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CIE had been just short of 3 decades of everything from rolling stock to road vehicles to premises being plastered in varying shades of green, I imagine "green fatigue" had set in and went about seeking a new look.

Rather along the lines of other short-lived magazines; CIE's 1980's "Travel Express" and IE's 1990's "Traen".

A fair chunk of the trackbed and earthworks are still there to this day. It's surprising (or maybe not, since it passes through Healy Rae country!) a greenway was not proposed. I had thought, apart from the red brick railway cottage peeking over the high boundary wall at Kenmare, the entire station site was razed only to find a nearly intact water tank covered in vegetation still bearing its contents gauge.

Welly for scale.

The coach from Halfway is in the Indo. (Brace yourself JHB, for some livery related wibbles) https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-know-it-was-a-mistake-but-i-just-want-a-home-to-retire-in-says-man-70-who-built-house-after-planning-refusals/a/123024646.html

Askeaton is so neatly kept, not a derelict ruin or altered out of all recognition as with so many other former stations. A tribute to its occupants.

Early GS&WR cast iron oval milepost.

Not a lot of photographers went out of their way to take photos of gradient posts but a small number on IRRS Flickr. The one at LNWR North Wall is likely to be one of the LNWR standard patterns, quite possibly also supplied to the DN&GR. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53508849649/in/photolist-2pwq4Lf-2pwxcZo-2rsAFci-2pwmRin-2pwEpAi-2pBQDzX-2pwoQMg-2pwnd9R-2pwo1Pw-2pwoN76-2pweb2H-2pvqx1K-2pwoMAm-2pwD4Lo-2pwq58s-2pwe46u-2pwphT8-2pwDR12-2pvvdMe-2pvvRwZ-2pvv4W8-2pwDR1n-2pwDq6T-2pwe46E-2pvwCgE-2pvv54T-2pvwCgK-2pwnaWK-2pvvREz-2pBSehN-2pvxenH-2pwp7aX-2pwD9oW-2pw7UoV-2pweCTq-2pwDJsU-2pvxfvj-2pw7Un2-2pwcte5-2pw7UmR-2pw7UmW-2pvHHCW-2pvB2b2-2pvH7ey-2pvFyyd-2pwoCZJ-2pwoCZP-2pvHHDc-2pwBy7d The other GS&WR type with unique 5000 at Drumcondra. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53508523891/in/photolist-2pwq4Lf-2pwxcZo-2rsAFci-2pwmRin-2pwEpAi-2pBQDzX-2pwoQMg-2pwnd9R-2pwo1Pw-2pwoN76-2pweb2H-2pvqx1K-2pwoMAm-2pwD4Lo-2pwq58s-2pwe46u-2pwphT8-2pwDR12-2pvvdMe-2pvvRwZ-2pvv4W8-2pwDR1n-2pwDq6T-2pwe46E-2pvwCgE-2pvv54T-2pvwCgK-2pwnaWK-2pvvREz-2pBSehN-2pvxenH-2pwp7aX-2pwD9oW-2pw7UoV-2pweCTq-2pwDJsU-2pvxfvj-2pw7Un2-2pwcte5-2pw7UmR-2pw7UmW-2pvHHCW-2pvB2b2-2pvH7ey-2pvFyyd-2pwoCZJ-2pwoCZP-2pvHHDc-2pwBy7d One in the DSE section, possibly wooden with stencilled on numbers. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53508901425/in/photolist-2pwq4Lf-2pwxcZo-2rsAFci-2pwmRin-2pwEpAi-2pBQDzX-2pwoQMg-2pwnd9R-2pwo1Pw-2pwoN76-2pweb2H-2pvqx1K-2pwoMAm-2pwD4Lo-2pwq58s-2pwe46u-2pwphT8-2pwDR12-2pvvdMe-2pvvRwZ-2pvv4W8-2pwDR1n-2pwDq6T-2pwe46E-2pvwCgE-2pvv54T-2pvwCgK-2pwnaWK-2pvvREz-2pBSehN-2pvxenH-2pwp7aX-2pwD9oW-2pw7UoV-2pweCTq-2pwDJsU-2pvxfvj-2pw7Un2-2pwcte5-2pw7UmR-2pw7UmW-2pvHHCW-2pvB2b2-2pvH7ey-2pvFyyd-2pwoCZJ-2pwoCZP-2pvHHDc-2pwBy7d

Ley Lines are not taken seriously by any archeologist worth their salt, basically new age woo, pseudoscience.

They've woken up and smelled the coffee.

Probably seemed like a good idea at the time...

Why on earth did they even bother breaking out the brushes and paint when it was as good as dead? And moreover why the ancient and probably uncomfortable as hell 4 wheelers?

Scalpers, they would be called in the match and concert ticket scene.

Maam Cross.

"Arrest me, officer!"

Ireland in a nutshell. All rules, rarely if ever enforced. Heaps of NLI and indeed O'Dea images all over social media. Not aware of the NLI sending out cease and desist letters or legal teams over it.

A great many have been removed, or more likely, stolen. Probably a long time since councils ceased bothering to maintain them, it's up to locals who might care about them now.

Like talk about how people say they love Irish and wanting to learn it when they have no intention of doing so. Real genuine interest is probably the "secret sauce" we lack.

I've always wondered about countries you wouldn't think would have an affinity with railways like the English do, having loads of restored and static old locos and railway museums. The Scandi, as mentioned, and Iberian countries come to mind. They were as poor as Ireland was at one time.

Never knew they had a "balloon" water tank there. Relatively rare in Ireland.

Strange behaviour from CIE/IE, giving with one hand and taking away with the other.

The wealthy and tax exiles here tend to put their spare money into making more money (property and horses being two Irish obsessions) or donating to sports of interest to them, favourites being GAA and golf.

Irish people will put in many, many hours unpaid labour for their local GAA club or tidy towns. Not a hope in hell they would do the same for a railway, even if it was on their doorstep.

Like countries with "democratic" in their names are seldom democratic!

These one man band operations treat their preserved fiefdom like a giant private or semi private garden railway. Unfortunately the reaper comes for us all just like the scrapman, when the project goes belly up.