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I have one stashed away somewhere. The intention was to use it as the basis for a garden railway. One of the possibilities was to have a tunnel section and there was concern about what would happen if the signal was lost. Investigations found that it defaulted to full speed, which seemed like a reasonable result for the circumstances. Another one of the many things that may still happen - if I live to be a thousand years old.

Oh, how much fun we mechanicals had, showing the old Yellow Pages heading to you lot..

Yeah, but the rails don't go right to the extremities. Don't be dispiriting the lad - he's probably already done about a quarter of it...

No point in imposing unnecessary limits - just do the whole island in 00 - it will fit neatly inside Phoenix Park.

I think that time it was the airport tug, after Tonka wouldn't start. Maybe they went to best of three..? The tug was because we had a hovercraft to move the forgings around between gantry crane runs. It was much easier to 'organise' things to be in the right place, when you could manoeuvre with more flexibility than only running on rails. This meant filling in the flange gaps in the inset rail lines, to avoid losing too much air. Just done with bits of wood, if someone could remember where they had been put after the last time the hovercraft was used... Not twisting your ankle when cross the many tracks around the place was an important skill, particular outside. One morning, glancing down to be sure I was OK, I saw a foot, with a blue trainer on, flash in, as though to trip me. Ready to sort out my assailant, I spun around to find there was nobody at all there, And I was in the middle of an outside yard, with 100 feet of empty space around me - odd, but I just put the hallucination down to overwork. Then, in the afternoon, I had a cup of tea and put my feet up, to reveal that I had a black leather safety shoe on one foot, and a blue suede trainer on the other...

Fear not! They'll have a crew out in one of their many submarines, making sure that things will progress in their favour. https://boskalis.com/activities/offshore-energy/subsea-services/subsea-irm

As can be seen in a large-print format from the Old Cork Road. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.9060615,-7.3534544,3a,15y,320.82h,84.55t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCbvzOpCMQpLBvd1t7iLEhg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D5.452206932572238%26panoid%3DCbvzOpCMQpLBvd1t7iLEhg%26yaw%3D320.820653124462!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTAyOS4yIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Oh, come on! It's not like he just spends time posting on here, like a lot of us do. Oh, hang on! He does that as well...

Looks to have hit a small landslip on the bend in the distance above.

The Shap derailment.

I'll admit that I wasn't aware of the existence of this, but it seems that it is about to close now. https://www.shuttlewood-clarke.org/ulverscroft-grange/model-railway/ https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/closure-model-railway-attraction-ultimate-10616445

There's plenty of WW2 pictures of aircraft being railed, but I can't find any WW1 ones, so far. It would, presumably, have been something along the lines of this road transport arrangement. Probably fuselage and wings on separate wagons for most things. And then reassembled at the destination by riggers.

At least the flag is the right way up. It's remarkable how many you see on the Big Island that aren't.

This came up in conversation today, leading me to find this - https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/near-miss-between-ro-ro-ferry-stena-superfast-vii-and-royal-navy-submarine And then, this - https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/collision-between-the-stern-trawler-karen-and-a-dived-royal-navy-submarine

Mashima - a marvellous supplier, who closed down in the most organised and pleasant manner - so 'Japanese'...