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Who knows...?

For those who may wish to upgrade their sound package.

The cars would suggest later than 1963, I think.

There may also be an extra prodigal son...

He used to have an arresting personality.

Saved by a fluke...

https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/02/train-which-crashed-through-barrier-saved-from-disaster-by-giant-whale-tail-13519809/

A few others were mentioned here.

He is definitely the best impression that I can manage. "You are a shite... ...for shore eyesh."

The original Royal Mail pillar boxes on all of these islands were green*, but were changed to red for exactly that reason, apparently. * a 'Brunswick Green', rather than the current An Post colour.

Excellent @Joe Keegan- I knew I'd seen one. Odd that there's not even a trace of the BICC log on the casting - I would have got it quicker if that was there. I now have the great opportunity to call in this statement "If that isn't meant to take chain links out, i'll eat Paddy Ashdown's hat."

As it stands*, there's nothing to stop the pipe being pushed away, as far as I can see. * There could, of course, be bits missing...

I rescued a few nice tools from a garage clearance a few weeks ago. There was a good mix of nice stuff, this may have been in the 'plumbing' pile. I initially thought it was some sort of olive puller, but it isn't. The steel plate with the three spikes slides up and down. A 10mm diameter is a rattle-fit all the way through. There is no identification on it anywhere.

I would love the idea of a model shop a few miles away. As I did when Graham's was there in Port Laoise. But, it needs to work for you, before it works for us. I often look at rents for retail outlets and work out how much an hour you would have to make before you got anything for yourself. Shops where there's a huge variety of potential products are more of a problem to run than places selling a limited range of 'standard' goods. This is all mere conjecture from someone who has never worked in retail*, so take it all with a sack of salt. * If I had worked in retail, I would be in prison for assault by now...

There was a truly monstrous pole by the signal cabin at Ballybrophy - with a good lot of wires along the line and a fairly large side-load, it was around 18" diameter at the base. I was greatly disappointed when it disappeared. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304509

Oh, now, that's really unfair. Should be at least two months, even for a first offence.

It's vaguely in the style of what Dunamase would have been like before the alterations..

I think it might be a bit more frequent than that - I seem to remember a photo with a submarine 'shopped' into it just a few years ago. I was thinking that it would make a nice diorama for someone who doesn't like wiring or making 21mm track. Here.

My understanding of how it works is that the magnet induces magnetism in the (presumably soft iron) parts of the couplers. The couplers will both be of the same pole, as their magnetism is induced from the same source, and, thus, they will repel each other. They can each only swing to one side - and, as they are necessarily facing each other, this means that they will swing in opposite directions, away from each other, thus uncoupling.

Mmm, an interesting destination in a Spongebob Squarepants cartoon. Apparently, Ballymun gets other references, too - if you want to make a rather specialist kids' layout, beyond the inevitable Thomas one...