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  1. Broithe
    To be fair to them, they may have some security issues and not want specific details to become generally available - the undersides of the nuclear flask carrier models are not true representations of what is really there, presumably to avoid the possibility of prefabricated devices being attached. It's a sad reflection of our times, perhaps?
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    I started going to exhibitions/fairs simply in order to buy stuff for a housebound chap that I had built a layout for. I had little interest in British railways and believed that Irish railways were far beyond my possibilities, largely because of the loco issues - then I saw and bought a Murphy baby GM - and everything changed at that point. Modelling Irish railways has got steadily easier and better - sometimes we have to stop and think just how good it is for us now.
  3. Broithe
    You need to know where the housekeeping is going... She Who Must Be Obeyed.
  4. Broithe
    Do you have a burglar alarm? This is a simple replacement whilst she's out shopping...
  5. Broithe
    There is much less of a "personal accountability" issue here on the Big Island - organisations are seen much more as just impersonal structures, not as simply frontages for the actual people inside. There is scope for people to start to understand the reality of IRM/Accurascale in the future, but they may need time - and evidence/education. It's a cultural issue, to a large extent.
  6. Broithe
    It is easy for everybody to become 'tarred with the same brush' - maybe run the two markets separately, in a manner appropriate to each, until people on the big island get the hang of how you're doing it? You have the means to do that in place. Most of 'them' will take little interest in what you're doing for 'us', especially if it is an effectively separate operation. Sometimes, I suspect, the issue for the "big players" can have been, perhaps, to preempt announcements by the "other side" and, thus, queer their pitch, so to speak - who knows?
  7. Broithe
    Indeed, maybe just an update whenever a stage is completed? i wouldn't expect a full running commentary, though a webcam in the office would allow us to see that progress was being made..
  8. Broithe
    And it gives us the opportunity to supervise/moan continuously in order to pass the time whilst we wait...
  9. Broithe
    Do they come in tiny drums?
  10. Broithe
    I'm all for knowing what is going on. We are all aware that things don't always go to plan, or even, sometimes, come to fruition at all in the end - but, having an idea of what may well be coming up is surely helpful to most people. Maybe a little chart-thing, as Hattons do in their adverts, showing stage progress? If people don't want to know, they can always "look away now", as we used to have to do before so much sport was on live...
  11. Broithe
    White, Strong, Flexible. Frosted, Ultra Detail.
  12. Broithe
    Starting early was a good idea, you seem to be beginning to get the hang of it now
  13. Broithe
    There's a clue in the phrase "north of London"...
  14. Broithe
    There was a lot of trumpet-blowing at the time - some of us can remember when it was going to be possible to go from Stafford to Avignon on a Saturday, and have about three hours there before coming back. It got as far as printed timetables before it was abandoned.
  15. Broithe
    In most of the videos, etc., people sound Belgian, but hint at the location being in Northern France - nobody seems keen on revealing exactly where.
  16. Broithe
    Another full-scale landscaping issue. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-42791614 A bit too much water in the mix?
  17. Broithe
    The current trade attendees at the upcoming Stafford exhibition are at the bottom of this - http://www.staffordrailwaycircle.org.uk/exhibition/ - I'm not sure if any are baseboard providers, but I can't remember seeing one there in the past, though it is quite possible that there was.
  18. Broithe
    Quite often, it looks like they've "only just caught the bridge" - I wonder if people rely on the stated bridge height clearance being a little pessimistic.
  19. Broithe
    It's worth looking at Stafford - quite big, but still fairly civilised, not the scrum of Warley - reasonably central and gets good crowds - around the first weekend of February every year. Short notice for this year? @Mike 84C has been, a couple of years ago, if you want another opinion. If you need a hand there, I'm a couple of miles away.
  20. Broithe
    Yet another...
  21. Broithe
    They seem to be on about pinching something - possibly a stack of boxes from somewhere in Dublin?
  22. Broithe
    It looks to me that Hattons will sell it to you for £72 + £4 carriage to the North - for wooden sleeper track.
  23. Broithe
    In the 70s, I used to go from Stafford to Lincoln on the train - cycling to Uttoxeter saved over an hour on the journey, and a third of the ticket price.
  24. Broithe
    I think it's actually near the Russian sauna in Navan - that's him in the top picture here. https://www.facebook.com/rrsauna/?rf=296432527114579
  25. Broithe
    Thinking about it, you might bump into Vlad before I do..
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