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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Long way from home. Looks the real deal. Price 280(?) a tad on the spicy side.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Anyone intending to bid on this, don't. It's scrap.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Bridge plate, but could be from anywhere on GNRI where there was a bridge no 25. "Engine plate", auctioneer numpties wouldn't know an engine plate if it dropped on their toes.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    That signal is there for decoration, no counterweight, no pulleys, no wires running to it.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    It's a platform for token exchange, overlooked by an oil lamp for illumination by night.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    The general population are as ignorant about railways as the auctioneers!
  7. minister_for_hardship
    They are clueless, like many antique auctioneers here, spoofers, making it up as they go along. Antique auctions here, with a few exceptions, have genuine articles along with fakes and "sexed up" items sprinkled into the mix designed to confuse. Genuine, but humdrum items with modern stuck-on bogus lettering to make them more attractive for sale. It's fun to spot how they get their descriptions wildly incorrect or even things photographed upside down. Non railway items described as "railway" this or that because they have a notion that railway things make more money. Buyer beware are the watchwords here.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    GS&WR beer bottle, unfortunately without contents.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Wrong font as well. The real deal isn't that expensive usually, maybe 20 quid absolute tops.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Looks bang on with their estimate.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Ironically banned on trains here.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    It'd be nicer with a line of another lighter relieving colour between the two. It looks dull especially in our often overcast weather.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    The display area inside, all that's separating people from goodies is a railing last time I visited. You could reach over, grab something and stick it in a bag and be out the door before the bored receptionist would cop it. I heard memorabilia went walkies some years ago. (note, don't do this) Things need to be bolted down or locked away or under cctv because the public cannot be trusted, it's naive to think otherwise.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    https://www.adverts.ie/other-home-garden/iron-railway-house/30107448?utm_source=email&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=SearchAlert Some assembly required. Contains small parts. Not suitable for children.
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  15. minister_for_hardship
    Perhaps the scrappers were giving away, or selling or appropriating bits for themselves. A dome is hardly the sort of thing you could walk off with in your pocket. I imagine it would not have happened as much in a scrap line sealed off from public view behind the walls of Inchicore.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Barely visible is the "K", GSR suffix for the Muskerry, making it 1K. Formerly "City Of Cork", now sheepdipped grey.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    At least it didn't have A4 Pacifics this time! Another blooper was mention of 'two railway companies in Donegal', they forgot about the poor old GNR. They had some excellent ACTUAL CDR/LSR footage. I wouldn't mind but there isn't really a shortage of still CDR/LSR images they could've used instead of stock 'old timey train' footage trotted out for such features. Imagine the uproar if they had gotten sports teams and personalities from different counties mixed up!
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Usual RTE thrown together effort with archive footage from railways hundreds of miles from Donegal!
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Who you gonna call?
  20. minister_for_hardship
    The trick is to sell to the mugs while the market is buoyant.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    I'm glad 'Snot & Club Orange' livery never made it beyond the planning stage.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    I wonder what is supposed to happen when Kiltimagh Velorails encounter each other, assuming there are a few of them? Or walkers for that matter? What happens at farm and road level crossings, if there are any? I assume they can't practicably cordon off the length of the line keep random people out? Edit, I see from the reviews of a French operator, they go out in one direction in a convoy. Could be a little frustrating if you get differing groups who want to slow down to smell the flowers and others who want to cycle them flat out.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    I wouldn't include the S&S or the Macroom in that grouping, but each to their own. I wouldn't even call Macroom 'West Cork', more mid-Cork or at least the gateway to West Cork. Most books and articles on the CB&SCR system only mention the S&S and Macroom in passing and where relevant. Both had their own flavour and culture even into GSR/CIE days and even the GSR/CIE regarded the sections separately. Plus I think it only confuses the non-savvy public and by god they're confused enough as it is.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    The North Kerry. The West Cork, basically the CB&SCR, confusingly there was also an actual West Cork Railway Co., a constituent of the CB&SCR. Some lump the Cork & Macroom into the West Cork (incorrectly imo) South Kerry (Kenmare & Valentia Harbour branches) The Cork & Muskerry was known as the 'Hook and Eye', and the Schull & Skibbereen as 'The Trameen' colloquially.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    There was a brief revival of the arc roofed Traveller caravan in the 70s or 80s, Slatterys used hire them out to tourists.
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