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Track Safety Coordinator..?

We'll need to check that weekly...

With only a very small amount of rearrangement along the back, at the wall, you would have the space for a reasonably substantial swear jar, which would help in reducing the financial shock of future projects.

Some of the gates do manage to keep their heads down. And some get extended - twice. Three times, if you count the additional side gate. We're not going to keep everything, and sometimes people just aren't interested in some things to any great extent. There were many magnificent things in the past, typewriters, mechanical calculators, even VRCs, that aren't of much interest to 'modern people', beyond the transient curio value. As long as a representative selection survives, that is probably enough.

Was the Killarney motor museum the Lucey one? That was originally in Port Laoise whilst he was still practicing as a vet, before retiring and moving off south west. I called there once, in the hope of having a look round, but he was on holiday and the housekeeper thought I didn't look trustworthy enough to be let in. Understandable. really... It's not all black and white on the 'old stuff' front. I realised, during the lockdown, whilst I was trying to cycle every road as the radius went up, just how many roadside pumps were left. I initially expected there to be about a dozen, but I'm heading for three figures now. In the same size area in England, I know of four. There is a similar higher Irish survival rate for things like wrought-iron field gates, milk stands, lime kilns, etc. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1IgMK3uJ3xIxafN0Y9ScYVvMhA5ZF7nvO&usp=sharing https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzK7xj

Whatever next? A microwave crematorium?

Any dusky pics need to be of maidens.

Not dazzle, per se, but this is an interesting approach. This is Tirpitz, pretending to be a block of flats. It's towards the end of the fitting out, in Wilhelmshaven, 1940.

I was under pressure to 'do something' for this Valentine's Day scam last Wednesday, so I decided to make a proper go of it. I booked us a quiet table for two. I expected to be complimented on my thoughtfulness. However, it all turned into a total disaster. Apparently, I was supposed to know that she doesn't like snooker.

Other ghost trains may be available. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150723-why-britain-has-secret-ghost-trains

How long can a thread title be..?

Go to your first post here - click the three dots in the top right corner - click 'edit' - edit the title text to suit - click 'submit'.

As you started this thread, you are able to edit the title, if you want to. Something like "A possibly fictional steam engine and its place in the socio-economic history of railways in Ireland"...?

Some US ships still carried dazzle camouflage in WW2. The ship in the picture, along with 23 others, was built in sections in the Rocky Mountains, then transported 1,000 miles to the coast for final assembly.

For the sake of completeness, this is Mountrath & Castletown/Kilbricken - https://www.google.com/maps/@52.9634348,-7.4660293,102m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu - not so easy to see from the Street View, but still fairly complete. Catching a glimpse of it fleetingly as you go past can have you thinking you've passed Ballybrophy.

Within the last year, I have had two fairly local people tell me that you could get a train from Mountrath to Kilkenny - probably the same similarity misremembrance. I have no idea, but I may investigate one day...

There's a lot more evidence of the station in Mountmellick, than there is in Attanagh. https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1200704,-7.3384635,3a,20.1y,201.38h,89.98t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sG5hIm-GsDLpksyQfOHfhsA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DG5hIm-GsDLpksyQfOHfhsA%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D213.32684%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Was it ever possible to run a train from Mountrath & Castletown/Kilbricken to Abbeyleix without reversing in Maryborough/Port Laoise? My mother's family had connections in Waterford and would travel from Rathdowney to Attanagh via a pony and trap, to catch the train southwards.

Attanagh station was here - https://www.google.com/maps/@52.8332176,-7.3521547,3a,73.5y,151.01h,81.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5vDn3ZBiKC6IaZccCQ82Lg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3D5vDn3ZBiKC6IaZccCQ82Lg%26cb_client%3Dsearch.revgeo_and_fetch.gps%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D245.84381%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu - if you look on the 'satellite' view going northwards, you can see parts of the route of the line, which eventually becomes the Bog Walk south of Abbeyleix.

Another one, for comparison.

This one is currently for sale. The railway equipment forms a separate part of the sale, but is should be easy to combine the two. https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8323624,-3.5565762,255m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

And it would be handy in the event of a train failure. A friend of mine spent a dull time yesterday stuck on a replacement bus, when that broke down...

Nice cameo for anybody modelling the modern Welsh era. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-13437279

I once spent a productive 15 minutes with a new 'train manager' on a Heuston/Cork train. Being of a southern African origin, such places as Thurles and Cloughjordan were not phonetically obvious to him from the paperwork, as he read out the pre-stop announcements. Trying to locate a place near Lough Derg yesterday, the sat-nav woman from the driver's phone kept referring to Nenagh like a toddler impersonating a cop car - Neeee-Naaah.

It's from back when Mahmoud Ahmedinajad accidentally ticked the next box under 'Iran' when he posted his application to be President.