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Before I try buying a coach used off fleabay or even worse a new one would anyone have one surplus to requirements they be willing to sell.? -
Well thanks to the leaving cert it's been 9 months since I've posted here. But for once I do have a substantial update! Following the purchase of a bachmann 105 which is suitably prototypical-ish looking for me to represent an aec Railcar. (It's got the right face at least). I have been inspired to create a new sort Module/ layout/ photo plank of tramore station as it would've looked during the very last months of the Railcar years. Complete with a siding for the camping coaches. It's very small but I like that to be honest, nice to have a comparatively small amount of jobs to complete so they get done properly. This is going to be a more realistic representation of the line than the station in the foreground. (Tramore high level if you will!) This kit-built coach acquired from the East Lancashire railway years ago will have to be repainted into the blood & custard-esqe colour scheme. All this has to be done ideally before the Dunshaughlin harvest festival at the end of September so that I can have a train run between both stations but at least before the Mrsi exhibition in October. As always any tips or suggestions are welcome. Better be sooner than a month before I do more! -
30 or so years ago late cousin Dennis a Workers Party/Democratic Left activist could not help but view my interest in railway perservation in terms of British Imperialism. He came from a politically radical family his Grandfather fought in the War of Independence but took the pro-treaty side his Granma despised Dev but politically active an Aunt was elected as a Labour TD at a time a woman was expected to stay in the home. Most of the multi-millionaire Irish property developers I worked for while in Ireland (none from Dublin!) tended to invest heavily in conditions in their county/village, in my opinion better than a heritage railway. Mind you back in the 60s when the preservation movement was largely limited to the Tallylyn, Festiniog, Keightly and Worth Valley, Bluebell and Dart Valley there was concern that the market had already reached saturation point and no room for new entrants. -
By Galteemore · Posted
Ironically it’s the Anglos and the English who have actually invested significantly in Irish preservation - the Guinnesses at Straffan, the Cosbys granting access at Stradbally, Lord O’Neill at Shane’s Castle, David Laing at Giants Causeway - and it was English enthusiasts who kept money rolling into the 70s-80s RPSI tours. A few more eccentric peers might actually have been a good thing for Ireland’s preservation scene …. -
Nothings changed Joe McGrath (Irish Sweepstake (lottery) & horsebreeding) provided my grandparents with a home and livelihood (maintaining a hunting lodge) during the 1930s at a time the landed gentry had sold their estates and fled the country. In a way putting money into railway preservation like property and horses is a good way to turn a large fortune into a small fortune, but its their money and their decision. Locally the family behind Mainline Steam Trust own a company that totally dependent on the success of the construction/property sector, profits from the property sector subsidise the operation and maintenance of main line steam locos. Property like the stock market is very much boom and bust: Working in the sector I just about kept my head above water, others have been less fortunate busts in the Irish property sector have taken a severe toll on the health of some people I know and respect, a couple of people I worked for at different time before I left Ireland were wiped out financially by the 2009 GFC.
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