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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Have been roped into an admin role on one, god knows why, its unreal the numbers of bogus accounts and bots that spam fb groups.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Serving suspended sentences.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    How was it that such a recently built loco was that knackered?
  4. minister_for_hardship
    1. Late 60s possibly? 2. Two digit date, abbreviated 3 letter month, two digit year. 3. As above, a lot of preserved lines have them still. 4. Mix of railways printing their own or contracted out to printers. The GSR were known to have printed their own and the GSR, for a while at least, printed tickets for the CDRJC for their stations in the south to avoid customs duties.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Have two. I'm very trustworthy.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    In fairness MM aren't an operation run by plug tobacco pipe smoking old fellows not au fait with the concept of online sales. Good way to lose custom.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    In this day and age to advertise something as in stock and find out afterwards it isn't. Unacceptable.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Oh come on. Really?
  9. minister_for_hardship
    They sure saw him coming.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Clunky awful looking and awful to use site. Heaps of items out of stock too. As this country's main hobby shop they should really up their game, all the more at this time.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    I did nazi that coming.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    You would have to sell Nazi memorabilia, cocaine, guns maybe a kidney to get thrown off ebay.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Youghal would have been like pushing an open door for rebuilding. Why are they getting interested in expanding all of a sudden after turning down that open goal?
  14. minister_for_hardship
    The two sets of reports of the accidental collision between CC1 and one of the early Sulzers confirmed that both locos were in fact stationary leading up to the moment of impact.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Staffs, both large and miniature electric types and manual (one engine in steam) staffs were used widely in Ireland. NCC and Tralee and Dingle preferred tablets. Some GNR lines also had tablets. Cavan and Leitrim used Wise's Patent staffs. The Croom branch had an unusual divisible staff. There were also key token and ball token systems, neither of which used here as far as I know. Edit: NCC had some key token working it seems, the County Down was another tablet user.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Interested. Price compares favourably to "premium" Hornby footbridges.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Depends where the electricity comes from. The windmills everyone wants but not near their house or spoiling their countryside.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    U class would be nice, think these soldiered on until the 70s with broken wheel logo.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    1950s and 60s TH series Hinos (presumably unknown in Ireland) are still working to this day in Burma.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    A CIE "P" class, Leyland Leopard or the likes, the yellow "Bus Scoile". Lots of classic double deck choice, hardly any provincial buses.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Shouldn't think so, the firebox needed to be altered slightly internally as oil tended to burn hotter than coal. Coal importation simply resumed to pre war levels of quality after a while, that's probably about all.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    It was quite common in countries and regions without a readily available coal supply.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    The white circles were an indication to the signalman that it was a oil burner and wouldn't get stuck mid section bailing out a bad fire. Non oil burners burnt any sort of barely combustible rubbish that was to hand at the time, slack, briquettes, Inchicore experimental fuel, etc.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Apart from the front, the original Arrow livery really stood out. The current silver and green only looks attractive when clean and out in rare bouts of bright sunlight, any other occasion it appears dowdy.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Wagon plate. Almost always oval or shaped like a letter D, straight side up.
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