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Broithe
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Everything posted by Broithe
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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 -
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...
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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...
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I could imagine a Downton doll's house selling.
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It would be really fiddly to put that tiny black square on the window....
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If there was a Father Ted train set, I would buy it.
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Indeed. Under their various names (Austin/BMC/Leyland...) the A-Series engine was used from 1951 to 2000. And look what happened....
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
