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Great stuff - well worth you getting wet for our benefit.

Marvellous rendition of the weird footbridge. The Tourist Board might prefer it if the sky wasn't totally cloudy.......

I'll look forward to that - electric trains without the 'knitting' - it's the way forward.

Mk 3 drawings - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=321407123746&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1120 .

Excellent. This sort of system will come back into use in the future, I'm sure.

Just show 'em the worm......

And a historical display at Hazlehatch.

Treats being handed out this morning.

As Ed said in a previous existence - "Forty shades of orange".

To boldly go.... A layout is never too big.

Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8e6CoScQu4

Merely a decoy. "Your papers, please......"

Doubting me is a bad move, comrade. This - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=newtown+laois&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Newtown,+County+Laois,+Ireland&gl=uk&ll=52.869972,-7.097865&spn=0.005718,0.009645&t=h&z=17&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=52.870635,-7.096785&panoid=OcYfV5745ajHSc0fkkhDig&cbp=12,275.7,,2,-1.08 - has to be a missile, ready for launch. Rumours of a plan for a canal from Athy to Moscow - and, beyond, to Geneva.... http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/the-grand-canal/south-of-moscow-north-of-geneva/

..or just black and dirt - with an off-white circle to denote 'oil-burning'...?

Moscow 'was' here - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=newtown+laois&ll=52.866682,-7.095172&spn=0.011386,0.01929&hnear=Newtown,+County+Laois,+Ireland&gl=uk&t=h&z=16 - a lot of exotic names round there at one time - Bilbao, Moscow, Pimlico, etc..... ..that could be a missile silo at Timahoe..

Of course, Moscow used to be in Laois - still there on the maps of the '70s, but not shown on today's Google Maps - for security purposes, no doubt..... http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/Bilboa.htm

Another one....

..couldn't squeeze a forty-footer on..

Tomás the Engine?

..or, wear the cap the right way round, but face the other way.. ..ah, you might have to wear the hoodie backwards then.....

There was hordes of people involved in that one - they had to keep waiting for the real passengers to clear off, so that the professional passengers could saunter through properly. Bloke on a ladder with a loud-hailer - all the kit.... This was all about eight in the morning - I thought they might shift me out of the way, but I'd come over on the night boat and I might have looked a bit fragile. No sign of my cheque yet......

If you're worried about the stardom affecting your life too much, then don't be scared of it. I'm in this one, at 9 seconds, on the seat at the back - and I'm still as normal as I was before...

Some progress - http://www.irishrail.ie/news/delays-to-galway-services .

A freight train has failed near Portarlington, causing extensive delays to Galway services. ..and I've managed to fail with the date - 2014, obviously..