Broithe

Most of the current collection occurs on the loco wheels, due to the traction tyres on the tender - the wires transfer the current. I've been inside the tender - I wonder if the body is just clipped on - can't remember and it isn't here at the moment to check.. http://web.blissett.me.uk/house/hornby-service-sheets/ss-204.jpg

http://www.pkphotography.ie/photo_6649420.html

Seconded - I sent an agent to investigate on my behalf, as I won't make it over until next week now - he was suitably impressed by it all..

Could do with a sort of Street View feature..!

From the other side - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=waterford&hl=en&ll=52.279075,-7.150158&spn=0.00552,0.009645&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=10.873972,19.753418&t=h&hnear=Waterford,+County+Waterford,+Ireland&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.278944,-7.150338&panoid=H8I0q3NaZeHUqDVabbv_sA&cbp=12,135.44,,2,1.23

Uploaded August 2007. It looks like the original one..

We'll see if there's any reaction - YouTube got excited enough when I put up a video of someone doing a cover of a Neil Diamond song...

I've flagged it - again. I was also surprised that it's still there, but it is - after five years now....

And, closer to home -

When you start to get the hang of them, you could have a go at the capital letters, as well...

Confused me for a minute, there - I wondered if Thomas the Tank Engine was available as Gaelige..?

Not something to put on your application for the post of signalman...

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11?

Fair enough - it sounded a bit iffy to me - enough people have been doing it for long enough for the problem to be well-known, if it was real. There are other people reporting a similar thing when they've used PVA - so, it's probably down to the lead they're using - if that is really what it is..

There has been talk, in the past, of a superglue/lead reaction taking place on a few occasions - http://www.ratomodeling.com/articles/lead_ca/lead_ca.html - I'm not sure how true it all is, though.. Time will tell.

Some versions of the old Dock Shunter had milled edges on the wheels - like a 10p piece or a €1 coin. Not really visible in the picture. It does give them a bit of a 'growl' though..

Here's a smallish one - going the wrong way round a roundabout.. It gets a bit less shaky as it goes on..

Most certainly not. After Julia and Statia died, not far apart, Lambe's turned into The Signal Box for a few years and then the licence was sold on and it is a private residence now. The same happened to Phillips's on the bridge after Leslie and Ernie died, again only a few weeks apart. They were great days that seem an age ago now...

I'm sure someone could produce an etched brass kit - and you could tell 'her' it's a special feature, specially for her to admire as she ascends the stairs...

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I once worked with a chap who was the stupidest person that I've ever met. He was so stupid that he didn't have any suspicion that he might not be a genius. He 'discovered' superglue in 1990, when everybody else had been using it for years, but that didn't stop him informing anybody that would listen that it was really called 'cycroanylate' and I still struggle with the word to this day. He must have said it ten or more times a day. The letters actually re-arrange on the page when I see it in print... I'm having flashbacks now. To return the discussion to scalpels, I still have the safety helmet that saved me when he dropped a scalpel from thirty feet - just before his mate electrocuted me...

http://www.heritagehousemuseum.com/model-railway-club-page.html

I see that the MRSI will be exhibiting their O'Connell Street layout this year. The Warley Show is on at the NEC on 24/25th November. Anybody thinking of going? http://www.thewarleyshow.co.uk/ I'm probably the nearest, but I've never been - I think I might rectify that omission this year..

Weird - still, you've found them now...