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Broithe

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  1. There's a shop like that near me, very hard to find, in a yard down a back-alley, but it's been there for twenty two years now and ticks along nicely (I presume). https://www.facebook.com/Too-Fat-Goblinz-173030496092045/?hc_location=ufi He deals in comics, as well, which seems to attract a group that has a big overlap with the wargamers.
  2. Shake-up - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35576892 ..!
  3. We used to move almost every year - so, I never had any trains as a kid. The first railway thing I bought for myself was a Murphy 141, when I went to get stuff for a BR layout that I had been roped into building. I didn't even know such niche objects existed...
  4. The odd one still turns up. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780906591000/Locomotives-Rolling-Stock-Coras-Iompair-0906591007/plp
  5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-35568975
  6. Bengali, I presume. They don't waste time inventing words, just borrow them straight. Most 'Indian' radio stations here give phone numbers in English... .. and they haven't bothered making up a word for 'double-glazing' ..
  7. I wondered if it might be pronounced Bally gun ge - but, no, it is Ballygunge. [video=youtube;-m2n4legqHk] Start at 1:24....
  8. And, if you want to make a layout, this is Ballygunge Junction railway station.
  9. If you make a layout for it, be careful what you call the station.
  10. Most certainly, it is, Sir. It's in Kolkata - what 'we' used to call Calcutta.
  11. Rolf is currently residing "at Her Majesty's pleasure" about a quarter of a mile from where I am...
  12. This restaurant appears to be real - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_Ballygunge_Place - even if it sounds like it might be run by Podge and Rodge. From today's Did You Know on Wikipedia...
  13. I could imagine a Downton doll's house selling.
  14. It would be really fiddly to put that tiny black square on the window....
  15. If there was a Father Ted train set, I would buy it.
  16. Indeed. Under their various names (Austin/BMC/Leyland...) the A-Series engine was used from 1951 to 2000. And look what happened....
  17. Hornby exhibits many of the traits that we saw in British industry in general - traits that got rid of the motor industry, shipbuilding, motorcycles, most of the aircraft industry, etc. - even Tri-Ang and Chad Valley, that were once world leaders in toys. People often coast along with the belief that they "should exist", just because they do.
  18. Where I live, we have what is officially Market Square, but is generally known as BTTF Square... The temptation to 'shop' Deloreans into pictures is too great for some - frequently... ..other, more technically adept versions also exist.
  19. Or, if it doesn't, you can always try the magnetic path and increase the downforce onto the track without increasing (much) the weight to be raised. http://www.dccconcepts.com/resources/PDFs/030-Reviews/040-Hornby/HM-I95-05-Gradients-and-Powerbase-2015.pdf
  20. It is - you may have been at one of the Barry Potter Fairs, perhaps - http://www.barrypotterfairs.com/fairs.php?fair=19 ? Still a Wrenn Boy that turns up at those, if you ever need a contact. I go to about 2/3 of them. I might go up tomorrow and see if anybody is still stuck in the mud. The HS2 is supposed to run at the bottom of the hill, if they ever build it.
  21. Er, that's the only one that I took, apparently - all his layouts are named after local beers.... We did chat for a good while - but, not all about railways. http://sdrmweb.co.uk/Kozel_Cement.php
  22. Saving my favourites for the end... An Underground station - where the Sweeney appear to be closing in on the blaggers in the Transit van.. And a Czech cement works - I know how you lot like the hard stuff.
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