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Plenty places never got bilingual nameboards and kept their old English only boards up to closure. Off the top of my head Loo Bridge, Abbeyfeale, Lixnaw, Newmarket, Rathduff, Bruree and Tubber (still in place last time I passed!) never received any. Bantry had one or two bilinguals seen in other photos, but were affixed to the signal cabin.

I'd imagine not. A certain bus collection site was plagued with people "discovering" it, as was Moyasta. He's making rather a meal out of it, seemed faintly surprised Irish trains had toilets in them. I prefer US based urbexers, bit livelier than this, gun shots going off a few blocks away and the YouTuber nonchalantly remarking it's just usual post industrial Cleveland, nothing to worry about!

Had a little rummage and found my level crossing key, same idea, but completely different pattern. Your one could well be off an ets instrument if marked with a letter, one with a key was sold a few years back by Purcell's.

Level crossing gate lock key.

This caused a small bit of head scratching, this doesn't look quite right... is it AI? Photo listed as Mohill on Cavan & Leitrim. Closer inspection reveals it was a now-closed railway museum with a Mohill nameboard fixed to the wall! Wonder where it is now? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/168717698893?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050

The observers on the platform appear to be rather more interested in the loco than your average passenger might be, specially arranged motive power for enthusiasts I wonder?

They salvaged the cast-iron posts for scrap following closure, the stone GS&WR variety were far too much bother to remove, like icebergs there's a lot more of them beneath the surface! I remember spotting a few around Borris, still in situ.

Blarney

I was thinking afterwards it looked like those SLNCR trailers.

What's the dog kennel-like wagon for? Resembles a uk salt wagon.

Wonder how this found its way into the National Museum? One of the missing footplate components off of No 36.

Maybe take a couple of the RPSI Laminates on long term loan, cosmetically restored, as they'll never run on the mainline again anyhow. But yes the premises is large and should diversify beyond the rail and marine setting for wider appeal.

Was thinking that, you could possibly, at a push, scrape together (very) short, static, representation of a goods train with the SLNC tank at the head of it. Sligo is a bit off the mainstream tourist trail, (unless you are a Yeats fan or a surfing head) which is a shame but here we are. As mentioned, an attraction like this will struggle to make ends meet even if it gets off the ground.

The site would allow Sligo Miniature World to develop elements that would be difficult or impossible to accommodate elsewhere, including the proposed Irish Railway and Transport Museum I wonder what this would entail? There can't be much left to preserve out there outside of what the DCDR, Cavan & Leitrim, Stradbally et al have on hands?

Famously uninterested in railways or industrial subjects in general, don't know why they didn't send them on to the IRRS. Mostly photos of GNRI interest, plus an interesting pre conversion makers photo of what would become CDR's Phoenix. https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/?page=2&term=Railway+&media=yes&adv_sub[]=Historical+Collection&division[]=Art+and+Industrial+Division&agent[]=Great+Northern+Railway+Ireland&organisation[]=NMI

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.