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    Truly superb! Galteemore, I hope Mr Holman went easy on you...... !
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    O U T S T A N D I N G !!! Registers particularly well with me tonight, as Barry Carse & I have just cycled on the Waterford greenway..... One my all-time favourite layouts. Captures the atmosphere of those times better than just about anything! It would depend on how many were made, and of what material. Most of the cost would be design and setting it all up, so a low "print run" would make the sale price outlandishly expensive for a replica. I would buy one too, I reckon - but how many of all of us would?
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    RTR six-wheelers at last!
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    Drool….
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    I try to avoid lambs. I don’t trust them….especially when I’ve no mint sauce.
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    On the train meself! We must meet up….. anyone on the train, wear flourescent pink tutus (no, not the Archbishop). I’ve mine somewhere, though please keep that among friends.
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    They’ve cut Zee Broog out of it now, and the guys in Dortmund are finished their tea break, so it’ll be a month quicker….. SERIOUS point; post office services worldwide are banjaxed by the ongoing creep of privatisation and the insistence that they must concentrate on a few more profitable services rather than providing a good overall service to all of the public……
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    Very true, Minister, sadly. It’s with the printers, Broithe! Chapter 1 is “The night I was locked in the jax in Tooban Junction with an antelope…..”
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    Only yours, Murph - they’re in Reykjavik right now, so less than 17 weeks to go….
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    An Post Office: They go to Kilkenny via Cahirciveen, Glenties, Glendalough, Mount Leinster, Ballybay, Omagh, Millstreet, Multyfarnham and Fermoy - in that order…..
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    Looking even from a distance I reckon that even the better of the two is way beyond redemption. Pity; immensely historically important at this stage.
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    Original CIE green paintwork inside the (unrestored) jacks at the old Kilmacthomas station.
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    Spotted from the Waterford greenway today, the unmistakeable profile of two Cork & Macroom Direct Railway coaches. I suspect these are the only items of anything left from this railway line.
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    Yes, totally agree - was in touch with Leslie a short time ago and passed on my own congrats on that. I didn’t actually know that a D16 had found its way to Loughrea. I interviewed a couple of well-known ex-drivers yonks ago and was told (by one gentleman, in no uncertain terms!) that ex-Midland engines were not well received on the GSW; hence impressions of a D16 heading from Athlone towards Portarlington tended to uncomplimentary! One wonders what the diehard Midland men in Loughrea made of 533, though…..
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    Superb, Northwalldocker, very many thanks in advance. I’m away for a few days, will PM you when I’m back!
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    Indeed - it was goods only for some 45 years! To make a shunting layout it would need to be compressed a good bit, I would have thought - from memory when I went there on an RPSI train, the layout was somewhat spread out. But a good option, as you say. Another might be Castleisland, Co Kerry, or Fenit. Both of those saw the "G" class on a regular basis!
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    Excellent one - yes, not every article in every issue is of interest to every member - but it's worth paying membership for the Journal alone. Barry Carse's Valentia article is excellent, and there are many interesting photos of all sorts of things. West Cork photos of anything will never fail to please. I remember when the first colour photos appeared in the Journal in the 1970s how it lifted the whole thing..... If I had one small (constructive) criticism it would be that many interesting photos in some editions could be reproduced in larger format, but overall a great production.
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    I have to say that when I saw Castlederg (I think it was Cultra, but can't remember) I was most impressed - scenically it's one of the most superbly convincing I've ever seen; an absolute masterclass in how a small layout should look. Station in perfect proportion too - I'd love to see it again, but I'm unlikely to be in the UK for the time being....
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    jhb171achill replied to WRENNEIRE's topic in News

    Spot on, amdaley. Inconsistent happenings within An Post, who seem to have gone to hell altogether, but from the evidence and experience of others, New Zealand's and Brexitstan's postal services also appear to have their moments! I went to post several small packages in my local post office recently and was told three different prices - one in one PO, and the other two from two separate staff members (one very nice, one a surly oul wagon!) in a different PO! And we're not talking about a bit more or less - one was €9, another €18!
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    I LIKE that! "One horse town"! Perfect!
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    Ah, ok - but actually better still! Had this place survived, it would almost certainly have be3come a goods-only depot. For a mini-layout, one loco and just a dozen wagons does the trick....
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    Fintona, or something based on it, is perfect for a very small mini-terminus….
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    Fintona has great possibilities.
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    It’s all over the Ring of Kerry too, judging by roadside notices….. awful stuff.
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    Interesting! The 9 inch one looks about right (they still use inches there!) 12 dollars isn’t much, though post and packing would probably cost €50!
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