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Broithe

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  1. He's hoping for a retrospective discount - as "shop soiled"..?
  2. Ah, I noticed this sign at the hotel car park entrance today. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.9075934,-7.3528357,3a,15y,164.98h,88.15t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIwP4AZGTZTHIR5TNybt5zw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DIwP4AZGTZTHIR5TNybt5zw%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D29.58199%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu Also 'in context' with the historical location, but I doubt there was ever a level crossing there. I would presume that, with the closure being 60+ years ago, the current 'flat route' of the road' adjacent to the old bridge, would have been implemented after that point, as the practicalities became easier and the bridge became a bit 'tight' for the level of traffic at the time.
  3. Ah, you're too hard on yourself - and it'll be OK once you've weathered the whole thing.
  4. I hope so... But, I am not reliable. I once tried to explain to a French chap on a French campsite that there was a crowd of midges every evening, where he was pitching his tent. I'm not sure what I was actually saying, but it wasn't "flies", it might have been "handkerchiefs" or even "mountain goats". I was also interrogated by an old boy at the last house half-way up a mountain. I think I got the tense slightly wrong in his question - I thought he asked me "Where are you from?", so I told him and he got very animated. Thinking about it later, I think he actually asked "Where have you come from?" which was only the town at the bottom, which would probably have been less impressive to him. I do believe that he thought I had walked across Europe specifically to go up his hill.
  5. The Channel Island are also in that 'economic limbo' situation, handy for avoiding/evading tax. There used to be quite a business selling vitamin supplements from the Channel islands, VAT-free. It didn't seem to be worth the bother of dealing with them as imports - or maybe it was just owned by somebody's brother-in-law and blind eyes were turned?
  6. Bangor (or at least one of them) is nearer than it was. I remember the first time I drove to Holyhead using the new A55, after years of battling up the A5 through the barely mobile roadblocks made from caravans. Barely a couple of hours into the journey, I saw a sign for Bangor - "Blimey" I thought, "Another Bangor, that'll confuse people. Then I found myself on the Menai Bridge. I ended up sat at the front of the queue looking at the ferry for ages...
  7. Dirty pictures - that's what most of us got the internet for. Absolute perfection of dirtiness here!
  8. It may be more of a heater than a light. https://picclick.de/Vintage-Red-Nestill-Paraffin-Heizung-in-Lampe-umgewandelt-186114764036.html
  9. That was a particularly good month.
  10. I managed to catch it better on the return service - not sure if there was a catering trolley onboard, the steamed-up windows reduced visibility of the interior. At least the guards turned up to check for ticket evaders. Good shot of the coupling there - for those interested in modelling this arrangement.
  11. Getting ready to stroll into town, I just heard the approach of the 10:15 service in time to grab a picture.
  12. They has two exhibitions that I know of, and went to. The first was at the old North School in Abbeyleix and the second was in the Killeshin Hotel in Port Laoise.
  13. I was required to go to the Wednesbury IKEA a few times in the last century. I always had an urge to see if I could spend the night, undetected, in one of those high-level beds that they did. I've only ever 'bought' off Amazon with vouchers that I was given and had no cash alternative for. It seemed the least of the evils, rather than leave them with the value.
  14. I do have one, technically speaking, but it's not really very mobile - it hasn't been out of the room it's in now since the first week of November, when I moved it from the room it was in before then. I only really keep it as the bank wants to send me "security codes" via a separate means now and then. The provider moans at me now and then and I am required to send a text or make a call, to ensure that I am not dead. I have a rule that it will have a minimum balance of £10 on it, in case I do need to use it at some point and I don't want it running out on me then. I have used about £2 of the current balance in the last two years, mostly making 'proof of life' calls. It is a Nokia 3510 and is still using the original battery.
  15. Snakes on a train... https://www.rte.ie/news/2024/0312/1437515-cork-snake/
  16. Is it this sort of thing you're after? https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0026/4984/9913/files/A_Class_DCC_functionality.pdf?v=1603462537 If so, then go to the chip in question and click on it, then click on 'click to download functions'.
  17. Do make sure that the relief valve actually operates. It is not unknown for them to stick down and then 'something else' might let go first, if it comes to that. I remember the excitement of a stuck-down relief valve going off on a small boiler, when we got to three times the intended blow-off pressure, due to a confusion over documentation using every unit known to man, except what was actually on the pressure gauge...
  18. It's like sitting next to a weirdo on a bus. It's all working the same for me as I seem to remember it in the past, but that is no guarantee on absolute similarity...
  19. So, I went out again today to check another walk I spotted that takes you round on the west side of the old main road. This affords you a view of the remaining (and additional?) station buildings. A few yards of a detour from the posted route gives you a good view of the Station house. The path takes you from the gate of the Protestant Church, down onto the track-bed under the skew bridge on the R435 road to Rathdowney & Templemore. From here on, the trees stop you getting any better view of the back of the building than this. From there, my route back to the hotel involved traversing a bit of new boardwalk at the south end of the bog, having crossed back to the east of the old main road again. This took me fairly close to the double-arch bridge from Sunday's walk and, as things were a good bit drier, I diverted to there and got a picture of the east side, largely submerged in ivy, and details of the impressive condition of the stonework, having stood, largely unaffected, in the middle of a bog for 160 years. Also, whilst doing reconnaissance on Street View to assess various entry/exit points that I would be using today, I realised that my picture of the 'gated bridge' alongside the main road in the first post does not make it obvious that there are a few yards of track still protruding from it. And, by standing in the 'right place', you can effect a reasonable lining-up of the picture with the remaining buildings. This works better than it might, I think, considering that the picture is presumably taken from the top of the bridge. Finally, the tea/coffee/cakes arrangement does pay some homage to the reason why it's there.
  20. That situation also exists on some early uPVC frames. You can get bolt-pins which will stop the door coming out with the hinge pin removed - and interlocking hinges that have the same function.
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