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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Have two. I'm very trustworthy.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    In fairness MM aren't an operation run by plug tobacco pipe smoking old fellows not au fait with the concept of online sales. Good way to lose custom.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    In this day and age to advertise something as in stock and find out afterwards it isn't. Unacceptable.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Oh come on. Really?
  5. minister_for_hardship
    They sure saw him coming.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Clunky awful looking and awful to use site. Heaps of items out of stock too. As this country's main hobby shop they should really up their game, all the more at this time.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    I did nazi that coming.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    You would have to sell Nazi memorabilia, cocaine, guns maybe a kidney to get thrown off ebay.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Youghal would have been like pushing an open door for rebuilding. Why are they getting interested in expanding all of a sudden after turning down that open goal?
  10. minister_for_hardship
    The two sets of reports of the accidental collision between CC1 and one of the early Sulzers confirmed that both locos were in fact stationary leading up to the moment of impact.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Staffs, both large and miniature electric types and manual (one engine in steam) staffs were used widely in Ireland. NCC and Tralee and Dingle preferred tablets. Some GNR lines also had tablets. Cavan and Leitrim used Wise's Patent staffs. The Croom branch had an unusual divisible staff. There were also key token and ball token systems, neither of which used here as far as I know. Edit: NCC had some key token working it seems, the County Down was another tablet user.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Interested. Price compares favourably to "premium" Hornby footbridges.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Depends where the electricity comes from. The windmills everyone wants but not near their house or spoiling their countryside.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    U class would be nice, think these soldiered on until the 70s with broken wheel logo.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    1950s and 60s TH series Hinos (presumably unknown in Ireland) are still working to this day in Burma.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    A CIE "P" class, Leyland Leopard or the likes, the yellow "Bus Scoile". Lots of classic double deck choice, hardly any provincial buses.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Shouldn't think so, the firebox needed to be altered slightly internally as oil tended to burn hotter than coal. Coal importation simply resumed to pre war levels of quality after a while, that's probably about all.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    It was quite common in countries and regions without a readily available coal supply.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    The white circles were an indication to the signalman that it was a oil burner and wouldn't get stuck mid section bailing out a bad fire. Non oil burners burnt any sort of barely combustible rubbish that was to hand at the time, slack, briquettes, Inchicore experimental fuel, etc.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Apart from the front, the original Arrow livery really stood out. The current silver and green only looks attractive when clean and out in rare bouts of bright sunlight, any other occasion it appears dowdy.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Wagon plate. Almost always oval or shaped like a letter D, straight side up.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    When did CSE cease using the Rustons? 1980s?
  23. minister_for_hardship
    The green was possibly a generic builders applied livery, don't think CSE had a "house" livery. The steam loco livery wasn't consistent, lining, no lining. Brass numbers/painted on numbers.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Some ex DNGR 6 wheelers made it into GSR stock via 2nd hands sold to the CBSCR.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Think it may be from a LC gate or ground signal. I saw a pic of one online but can't find it now. Definitely not a horse carriage, not with those red lenses. It looks like it was designed to turn thru 90 degrees to show either red or white to oncoming traffic, white lights were once used in lieu of green to show all clear. If it is stamped anywhere, it's going to be on the oil reservoir or the chimney, usually oppose the seam. Lots of them weren't marked at all though.
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