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........and make them memorise it. Snipers can come after that.

Why, what did the oul pigs do to deserve that?

Awful. Considering that I advocate snipers and electric fences for graffiti vandalism, it’s best not to print how I would deal with people like this.

Truly awful news, was actually thinking of him this morning. A great loss to all here as well as his family, and an absolute gentleman. May he rest in peace.

Anyone know which services this week and next are railcars and which DDs?

Good news, that!

A very well preserved colour slide from summer 1958 sees the afternoon local from Castletown West arriving at Dugort Harbour.

Call in the sock livery experts….

He's lost. He got to Ardglass, ran through the buffers, down the pier and into the sea. The train floated up at Greenore, was winched ashore, but someomne had left the brakes off, so - boom! She's off to Amiens Street. It seems that a quick-thinking signalman at Clogherhead Junction switched the points, thus avoiding a little bit of a mess at Amiens Street.

Cat 1 says he eats his at 01:51; Cat 2 says she eats hers between 4 and 5 a.m., while Cat 3 says that she eats hers at 22:15. However, Cat 2 once ate hers at 02:00. So it's a yes.

So it was in Belfast a mere four minutes??

I have texted my daughter's cats on instagram to see if they agree.

I’m totally with you on predictive elephant algebra Napoleon Moscow noodle

What is the fremo concept?

One of Barry Carse's photos shows two of these at Thurles BFS. It is during the "campaign", so there were no less than three G class there at the same time; i think G613 and G611 were among them. The livery of one is indeterminate, as it is so filthy it may as well have been painted black, brown or pink and tartan for all anyone could see; buffers and all. Just wall-to-wall filth. The other one is plain unlined green, with black underframe, red buffers and red handrails.

Indeed. Probably somewhere in Dublin or Cork, well outside actual railway premises.

The font style in the English version is also highly unusual.

Took the Enterprise yesterday afternoon to Belfast (16:50). It pulled into Platform 4 at central - never seen it do that before. A zebra up front - dunno which one. 10:35 this morning was a 6-ICR.

Dang!!! I wanted that 0.6.0 but I’m out with tourists so haven’t had time to book it….

An ICR to Achill - nice THERE’S an idea! I would be somewhat inclined to think that if Achill was open now we’d probably have a two car 28 on it, though! In general, though, the big issue with lines like these - Achill, Clifden and Valentia especially - is that they are too remote for generation of a financially self-supporting market.

I hear ya, but I’m afraid I’m still with the snipers!

Bottom line - if I ever see someone relieving themself on a Dart+, I will just look the other way. I won’t ring Joe Duffy or complain to IE!

I must say it’s a pet hate of mine, to put it mildly; if I was to describe the measures I would apply to perpetrators, I’d be chucked off every online platform I am on with immediate effect!

Agreed. They are needed. I have a free travel pass now - but, in all seriousness, while I'm OK for now, many my age and older NEED regular visits to such cubicles. In all reality, if you're caught short, you're caught short. It would be fine if the maximum journey on these things was ten minutes, but with increasing congestion and ever slower speeds, journey times are increasing. Lately, on a couple of occasions, I have had the misfortune to travel from Malahide to the DSER several times. I am going to Bray in the morning. I will be driving. Dublin commuter routes, especially Drogheda - Wicklow, is painfully, and unacceptably slow. Every trains stops at every hole in the hedge, and they crawl between them at walking pace. It's an absolute ordeal. On NIR, even the stopping trains seem to get a bit of a move on, as do those in Cork; and yes, i do accept that one may not be comparing like with like there. As from later this year, I will be regularly visiting a relative who is moving to the outskirts of Wicklow. Two hours of stop-starting, and no toilet? And the government wants me to use public transport? Sorry, lads, you're having an absolute laugh.

Malahide to Wicklow will be TWO hours! Well, now I sympathise with certain members of society who have been known to relieve themselves in or near seats....