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jhb171achill
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IRM Latest! H Van Heaven - Unfitted H Vans Next For Accurascale IRM!
jhb171achill replied to Warbonnet's topic in News
They turned grey on the ferry coming over….! I think the lower one is late GSWR. -
Tonight (Friday 7th November) in connection with the above event, I’ll be doing an illustrated talk on the North Wexford line in the Rua Glen Hotel & Country Club just outside Waterford city (South Kilkenny). All welcome!
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There are not two single components in this yoke that are in proportion to each other!
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SECOND to the above abomination, here is the 2nd ugliest thing ever on rails. Highly reliable and long-lived though, some were working well into the 1980s hauling heavy coal trains on the West Sumatra system of the PJKA (Indonesian Railways)......
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I had seen and read those articles, yet never realised who wrote them! I've copies of them here..........................
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Interesting not-so-early Irish Railway photos
jhb171achill replied to Mol_PMB's topic in General Chat
Awful negative, though - so blurred that even a new print wouldn't be any better - but of massive historical interest! Looks like the main line, of course, any idea where? And, I wonder, do we know who took it? Sounds like the type of thing that someone like Joe St Leger would suss out.... Up da rebels!!!! -
This just HAS to be the single most pig-ugly thing ever to run on rails in the world (joint worst with Sumatra's C33 class (steam)!).... was it designed by the company sports and social committee on a Friday afternoon, or a disgruntled employee on a wet February Tuesday morning? HIDEOUS!
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The first narrow-gauge was, yes, but the first railway in the pronince was the Ulster Railway Co. (1839) Tram still in its original maroon - long before it got its navy blue and cream "railcar" livery!
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Middle picture, man with bicycle on platform - could very well be jhbSenior!
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That's such a pity!
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“Yeah, but you owed me seven shillings from Friday!” ”Oh - I forgot about that, yeah. OK, then all you owe me is a shilling…” ”Jaysus, lads, ye play cards, ye remember the money, like! It’s all about the money!” ”I gotta go now, need to ring Jimmy. We can’t go till he brings his stuff for the van…” ”Ye better not let PJ find out ye are holdin’ the train for that eejit….”
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“I dunno about that, Tommy. There’s going to be work on the Bandon till they’ve lifted it all - that’ll be a couple o’years anyway, and they’d probably put him out to grass on the shunt in Glanmire Road after that. Sure he’ll be retiring in ‘66, I think, he joined the Bandon in 1917, he told me…. “ “We’d better go inside, that’s a bad oul sky coming in…”
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“Stop! Stop!” ”It’s OK, he’s stopping! CALM yourself! He’s STOPPING! But you’ll have to climb up and open the door…” ”Sure ye know he wasn’t going to leave you behind, ya eejit….”
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I went to see him a few weeks ago on a social call. He is physically weaker now, but 1000% sharp-minded. He still retains a few paintings, which he told me "are going nowhere!".... Likewise, I cannot understand why he has sent his stuff to such an auction house.
