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Broithe

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  1. I think there were 37 - 141 to 177 - a typo, I would suspect....?
  2. Even works for me...
  3. Don't forget the antimacassars.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1qlV7TNhXo etc...
  5. Right, I just wondered after the talk of different ventilation arrangements.
  6. Was there any visible difference in the underfloor equipment between the Standards and the Super Standard/First Class carriages?
  7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28559950 .....
  8. A fatality on the track near Athy today - .
  9. Anything they can do...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23944852
  10. Take it in easy stages.....
  11. I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down.....
  12. 8101 had a hot box this morning....
  13. 30 years old today.
  14. If you've got a spare hour and a half, then watch this - it's almost like a documentary about that school, if only my year there had had the same ending.... [video=youtube;PmoHv8Mf_-o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmoHv8Mf_-o
  15. http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/2014/07/trains-regain-their-prestige-its-time-trip-through-their-chequered-past - via Irish Rail's twitter.
  16. 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.
  17. 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
  18. Didn't they bury some in a quarry because of the asbestos?
  19. 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.
  20. A career in the Observer Corps beckons.....
  21. I believe that it's been repainted in Dutch colours. http://www.flyinginireland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2412&start=0
  22. 2014.
  23. http://visitwicklow.ie/ai1ec_event/toy-model-collectors-fair-bray-wheelers-clubhouse/ ? Whoops, that was in June?
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