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Broithe
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http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/2014/07/trains-regain-their-prestige-its-time-trip-through-their-chequered-past - via Irish Rail's twitter.
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None of those - but I did go to one where the good lads got to march around with Lee-Enfields in the dinner hour. We discovered that the place where they were kept, under the stage, also housed a Bren-gun and a three-inch mortar.
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The Flower-Class corvette turns up now and then, if you have space for it... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/markwalters/Corvettes/macha1.jpg
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Well that's one way of getting rid of rolling stock...
Broithe replied to Dunluce Castle's topic in Letting off Steam
Didn't they bury some in a quarry because of the asbestos? -
I went to ten schools, often a long way from wherever we were living at the time - for one year, I had to go eighteen miles there, and back, every day, in what amounted to a old van with wooden benches that were fitted fore and aft - whenever the brakes were applied we all slid up to the front in a heap... There would be a queue of clip-boards a mile long if you tried it today.
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A career in the Observer Corps beckons.....
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I believe that it's been repainted in Dutch colours. http://www.flyinginireland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2412&start=0
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2014.
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http://visitwicklow.ie/ai1ec_event/toy-model-collectors-fair-bray-wheelers-clubhouse/ ? Whoops, that was in June?
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Eh, what? Merely answering Wrenn's question about whether or not the link works.
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Works for me.
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BTP must have a highly efficient internet surveillance system. Having said that I've never seen a BTP officer, I just gave someone a lift to the station and two of them were coming out as we went in. They appeared to be on a mission or I would have asked them if I could take a picture (risking arrest as a terrorist suspect).... The only available parking space was next to their car, too. I'm getting a little paranoid now.
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Lovely picture.
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Link?
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Hell! There's a Tiger approaching.....
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I presume that the idea was to 'raise awareness' or something like that. BTP officers are easily recognisable just by the sheer number of pockets - even if you're not near enough to read the badge.
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British Transport Police - http://www.btp.police.uk/ - a national service dedicated specifically to the railways. I've never actually seen one of them, if you get hassle on a train and somebody does turn up, then they will invariably be a 'real' copper from wherever you happen to be. I imagine they spend a lot of effort in combating metal theft, but I don't really know. They did once have an actual engine, which was really a little embarrassing, I thought. I saw it once and wondered what they would actually do with it...?
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Moving on now - 40 minutes late. https://twitter.com/IrishRail
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Difference should be clearly visible. Plastic frog - or metal frog.....?
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Porter? - looks a posh place, bet they have a commissionaire....
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Should be - it was good last year.
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I wonder if this chap'll be performing as the support act..? http://iraallen.com/
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Ah, right - I thought it was getting cramped last year...
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Portlaoise? Is that the Abbeyleix event?
