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  1. 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.
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    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.
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    Wagon plate. Almost always oval or shaped like a letter D, straight side up.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    When did CSE cease using the Rustons? 1980s?
  5. 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.
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    Some ex DNGR 6 wheelers made it into GSR stock via 2nd hands sold to the CBSCR.
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    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.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Entitled instant self gratification send Ebay prices through the roof. Good things come to those who wait.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    A building falling to pieces in a large tourist area; an absolute disgrace and eyesore. I don't know why KK council haven't got on Irish Rail's case to do something with it. It's been like that for what, 2 decades? Many IE stations have been uglified by modern additions but this another level, by far the worst neglect in a highly visible touristed location.
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    It's odd men went to great lengths to hack off and disappear Queen Vic's plates and not touch King Ed's.
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    Nothing these days.He's retired. Invented position to shuffle someone into before retirement. IE don't have a heritage officer now.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    The West Clare one was called "A Minute's Wait" part of a three part film entitled "Three Leaves of a Shamrock". It's a stage Irish skit with the usual theatre sorts in attendance. There were railway sequences on Into The West, Darling Lili, Michael Collins, The First Great Train Robbery, loads more thaf others can fill in.
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    Nice display boards, shame about at least two mispellings and a fecked up 'GSW&R' on the recreated tickets. Can't comment on the Irish language part, that usually contains some clangers on public signage. Doesn't anyone proof read anything anymore?
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    I'm assuming that the bulk of goods traffic in old days could be manhandled or otherwise trolleyed on or off and only small percentage needed to be craned, noting that closed vans appear to predominate in goods trains. Labour was cheap and plenty bodies around.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    I don't think anything will be preserved here. Left in the undergrowth or taken away by the scrapman to make way for a car park more likely.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Craven coaches and Craven A's.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    We had a knack for, let's say, less than legal ways of getting around a hard border with tariffs in the past. Who's up for some old fashioned smuggling?
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    It's daft parrotting platform numerals in both languages, a "3" is a "3" whether it's Irish or English. I wasn't fussed about the older orange/black ones. The orange lettering was hard to see against white background in poor light and made worse by signs fading, rendering orange nearly invisible.
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    Oh dear, I might have missed my train if it wasn't for the natty green stripe.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Constant fecking around with corporate image keeps signmakers in business.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Night soil. Such a polite euphemism. Never heard of trains carrying, there was a boat that carried the stuff out of Dublin and dumped it in the Irish Sea.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    "Can" I would assume is a low capacity milk container with a carry handle for a few gals of the stuff. A bit bigger than a Billy can. Churn is a commonplace term. I tried to find out what a milk "butt" was. Don't Google it, just. Don't.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    In Derryglad Folk Museum collection. Milk consignment label.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    GSR milk dockets. Found heaps of these in a parcels office years ago.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Railway station branded milk churns.
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