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The current Liberation Sites in the Republic. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1uQBJsuTiAy13ozyGxa6zw9EzrCbl4dVU&ll=52.57355874044342%2C-7.998124950000033&z=8 Showing a tendency to be in the vicinity of railway traffic..? On the Big Island, it seems to be all road traffic now - there is a small business near me with two specially fitted release trucks, though they're not 'at home' on any of the available Street View shots.

Ghost train... I actually quite like it - I don't like all the swoopy, colour-fading stuff that seems trendy these days.

Very little fiddly stuff. It won't last long, though - it's just a transitional phase as the operator changes over...

And another...

Is that Marklin? Which set? There could be a bit of interest at this time of the year, perhaps?

Is 'she' letting you go off to Hamburg with 'the lads'..? She sounds easily-led... Does she have a sister?

B 46...? Do you have this unique vehicle as a corporate jet for your international jaunts? Only a three-seater, but I suppose somebody has to stay in the office..?

I get a 404 error for that, but patience is a virtue much prized amongst the modelling communities.

That needn't stop us - get stuck in!

Invisible model railways? Much easier to get away with buying stuff for...

A brief inspection today revealed little of note. The gates were closed on the 'sneak' entrances, so I approached via the Waiting Room. Some tarting-up has occurred on the footbridge, improved visibility of the step edges for the dark evenings and mornings, etc. Though, the lifts seemed to be unavailable. The odd local was still finding the bridge useful, however. If you should have any accidental splashes of yellow paint on some slate-roofed models, then this may be useful as evidence in your defence. The derelict building off the loop was cleared a few years back, but is filling up again.

Mmm, this is bonkers - - don't get carried away...

I would counsel against having an eBay saved search for 'Thai models'...

The corpse is still visible at Ballybrophy. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Ballybrophy,+Station+Road,+Co.+Laois/@52.9022733,-7.5977112,98m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x485d1de566149483:0x2600c7a819babb41!8m2!3d52.905614!4d-7.6190334

086 used the old Kilkenny spur to shunt a few flats this afternoon.

Yeah, it certainly isn't much of a fall, and if there isn't one, then that's not the answer.

Was there maybe a gutter along the front of the 'porch', with a bend and a run back into the hopper? This sort of thing.

SMP can supply phosphor bronze rail, which does look 'browner' than the usual nickel silver stuff, but does still oxidise on the running surfaces. http://www.marcway.net/list3.php?col=head&name=RAILS

Even in real life, rusty track is an issue. On little used sections, such as the loop at Ballybrophy, they may schedule the odd train to run over it, in order to 'clean' the track top, so that train detection will still operate reliably. Running a train on really rusty track, especially in very dry weather, can result in the connection between the wheels and rails being intermittent, at best...

I did buy an Irish 00 scale Irish phone box and a couple of green pillar boxes ( actually from a now-defunct shop in Shropshire ), but I can't find a supplier online at the moment.

OMG, the phone box.....!

@murrayec on here does produce the odd Dart model - and very good ones - but I wonder if the timescale could be an issue for this year? He'll be along shortly, I'm sure.

400kV air blast - a total monster - I wouldn't stand that close to it myself... That's the breaker in the centre, with the three vertical cylinders on each half of each phase. There was a rule that there would be nobody in the substation if there was lightning within a hundred miles - luckily, there were only two sites with them - Norwich and Indian Queens in Cornwall. The central vertical chambers on the top were known as the 'silencer', but we still couldn't test them in the factory, within an enclosure with two-foot thick sleeper walls with a core of sand (for explosion dissipation) after 6pm - they could be heard some miles away... We blew one up in Manchester on test and sprayed the Kelloggs factory next door - damaged quite a few cars... We never had one come to bits in service, but the risk was always there.