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Yes, that's more like it - the other one had several different names over the years..

That scene just has to be recreated..!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044658/

Might be worth a try, though - no sign of any reserve... One of them is Campeltown - if it turns out to be knackered we could just run it into St Nazaire on March 28th and blow it up - although last year would have been a better anniversary, round figures and all that... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid

Indeed - 'tis a big beast. If you have any money left - https://www.gov.uk/commercial-sale-of-type-22-frigates - this would help to avoid the ferry costs....

Cosford is well worth a visit - full of weird stuff. http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/things-to-see-and-do/on-display.aspx?museum=Cosford&location=Research+%26+Development And it's free - except for the car-park... ...or on the day of the Air Display. The chaps that brought O'Connell Street over for Warley went there.

You can stretch your legs in the front of this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor_F8_%22Prone_Pilot%22 - but behind you, though. It still exists - it's in the Cosford Museum. Just hope that you don't have to get out in a rush...

A chap once tried to explain to me the experience of flying a helicopter. "Imagine trying to balance a pneumatic drill on your head, whilst you're burning pound notes as fast as you can"...

No - here. The Harrier is here, at the Main Gate. You only need to look at the size of the exhaust - bigger than on a teenager's Subaru..

There used to be the front of a Vulcan in a front garden a few miles away from here, but it's gone now. The local RAF scrapped a Javelin without saying anything a few years ago. I would have got it here somehow. They replaced it with a rather more dainty Harrier. I never found out what happened to their Bloodhound, though. That would be nice in the garden. There was a Ferret in a back garden in Wolverhampton, but I can't find it on Google earth now - A good few years since I last saw it.

That was just my first, semi-educated, guess - before I Googled a bit...

There's a Wessex just across the road from me here... ...should I make an offer?

Postage..?

I've seen the one here trundle through Stafford a few times, when I used to go to Holyhead on the train..

Nothing to do with me - just the result of a Googling. No idea if it's right or wrong, myself. Railcargricer1 says -There are additional Donelli Gantries 770, 772 and 774 772 is generally confined to loading in Portlaoise while the other gantries travel the country as required.

Looks like it - referred to here - http://irishrailcargricersassociation.yuku.com/topic/606#.UPMTYR1Wx8E .

Some pictures - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21003259

Nene Valley Railway, I believe.

Genius.

Trying to find a video of a multi-clamp buffer in action, I came across this non-relevant, but highly amusing clip...

I was very impressed that the old one on the ramp of Platform 1 at Ballybrophy survived - the track there was even disconnected during the Great Leap Forward and yet it still wasn't removed. It would be interesting to have a dendrochronological investigation of the old wooden beam - I wonder if it is original?

Anything to do with the electrification for the DART..?

Hydraulic stop, with additional, friction clamps in action..

Just that. They are a sort of additive brake. The buffer stop is merely clamped to the rail such that it will slide, if hit hard enough, but there is quite a bit of friction involved, due to the clamp blocks. If the clamps on the stop itself don't have enough friction to halt the progress, then, the whole assembly will start to slide on the rails. It will then successively 'collect' each pair of additional brakes, thus adding to the friction available in a series of steps, and thus providing a very high braking force when it becomes needed, but not applying such a high force for a smaller impact. To some extent, though, it does rely on those fish-plate bolts surviving the additional force pulling the rails apart, too. That may be why there's a bit of additional ballast - to support each sleeper sideways... Note:- Always check the time of arrival of the next train from Nenagh before using the gents' at Ballybrophy!! Those new stops at Heuston are bolted through the rails - you're on your own if you hit them. I suppose that, where they are, there is very little likelihood of them being hit at any real speed - or with passengers aboard..?

Old and new on the Nenagh platform at Ballybrophy.