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The little grey Fergie was the death knell for farm horses and donkeys though.

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.

Wait. What?

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.

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".

Was it one of the former Westrail's fleet I wonder?

It's a yoke that do be pulled by train engines. I thought that was obvious.

Donegal town railway museum?

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.

I'm all for inclusivity but letting colour blind people pick the paint out? The pinstriping position is a bit odd too.

Deafening silence when quizzed by media 'no one available for comment' - state bodies here tend to circle the wagons (pardon the pun)

Both railways are pretty remote from Dublin, and the main tourist trails, to be fair.

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.

Did they ever stray beyond the former DSE or did they mainly stay put until withdrawal?

I was quietly impressed with the added sound effects until they stuck in a United Statesian chime whistle.

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.

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.

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.

Recieved a copy as a gift at Christmas. It's annoying that few of the images give the source or the photographer credit. Some I recognise from Irish Railways in Colour.

GSR horses in horse boxes.

Race specials and horse fairs you'd have long rakes of those horse wagons. The Midland had ones with a compartment for the groom and even a built-in dog kennel, perhaps catering to the hunting set. The ones with groom's compartments still retained oil interior lighting long, long after it had disappeared from regular coaching stock.

A p*ss poor imitation of the bogus T&DLR notice also doing the rounds. It looks like something manufactured in a backyard Chinese foundry. More fool whoever buys that piece of junk. Websites hosting these dont care even if they are reported unless they are human body parts or associated with a failed Austrian artist.

The other Tayto (the Free Staytos) did a choc bar a few years back. It wasn't the rip roaring success they thought it would be, in fact I think its discontinued.

Just regular vans were used, no dedicated fish only vans I'm aware of.

Imagine if they did a GAA related series and fecked it up, or a historical documentary and showed a pic of Collins and said it was Dev, as they're both two ould rebels who fought in 1916, like, who cares...there would be uproar. Joe Duffy would be inundated. But broadcast any poorly researched railway shyte, and no one complains.