Broithe

Today's inspection tour revealed little worthy of note. A spare track connector is available, if you've lost one. 4005 swept through. It's still litter-free/windswept. A a couple of fairly vertical track shots. They must have a really good track rubber. This bridge, a couple of miles away to the southwest, is in really good condition, considering it was presumably built in the late 1840s. Little evidence of any recent masonry repairs being necessary.

Has anybody uploaded an image since the return? I've just tried and get 'queueing', with no end in sight...

Are you doing this in tandem? Do you have bus transfers in place, too?

Phew, you've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue...

Four charged. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-48974301

Anybody into chewing gum? It looks like you can still get it in those 'pillow-shaped' pieces - I wonder if the dimensions are close enough to use as random bags of fertiliser to leave around the place?

Obviously, people buying fertiliser wagons, and then subsequently buying sugar beet wagons when they become available, might need to consider if any internet surveillance might flag them up...?

It might be best to stump up a few more Euros and run it straight to France now. https://www.thejournal.ie/ireland-uk-tunnel-explained-3-3716011-Nov2017/

Aaah, you're safe for a while. The crowdfunding for the hitman has slowed up a bit lately.

Large-scale infrastructure projects will often have these logistical supply problems.

Patience is a virtue. At least we didn't end up with a bus replacement service.

The Yorkshire one is/was here - https://www.google.com/maps/@53.7316522,-0.6725663,3a,75y,339.63h,85.08t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sTGPH1vo-NgE3R4I-xat17w!2e0!5s20100301T000000!7i13312!8i6656 - on this old school building, where the hanging basket thing is, next to the window, but it's appeared after this latest Street View picture (March 2010). The Geograph picture above was taken on September 15th, 2012, so it may well still be there now. The 'fence' in the Geograph picture is actually the open gate... I was in Hull a few weeks ago and I may go again next year and spend some time at Fort Paull, to see the only remaining Blackburn Beverley, if I get the chance, I might go past and ask them why the sign is there...

Oooh! Will it be live steam? Or is that just for the catapult?

Yeah, you're definitely getting the hang of this now...

Graffiti is often a sort of cultural infection - once it starts, other people soon join in. I spent a fortnight in Amboise, in the Loire valley in 1990, there was almost no graffiti anywhere, and what there was was in English. There is a road right through the middle of Stoke on Trent, the A500, known locally as the D-Road, from its shape on the map. It has large areas of concrete that are the perfect 'canvas', yet they remain completely graffiti-free after more than forty years in a deprived, inner-city environment - though, I'm sure that, if some appeared, it would all soon be covered. I'm quite careful who I mention this observation to... Many years ago, I painted a bird hide on a nature reserve - there was a particularly well-executed piece in the middle of one wall, involved a bird motif - so we painted a 'frame' round it and left it, to much disapproval. But, as I predicted, no new 'art' appeared for over six months - I'm sure it would have been (re)plastered in days, if we had covered the whole thing.

How easy would it be to peel the film off before spraying..?

Quite a few on the Big Island. Although. electrocution is also a big killer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-47404529 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/21/two-graffiti-artists-dead-east-london-rail-tracks-electrocution https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6466519/Graffiti-artist-29-dies-electrocuted-railway-line.html Etc.

It seems to also be available as a W&CI variant - http://www.irishrailwayana.com/pa306.htm

Same sign on a building in Yorkshire - https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3133096

Chap next door had one - lovely car when it worked. When the starter failed, we couldn't jack it up to change the motor, because that whole thing was lying on the floor. We stuck a pulley on a drill and used that to pump the hydraulics up, so we could get the stands under it and get at the starter motor. The way people's cost projections are rising here, it just needs somebody to release an 00 scale model of a children's hospital...

Crosshead screws...

Location marks have appeared at Ballybrophy.

A visit today revealed little new of note. I thought these ridge tiles were new-looking, but they seem to have been there for a while. These nudge marks have appeared on the new buffers. 219 powered through whilst I was there. Views of the tracks through the heat haze. A scale drawing from 2009. The bees in the roof and other parts of the roof gardens are flourishing.

I see that the Forum has twins born on this day, although the labour does seem to have been a bit protracted...