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minister_for_hardship
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That old chestnut just HAD to be wheeled out. I couldn't see them not using it.
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How on earth did RTE manage documentaries in the past without dropping such clangers? I don't remember Ironing the Land or Off the Beaten Track being like this.
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And a background of 'Great Western Railway' posters. The still photos look correct, which is something i guess.
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Achill branch now "narrow gauge".
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Media reaction was generally positive with Kenny doing a reasonable, if uninspiring job of it. Comparisons with a series fronted by another ex politician are inevitable. I don't think it was intended to be anything more than staycation chewing gum, scenery and some sound bites.
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It is as easy to do a thing right as wrong. I don't see the point of asking folks like Jhb, who know their beans, to contribute and then just ignore their input and do your own mish mash interpretation. A friend of mine (non enthusiast) watched it and said it looked lovely but said didn't learn all that much about the railway.
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A Kreigslok heading to Achill, maybe a Pannier tank on the Swilly?
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You weren't seeing things.
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GNRI 83 and Lough Swilly clips as well in a Waterford focused episode, but shoving in a brace of A4s is the ultimate case of any old choo choo will do. I don't think there was a single mention why it was built or that it was a boat train route. It just struck me as very rushed, drone shots and short interviews shoehorned into a half hour slot, basically an ad for greenways.
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Little known fact: Streaks were bought from BR, regauged and used on the Rosslare boat trains.
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Is the latest reincarnation still locked up out of use, covid notwithstanding?
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the station building is across the road, boarded up since the Glenaans Sailing Club left. I think what you have there is the loco shed. The large derelict building probably an old boat repair yard unconnected with the railway.
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A blooper like that wouldn't have happened during Wally McGrath's time!
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Going by the photo it looks like a Scandi noir drama.
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Wall boxes and the smaller kind of postbox that straps to a telegraph pole are more common than pillar boxes outside of cities.
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The house was sold recently.
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Clon jct had a painted one or at least it looked that way to me, not the new one seen by the station site. The original is still around I believe. Creagh is around as well, in bad shape though.
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Ones that got them; Albert Quay, Ballinhassig, Crossbarry, B'neen & E'keen, Bandon, Clon Jct, Skeaf, Creagh, Drimoleague, Dunmanway, Bantry.
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I actually met the gentleman that owns the Liffey Junction GSR board once, he got it out of the canal where it had been dumped.
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In reality, middle aged Boris sitting at his laptop in Vladivostok.
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Haven't seen dogs, just loads of Thai girls who got interested in railways all of a sudden.
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Have been roped into an admin role on one, god knows why, its unreal the numbers of bogus accounts and bots that spam fb groups.
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Serving suspended sentences.
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How was it that such a recently built loco was that knackered?
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1. Late 60s possibly? 2. Two digit date, abbreviated 3 letter month, two digit year. 3. As above, a lot of preserved lines have them still. 4. Mix of railways printing their own or contracted out to printers. The GSR were known to have printed their own and the GSR, for a while at least, printed tickets for the CDRJC for their stations in the south to avoid customs duties.
