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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Maybe flaking paint and streaks of green stuff down the walls? Maintenance seems to be an afterthought here with modern developments! One for the weatherers.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Oddly enough, the GS&WR Clerkship examinations had an Irish exam, in that hard to read script. Granted it was about 1920 and perhaps the writing was on the wall (excuse pun) of the old regime at that point? If I recall, they did refuse to handle parcels with addresses written in Irish at an earlier stage.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Shame. It was good PR when turned out like that. Now it's just another grey loco.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    A 4-4-0 or 2-4-0 wouldn't have both pulling power and speed to have max bums on seats and not hold everything else up on a modern railway. Something like a go most anywhere, modestly sized new build 4-6-0, perhaps a version of the 400 or 500 class. The new build Mogul may be a good compromise.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    The "wouldn't it be lovely if..." or "someone should do something" Facebook comments. There are heaps of preservation projects up and down the country in dire need of funds and boots on the ground help. 800 is fine, it's not under threat, it's under cover and being looked after.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    The difference between here and the US are more generous clearances and (again) the level of interest. The general public here, say on Santa trains, are maybe a faintly interested Daddy and a Mummy looking for a vaguely "old timey train" experience for the kiddiwinks with Santy. They couldn't care less if 800 or 131 or an 071 hauled it. Hell, one of those road train yokes going to a Santa village would do them just as well. Apart from visiting enthusiasts mainly from uk, these are the people that help pay the bills and keep the heat on for the RPSI, not Irish enthusiasts.
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    It can be both. There is a common misconception that the word Xmas stems from a secularizing tendency to de-emphasize the religious tradition from Christmas, by "taking the Christ out of Christmas"; nevertheless, the term's usage dates back to the 16th century, and corresponds to Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Church of England, and Episcopalian liturgical use of various forms of chi-rho monogram. In English, "X" was first used as a scribal abbreviation for "Christ" in 1100; "X'temmas" is attested in 1551, and "Xmas" in 1721.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    The retina-burning old IRRS page, had forgotten that.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Not railway at all. It's for a horse drawn vehicle. Candles went into them.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    There was a flurry of sales of Silverfox "A's" leading up to the launch of IRM's "A", no doubt there's still some out there. I have the black version I'll probably move on.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    With new releases of mk2s, the Murphys Models ones may be sold off at reasonable prices. Likewise secondhand Silverfox A class should be picked up for a song now.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Another one for around the campfire. https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/home/217954/the-local-ghost-train.html https://www.newryjournal.co.uk/history/living-history/adavoyle-ambush/
  13. minister_for_hardship
    I'd say just the sheer density of their railways compared to us. And then there's the affinity British people have with their railways whereas here there is still a lingering notion that they are a bit "foreign" in the landscape, a product of the invader. There are a few stories, local in nature so not as well known.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    A bit late but still..happy listening.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    I don't know where getting the flying snail/broken wheel logo bit from. I've never seen a pic of them carrying either of these logos.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    The spelling gaffe is proof the maker's first language is not English. The real railway back in the day would never allow signage intended for the public carry an error like that! The actual text ran "GS&WR Notice Any person leaving this gate open is liable to a penalty of forty shillings." The holes are often staggered like that on the real notices, depends on what sort of gate they intended to affix it to.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Rather different use of the red flag over there! Here as far as I know, a red flag means "omg STOP!" in pretty much all circumstances.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Multiple profiles? It looks like something that got a quick roasting with a blowtorch and a spell in the garden.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Unfortunately, a lot of grounded rolling stock body owners in this country have unrealistic expectations of how much their treasures are worth! So long as the metalwork is sound the plywood can always be replaced.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    It's a little odd they didn't make a set of the light green ones.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Knobs, have heaps of wire.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Had put together a DC Kits G class some time ago and had gotten handrails for it, for the life of me I can't recall where. Anyhow, I'm firing together the Silverfox G and am a little short with the leftover rails. Mark's don't stock them, would anyone have any spare or direct me to where I'd get more? TIA.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    I think people here have been more engaged with who shot at whom in the War of Independence (the WOI sequel still being spoken of in hushed tones) but social and economic history is getting more attention than lists of battles in recent years thankfully. I've noticed otherwise professional historians producing articles and podcasts of excellent 19th/20th century material, but dropping terrible clangers when railways come into the story! Usually it's getting railway terminology and company names wrong.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Good looking locos, but according to the GSR reports, rather a lot of duds. Dated, sluggish runners and poor steamers in the ex MGWR stud. G2 and J26 classes are probably the pick of the bunch in terms of usefulness and longevity, although both were tiny little things. Excluding the Woolwiches as not being an in-house design.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    The real life one was dated 1916, but an enamel, not cast from old Chinese bed irons in a backyard furnace. The 'apple for scale' is worth more than the junk sign.
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