Broithe

2 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I thought the CIE grey era came before the brown, not after?

I wasn't sure if I was looking at over-ambitious weathering, or if it was just the primer showing through.

12 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Best looking person in Malahide.

Not sure about the livery details.

Probably a black chassis out of shot..?
 

At least the picture is the right way up.

I think.

17 hours ago, spudfan said:

Had not thought of water in the exhaust gases. Another one bites the dust!

With enough heat, the condensation issue might reduce to acceptable proportions?

There are some small gas turbines about these days, you might be able to adapt the MiG 15 approach to a G Scale garden railway?

Mmm, exhaust gasses will contain water, which may then condense on the cold rails?

The Russians did actually do this with engines from MiG 15s.

I thought we were having peace and quiet until Monday?

6 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

It’s too hot and dry for working the bog today.

Do you not own a torch and a water bottle?

31 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Looking rough up there…

Meanwhile…

 

 

You need to get that turf in, it won't get any drier.

I intended to be there yesterday, but I'm still on the western island. I did organise an agent to attend for me and ensure that standards were being adhered to in my absence.

2 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

County Donegal Railways at Strabane today.

I initially thought you meant these were pictures from today.

I was about to start the car up...

I believe that the ore from Galmoy is planned to be taken by road to Waterford, when extraction starts again shortly.

I should be having an expedition with my tame(?) informant on the inside and I might remember to ask her.

They are currently ramping up the extraction of the water from the flooded workings and just popping out there in the early hours to check on things is not helping someone who admits to not being a 'morning person' at the best of times...
 

There was a vague plan for a line from Ballybrophy to Perry's Brewery in Rathdowney, but nothing ever came of it - maybe that could be resurrected as a line to the Dawn Meats plant, as it now is, and then onto to the mine a bit further south?

Probably not...

1 hour ago, Mayner said:

I have used the Irish Road system in recent years including the Port Tunnel, M1, M50, N11 at peak times during visits to Ireland in recent years, congestion on the M50 and Dublin approach roads is little different to that I experienced in the UK or Auckland, though driving between the outskirts of the city and Dublin Port is now a picnic to 20 or so years ago before the opening of the Port Tunnel. Before I left Ireland in 2004 I spent several years working on construction projects around the M50, and in the Port and well remember the level of traffic congestion and impact on productivity. 

 

I have just spent an hour in a pub listening to people whingeing about traffic issues in Laois and wondering if they've been to England in this century.

My place in England is in a one-horse town in the arse-end of nowhere and I have never suffered congestion, obstruction and general difficulties in driving anywhere near that in the Republic. The roadworks near my house there are a quarter of the way into their ninth year now, with no end in sight. Some roadworks in Wales ended this year - after 23 years - so we may need to be patient.

Goods traffic on rail will always be problematic in a small sparsely populated country with no large inland centres. If you have to load stuff onto trucks to get it to the railhead, and then offload it into trucks again, to move on to the final destination, then, on a small island, you will need to look at the numbers carefully to see if it's even worth the bother, or just leave it in the trucks and drive them all the way there.

A diversion due to roadworks was an excuse for my first visit since the water tower went. The space will be useful, I expect.

The car parking was essentially full. I managed to find the single vacant space in the main section, but only because someone had parked outside a space earlier in the day

There were four empty spaces on the road section, right up by the bridge on the main road.

18 minutes ago, LNERW1 said:

Well speaking of Cummins brown and cream could work either…

The curves aren't quite right...

10 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

Both trunk route and branch line gone then.

I twigged early on that we might be barking up the wrong tree.

This is alleged to be the only close-up photo of a Concorde flying supersonic.

It was taken in 1985, from a Tornado, over the Irish Sea (it says, but probably a bit further south, I suspect).

It was slowed up a bit, to around Mach 1.5/6 for the event.

A Lightning was a fairly rough device. Not the most reliable aircraft ever built.

As with many things, it was notable that they never really sold any. The Saudis had some, but you sort of have to pay them to 'buy' anything....

5 minutes ago, Georgeconna said:

You must of had a few Lightning then for sure!

 

Wow link worked for me, Some damage!!

Lots of Lightnings - including one on a stick at the gate - and the front of one used for a flight simulator.

Plus loads of other stuff, Vulcans, Canberras, Meteors, Argosies, Belfasts, etc - and loads of stuff passing through.

The link I posted works, but the link on there to further pictures gets a 404 for me. About forty married quarters were rendered uninhabitable, plus loads of other damage- it looked like someone had run a Hoover over a life-sized model layout...

I often casually mention that we had a tornado at Akrotiri in 1969. People, of course, dispute this, not spotting that I have said it with a lower case t, rather than a capital T.

https://www.limassolchamber.eu/En/26/articles/238/2016/10/07/Massive-disaster-in-Limassol-in-1969

There was a page with further pictures on there, but the link seems dead.

The event was very violent, but with no fatalities on the base itself. There had been a tremendous hailstorm just before it came on land, so few people were outside when stuff started flying around and falling back down. Quite a few houses were demolished and we had a family billeted with us for a few weeks, whilst things were patched up.

People should pay heed to the good words.

Their whole afterlife is at steak.

I understand that it was a good, down-to-earth sermon, with no bull.

29 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:

... surely we should be changing Kilkenny McDonagh to Cummins instead? Give it a nice blue and white paint job too while we're at it? 

Mmm, she might have to live south of the border, but it should be Portlaoise or Ballybrophy for her, I think.

12 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

It depends on the contributor. Some veer more in one direction than another …..

Anyone who has paid proper attention to the shipping forecast would know that a wind can only veer in one direction, to the right. Turning to the left is backing.

https://jollyparrot.co.uk/blog/the-difference-between-a-backing-and-veering-wind-489

1 hour ago, Flying Snail said:

 

Naming after celebs could get controversial very quick ... would Mullingar get renamed for Joe Dolan or Niall Horan????? 

Tralee Cummins.

It could be changed every year...

If it was still open, Abbeyleix Day-Lewis.

Roscrea Tsikhanouskaya.  

Sorry for the late reply...

We went to Emo yesterday and, chatting to the Information Officer, this photo was mentioned. She was unaware of it and I said I would source it for her. I found it in the book here, but it doesn't seem to exist publicly online anywhere.

In Father Browne's Laois - on page 105.