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    "V" was painted on a wagon when it was listed for scrapping, an upside down "V" was painted on below the first "V" to turn it into an "X" which meant that scrapping was then authorised. The instruction was then given to the scrap man to scrap only vehicles marked with an "X" I remember a story about a scrap merchant from Armagh engaged on cutting up A & C classes in Inchicore cutting locos with a "V" before parts had been recovered to keep others going !
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    Full page feature in todays Irish Times.
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    Jonathan, Mostly BR material, when there is Irish stuff it is in there but it will take ages to sort, good reading material for the smallest room in the house, you should be through it by 2053! Michael.
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    Branch Line Society magazine, Branch Line News, large quantity 1991 to 2008, some bound volumes rest loose, ( see picture) free to a good home, currently in South Co. Louth, free delivery to Belfast or Dublin.
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    23/7/1976
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    Colin, unfortunately Brendan died some years ago, Herbert is still a regular attender at the IRRS archive on a Tuesday evening.
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    "The Meath Road" by John O'Meara, IRRS Journal Vol 4, Spring 1957, number 20, pages 218 to 240.
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    From the GSR Green Appendix dated 1st March 1935
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    Pearse, 24th |June 1988
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    €25 from Mercier Press
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    There is a very good article in the IRRS Journal Vol 27, no 190, pages 102-109 including a photo of the removal of the bridge over the Royal Canal on 2nd May 1992. The track was lifted in March 1977
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    What year... 2/1916, 3/1922, 9/ 1928, 4/1936, 3/1944 ?
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    I am currently in the IRRS at Heuston, Clifton Flewitt has a copy, looks brand new for €40...
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    Clements & McMahon !
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    And another one !!
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    Youghal Turntable, 6th July 1985, is that yesteryear?....
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    George Mahon covered the Enniskillen & Bundoran Railway, The Enniskillen & Bundoran Extension Railway and the Enniskillen, Bundoran & Sligo Railway in the IRRS Journal in a long running series of articles "Irish Railways in 1860 to 1879, over 10 volumes of the Journal starting in Volume no 6, issue no 30 Spring 1962 to Vol 15 no 95 October 1984. His total contribution to all the Irish Railways in 18XX series started with the year 1853 in the Spring 1954 Journal, and he finished with 1879 in the June 1984 Journal, some 30 years later, producing an invaluable resource of the early days.
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    Book... The Cavan & Leitrim Railway , the last decade by Tom Ferris & Patrick Flanagan, published 1997 by Midland Publishing has good pictures of sister vans 14L and 17L on page 54.
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    Jb1911... I know this is slightly outside your time period ( it is from the Railway Gazette series of articles dated December 1930) featuring the singling of double track by the GSR on the former MGWR section between 1927 & 1930. The diagrams show the layout post-singling if you decided to go for that option ! If you want any other MGWR stations let me know, the Railway Gazette diagram covers from Clonsilla to Inny Junction, Mullingar to Ballinasloe and Athlone to Roscommon.
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    I have one the same here in my collection from the 73rd mile box... the canvas bit is 35 cms long, 15cms across, the canvas wrap around bit to hold the ETS adds another 5cms to the end, the overall thickness is 1cm.
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    Mainly for Wexford 70...... on the subject of "Chairs" A few pages from "Railway Construction 1898" by WH Mills who was engineer in Chief of the GNR(I)
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    Colin, I cant seem to find CIE bell codes, they used to be displayed on a poster which hung in every cabin, so maybe they were not published in manuals etc. The GSR green appendix does not appear to have them, the GNR published them in their green appendix, I attach a couple of scans from the May 1930 copy...
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    It is all out there,.... its just knowing where to look !
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    There is some useful information in NIL (New Irish Lines) magazines, articles by Colm Flanagan... Hornby Fowler to Jeep conversion, Vol 3 no 5, May 2004. Building an NCC Mogul from the Fowler tank, Vol 3 no 6, Nov 2004 The Mk2 Jeep and Mogul, Vol 4 no 2 Nov 2005
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    The LMS had used taper boilers since 1933, the Jeeps like the Moguls always had boilers of the parallel type, indeed the W and WT boilers were "non-standard" in LMS terms, when under Stanier the taper boiler was commonplace. The boilers were interchanged between Moguls and Jeeps, I think at least two Jeeps, certainly no 50 and 51 had Mogul boilers towards the end.
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