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It's unusual in that the Sunday services are the busy ones, with Christmas and Easter often being standing room only. The onboard catering is not the best. A bit of dry bread is about all you can hope for.

It isn't an 'either or' situation. RTR and DIY can coexist - and feed off each other. There are lots of things that you can do for yourself, or you can opt for a provided solution. I built a car once. It was quite good and I didn't mind doing it, but it's not really a viable solution for most people who just want personal transport. They can look around and select one of the many variations that people produce and offer for sale to them. In the Irish railway world, the big issue, for me, was plausible-looking motive power. Once that appeared, rolling stock to drag behind them could be bodged up by yourself, until even better things emerged as result of the increased market the "good locos" had created. Sometimes, the market will just not support a product, however good you might think it is - and vice versa. I accidentally bought some glass saucepans in the 1980s. Really good things, with handles that reliably click on and off, making storage much more compact and meaning that they can be used in a microwave, plus a gas or electric hob, oven, even in the freezer. They were around for a couple of years, but never really caught on, despite the sheer practicality of the system. I've picked up a few extra items from the range since then - and keep expecting it to reappear, as housing becomes steadily more 'compact', but the experiment seems to have been deemed a failure, however good I think the result was. I recently found a 'forty year old brand new coat' on eBay, to supplement the one I bought new at the time, as it nears the end of its useful life. It is exactly what I want, but the market seemed to prefer things that were not quite right for me. Etc.

I went to school in Hereford for a year, just down the road from the Hereford United ground, but it was just before he started playing in goal for them, so I probably never even saw him.

One can only assume that their rail system has fourteen stations.

They did have a plan to build a combined class, in co-operation with the Greek Orthodox church. They were planned to be manufactured by Metropolitan Vicars. Note to moderators - It wasn't me that started this talk about religion!

Apparently, in terms of length of track per square kilometre of territory, the Vatican has by far the densest rail network of any of the world's states.

They're still having some issues with the Infinite Infallibility Drive.

I've given some thought to my own personal economic interactions with the IRM/MM/etc. I look at what becomes available and decide what I want/need at the time. Some things I buy, because I like them, rather than them fitting in properly with 'my scheme'. I have most of what I want/need. There is one significant thing which is still only there in the future and I have been reluctant to even admit what it is, as, with it being a 'real need', I live in dread of them actually doing it and cleaning me out. If it has to happen eventually, I would like it to appear in late spring, when my general expenditure dips a bit for a while.

Surely the National Transport Authority should have to approve an infrastructure project on this scale?

For those of us who are going to rely on others to manufacture things for us, we have to realise that 'the market' is what it is, a market. People have to assess what they think will work for the market as a whole - and perfection in that prediction is unlikely. There will be under- or over-estimates, particularly if the production system is a batch manufacture arrangement. I'm happy for people who know more about the 'whole thing' to guess for me and then present me with options that I can take or leave. And none of the risk is mine... Twenty years ago, none of us would be imagining that the current availabilities were even worth dreaming about.

https://heemskerk.nieuws.nl/kunstcultuur/spelevaren-voor-ver-gevorderden-tijdens-evert-van-de-horst-dag-bij-scheepsmodel-groep-ijmond

I'm not sure of the exact scale here, but it might be a handy way to use those spare containers you have lying around...

Whilst I have no idea what area on the body that might be a euphemism for, I do hope you recover quickly.

Talk of closed/reopened railway infrastructure came to mind as I read one of the "Did you know..?" items on today's Wikipedia page. Northamptonshire, on the Big Island, once had 92 railway stations, but now has six. The Republic seems to have towards 150 currently.

I've just had this email from IÉ. Timetable changes from Monday 14th October Iarnród Éireann recognises the enormous disruption to our customers’ daily lives which have resulted from timetable changes since 26th August. We deeply regret the upset that this has caused and acknowledge how critical the punctuality and reliability of our services are to the daily lives of our commuting customers. In accommodating increased services on the Dublin to Belfast route, and managing overall capacity in the city centre area, the changes had a disproportionate negative impact on commuting punctuality and overall journey times, for which we are sorry. From Monday October 14th, morning Connolly route services will revert to the pre-26th August service patterns. This will rebalance the timetable, improve punctuality and end to end journey times for commuters, while accommodating improved frequency on a number of Intercity routes, including the Dublin to Belfast route. The most significant changes from Monday will be: Trains which previously terminated at Pearse, Grand Canal Dock and Bray will resume operation to/from these stations, reducing the need for interchanges in the morning peak at Connolly. Revised running times on a number of Belfast services, including changes to times on the 06:00hrs and 07:00hrs Belfast to Dublin services, arriving to Dublin at 08:23hrs and 09:20hrs respectively. As well as improving punctuality for Commuter services, this will enable a key gap in the Northern Commuter morning service to be reduced: Current departure times from Drogheda (with Donabate times for reference) are: 06:58hrs (07:32hrs), 07:09hrs (07:44hrs), 07:41hrs (08:16hrs) New departure times during the same time window from Drogheda (Donabate) from Monday 14th October will be: 06:55hrs (07:30hrs), 07:05hrs (07:39hrs), 07:19hrs (07:55hrs), 07:36hrs (08:13hrs) Some evening services which currently commence from Pearse/Grand Canal Dock will commence from Bray / Dun Laoghaire. There will be some minor changes to departure times to a number of DART, Northern, Maynooth and Phoenix Park Tunnel commuter trains, and one Dublin to Rosslare train to facilitate the above. Increased services on the Galway, Waterford and Belfast lines implemented on 26th August will be maintained. Full details of changes will be available for customers at www.irishrail.ie and the Iarnród Éireann app. The changes follow engagement with the National Transport Authority and our colleagues in Translink.

You couldn't make it up, but somebody did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214#KTVU_prank

The acre of land here, round the JFK memorial, is actually US territory. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4453246,-0.569042,193m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwMi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

There's that island that Spain and France swap every six months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island

If we're talking about weird borders, we have that large area of Monaghan that you can't leave without going through the North, unless you walk across the fields and wade through a river. And the Dutch/Belgian border is quite intricate in places. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Baarle-Hertog,+Belgium/@51.4413281,4.9244925,2748m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x47c6a54331164f29:0x40099ab2f4d4d20!8m2!3d51.4415736!4d4.9318189!16zL20vMDE0bGt6?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAwMi4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

The last word is 'Mafia'.

For those who believe that 'the state' is a legal fiction, there is always a large area* of reasonably habitable land between Sudan and Egypt, which is not claimed by either of them, or any other state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil *About the size of Co Kilkenny.

Brace yourselves... https://www.facebook.com/BrehonKingOfTheWorldJames

I'll get them to send you an application form..? https://www.sovereignpeople.ie/ There was a case a while back of a bloke in court in that sort of defence - it wasn't a successful action for him. I can't find it yet, but I'll have a better(?) look later. OK, this is what I had in mind. Not quite the same thing, but this bloke thinks he's even more sovereign than the individual types. https://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/home/1407245/king-of-ireland-appears-before-district-court-laying-claim-to-local-roads.html

Yeah, I don't bother with them - rich women is the way to go.

And the other relatives - Ben O'Dictine and Carmel Ite.