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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Nothing these days.He's retired. Invented position to shuffle someone into before retirement. IE don't have a heritage officer now.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    The West Clare one was called "A Minute's Wait" part of a three part film entitled "Three Leaves of a Shamrock". It's a stage Irish skit with the usual theatre sorts in attendance. There were railway sequences on Into The West, Darling Lili, Michael Collins, The First Great Train Robbery, loads more thaf others can fill in.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Nice display boards, shame about at least two mispellings and a fecked up 'GSW&R' on the recreated tickets. Can't comment on the Irish language part, that usually contains some clangers on public signage. Doesn't anyone proof read anything anymore?
  4. minister_for_hardship
    I'm assuming that the bulk of goods traffic in old days could be manhandled or otherwise trolleyed on or off and only small percentage needed to be craned, noting that closed vans appear to predominate in goods trains. Labour was cheap and plenty bodies around.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    I don't think anything will be preserved here. Left in the undergrowth or taken away by the scrapman to make way for a car park more likely.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Craven coaches and Craven A's.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    We had a knack for, let's say, less than legal ways of getting around a hard border with tariffs in the past. Who's up for some old fashioned smuggling?
  8. minister_for_hardship
    It's daft parrotting platform numerals in both languages, a "3" is a "3" whether it's Irish or English. I wasn't fussed about the older orange/black ones. The orange lettering was hard to see against white background in poor light and made worse by signs fading, rendering orange nearly invisible.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Oh dear, I might have missed my train if it wasn't for the natty green stripe.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Constant fecking around with corporate image keeps signmakers in business.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Night soil. Such a polite euphemism. Never heard of trains carrying, there was a boat that carried the stuff out of Dublin and dumped it in the Irish Sea.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    "Can" I would assume is a low capacity milk container with a carry handle for a few gals of the stuff. A bit bigger than a Billy can. Churn is a commonplace term. I tried to find out what a milk "butt" was. Don't Google it, just. Don't.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    In Derryglad Folk Museum collection. Milk consignment label.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    GSR milk dockets. Found heaps of these in a parcels office years ago.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Railway station branded milk churns.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    The sort of people who get sniffy at "Box shifters" are the same kind who turn their noses up at a beer unless it's hand crafted ethically by waxed moustached men in a cave in Antarctica. Seriously, I couldn't dabble without mail order, what with cv19 restrictions and living nowhere near a brick and mortar model shop.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Waterford location, DSER chair. Someone's paid a visit to the New Ross branch.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    GN, SLNCR or Clogher Valley things would be well received at Headhunters Enniskillen. Well worth a look when things improve.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Thanks, that makes sense of most of what's there.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    This is what is there. Probably 1 (complete?) kit and three quarters of another. The single cage with kegs that came with it have been located.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Would anyone have a set of instructions for this they could scan or take a pic of please? Unearthed a kit and some oddments but the instructions sheet missing and would like to get it done while things are leisurely. Thanks.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Amtrak Joe?
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Harcourt St station. 1900s or 1910s?
  24. minister_for_hardship
    I don't know about millions, maybe a few more cups of takeaway coffee at the cafes and garages. Bike hire places on the Waterford Greenway are experiencing trouble getting insurance cover with current compo culture. Seasonal businesses not exactly a licence for printing money and of course taking the CV19 hit now.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Oof!
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