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  1. jhb171achill
    I absolutely love that old ruined cottage with the collapsing roof. Tell me more about that - perfect for any rural Irish layout, and something I had in mind myself.
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    Yes - good thinking. I have heard of that happening in other auctions too, though in answer to Jim's question, the normal procedure is that the auctionerr just gives any unsold items back to the owner. Years ago, when my late aunt departed for the great inchicore in the Sky, she had an art collection. I brought them to Ian Whyte in Dublin (Whyte's art auction) and the few that didn't sell came back to me, and remain in my attic since....
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    Life in 1961….. “Here’s one for ye. A rabbit walks into a bar an’ asks for a pint’o’porter….” ”Wait, is that Maggie’s damn sheep again!” ”Ah, I’ll tell ye that one later. Best get them chased back into the field….” ”I’ll go an’ get Tom Foley to block up that hole again…when’s the light engine coming in?”
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    472 class No. 472 shunts the stock for the following day’s fair special, Dugort Harbour, 20th July 1961.
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    The connection from the down 09:05 Kingsbridge to Tralee arrives one summer afternoon in 1964 on time at Dugort Harbour.
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    I’ve been in those archives several times. Amazing stuff in there.
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    Excellent job! It’ll look well either way it appeared.
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    I think a British M7 0.4.4T chassis might well be a good fit.
  9. jhb171achill
    Wow! Superb project. What chassis will you use? The unlined CBSCR livery was also the same olive green, I believe. Interesting to see that in one of the photos you show there, the engine has a CBSCR crest on the side; but not in the other.
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    Thank you very much, folks, much appreciated. It was good to see you all. The number of local people still very much interested in the line was very impressive.
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    Absolutely TOP class!
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    Same loco spotted shunting at Dugort Harbour in summer 1968 and autumn 1970….
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    They turned grey on the ferry coming over….! I think the lower one is late GSWR.
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    19:30
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    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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    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!!!!
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    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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