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  1. jhb171achill
    My home insurance is currently up for renewal. Asked them their opinion in covering stuff worth (figure plucked from the air) €15,000. Answer: depending on excess and company provider, anything from €40 to €100+ extra on top of normal household quote. (My other half doesn’t read this, so I hope that I’m safe….)
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    Precisely! Common sense, too. Try telling that, though, to Wee Doddsy (remember him?), Sir Sanctimonious Jeffrey, Curry Gregory and Edwin the Poots, with sawdust interior…..
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    Very many thanks, Broadstone, much appreciated!
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    Very true….!
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    Unless Boris Mogg-Farage and the rabid right wing press, the Daily Fail & Tory Telegraph decide to “take back control” by leaving NATO! That’s a serious collection of letter boxes! In a museum somewhere?
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    What about the An Post boxes you can buy for outgoing postal packages - they look very good value. I wonder if our colleagues in the Land of the Red Letter Boxes have a similar type of system?
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    Every time I receive something via relatives who live in the United Kingdom of Brexitstan, the resultant deprivation of Mr Johnston’s coffers of a few cents makes my day……
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    I had considered this in the past and two possibilities came to mind. 1. A branch from Athenry to somewhere not far away - maybe Loughrea if the Midland branch hadn’t been built? - owned by one company with the other having operational rights. Not beyond the wit of mankind, as at one time the MGWR had permission to operate from Athenry to Limerick. 2. The Birr - Portumna line is reopened as part of a Loughrea - Portumna - Birr line - this was actually proposed.
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    Don’t let him near it or he might burn it down when he’s killed a few more teenage brides!!! Seriously, excellent work.
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    I think diesels always look amazingly great when sidelined in favour of shteam…..!
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    Steam is the answer. Must be a few J15s, D16s and K2s in the depths of the loco shed. Now where’s the IRM six-wheelers & tin vans….
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    Will it include the sounds of swearing drivers & fitters, and have a tiny mechanism to spew oil and diesel fuel out of cracked pipes?
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    I’ve only one recollection of travelling on those 207-hauled excursions, and the highlight being Senior getting sticky buns for myself and sister-the-elder en route….. and the old side corridor first we were in….
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    Couldn’t agree more!
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    Outstanding stuff, Paddy! Captures the era perfectly! Question for the assembled company - I have several of those carriages too, which I bought for half of nothing on fleabay a while back, but they have old, coarse-sized wheels, which just bump over the sleepers of fine scale code 75 track. Does anyone know what would be suitable wheelsets to get for them?
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    He must do, yes, that makes sense.
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    We didn’t have to……!
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    Just as hard to believe when he took a pic of it, it was brand new!
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    Pity we all can't go on B145!
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    By way of completely random "lucky dip", from Senior's stuff: Tank loco on an Albert Quay - Glanmire transfer, and a Dublin & Blessington wagon body in a field outside Blessington in the 1930s, still with D & BST markings. Interesting pointwork in Albert Quay in 1950 or thereabouts, and some nice signals as a backdrop to an equally nice BCDR 4.4.2T in 1947.
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    Yes, it is Clipperstown. I think he renewed that bridge.
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    Plus a few random C & L ones from about 1935. He saw No. 1 "Isobel" still sporting very badly worn-out C & L lined green livery. I think she was the last C & L loco to be painted grey.
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    In response to a request, I dug out some of my father's pics on the Derry Central area of the NCC (plus a few other random NCC shots!). I believe these were all taken between 1944 and 1947, but there could be exceptions. He went to Draperstown in the 1930s, but I'm unaware of photos of that trip. More locos and stock than stations, but he a has a panoramic of Magherafelt (I think) somewhere. The one of No. 9 is obviously later than 1947.
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    I think I posted some before…. Must check!
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    The Maghera goods shed survives today as the loco shed at Downpatrick, while its canopy now graces the passenger platform there.
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