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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Named after Newcomen Bridge, wasn't it? Not directly after Newcomen. Nesbitt Junction specifically named after a landowner, Miss Downey Nesbitt who largely paid for the Edenderry branch.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Oddball ones were Inny Junction/Liffey Junction after rivers. Nesbitt Junction is the only one I'm aware of here named after a person.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Former and current junction stations never getting the suffix Junction; Mallow, Banteer, Streamstown, Gortatlea, Roscrea, Sallins, etc. was there criteria for being called Junction or just historical accident or local or official preference?
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Salmon pink ends? Was that day glo panels before that concept was even thought of?
  5. minister_for_hardship
    I think it may be more to do with the GSR being dominated in almost every way by the former GS&WR, hence everything had to fall into line with Inchicore practice. Inchicore was never all that fond of colourful liveries, brass and copper fripperies and evocative loco names.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    The GSR went to great pains to remove traces of past ownership, name plates, number plates/numerals and works plates went into the melting pot. Only a very few locos, those that rarely or never got called to Inchicore for attention escaped.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    They were used on most if not all of the short branches, Athboy, Killeshandra, Edenderry. Achill and Clifden branches as well, although think they were banned in later years, both of those would be a bit of a strain on a small tank with limited fuel and water. After amalgamation, DSE section, Tramore as you say, Courtmac, Cork City and quays, Fenit branch.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Voices on it are daft, like a pirate!
  9. minister_for_hardship
    I really don't know what it is with companies getting makeovers. Take CIE, the first two logos had a decent run and then it's a rehash every few years. Imo the original of the species wouldn't look out of place on modern stock even now, like BR double arrows you could tell what it was without explanatory text used for the current origami tricolour / "confused bat". DB has had a few tweaks but still near identical logo but same house colours for decades.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    I have seen GS&WR and GSR tickets date stamped well into the 1950s. No throwaway culture then. Rather than order new sets of tickets, just use up older stock.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Purchased from the GSWR, ex Waterford & Wexford Railway "Cambria", built by Hunslet in 1894, withdrawn 1928. The DSER purchase was the engine bit of a steam railmotor, proven to be unsuitable and had a short career with the D&BST.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    As CIÉs pioneer diesels they had historical interest but save for Whitehead shunting, of limited use to the RPSI.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    I think all bets are off with a looming recession on the way.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    What is protruding from the cab roof? A whistle? Some economy with the single wiper too.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Not many, 13 in total. Biggest users, if single figures are big, L&LSR, BC&RBR, Ballycastle Railway. Others include, Belfast Central Railway, Belfast Harbour Commissioners, Butler and Fry (contractors I assume)
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Actually come to think of it, there were electric Siemens locos used at Ardnacrusha.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    No, the 1889 Percival/Burke indoor electric railway, Christian Bros Exhibition, Corn Exchange, Cork. A Curtis electric motor from this should be still up in the North Mon, it was used afterwards for classroom demonstrations and, used at least once, to provide storm sound effects in a weeks run of The Tempest at the Opera House.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Another one.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    What wasn't destroyed by war was destroyed by neglect and demolition ball but I digress.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Correct. There weren't any scrap drives here as happened in the UK.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Terrible cringeworthy captions for the archive of a national institution, they should have either left them off or given the job to someone who may know a thing or two instead of Emer on work experience.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Anyone got this book yet? Noticed a very passable representation of a GS&WR 2-4-0 on the cover, the last of which lasted in service until 1928, never having passed to CIE. Good to see a little bit of research into what an Irish loco looks like, not picking out a stock picture of a "train".
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Hard to say, looks like an unaltered factory finish so probably dark red. Pannier box appears darker, maybe black. Saw the pic somewhere else before, most likely "Nuacht".
  24. minister_for_hardship
    I think it may have been used for small parcels within Dublin city centre.
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