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It is a great resource.

There's a few on eiretrains..

August 2016.

About thirty years ago, BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I haven't A Clue had a round where panellists were invited to propose modern proverbs. Willie Rushton's contribution has stuck in my mind ever since... Never trust a dentist with blood in his hair.

Dentists have been using this system for many years - it allows you to position something without the risk of it setting too quickly in the wrong place and yet gives you the benefit of an almost instant set when you are happy for it to happen. Best used indoors and out of sunlight.

Oooh, not my picture, I'm afraid - just one that illustrates the point.

Still going at 92. I still say "Left hand down a bit" when asked for my advice on something that I have no knowledge of... From The Navy Lark, for those who may not remember - an odd comedy series - most of the characters used the actors' real names.

Hornby (I think) had a system whereby an eccentric on a tender axle rubbed a bit of sandpaper onto a metal 'reed' in the tender, using the box of the tender body as a sound-board. Quite effective for the time and the chuffs were speed-related, too, though it did compromise low-speed operation a bit.

I can't even 'flnd' it....

This seems to be the most recent that I can see - from November.

I wonder? It might be preferable, if going all the way to Limerick, to aim for a train, or trains, via Limerick Junction - if the timing still fits with your journey plans.

Excellent!

The figures for 2016 may well turn out to be be a bit higher, based on where the parking has reached now compared to then.

I have no real data, but I'm confident that most of them are going to Dublin. The number of cars there seems fairly consistent from day to day. People from nearer to Port Laoise and Templemore would, presumably, use those stations. Southwards there's only really Rathdowney - northwards, there could be a few from Roscrea, perhaps. There are a lot of people that live "in the wilds", as well, of course. I don't actually know anybody who commutes through there - there is a bit of hospital traffic, which is probably fairly steady, though it will vary from day to day. My drop-off and pick-up was for a hospital trip and, as they had to be in Dublin before 9am, we arrived for the 06:40, most of the cars were already there at that time. I arrived back to pick them up from the 15:00 arrival and there were no gaps where cars had left in the meantime.

Some variations in the masonry styles are evident.

The stainless steel 'bus shelter' has lasted well - note the wheelchair ramp stashed away. The 'new bridge' has some interesting weathering effects. The water crane is beginning to look like it was salvaged from a shipwreck. The two o'clock Heuston-Cork arrives on time, just before three. This unidentifiable one had whizzed through the other way a few minutes before.

Some pictures from Monday. Zero and 66½ mile posts. Car parking has become an issue - it's almost back to the main road - there's about another twenty cars not in this shot. It wouldn't be impossible to open up the 'ballast yard' most days, I would have thought. The 'back-slope' of the platforms is a little more obvious now, with the block paving. Even more so from low level.

Tell them that it is just like doll's houses, but smaller and in a community setting.

Some people use bits of PCBs, copper-coated fibreglass, cut to sleeper size, and firmly attached on either side of the baseboard joint. The rail can then be soldered to the copper surface of the rigidly attached sleepers. The copper needs to be broken between the rails, before painting, to avoid short circuits, as shown.

The ones in my picture on the first page are 'tube-in-tube', this puts an end to unravelling woes. I once changed the clutch on my first motorbike, only to find the the wire had frayed inside the casing and was not allowing the release bearing to release properly...

1, If the layout is in a 'steady environment', then you can probably have the joints tight - you may need a bit of leeway if the temperature/humidity can vary a lot, or if the layout is very large. Some people do like a bit of a gap at the joins for the clickety-clack sounds... 3, Under the board is probably better and easier in the long run - it only needs a small hole for the actuating pin to come up through.

Neither of the canal footbridges seems to be particularly 'necessary'. They're only a hundred yards each side of the Arden Road bridge, which has footpaths on both sides and a crossing in the middle.

There is some rather modern-looking fencing associated with the new canal bridges, but the older black canal fences are more in keeping, I think. It's fairly obvious that the horizontal rails are modern steel pipe, but the uprights really do look the part, even though they aren't the hollow cast iron posts that they appear to be. They are actually solid concrete, as evidenced by a few that have been damaged over the years.

There's actually two of those new bridges now, the second one has appeared since my last visit in 2010 - at least the old crane survived the installation of that one. Ah, I see what you mean now - I was talking about the new bridges over the canal, rather than the station's lift/bridge...

Could it be this - http://www.soundtraxx.com/surround/index.php ?