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  1. minister_for_hardship
    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.
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    Its being lifted, probably most if not all of it done by now, for the by now ubiquitous "greenway".
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    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.
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    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.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    The only thing left standing in 2022 in those scenes is the stationmaster's cottage, just visible in the first photo.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    The second photo is of Loo Bridge, the building is still there, it was a youth hostel for a while.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Exactly. A schnakey way of getting more hits.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Horse sold separately.
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    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.
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    A strange looking Temperance banner.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    I think it may have been in the aftermath of the 1983 Cherryville collision?
  12. minister_for_hardship
    In the catacombs of Cark public museum.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    It's not in the Rules, it's in the Appendix to the Working Timetable.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    I always disliked that linkage of "agricultural" appearance running along the boiler. Spoils the look for me.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Looks a bit on the big side.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    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.
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    It's lined "photographic grey", they were intended to be GNRI green but green appears black or nearly black in b and w photos and doesnt show detail very well so they were painted grey for their works photos.
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    Amazingly sharp photos too for the time. You can zoom in and read the signal cabin clockmaker's names on the dials in some of them. Some nice photos of staff at rest and work too. I find the standard 3/4 front view of locos and trains without any humans in sight to be rather boring and lifeless. You could be forgiven for thinking that trains ran themselves without any human intervention in some photo collections.
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    Absolutely ridiculous two decades into the 21st century we have to put up with this. Packages being inspected returned to sender, disappearing into Limbo, receiving ransom notes from Revenue and An Post. Bloody 19th century Pony Express would have been more reliable, efficient, and cheaper! It's all very well to say buy local or buy EU but when the most popular scale most on here model in is by and large a uk thing.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Irish-Travel-Posters May be useful for those who want to print off miniature versions for their layout.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Investment loco buyers, it's worse than the property market.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Well yes and no. Preserved steam on public display some might say is, unfairly, concentrated at Cultra and precious little elsewhere. There are probably zero(?) standard gauge steam locos on display in the whole of Munster and Leinster bar 36.
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    Shame that 36's tender didn't make it but still very lucky that it survived at all. Came within a whisker of scrapping I'll bet. Who had the 5" model?
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Some faded lettering can be made out on the doors, Road Merchandise(?) Services. It must not have been in service very long having never been repainted.
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