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I'd say the poster is genuine, a little sceptical about the pencilled in details. Why would they go to the trouble of writing that out and not paste it up?
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+1 for another J15 breakdown, worm slipping on the shaft if I recall. Fixed free of charge.
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On 1/4/2024 at 1:07 AM, Westcorkrailway said:
Lovely model, shame about how they run themselves into the ground…
I suspect bunker capacity may have limited usefulness on longer runs and aprés amalgamation there was no shortage of handier locos available to poke around the city quays and Courtmac.
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12 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:
As 00 Works showed with their CBSCR 0.6.0ST, obscurity is quite possible! There can be few prototypes more obscure than these, but it sold out I believe. As for the first IRM one, and the foregoing being the case, it could be absolutely anything under the sun. Availability and suitability of the internal gubbins may have a big say in determining what it will be.
Tacked on to production of the identical British based locos, just a different coat of paint and number plates. If it were a stand alone Irish obscure model, it may not have fared as well.
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On 1/3/2024 at 1:21 AM, WRENNEIRE said:
Any idea if this is Railway related?
Safety lamp? Probably not railway.
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27 minutes ago, Newtoncork said:
I can understand a local initiative like this causing a lot of pain for Kerry County Council. But you could argue that a national transport museum being a national and internationally important collection should be part of the National Museum of Ireland and funded centrally. After all the Dublin and Castlebar museums are also national collections. Museums Galleries Scotland are funded by the Scottish government and have locations across the country.
Maybe we're not thinking big enough for a transport museum!
Apart from a brief exhibition on travel posters at NM, the powers that be up in the NM haven't the faintest interest in railways.
Even in that exhibition, the emphasis was placed on the history of the tourist trade and the poster artists rather than the railways themselves.
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18 minutes ago, Horsetan said:
There's never been any problem thinking big in Ireland. The problem is obtaining the money after thinking big....
It's not even that. The money was there for the initial steam railway, and in a rich country now money shouldn't be a problem, but interest to keep it alive/interest in a reboot is the rock it founders upon. Always.
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1 hour ago, Horsetan said:
It's abundantly clear they have no interest in commissioning or funding the survey they claim is necessary, so no decision will ever be needed.
Meanwhile, open season for any metal thieves who fancy lifting the rails and chairs, followed by stripping of the stock...
Usual kicking the can down the road. Wash, rinse, repeat for next meeting.
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2 hours ago, irishmail said:
Does anyone actually use twitter?
I find it useful to complain about things when I'm out of options, most, not all, companies tend to take notice of public shaming when they ignore direct emails.
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4 hours ago, Horsetan said:
Nothing will have changed in 25 years' time.
"But until such time as we know how good or how bad the condition of the tracks and train is, we can’t make a decision."
Sadly nothing will, that bunch haven't a Scooby Doo.
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On today's "someone should do something" news, Blenderville is brought up at a council meeting...
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My aunt in the uk was a great one for picking up second hand books and passing them on to me, some really old ones too; I was convinced that Ceylon and Rhodesia still existed. I was given one book from the original Railway Series (which somehow survived to this day) and bought maybe a handful of later Ladybird style of Thomas books in the 80s, the illustrations looked like stills from the Ringo era shows. I never watched the TV shows, as we had a two channel house.
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11 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:
A person on Facebook said (and when your only source is Facebook you know your in Trouble) said that one of Audrey’s stories was directly inspired by one incident on the Cork and Macroom Railway. The incident in question happened in 1952. The post was accompanied with the following article. I, naturally, have never followed this up with any further research….So take with a pinch of salt!
if this is true, then making up a train of some cattle wagons and a GSWR F6 tank engine shouldn’t be to hard to recreate.
A bit of a blood bath for what is a kids book, no?
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Catering would be "nice to have" but if the costs don't stack up, well then. The way people go on you'd swear it was Michelin starred grub, that it was not, certainly not in the 90s at any rate. Journeys here are short compared with elsewhere so I don't think there is a need for it, especially to humor people who either never travel or hop on board once in a blue moon just to complain.
Curtains on windows, a near useless piece of fabric to be dragged around, get grubby or gather dust and needing replacement. People don't even have curtains in modern houses anymore! Other railways have pull-down blinds but our sun is rarely strong enough to warrant these and knowing the public, they would be wrecked in jig time.
The one thing I do miss is the ability to order or bring my own beer on board like most any other country in the world but thanks to a minority of people who are chronically unable to behave themselves and a lack of deterrents here we are. This is a society wide problem and not exclusive to rail. If AGS are unwilling or unable to provide anything more than a sporadic, reactive patrolling of public transport, a dedicated transport police is needed like most other countries, I don't see why we have to be an exception.
80s nostalgia. 1984, when it was a few years since they had the worst accident on this island in living memory? A cash starved system sometimes literally held together with baler twine? Do we really want to return to that??
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41 minutes ago, DoctorPan said:
You would be surprised at how endearing the BnT is in the eyes of the public as meaning poor train service. There's people who think the silver 201s are completely different locos to the the BnT 201s.
The general public also for instant offen still move towards the front of the train for Portarlington despite the fact that the platform has been extended for decades at this stage.
Proving my point that the public are rather dense.
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9 hours ago, DoctorPan said:
That colour scheme is toxic in the eyes of the public!
I don't think the Irish public outside of enthusiasts pay much attention, there are adults now who won't remember orange and black anyhow.
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Likewise I don't think the public really care all that much what colour scheme the trains are provided it takes them from a to b in comfort and on time at a reasonable cost. It's more image consultants trying to justify their fees and a way of hoodwinking people into thinking they have a "new" train until they hop in and find out it's the same stock with a lick of paint that still arrives late!
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At first glance I thought (Eamon) Von Ryan's Express, but capacity on the existing units for bikes etc was sorely lacking and like it or not, growing numbers of people will want to travel with bikes.
Now, there is a certain looking at the so-called Good Old Days through rose tinted specs for the folks who dislike "modhern" things simply because they're "modhern", but remember the Cravens when one was a sauna you couldn't see out through the windows in and the next one was Siberia? Broken windows flopping down leaving in wind and rain? Leaking roofs? Stinky smoking coaches?
Would the same people whinge about air travel because the toilet is tiny and they can't open the windows??
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At a guess, I'd say there's more As than Cs in circulation and with the new A, lads more likely to move their SF A on.
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1 hour ago, Horsetan said:
Has anyone dared to shorten the IRM "A" into an approximation of a "C"?
You can pick up a Silver Fox A for buttons and butcher that instead.
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52 minutes ago, Broithe said:
It's not all black and white on the 'old stuff' front. I realised, during the lockdown, whilst I was trying to cycle every road as the radius went up, just how many roadside pumps were left. I initially expected there to be about a dozen, but I'm heading for three figures now. In the same size area in England, I know of four.
There is a similar higher Irish survival rate for things like wrought-iron field gates, milk stands, lime kilns, etc.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1IgMK3uJ3xIxafN0Y9ScYVvMhA5ZF7nvO&usp=sharing
I know of the locations of roadside water pumps, but the pumps themselves sprouted legs and walked off years before.
I do notice the wrought iron gates but also see similar gates after being unsentimentally driven over by tractors. With machinery increasing in size, these gates will sadly disappear also. Kilns have been demolished with gusto by "progressive" farmers over the years.
I'd say remaining features are only there because they haven't been stolen or they're not in anyone's way yet rather than any great love for them.
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11 minutes ago, hurricanemk1c said:
We have industrial heritage, and plenty of it. It's just culturally determined as "British" and therefore doesn't fit into the post independence "everything British was bad" mindset of a lot of museums around the country. That affects not just railways but any industry of note that has been here
To add to that, I firmly believe there is an anti heritage mindset in the general population. Old things and old buildings are not looked fondly upon, just reminders of bad old days and poverty, a general unwillingness to reuse and repurpose old structures as it's thought to be too expensive.
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Genuine Railwayana
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Not even a hint of yellowing, and a rail worker going to the effort of writing 'Ford' in that company's font, really? It looks like it's written with a black Sharpie, first sold in 1964!
If it was an excursion for Ford employees only, why put it on a poster (intended for general public)?
Everything about the second one is suspect!
Rail and Bus. But the whole thing looks fabricated.