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Posts posted by Broithe
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1 hour ago, derek said:
Holy cow! Are there in fact three of you Darius? Darius 44 and 45? How the hell do you work so fast/ Excellent stuff
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...
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30 minutes ago, Broithe said:
The Shap derailment.
Looks to have hit a small landslip on the bend in the distance above.
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The Shap derailment.
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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/
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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.
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27 minutes ago, Galteemore said:
I’m fascinated by the flag given that this was 1970s Ireland when detente was a long way off….pic from Castlerea Railway Museum FB page
At least the flag is the right way up. It's remarkable how many you see on the Big Island that aren't.
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On 21/1/2019 at 7:21 PM, Broithe said:
This could have been exciting...
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2019/0121/1024637-submarine-ferry-irish-sea/
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-submarineAnd then, this -
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Mashima - a marvellous supplier, who closed down in the most organised and pleasant manner - so 'Japanese'...
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We had some big machines, finishing 100-ton forgings. so there was quite a bit of swarf - on a Thursday night, you needed to be aware of the swarf train sneaking up on you, pulled by the yellow loco here - which someone had made a nameplate for - Tonka.
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Things have calmed down on the Big Island over the years of this century, but from around 1990 to 2005, you would hear fireworks every day from around mid-September to the end of the first week in January.
In the midst of this period, I was listening to a drama documentary* about the bombing of Germany, when I started to think that the soundtrack in the background was getting a bit repetitive - then, I suddenly realised that the next day was bin day, so I decided to put the bin out before I forgot again. When I opened the front door the 'soundtrack' got louder. I had actually been hearing, inside a house, with all the windows closed and the radio on, a firework display at a 'stately home' over four miles away. There can't have been a cat or dog left in the area...
Also, until the 400th anniversary finally came around, you could have stopped a hundred people in the street and asked them when the Gunpowder Plot happened and you would have been lucky to get any answers in the right decade.
I would applaud the plotters for not doing it in midsummer - I've had quite a bit of stuff come down in the garden still burning.
I went to a "popular classics" concert at Milton Keynes Bowl. Of course, there had to be the 1812 Overture to finish the evening, complete with a professional firework display. The fireworks were very carefully designed to stop burning just before they got back down to the level that they had been launched from. But, the crowd was on quite a high embankment, forming the amphitheatre around the stage. This meant that the thousands of people attending, many with picnics on blankets, etc., were subject to what had become, essentially, an incendiary raid. There was quite a bit of fairly mild panic and I didn't see any injuries, but I was most impressed by the chap in front of us whose blanket was hit, he calmly took the lid off his Thermos flask and put it out - no running about screaming for him...
*Len Deighton's Bomber.
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5 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:
How ON EARTH do they get working motors into stuff that tiny?
If extremely small scales like this, or Z, gain much traction, what about a 5mm gauge track to represent 5'3", and Irish models at a scale of 1mm = 1ft!
It all seemed simple enough to do it with a submarine in the Fantastic Voyage documentary...
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This thread should be held as an example of this forum at its very best!
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52 minutes ago, Darius43 said:
48 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:
I expect that would have to be bleeped out!
It was in Cyprus, but, if it was at the same time as that video, you should be able to hear it.
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3 hours ago, Darius43 said:
Here you go.
Cheers
Darius
Is there one with the sound of me catching my hand in the back door..?
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1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:
Operating that timetable at a model exhibition would make for a very relaxed show!
I once "lived" in a place in the very dullest part of Lincolnshire. We had two buses a week. One Tuesday afternoon, I was cycling past the brick bus shelter, with its tiled roof, but no timetables, when the occupant, a chap in a raincoat and trilby, with a leather suitcase, possibly a travelling salesman, shouted at me "When's the next bus to Lincoln?"
Ever helpful, I shouted back "Friday!", and cycled on.
About an hour later, I came back and he was still there and, realising that he had assumed I was lying, I told him, "Look, you've missed the Tuesday bus, the next one is Friday".
I often wonder what happened to him after, it was a long way from there to nowhere...
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1 hour ago, Newtoncork said:
Had a great say out at the show yesterday. Herself even gave me some cash when I ran out. Good to see the hobby alive and well.
Does she have a sister..?
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Leaving us with a cliff-hanger...
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7 minutes ago, Georgeconna said:
I'll be lucky to be alive if I buy anymore model railway stuff.
We're prepared for you to take that risk...
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3 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:
Birthday cake for me !!!
Not until the end of the show, we don't want the fire alarms going off...
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16 hours ago, derek said:
is it not just a stop cock key? For turning off water supply to your house?
I have a couple of three-cornered ones, with six sizes of the square socket available.
Occasionally very handy.
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58 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:
You can keep your slugs lads! CIE knew the real high-flyer was the snail. I don't want to pour salt in the wounds but the slugs only left a trail to show how far behind they were.
Of course, as we all know, high flyers can be a real problem to molluscs.
And it's not just the Thrushes, etc.
As the ex-Guinness family yacht, which became HMS Mollusc, found out.
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35 minutes ago, Northroader said:
I took the shell off a snail to get it to go faster, but it just made it more sluggish.
I'll bet the snail was relieved, though.
They get sick of hearing the sea all the time.
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7 minutes ago, Galteemore said:
The amount of time that bloke spent filming, it’ll be as long as Dr Zhivago! Nice clips from Tolworth
It's all part of an advertising campaign, centred around travel and holiday accommodation.
Dr. Trivago.
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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.
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Interesting Early Irish Railway photos
in General Chat
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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