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Regarding the "coronavirus" outbreak in China. I wonder if it will get to a point when goods from China will be suspect. People will worry that if someone sneezes on a packet in China and it ends up over here maybe they could contract it. Don't know much about it but it does not take much to get people concerned. I was just thinking of it from our end of things like the IRM stuff and the Paddy Murphy stuff that will come from China. I am sure that the boys at IRM and Paddy are following this with interest. Governments like to be seen to be doing the correct thing and might put a hold on imports from China for optics sake.I suppose it will all come down to knowledge of the incubation period etc. Imagine getting your long awaited 121 or "A" class and finding disposable gloves and a face mask included in the packing.....

Here is the link to schedule for this week on Talking Pictures TV just to give you an idea of there programmes. https://talkingpicturestv.co.uk/schedule/

"The current ranges would seem adequate for things like An Post vans, etc." An Post do not use any electric or Hybrid vehicle for rural deliveries. Dublin between the canals yes .

Sun 26 Jan 20 18:30 BFI: Fully Fitted Freight 1957. Factual. Director: Ralph Keene. The story of the fast freight, 4:48 pm, Bristol-Leeds, vacuum braked throughout. Conveyed in crisp black & white images by veteran cinematographer Ronald Craigen It will be on "Talking Pictures TV." I came across "Talking Pictures TV" by accident on the Free to Air box. There should be enough time between now and Sunday if you want to search for it.

I am afraid to ask. After years of "searching" I have not found anything that serves that purpose.

Body work still looks better than the wife.....And as for the chassis...

Here is some DART news...the DART in Dallas https://www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and-rolling-stock/dart-awards-stadlers-first-us-maintenance-contract/55511.article

It is not quite that simple. It is like insurance companies being obliged to have enough reserves to enable them to cover all claims. Well if I were to cover even half of the claims on my organs I'd need multiples of everyone of them.......

What do you think financed the 071's? Got a letter from a debt collection agency during the week looking for a kidney.

Sitting in the kitchen yesterday evening when something caught my eye...a drip coming through a crack in the ceiling plaster. A quick dash to the attic and there it was. Rain running down one of the roof timbers. Shifted as much insulation as I could and got a basin in place to catch drips. So tomorrow the roof tiles come off and new felt laid in the effected area. The lads said first thing Saturday. Yesterday morning I paid for 1000 litres of road diesel and 1000 litres of heating oil. Ho Ho Ho, it's the season to be jolly etc etc P.S Bang go the "A"s and the 121's...

Warbonnet wrote "We will have a firm delivery date confirmed once all snags and testing is complete. Last thing we want to do is put a substandard loco on the market." Eh, I thought the idea was to give us the most accurate model possible.....

Review of the forth coming Hattons 66. Scroll on down to the Jenny Emily review. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/133954-class-66-in-oo-gauge-new-announcement/page/47/

Regarding our recent wet and windy weekend. Sitting on the sofa watching TV I told the Mrs how well she was looking and that I had definitely made the correct decision all of those years ago. "I'm not going out for turf", was the response I got. Drat, foiled again.....

Brings back memories. I remember levelling across a bridge in Co. Cork when the staff began to look blurred through the level. Yep you guessed it, there was a train coming. Had to put the level and tripod over my shoulder and run like mad closely followed by the bloke with the staff. Looking back it was like something from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. At the time it was adrenaline pumping to say the least. Ah the late 70's, wonder how I ever survived into the 80's....

Then there was the shop up a side street between O Connell bridge and the Halfpenny bridge. It was a post office as well as a model railway shop. He used to stock HO continental stuff. Remember the shop in Capel street that used to do a lot of Fleischmann stuff? But Monck Place was my favourite.

In my letter to Santa......

Do you think the hierarchy at IRM towers have watched the video and hatched their next release? Imagine the cost of a working model as per the video!

Remember the auld days when a group of blokes would go out with picks and shovels to work on the tracks? Well have a look at this. Scroll down to the section headed "First Building phase: 142 kilometres of track" then to "Permanent way newly constructed". Now that is some serious gear, but there probably is a bloke with a shovel somewhere about......https://www.plassertheurer.com/en/media-library/documentaries/face-lift-for-high-speed-lines.html?utm_source=rg&utm_medium=mail&utm_campaign=NL1912en

€13.80 from the Book Depository including delivery. https://www.bookdepository.com/Irish-Traction-Iarnrod-Eireann-Colm-OCallaghan/9781445688442

Might be of some use http://adityaminiaturetrainmodels.com/ https://www.decibelscalemodels.com/

https://www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and-rolling-stock/iarnrod-eireann-orders-dmu-cars-to-increase-commuter-capacity/54951.article

Witch One to Witch Two. "I brought you this for the Hallowe'en cauldron". Witch Two to Witch One "What is it?" Witch One. "It's a six year old child" Witch Two "I don't want it". Witch One "Why not". Witch Two "Those things are full of sugar".

Sorry about that,checking back it was a quote in your post. Many apologies

JASONB wrote "Do we have a model shop in Ireland that could compare with long closed “The Model Railway Shop” (also known as Leinster Models) on Monk Place Phibsborough? " I used to cycle over from Drimnagh and spend my three hours overtime on a Lima loco. Sometimes I'd walk over with the dog. On arrival the dog would collapse and Kieran would give him a bowl of water to help him recover. I swear that I can still smell Kierans pipe smoke on the boxes of some of my Lima locos, some of which are 30 years plus and still doing great service. Any way when I'd had the craic and completed my business and the dog had recovered we trek back to Drimnagh. The walk or cycle usually cleared the smell of pipe smoke from my clothes by the time I arrived home. Happy memories

Many years ago I went into a chemist shop in Thomas Street Dublin. It would have been in the early 1980's. I asked for some meths and an eyedropper. The owner said that he had no meths in stock. So I asked if he had any benzene and he said no. Then I asked if he had any carbontetrachloride as that would do. None of that either he said. Anyway I said "Thank you" and headed for the door. As I was going out he asked what the stuff was for. I told him it was for cleaning model railway tracks. The eye dropper was for putting it into a cleaning wagon I had (Roco). He laughed and said he never heard that before AND he had meths in stock but he had to be careful who he sold it to. I got the meths and the eyedropper and headed home.