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3 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:
The realism in all these pictures is truly remarkable, but I do feel that the figures in the background here are a little over-scale and the clothing is a touch 'modern' perhaps?
Although, to be fair, they do look almost real.
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32 minutes ago, Noel said:
Had many a memorable jump seat on those old 100 series, they had steam gauge analogue cockpit instrumentation but at least had INS so no need for astro sights. Had 5 engines slung under the wings on occasion.
A spare is always handy.
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You can get issues caused by damp from subwoofers.
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Indian Railways puts up things like this, to keep the gibbons off the train roofs.
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20 minutes ago, skinner75 said:
I've been to the Slieve Bloom mountainbike trails - on the Offaly side mainly - starting off from Kinnity Castle carpark.
Speaking of Kinnity, and Google Maps, if you are around them parts again, one thing you could check out is Irelands only pyramid:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kinnitty+Pyramid/@53.0961733,-7.7204277,193m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x485cffb2d679e46b:0x298d9c1759b54c2!8m2!3d53.0961676!4d-7.7199457!16s%2Fg%2F11c534f03x?entry=ttuBuilt as a family tomb, by the then owner of Kinnity Castle.
There are walking trails as well as the mtb ones starting from Kinnity CastleI was aware of the pyramid.
I did get around to calling in there recently.
There's also a more pointy pyramid at Kilcooley Abbey, off to the south, in Tipp.
Our expeditions are recorded here - red is done, green are targets.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1T818xPremNk151Ady98HI6vgLiiTTb_1&usp=sharing
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49 minutes ago, skinner75 said:
Is that your T700? I've a real gra on me for one of them!
Currently have a BMW 1150GS & Honda Rally 250, so I would need to move the Beemer on before thinking of the T700!
No, not mine. I just noticed the marker for the van when looking to preview some possible* routes and saw his pictures as a result.
I still have four bikes, but all tarmac jobs, and I haven't been on one for years now...
* I use the word 'possible' in a very tight literal sense. Google Maps is very handy, but the fine detail can be important and hard to be confident of - a route we may do may have us needing to traverse a ford on foot, which will be a variable obstacle that could cause issues.
We went for a 'short one' in the Slieve Blooms a couple of weeks ago and a 'short cut' turned out to be an hour and a half to go 800 metres, whilst trying not to end up on the news...
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Reconnoitring a route for our next near-death experience, I noticed this relic, north of Lismore. Definitely past its best days.
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Today, I was caught at the southern level crossing in Mullinavat and was able to catch a blurry 074 going past.
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11 minutes ago, Horsetan said:
That looks like a Triang product. They made pedal cars as well, vaguely modelled on something from the 1950s, although I think the tyre on those were solid rubber rings mounted on plastic wheel centres.
In a better picture you can see Triang on the bonnet.;
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48 minutes ago, Metrovik said:
Progress or not they've really taken the charm out of the place!
The basic layout is still there and, if you know what was there, you can still 'see' it in your mind's eye.
The track layout, turntable, shed, signal cabin, ground frames, sidings, cattle dock, various canopies, telegraph poles, original footbridge, etc. are all gone, but the place hasn't been flattened for a concrete and glass edifice.
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2 hours ago, Galteemore said:
- Yes, it struck me as very ‘with it’ for the build date, when domestic flush toilets were only beginning to become a feature of new middle class house builds. Mind you, this is 1st class. A fabulous project bringing a much neglected area of railway history to life.
Another thing that my few years of exile in Cyprus brought to my notice.
When we left England, in the late 60s, almost all the flushing cisterns were high-level devices, operated by pull-chains.
When we returned a few years later, 90% of them were now low-level, handle-operated cisterns.
None of the people who had remained in the country for that period seemed to have noticed the transition occurring.
I wondered if the conversions had been done at night, by tooth fairies made redundant by the (then) expansion of NHS dentistry.
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24 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:
When it was built, measurements would have been in inches, groats, roods, quarts, perches and cubits...... and other such medieval nonsense!
I spent my teenage years dealing with both imperial and metric at school, and the old Ottoman system out in the real world...
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2 hours ago, Metrovik said:
So anyone with any information on this sleepy little overlooked line is much appreciated.
The National Library has many views of Ballybrophy, back when it was the Centre of the Universe.
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A Radio 4 programme where Alexei Sayle takes a train journey and talks to random passengers.
This episode is on the Belfast-Derry train.
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I intend to make a small workshop in the house and picked up a couple of small drawer units in Lidl a few weeks ago - €14 for the pair, not bad.
I put them out of harms way for now.
It would appear that the security officer has felt the need to inspect them for useful stuff, contraband or uninvited trespassers.
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50 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:
My biggest wonder is whether Run 2 will be branded AccuraSis or GeniScale...
Combining brand names isn't always a good idea, it's why the Cunard / Aer Lingus merger was called off.
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1 hour ago, BosKonay said:
Transit at the moment, on FAST boats, is at least 5 weeks, and depending on routing can be a lot more, with most ships still going around Africa.
Some Transit routes involve arriving at Southend.
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This remains a classic.
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1 minute ago, DJ Dangerous said:
The contented hunter's sleep...
I did offer to mount the head on a small plaque, but that seems to be the best bit...
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'My' cat has returned to having her main meals nextdoor, after ten days of having to rely on me, although I am still heavily supervised.
I knew they were going away, but had forgotten quite when - I returned from a Lidl run to find her sitting on the doorstep with a bag of food.
They returned last Sunday and a retraining programme was instituted immediately - the last bowl of biscuits here has been retained for emergency use only, although she still expects a few of the shed biscuits daily.
I was presented with a special item for breakfast this morning, although I had already organised myself and had to refuse it. This was seen as a poor decision, as it was very fresh and clearly a free-range product.
So, she had it herself - the bones seemed to add to the crunchy appeal...
She has noticed that there is a potential route for unauthorised intruders, as the conservatory doors are open, to the outside and into the house.A convenient elevated observation point has been established on the settee in there.
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I could do the sewage works effect - no trouble...
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The rail crash at Hixon, which killed eleven people when the train hit a transformer/transporter combination that weighed around 160 tons, resulted in the level crossing being replaced by a bridge.
It took 34 years for the bridge to be built...
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