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Another "We Fit" lorry didn't - just up the road from the last one... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34026667

At the time, it will have probably seemed quite plausible - then, after the delay of the war, Alcock & Brown, Lindberg, bigger and faster liners, and the general economic state will have caused people to think again. And the fact that it would be located in a different state from a lot of its market...... Trans-Atlantic flights to Knock may be its modern legacy?

This starts on BBC2 next Monday - for those that have access - and those can stomach Dan Snow... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02xxsb5

Mostly here - http://ionaddeirbhile.ie/deirbhiles-blog/blacksod-bay-railway-terminus - and Google searches - it looks like WW1 put paid to it initially and, of course, it wasn't resurrected after the war, for many reasons.

Found it - http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/1416-New-Recruit!!?p=21672#post21672 .

Somebody was talking about it once - I can't find it now, though - maybe it was on the old site...?

And more views.

The proposed terminus building.

Yes.

http://www.gandr-wrenn.co.uk/history.htm

Trains direct from Kildare to Connolly and Grand Canal Dock from late next year.

This might be of some interest to those following this thread. http://shropshire.gov.uk/news/2015/08/a-world-of-lego-comes-to-shrewsbury-museum-art-gallery-on-14-september/

You may need to be 'on' Facebook to see this - - but, there's some interesting pictures.

You can see piles of both pink and grey here -

It's just different stone, it's pink from new - it actually gets less 'bright' as it ages/weathers. I think the pink stuff may be granite and the grey is limestone.

That seems to be a good choice to me. ..but there are areas where ballast that is virtually pink is in evidence..

Yeah - looking at it again, the wheels do look a bit "Hong Kong". That might also explain the lack of a maker's mark.

http://www.trix.co.uk/

I think it has a bit of a Trix look about it.....

A friend of mine has just been to Liverpool - this is the café at the Tate gallery - done in a Peter Blake Dazzle Ships style.

Safety Nut is genius - he's clearly worked/suffered under Network Rail His Vision On spoof is genius...

When this building..... ...was being built, I saw a chap, wearing a full-harness and with a fall-arrest lanyard attached, walking along the ridge. In an effort to avoid tripping on the trailing lanyard, he was holding the hook as high as he could - although, this did make it look like he was hoping that the hook might stay there if he fell... He survived his journey and got back into the building before I could access my camera. Having no fear of heights does make you less likely to fall, I suppose, but some people take it a bit far.

There can be a lot of pretentiousness in H&S. I am all for both health and safety and any real progress is to be applauded. I worked in a high voltage industry and could be subjected to both extremes of the pretentious side of H&S. I once came back to the office for a cup of tea, having just tested a circuit breaker at 500kV in the open air, in a test area whose interlocks had never worked in the twenty years that I was there - we used to hope that people knew that the hum really did mean instant death and some of us used to wedge chairs under the door handles, as an extra precaution. When I got back to the office (having not killed and set fire to anybody), I was told that I couldn't use the kettle because it hadn't been PAT-tested. Eventually, the Health & Safety Executive could stand it no longer and insisted it be fixed - "We'll install a permit system", they were told, and the HSE agreed to that. Some days later, I wanted to test another item and asked for my permit. I was told that I didn't need it - I asked who else had permits, as I wanted some help with some parts of the test - "Everybody that works here has a permit", I was told, "they're all in a drawer in Personnel." As far as I know, it was never fixed..... I also got electrocuted in a substation, having asked the chap that was putting all the various different coloured cones and flags out "Is everything off?" - "Yes!", he told me - I got a belt off the first very first thing I touched and fell six feet onto the gravel. "You must have touched the heater, we always leave the heaters on" I told him that I would ask him again in five minutes "Is everything off?" and, if he lied to me again, then he'd better hope that it killed me next time, or I would kill him, using as many of his special cones as I could fit in.

Mmmm - madness, more like.... I'm assuming we didn't have the depth charges, hedgehog, etc..?