Broithe

Today, from 3pm to 5pm.

Road closure over the bridge from October 19th to November 30th - diversions will be posted, but they could be very diversionary.... This is on the R433 Rathdowney to Templemore Road.

Mark it in your diary.

"Will passengers please all sit on the platform side of the coach, thank you".

Sod is a funny word - I brought one back through Holyhead, during the 'security' times, wrapped in newspaper. I got stopped and the bag was being emptied out, I was managing to explain everything as it appeared - until the nice English customs chap pulled the wrapped item out - What's in here? - I could only think of 'sod' and it is just not a polite word on this side, so I hesitated, he became immediately suspicious and carefully unwrapped it, breaking off a bit of the brown, fibrous matter and sniffing it - I think he could smell promotion, his mates standing behind him were well aware of what it was, but were just laughing amongst themselves at him. I managed to explain satisfactorily and was released.... He never noticed the Holy Water.

Cork granules are available in various grades, they might need a blow-over for that nice, dark colour that we all prefer...

http://www.fatherbrowne.com/

1% is three and a half days a year - that's almost a hundred hours of running time. I can't see David managing to do all of that....

Here - http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/4325-A-six-wheel-coach .

Didn't Mike 84C do something along those lines a while back...?

For a few quid, you could make a reasonable "Artist's Impression" with some Hornby four-wheelers.

If you ever had an exhibition layout featuring this, you would have to carry documentary evidence for the doubters...

This sort of thing.. From - https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/turf-train-in-ireland.517242/

Marvellous!

Model Rail No 198, August 2014.

I wonder if this thread should have an advisory warning from the mods? Some people could find it a bit dispiriting.... I wonder if driver 301 is an eye surgeon in real life? This is well beyond merely impressive.

This?

I remember(?) a full sized shark sculpture above some terraced houses, near the gasometer - some sort of "art installation", I presume.. ..or a hallucination..

I tried that and he just looked at me.....

Wasn't there a house in Ringsend with a shark on the roof for a while - about 15-20 years ago..?

They are, but it's not a NEMS fitting - it seems to be specific to Hornby. I just wonder what I should call it. ..though, earwigs seems clear enough to me.. Handy things, even when not fitted in the 'correct' socket - it's easy enough to attach with a small screw and the claws can grip round a bit of the exposed thread.

I had to buy some of these from the Train Man last week... ..my description of them as "earwigs" didn't help, but the Hornby packaging only calls them "Couplings" and gives the part number - is there an official name for this style of attachment?

Some other signs have also gone reflective. ..I may have to have a 'face'lift.. This sign has been there for many years - and is getting a bit tired now..

Well, after the controversy that this caused, I went armed with a black felt pen and some white sticky tape, but was confronted by this... ..a new sign - and reflective, for some odd reason..