the saying goes! -
Only remembered when I was down the pub last night! Oh well, at least I can watch it on the RTE Player later this evening (link below) https://www.rte.ie/player/series/nationwide/SI0000001172?epguid=IH10000974-23-0041
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Bruhn tankers filled with TK Red lemonade, to go with the containers of Tayto!
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Archive radio on the Harcourt Street line featured at the start of Bowman: Sunday show on Rte Radio1, 16/4/23 https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/bowman-sunday-830/
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Looks like the 'cute-hoor' loophole has been closed!: https://www.thedrive.com/news/absurd-200-foot-railway-demolished-after-court-closes-shipping-loophole Surely one of the easiest real life railways to model, by far!
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Marks Models currently have the Expressway buses listed as in stock
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Rails still in place on the Athlone one, so you could blast along that till you come to a short section where you would have to manhandle it across a tarmacced over piece
