Jump to content

minister_for_hardship

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,888

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    4

 Content Type 

Everything posted by minister_for_hardship

  1. minister_for_hardship
    Who you gonna call?
  2. minister_for_hardship
    The trick is to sell to the mugs while the market is buoyant.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    I'm glad 'Snot & Club Orange' livery never made it beyond the planning stage.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    The little grey Fergie was the death knell for farm horses and donkeys though.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    This was spotted at Borris, on the viaduct. I wouldn't mind but the info boards were very well done with heaps of excellent photos they must have sourced from the IRRS and/or the O'Dea collection. I didn't read all of the text but didn't see any obvious clangers in it. One 3D rendering got Borris station buildings pretty spot on although the train was depicted hauling some odd looking open wagons.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Wait. What?
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Some dunderhead must have seen the pic of the then GSRPS Ruston at Fenit, put 2 and 2 together and came up with 6 and three quarters. And as a final insult it's gone full James The Red Engine. Some of the information boards and public installations of railway related things in this country are comedy gold, wild assumptions from local "historians", things copied and pasted from Google. Fire any old rubbish together and it'll do! There's a cast plaque, which wasn't cheap to produce, at Manorhamilton station riddled from end to end with spelling errors. It has to be seen to be believed.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Possibly years referring to the opening and closing to regular traffic on that line, and an attempt to link that actual coach to the line in what is known in the newspaper business as the "desperate local angle".
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Was it one of the former Westrail's fleet I wonder?
  14. minister_for_hardship
    It's a yoke that do be pulled by train engines. I thought that was obvious.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Donegal town railway museum?
  16. minister_for_hardship
    CIE 254A, the A the suffix for Internal User/Departmental at an antiques fair. At a saucy 96 euros it did not come home with me.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    I'm all for inclusivity but letting colour blind people pick the paint out? The pinstriping position is a bit odd too.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Deafening silence when quizzed by media 'no one available for comment' - state bodies here tend to circle the wagons (pardon the pun)
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Both railways are pretty remote from Dublin, and the main tourist trails, to be fair.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Seems a shame that a brewery not short of a few bob, a turnover of 2 billion, wouldn't restore one to working order as an attraction at St James' Gate. Or one of the barges.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Did they ever stray beyond the former DSE or did they mainly stay put until withdrawal?
  22. minister_for_hardship
    I was quietly impressed with the added sound effects until they stuck in a United Statesian chime whistle.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Maybe a lot of spares or interchangeable bits that had been cannibalised whereas more modern but one-off locos or those in tiny classes were more likely to be cut up? Usefulness or lack thereof could have something to do with it too.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    I guess you could say it identifies as a steam loco now. Clonakilty is not really a museum or a place to learn anything about the West Cork, it's a railway theme kids birthday party venue.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    I'll have another look but flicking back and forth to a page to find out who took it and when is equally if not more annoying! EDIT looking at it again, there are pages with say two images, two photographers credited, but you don't know who took which photo. Dates or even year of image not stated. Not really good enough in my opinion.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use

  I accept