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Great stuff. Rudel's book, Stuka Pilot, is well worth hunting down. The only book that I've ever read in one go. I borrowed it from the local library, just on the off-chance that it might be interesting - and was up until four in the morning to finish it. If it was fiction, it would be silly. I wrote to the English publisher and he sent me the last copy that he had in his garage at home. It's out on loan at the moment, but I must read it again. They do turn up regularly enough, though. There is also a photographic book about him by Gunther Just which contains some crazy pictures.

That's a fine bit of land there.

If it's yellow, heirflick'll like it.

I think there were 37 - 141 to 177 - a typo, I would suspect....?

Even works for me...

Don't forget the antimacassars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1qlV7TNhXo etc...

Right, I just wondered after the talk of different ventilation arrangements.

Was there any visible difference in the underfloor equipment between the Standards and the Super Standard/First Class carriages?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28559950 .....

It was - .

A fatality on the track near Athy today - .

Anything they can do...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23944852

Take it in easy stages.....

I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down.....

8101 had a hot box this morning....

30 years old today.

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

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/2014/07/trains-regain-their-prestige-its-time-trip-through-their-chequered-past - via Irish Rail's twitter.

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.

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

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.

A career in the Observer Corps beckons.....