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They've only been brewing it there for like 60 years.

Have seen loads of those too. A link to nerd out on insulators here. https://teleramics.com/type/indextype.html

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.

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.

Please point out where one could have a rtr A class pre IRM for those of us who aren't workbench wizards?

Oh god, there's always one.

As Lima once did, a Fowler 4F could pass as a Cattle Engine.

Off the top of my head; Dublin, Tralee, Wexford Quay, Passage (CB&PR), Fivemiletown/Caledon (Clogher Valley).

There's still spots, it's the advance tickets intended for staff are gone.

I walked the course of that a good few years ago, I picked up this fence wire tensioner along the way, not far from that viaduct I think.

Its being lifted, probably most if not all of it done by now, for the by now ubiquitous "greenway".

The South Wexford booking offices as far as I know were identical or near identical, being all constructed for the Fishguard & Rosslare Railways & Harbours. The DWWR had variations on the arc roofed shed theme, probably in different sizes for various classes of station or halt. At least one cabin (Gorey) carried a contractors sign saying it was built by Thompsons of Carlow. These would have been subbed out to specialist contractors like Thompsons rather than built by the railways themselves.

Funny that regular trains haven't made a "choo choo" sound in over a half century that kids (and not a few adults) still call them that.

The only thing left standing in 2022 in those scenes is the stationmaster's cottage, just visible in the first photo.

The second photo is of Loo Bridge, the building is still there, it was a youth hostel for a while.

Exactly. A schnakey way of getting more hits.

Horse sold separately.

This x 1000. There are models that do not interest me personally but I dont go out of my way to dump all over them. If someone is able to produce and sell them whether it's a 22k or a J15 fair play to them. If you dont like them dont buy them. Others will be glad to have them on their layouts.

A strange looking Temperance banner.

I think it may have been in the aftermath of the 1983 Cherryville collision?

In the catacombs of Cark public museum.

It's not in the Rules, it's in the Appendix to the Working Timetable.

I always disliked that linkage of "agricultural" appearance running along the boiler. Spoils the look for me.

Looks a bit on the big side.

All North British Loco of Glasgow products. Scarva, class QG of 1903, passed to CIE, scrapped 1962. Mars, class QL of 1907, scrapped 1957. Culloville, class LQG of 1906, passed to UTA, scrapped 1958.