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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Harcourt St station. 1900s or 1910s?
  2. minister_for_hardship
    I don't know about millions, maybe a few more cups of takeaway coffee at the cafes and garages. Bike hire places on the Waterford Greenway are experiencing trouble getting insurance cover with current compo culture. Seasonal businesses not exactly a licence for printing money and of course taking the CV19 hit now.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Oof!
  4. minister_for_hardship
    The rear section is not unlike Wynn's Folly aka Glenbeigh towers near Glenbeigh. A cut down modified gatehouse would resemble so many dotted around the countryside as the entrance to former "demenses". Mock Tudor/Tudor Revival was a popular style with the Ascendancy.
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    Platforms, concrete footings of booking office and brick base of cabin are there.
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    I do have a very early unmarked chair recovered a number of years ago in a disused tunnel, and appears to be intended for double headed rail, a short lived type. Unlike bullhead rail, double headed was symmetrical and designed to be flipped over when one surface wore down. The downside was it made for a very rough road.
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    From the CIE publicity; silver Metrovicks, unpainted "silver" rolling stock and a brief flirtation with the Silver Princess coach it looks like they were attempting to make a break from dowdy green and have (at least superficially) modern space-age rolling stock, only for the oil and smoke sputtering Crossley power plants putting paid to that.
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    Common foundry marks are: P&P Pease & Partners Darlington WP&Co Wilsons, Pease & Co Middlesbrough HW&Co Henry Williams & Co Glasgow AFCoLd Anderston Foundry Co Glasgow and Middlesbrough GKN Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds Birmingham I don't know if there was a native chair casting industry. Due to the volumes required I doubt it.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    It's gone to a private site, but not before local kids and the elements had a go at it. C227 I think. No idea what the fake C202 number business was about.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    What lighting fixtures were used on these in CIE days? I'm assuming they were still oil lit by then? If so, would the GWR ones on the Dart Castings site suit? I'm assuming they didn't have ventilators?
  11. minister_for_hardship
    The middle picture has what look like 1960s or 70s cars on the street. I'm assuming it was taken after closure to passengers but before the large goods store was demolished. The chairs may have been laid and relaid with sleeper and rail renewals over the years.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    I had one up until a year or two ago before moving it on. They are that long.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Some images from a sheet of pre Grouping signal standards, including some Irish, possibly from a signalling contractor. Includes a colour key.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    In reality, cab lighting is flicked on to read or write for a minute or so and then flicked off again. Most of the time drivers have it off anyhow. Ever try driving your car with the interior light on all the time? No, me neither.
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    I wanted to pick up a few bits to keep me busy so tried to shop local with Marks first. Very dated site, like something from 20 years ago, and not at all phone friendly. In the end went to the UK for both variety (frustrating the number of things out of stock) and price and to spare my eyesight. Sadly I think the brick and mortar model shop outside of a big city is a thing of the past and more so given CV19. We're not out of the woods, not by a long shot.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Or was rather. It's been scrapped since 2010, failed preservation attempt. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?237472
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Hard to believe but all that rail network was built relatively recently. Albania was the only European country not to have a standard passenger carrying railway before WW2. Sadly it appears that trains have stopped running there now due to CV19.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    CIE public timetable booklets of the time were full of ads for Afton cigarettes.
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    I have a notion they were stencilled "CIE" or "GS", etc, with an id number. Need photo or eye witness evidence regarding this and colour.
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    The detail pack has four really tiny lamp irons, but no locating hole or recess for them on the model that I can see. There's a black cylinder like thing and two red coloured squares in the pack, but I don't have the foggiest where they are supposed to go. Also are the cables intended for later 121s?? On the plus side the oil lamps are a welcome addition.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    The long defunct R.O.P. (Russian Oil Products) aka Rotten Old Petrol.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    What we have here are a cohort of folks, with the connivance of certain of the legal eagles, who go out of their way to "injure" themselves, exaggerate injuries and so forth in hopes of a payout that would not be entertained on the Continent. That's why we have to plaster signs over everything and anything, build fences etc.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Nothing north of the border save Dub-Belfast, Belfast-Cultra. Haven't done Westport or Ballina branches. Everything else currently open covered, including mothballed South Wex.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Maybe removed and stored for use in coaches in service.
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