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I went to school with a "Jinty", whose real name, I presume, was Virginia. It might have been spelt "Ginty", but names like that are rarely written down.

And, if you need to run a hose over that level crossing....

Reading up on the Soviet Buran shuttle this morning, I can see where you're coming from...

I had a proper read of it last night and it seemed very good to me. Also, it was nice to see this Forum credited - I assume the Boss will be slipping you a fiver. Well done all round. I look forward to getting my copy signed one day, if you ever venture a bit further northwards.

The Wrenn Boy will have made an offer by now.....

Only problem I've had on any Murphy item is one slightly wobbly wheel on a 201. Never had any Heljan stuff to compare.

A fine job - tell Mrs 84C that I said you should have an extra shilling pocket money this week.

My source says "CIE have released funds for work" on the County Bounds Bridge - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?cid=720795471579284272&q=Errill,+Co.+Laois,+Ireland&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Errill,+County+Laois,+Ireland&ll=52.845731,-7.721415&spn=0.022887,0.038581&t=h&z=15&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=52.845842,-7.722093&panoid=itdVcl1Qkodod3nwN0jwZQ&cbp=12,69.03,,1,6.46 - just by the old Lisduff station. I don't know what they actually intend to do.

I can't be the only one that saw "New Waterford Layout" and got all excited - I did wonder why it was in the Prototype section... ..I expected it in Irish Model Layouts.. ...until I actually read it...

If only it had been the Tu 126, NATO Codename "Moss", it would have only needed one extra letter....

Just for you.

Got my copy - looks very nice. Finally stopped pouring rain and I ventured out.....

Looking rather biblical here...

They were there at Heuston, as were the Trains May Pass At Speed signs, which always amused me. As I see that I've also said above.....

Re-opened a bit earlier than expected - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31858537 . It's been going on for 170 years, it might be sorted this time......

There may have to be an Inquisition about this comment..

Only about half of them, I think. The other half are 'pure' electric. If I'm reading it right....

Seems to be rather in the Javelin style.

Hitachi. Eventually, it will replace the 125 fleet, and some other stuff. Overhead electric, mostly, but some of the power-cars will have diesel generators for use on non-OHLE lines...

The first bits start to arrive - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31831603 .

Excellent. A friend of mine used to travel the country servicing industrial boilers - his wife suffered with arthritis and saw an advert for Royal Jelly, with addresses all over the country. "Where are you tomorrow?" - "Worcester" - "Well, go to this address I'm writing for you and get me a load of Royal Jelly". When he got to the address she'd written, it was a "private shop" and he thought it must be that she'd written it down wrong. He went home empty-handed and got it in the neck for not having the goods. So, he himself wrote the address of the source in the town he was going to the next day, which was only a few miles away this time. When he got there, it was another branch of the same "private shop" and so, he realised that he had to venture in, he just couldn't return home empty-handed again. He took a deep breath and entered - they soon fulfilled his order, but also put many leaflets of their other products in the bag. Relieved, he prepared to exit the shop and dash across the road to his van. As he ran from the door, he bumped into a couple that were walking past - he stepped back to apologise - then he realised that the couple were his next-door neighbours. Feeling that he had to say something, He said "It's not for me, it's for the wife", then the bag burst open and the leaflets started blowing up the street....

Oooh, I might have to go out and get that.... Thanks for the shout...

In the UK, in the early '60s, you could live in idyllic places that had no shortage issues of any sort - and a few miles away, you could be in Dickensian ghettoes that had hardly changed for a hundred years.

Any metal ingots that can be "compressed to a fraction of their original size" must have been cast with a fair few voids.... ..possibly amounting to about the same size of void as I would need in my head before I paid that for one..