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Broithe

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  1. Ah, now, steady on...
  2. Next year's only a fortnight away....
  3. How much will you have to pay to register a fridge? Will one payment cover all fridges at one address? Etc....? A friend of mine had a pub in darkest Laois. He was inspected and the inspector found several issues to comment on. He was asked to look at the gents' with the inspector - 'Look at the state of this place!', she said. 'So what?', he answered, 'they come in here to piss, not to eat sandwiches off the floor!'.. They parted on bad terms....
  4. Excellent pictures.
  5. Kim Wilde's started having a happy Christmas already.. [video=youtube;3Ij8BpOa-Pg]
  6. 2014 Tour to start in Yorkshire - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20724621 - squeeze a visit in to the National Railway Museum, as well?
  7. Two non-flashing lamps is what I've observed in recent years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnsA0Mv4idQ, etc.
  8. We still have real ghost trains over here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18644343 .
  9. Broithe

    Family bereavement .

    Sad times. My condolences at this difficult time.
  10. Whatever happened to " Whatever you say will be taken down, twisted round and used against you."...?
  11. Eiretrains shows that Ballybrophy had them back in '03 - http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20B/Ballybrophy/Irish%20Railway%20Stations.html - and running down the ramps then...
  12. It might not be too obvious in the picture, but the one with the alien sign on it does have the line running down the ramp, after where it runs across the platform at the end of the level bit.. But that's probably just for aliens..
  13. http://www.themodelshop.ie/dublin-bus-shelter/ieplus1001pd.html
  14. Ballybrophy, again. See my avatar for the Irish version of the wall sign - Keep behind the yellow line. Caution! Trains may pass at speed. At Ballybrophy, most of them do....
  15. I'm not one to pick a fight with a super-moderator, but wasn't Talyllyn the first..?
  16. There used to be a picture of them on Eiretrains, with the suggestion that they were a warning to alien spacecraft..
  17. At Ballybrophy, most possibilities are covered... And, always remember - if you take up a load of brick paviors with writing on them, then be sure to stack them systematically, so that it's easy to put them back as they were...
  18. Part 1 is on iPlayer - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01p8w38/The_Golden_Age_of_Steam_Railways_Small_is_Beautiful/ - for those with access.
  19. Irish Rail's current Twitter picture.
  20. The tighter the bend the bigger the separation needs to be - trial runs really are the best way in the end..
  21. That's virtually jewellery - it would almost be a shame to paint it...
  22. I'll confess that I looked at it for a while before I finally saw it. Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees...
  23. The Nenagh Branch - you could close the rest and leave that for me...
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