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Attempts to create the aroma of Guinness and egg sandwiches also failed to surmount the obvious health and welfare issues.

Do you have a loyalty card? Those points must be adding up...

And two more...

A brief survey today revealed that the work on improving and expanding the car parking arrangements has commenced. This should be a great improvement, things were getting rather squeezed, although the "recent events" may have eased the pressure for a bit. Some new ballast has appeared on the through lines - possibly salvaged from the pile that was located on the site of the car park extension? There was some, probably unrelated, activity going on under the road bridge, but I couldn't make out what it might be. 4004 was pushed in by 225 whilst I was there. All looking good - for a station that has seemed to be under almost constant threat for the whole of living memory.

One day, there may be a special edition boxed loco, with the wheels just protruding from the bottom of the packaging - enough to allow it to run, but without leaving the box. And they all will live happily ever after.

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The Viggen was unusual in having reverse thrust available. There is the odd video of them being driven backwards on the ground.

It could be a Proses one - they do various types and gauges - some have "valves" to control the flow. https://proses.com/prestashop/12-ballasting-solutions

This account is definitely worth following.

It's just a matter of what Google guesses as you do an image search for "railways of ir"..

Obviously, IRM will shortly be producing Bord na Mona items, but we may have to wait for (at least) the second wave, before we see this in RTR form.

In the late 60s, I did most of the Thames in a giant two-man fibreglass kayak. It was a real 'lump', but it was OK once you got going and we were going downstream. We had borrowed the vessel, and the name of the owners was emblazoned down both sides - RAF Transport Command - I doubt that we had the Russians worried and I never spotted anybody trying to take covert photos of the internal technology.

This looks plausible? https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/MIDLAND-GREAT-WESTERN-RAILWAY/i-P5F4CVZ/

I'm ashamed to say that I've only just got the "OMg" joke... I'm just off to celebrate with a glass of Milk of Magnesia.

Same here - I can go and do a food shop now - and knock the heating back on.

Broken-down Hino?

Any update? It's been over two hours now...

It is noted that the contents of this pipe have not been discussed openly...

I saw this one some years ago, the photo makes it look much brighter than it was - he had really caught the whole dismal aspect beautifully.

When I'm on the Big Island, I live not far from a fairly recently constructed canal facility. It comprises of many boat moorings and a restaurant, farm shop, etc. It is closest to a small village called Aston, which is located on an 'out and back' from the main road, and in forty years of living eight miles away, I've only been to the village twice. Anyway, the canal facility is made much more obvious to passers-by, with signage on the main roads, pointing to it - Aston Marina. I can't go past that sign without thinking that it sounds like one of the most alarming vehicles ever proposed, like a Lotus Cortina, but doing 170mph, with the brakes and handling of a Lidl trolley.

. This reminded me of why I very rarely use that term for super-glue. Our circuit breakers did have a tendency to blow up, but usually for plausibly valid reasons, and generally in a 'safe' manner, with nobody nearby at the time. However, one was blown up in Middlesbrough in the mid-1980s. This time, a chap had been operating it manually and 'off-load' at the time - purely mechanical operations. These were still fairly violent and produced a good amount of noise. After one operation, he heard a 'different' noise, but carried on to find out how many stored operations it had left. But, it wouldn't operate at all, so he stepped back to see what was going on - and fell over the centre interrupter, about a ton, which had fallen twenty feet onto the gravel just behind him (making the 'odd' sound). 'They' got very upset about what was a potentially fatal incident and denied that the operations had been carried out in such a manner that the closing operation had been initiated whilst the opening operation was still happening - this could cause the drive rod to buckle and demolish the whole structure - automatically, this wouldn't happen, but it was possible, if you really tried, to cause it by flipping the manual handle fast enough. This is clearly what happened, but it was denied. So we went through a process of sticking strain gauges all over an identical breaker on the same site and measuring what actually happened when it operated - they refused to allow me to simulate what I knew had been done, so we just ended up showing that it couldn't have blown up at all... Anyway, the point of all this is that they wanted their own strain readings and had a bloke called Jack doing it for them. He hadn't the slightest idea of what he was doing and spent 90% of his time trying to watch and copy us. He had personally discovered super-glue just a few days before the tests began and took every possible opportunity to educate anybody he could trap about the features of it - including what he would reveal its 'correct' name to be - cycroanylate To this day, I have to check myself and practice in my head, before I try saying cyanoacrylate.