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Broithe
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Or Ballygunge?
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Quite a gradient on that siding, too.
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Some MiG 19s took off from short sections of rail...
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In the winter of '63, that was virtually all we had - we had to really ration the coal, in case no more ever arrived before the summer. No electricity and the water supply was frozen. The only water supply for weeks was melted snow - I can still taste the paraffin in it now. We had an electric cooker as well, or rather, we didn't - so all the cooking was done on the Aladdin, too
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Another pair - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35598892 - Tu 160s again.
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Tito also had a Blue Train - with some familiar looking locos.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%27s_Blue_Train -
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Photographic Website Updates
Broithe replied to thewanderer's topic in Photos & Videos of the Prototype
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"Spinning the disc" sounds so Olde Worlde now....
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As stated above, I didn't - in fact, I was well gone 50 when I got my first 'real' railway model - I had had a Lone Star die-cast set (or parts thereof), but that barely counts, I think. Few of the other military kids had one either, for the same logistical reasons. Living in England for most of the '60s, I don't actually remember more than one of the civilian kids having one - and his father was a solicitor. It was seen as a "posh kids" toy, I think, certainly in my circles. And houses were that bloody cold that, for six months of the year, you only really had the one habitable room.
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Times change - going in a car, or, even more so, a train, used to be a 'special' thing, now it's nothing, if not actually a chore. Fiddling with things in general used to be necessary, if you wanted them to work - now, I know people that don't even know how to open the bonnet on their car. If we had been offered the option of a train set or a helicopter that you could learn to fly in a couple of minutes...?
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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.
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Shake-up - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35576892 ..!
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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...
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Bridge strike north of Malahide.
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The odd one still turns up. http://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780906591000/Locomotives-Rolling-Stock-Coras-Iompair-0906591007/plp
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-35568975
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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' ..
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I wondered if it might be pronounced Bally gun ge - but, no, it is Ballygunge. [video=youtube;-m2n4legqHk] Start at 1:24....
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And, if you want to make a layout, this is Ballygunge Junction railway station.
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If you make a layout for it, be careful what you call the station.
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Day release.
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Most certainly, it is, Sir. It's in Kolkata - what 'we' used to call Calcutta.
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Rolf is currently residing "at Her Majesty's pleasure" about a quarter of a mile from where I am...
