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Broithe

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  1. That's a fine bit of land there.
  2. If it's yellow, heirflick'll like it.
  3. I think there were 37 - 141 to 177 - a typo, I would suspect....?
  4. Even works for me...
  5. Don't forget the antimacassars.
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1qlV7TNhXo etc...
  7. Right, I just wondered after the talk of different ventilation arrangements.
  8. Was there any visible difference in the underfloor equipment between the Standards and the Super Standard/First Class carriages?
  9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28559950 .....
  10. A fatality on the track near Athy today - .
  11. Anything they can do...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23944852
  12. Take it in easy stages.....
  13. I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down.....
  14. 8101 had a hot box this morning....
  15. 30 years old today.
  16. 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
  17. http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/2014/07/trains-regain-their-prestige-its-time-trip-through-their-chequered-past - via Irish Rail's twitter.
  18. 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.
  19. 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
  20. Didn't they bury some in a quarry because of the asbestos?
  21. 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.
  22. A career in the Observer Corps beckons.....
  23. 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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