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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.

On 6/3/2023 at 11:58 AM, jhb171achill said:

Anyone seen the repaint on the RPSI genny van?

It’s a strange purply magic-mushroom colour.

I'm all for inclusivity but letting colour blind people pick the paint out?

The pinstriping position is a bit odd too.

On 12/2/2023 at 10:44 AM, spudfan said:

The old maxim of "measure twice, cut once" does not seem to have been followed here. I wonder if this had happened on Irish Rail would anyone have been held responsible or the units just stored in Inchicore as a new expensive sound barrier?

$276 million was spent on 31 Spanish trains before it was realized they were too big to fit in the tunnels (msn.com)

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

3 hours ago, hurricanemk1c said:

Lot more than just that, as the gauge is over 350mm would have to meet the full CRR requirements (for a loco have a look at document CRR-036A). Restoring it would be the simple part, everything else around it wouldn't be and probably not worth it when there's currently two heritage railways with steam, and more on the horizon

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.

On 16/2/2023 at 6:05 PM, jhb171achill said:

complementary, rather than "in competition with" the Hattons CIE coaches. I had requested the above in GSR maroon, but there is no reason why it should not have been finished in the older (darker) CIE green, as some of this type lasted until the late 1940s. As an aside, there seems to have been a pogrom of DSER stock in 1949-50, so I'm pretty sure no DSER six-wheelers lasted long enough to have the lighter green; but a layout based in the 1945-50 period can have a mix of GSR maroon and dark lined green, and including both GSWR (Hattons) types, and DSER types. The background is quite simple - passenger trains in these times scarcely ever had even two coaches the same type. Quite prototypically, a typical train on the DSER might have one of these, a DSER bogie, a GSWR six-wheeler, a Bredin and a MGWR bogie. (jhb171Senior recalled large numbers of MGWR & GSWR six-wheelers being drafted onto the Bray - Harcourt St., and Bray - Amiens St. routes very soon after the GSR came into being. He recalled going to school (on the Harcourt St line) in "unusual" coaches instead of this one above....).

One of the above in CIE green will add this very type of variety to a train of the Hattons ones; both complement each other perfectly. Should KMCE produce other variations, this will absolutely add to the variety, as well as the

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.

Well meaning but unrealistic Euro-twaddle. No quick buck to be made hence no interest.

https://www.anglocelt.ie/2023/01/17/the-south-kerry-greenway/

This time aimed at food anoraks. Let's see how many rail related things they get hopelessly wrong!

1 hour ago, leslie10646 said:

Actually, there's no need to emulate that autocracy.

When they decided to get on with Midleton -  Oliver Doyle and Co, spurred on their boss Dick Fearn, literally did sweep into Co Cork to bulldozer their way through the overgrowth to rediscover the trackbed. Jim Mead strikes me as a guy who will spur another generation to similar acts.

Only because Midleton wanted it and was hoarse from shouting for it. Youghal on the other hand, couldn't care less. Railway...greenway...briars... like whatever man.

IR left to its own devices would never have reopened it.

They don't call the NTA the No Trains Authority for nothing.

https://www.live95fm.ie/news/live95-news/rail-works-causing-homes-privacy-and-security-to-be-stripped-away/

Home owners: we need to meet climate targets and there's too many big lorries on the roads.

Also home owners: but a train driver will be able to see into my house now.

Some people seriously need to give their heads a wobble. I bet these same sorts would often be the ones using the railway at the end of their precious property as their own personal rubbish tip. Some cheeky sod in Foynes threw his busted home heating oil tank over the wall into the station yard no less.

Mostly it was a shorter, dumpy-looking sort of lamp used here. The GSWR and GNRI marked their initials on their lamps. Railway Signal Co supplied the GN, the GSWR likely made up their own themselves in Inchicore. 

8 hours ago, Branchline121 said:

If it were to try to be MGWR, they’d have to build a whole new steam locomotive, or try to disguise either 184 or 186 as a J18; although, the thought of a J26 replica is sounding better by the second…

There simply isn't the same level of interest here vs the uk to even consider a new build just to run up and down a few miles of line.

The bus must have been red rotten by now. Hopefully it went to a better home if there was any chance of restoration.