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minister_for_hardship
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The only(?) Ng Irish line with a subway between platforms instead of a footbridge or barrow crossing at Carrigaline.
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Easier access to cylinders I guess. Less rural than the C&L or T&D, no need for a hulking great buffer beam and cowcatcher. Only one ungated crossing at Passage.
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Preserved mark 3 coach in….CIE GREEN?!?!
minister_for_hardship replied to Westcorkrailway's topic in News
People lived in Ford Motor Company boxes at one point, and old buses and railway coaches. 'Glamping' before that term was invented. -
I imagine it's a simplified valve gear, it does make it look more like a toy than a proper model.
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DWWR 1:1 scale building for sale
minister_for_hardship replied to minister_for_hardship's topic in General Chat
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Happened to hear mention on the radio of an Animals of Dublin exhibition in the Little Museum of Dublin and cute story, the BnT livery was inspired by artist Patrick Scott's orange/black/white cat. My go-to book On The Move (O'Riain) does not say how it came about and my other go-to book Railway Heraldry (George Dow) mentioned that the change from green to BnT was "on the advice of Scandinavian industrial consultants". So anyone know the definitive answer? Jhb looking at you.
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Fully grown adult MEN, not kids, who you'd think would have sense. This activity appears to be tolerated on the continent, there should be severely fined here to make an example of them.
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Mound of earth and sleepers, topped with what looks like a tin shed. Likely nothing left.
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The old B&NCR house style on the older No 4.
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I've seen way worse, they did the job they were designed to do.
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CIE 356, Bulleid's Dr Frankenstein's monster!
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"Pat", the Cork coal gantry loco. Bodged together from an ancient Wakefield tender, vertical boiler, odds and sods and added customised corrugated iron sheet weather protection.
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Re-Purposing Ones Old Railway Track
minister_for_hardship replied to murrayec's topic in ECM Model Trains
Have a few holding up sheds and forming fences here, marked variously DW&WR, GS&WR, MGWR and dated in the 1870s/1880s and some very small unmarked flat bottomed stuff. -
Very, very few named after native kings or chieftains, just two were named after Brian Boru (W&LR and Giant's Causeway) Most named after figures from Greek or Roman classics and as you say placenames, directors their families and their homes. Rivers, mountains, animals/birds and saints featured.
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Not really missing the overpriced refreshments either, I'll bring my own thanks. Bringing in contractors has been a race to the bottom.
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Yanks attempting to pronounce Howth.
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They've only been brewing it there for like 60 years.
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Have seen loads of those too. A link to nerd out on insulators here. https://teleramics.com/type/indextype.html
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I've seen hundreds of GPO and P&T ones. The real rarity is a red coloured one for lines carrying electricity, saw one once ever at an IR railway station, still in place and unbroken but no longer carrying any wires.
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I never said it was, one way or the other. It was simply all that was available to many for a long time. Half a loaf is better than no bread.
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Please point out where one could have a rtr A class pre IRM for those of us who aren't workbench wizards?
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Oh god, there's always one.
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As Lima once did, a Fowler 4F could pass as a Cattle Engine.
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Off the top of my head; Dublin, Tralee, Wexford Quay, Passage (CB&PR), Fivemiletown/Caledon (Clogher Valley).
