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Change the password on the phone and try that on the desktop..?

Apart from the fatality and the injuries, this one was an interesting case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Stafford_rail_crash

The chaos of the immediate response and the madness of trying to negotiate the responsibilities through the maze of privatised owners and service providers were (hopefully) salutary lessons.

The chap who lived in the house that the 86 hit was a friend of a friend. He had been out earlier to clear off a load of kids kicking a football against his wall - he heard the thud of the loco hitting the outside skin of his cavity wall and went out to tell them off again, only to find "a railway engine, with a bloke still in it".

The legal cases went on for years and were never really resolved completely.

Numbers comes into it. There's a lot of people on the Big Island, but as potential volunteers and as potential visitors.

Living in both places, I know more people in Ireland actually involved in heritage activities of various kinds than in I do in England.

There are cultural issues, too, railways just aren't 'as important' to people in Ireland

It's a matter of what is possible and viable. If people aren't interested as volunteers or visitors, than so be it, unfortunately perhaps...

4 hours ago, Noel said:

 its still combustion and emits CO2. 

There shouldn't be much carbon available, mostly just some from the lubrication.

CO and CO₂ emissions should be fairly low, surely?

The carbon in the air will be mostly CO₂ already.

14 minutes ago, Newtoncork said:

Oh God, I bought three packs while The Boss was out. Not sure what I'm going to tell her when she comes back. The usual stuff of 'it's an investment' or 'what else would I spend it on?' is wearing thin........

If she went out, leaving you unsupervised, then she only has herself to blame.

In fact, it's all her fault.

46 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

It's dark outside?

Japanese Bullet Train?

Or Melbourne (not Derbyshire)?

18 minutes ago, skinner75 said:

Or back in the day, a bottle (glass) of Lucozade, with the orange plastic wrapper, that you could take off & look through for an orange-tinted view of the world!

I found this sticking out of a spoil heap after some work at the Quakers' Bridge level crossing on the Nenagh branch a couple of years ago.

40 minutes ago, Mike 84C said:

I dont do FB but my wife does so where can she find the comments please.

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/narrowgauge/posts/24987831507468875/

Neat work.

It's not easy to re-gauge those to 5'3".

I remember dealing with some French students in Stafford in the 90s.

Asked for their general impression of the area, they had a chat amongst themselves and, overwhelmed by the amount of brickwork everywhere, the answer was "It is very brown".

Just now, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

Leitrim?

Further - on the way to Iceland...

This just popped up for me. I've not seen it before, but others probably have.

1911, apparently.

I thought Guinness used to have a smokier taste years ago...

37 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

Where?

Top left corner - edge of the known world.

2 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Maybe they'll have some narrow gauge "customer tubes" left over from HS2 to use on it............

HS2 is Hydrogen Sulphide - the smell of rotten eggs - and few things are more rotten than HS2...

Last time I worked out the cost on the declared amounts at the time, it was around £1,000 per centimetre, barely enough space to write my name on my bit.

16 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

"Clare"...... is this the new WRC Tuam-Galway commuter service?

It was going to be, but Brexit killed it.

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/clare/index5.shtml

Filming for a Shell advert - on the Stour Valley Line, as it was closed on Sundays.

40 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

What would I put in that yard? Would it be a road type surface or gravel? Good idea by the way.

Rough ground, tyre tracks, stored machinery, a heap of ballast, sleepers, odd off-cuts of rail, track panels, a little shed for the lads,...

Permanent way yard?

Good move!

"There's no point keeping stuff that you can't find".

3 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

When is Glasgow on? Is that railway specific?

https://modelrail-scotland.co.uk/

1 hour ago, JasonB said:

I'm sure your probably doing nothing else anyway, other than sunning yourself  

I'm hoping that he hasn't got one of JHB's thongs...

...but, that would be better than nothing, I suppose...

No electric locos will be supplied, except third-rail.

1 hour ago, murphaph said:

Depends where you secrete the models.....

Offer them as 'weathered', at no extra charge.

5 minutes ago, murphaph said:

First and it seems last visit in November gone. 

I won some tickets in 2013, so I felt obliged to go.

I found it to be a bit of an ordeal, but it certainly was worth going - and I would be regretting never having gone now, if I hadn't gone then...