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On 31/03/2021 at 6:18 PM, jhb171achill said:

You'd actually be surprised what a Giant's Causeway one could throw up! A line with a fascinating and very unique history......

Is the latest reincarnation still locked up out of use, covid notwithstanding?

1 hour ago, murrayec said:

Baltimore railway station is closer to the village than the Lifeboat station, the building still stands although a bit modified by previous use as a sailing school and other things;-

Eoin

 

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.

10 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

The last photo though is actually narrow gauge West Clare railway No 5, possibly the " W C" initials fooled the Editor/Author! 

A blooper like that wouldn't have happened during Wally McGrath's time!

5 hours ago, skinner75 said:

 

Looks like something similar to Michael Portillo's show

Going by the photo it looks like a Scandi noir drama.

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

And you've got the "old" post office green too!

For scenery nerds, I am unsure when the current lighter green came into play - 1970s?

I'll need one of those pillar boxes myself - you seem to only be able to get them in packs of half a dozen....

Wall boxes and the smaller kind of postbox that straps to a telegraph pole are more common than pillar boxes outside of cities.

32 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

The origional one snapped on half and was recently removed.....god knows what happened to it 

 

Not a gsr sign but waterfall is also still at halfway vintage club

The house was sold recently.

1 hour ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Im aware that At least skeaf and drimoleagie survived. Clon junction has a replica one but to be fair there is probobly plenty more i dont know about

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.

On 31/03/2020 at 12:39 PM, jhb171achill said:

 

What about Wisht Caaark? Certainly a lot of their stations never got GSR enamels.

 

Ones that got them; Albert Quay, Ballinhassig, Crossbarry, B'neen & E'keen, Bandon, Clon Jct, Skeaf, Creagh, Drimoleague, Dunmanway, Bantry.

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.

59 minutes ago, Irishswissernie said:

A fair number of these seem to be Eastern European or Asian young  maidens! 

In reality, middle aged Boris sitting at his laptop in Vladivostok.

5 minutes ago, Irishswissernie said:

Our late Border collie Chumbawallah Pondicherry still has a facebook account created by my daughters . One of their facebook friends regularly corresponded with him for 6 months before she realised he was a dog!

Haven't seen dogs, just loads of Thai girls who got interested in railways all of a sudden.

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.

8 hours ago, Lambeg man said:

A wee story about that photograph. We were in a hire car doing a 'fly/drive' holiday. I stopped the car just off the former level crossing and walked back to take the photo. About 2 seconds after I clicked the shutter button, that little group on the left all began to run towards me. As they were obviously 'hostile', I legged it back to the car and drove away. I think it may have been the camera they were after. 30 years on I wonder where they are all now!  

Serving suspended sentences.

On 04/03/2021 at 9:54 PM, jhb171achill said:

That is correct. Within a week, she was to be steamed for her boiler test.

She was lit up, and after many hours couldn't raise enough steam to complete the test.

Thus, she failed it and that was that.

She is evidently so far beyond restoration that a total rebuild would be necessary - and THAT verdict was made thirty years ago! So it's now almost half a century since she was steamed - and then only as described above.

How was it that such a recently built loco was that knackered?

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.

On 17/02/2021 at 7:31 PM, Garfield said:

It's a standard EMD loco key, so would work with all those types. Like carriage keys, you need a good reason to be entrusted with one so they're not easy to get hold of.

Have two. I'm very trustworthy.

7 hours ago, Noel said:

Yes but in fairness it seems to happen more frequently than one might hope with some of the smaller online sites. I've had this occur in the past even with Peters Spares, Osbourne Models, Gaugemaster, Element Games, etc. Its annoying but not the end of the world.

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 hours ago, irishmail said:

What do you mean by that comment?

In this day and age to advertise something as in stock and find out afterwards it isn't. Unacceptable.

6 hours ago, irishmail said:

  I recently ordered some items from Marks via their website and it said items where in stock,  few days later got phone call to say two items where not available 

Oh come on. Really?

On 28/02/2021 at 12:57 AM, WRENNEIRE said:

The seller had paid £200 to have it cleaned and repainted!!!

 

 

 

They sure saw him coming.

On 27/02/2021 at 9:04 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Agreed on the Marks website. It looks like something that a scammer would have built twenty years ago, and it's very diffiicult to spend money with them as a result.

 

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.

11 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I have a box of each for sale, €100 for the lot. Postage free.

I did nazi that coming.

1 hour ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I hope he was BANNED from ebay forever for that kind of sugar honey ice tea

 

You could buy 1 of every MM loco for that money brand new and still have plently left over

You would have to sell Nazi memorabilia, cocaine, guns maybe a kidney to get thrown off ebay.

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?

On 01/02/2021 at 11:00 PM, jhb171achill said:

 

I love these old railwaymen's stories - they all just show up that we're all human throughout the ages!

 

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.