Jump to content

minister_for_hardship

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,752

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    3

 Content Type 

Everything posted by minister_for_hardship

  1. minister_for_hardship
    Don't look through the possibly thousands of references to the logo on this site as they will no doubt cause offense. It's CIE, it's not like it ever had a TGV or a Bullet Train.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    G.F. Egan the last engineer and deputy manager was noted for being accommodating to visiting enthusiasts, I guess if the writing was on the wall anyhow no-one would care too much about a few guests in the guards van, especially in those far off pre compo culture days.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Plenty? 12%, from CCC's own report, on the net. All submissions received are there for perusal. "Of the 388 public submissions, 312 (80%) were supportive of the proposed development. Of the total public submissions, 46 (12%) were opposed to the proposed Greenway and instead favoured the reopening of the railway. The remaining 32 (8%) submissions were neither clearly in favour nor against the proposed development and made observations or comments on the proposed development."
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Historically we used repaints/kit bashes and surgery of British 00 as nothing on the continent with very few exceptions (GNRI Mak, Deutz, CSE O&K and Cockerills) were remotely similar to Irish stock in appearance. We are left with this gauge/scale screw up because British manufacturers couldn't fit their large motors of the time into bodyshells.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    It's funny that many who may have problems with a railcar see no issue with 00 scale stock on 'HO' gauge track, wrong for UK outline not to mind Irish. It's fine, it's the Irish equivalent of a Hornby freelance loco set, it sold well and at a price bracket to suit folks who would baulk at the price of something like a RTR J15 I've no problem with that. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's as simple as that.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    I'd like to know where the local opposition was during the public consultation stage.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Smoke generator fitted?
  8. minister_for_hardship
    If "Bishop Brennan's" train broke down, all hell would surely break loose. Better safe than sorry.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Cork, Bandon, Bantry, Baltimore, Skibbereen and Schull. (Cork and Macroom, see Omnibus Time Table for Road Motor Services) 12th Sept 1938 until further notice.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    I gather that. In order to have these things online for all to see, resources have to be funded for storage, materials, maintenance, web hosting etc. be that by subscription and/or from the public purse. So if people are interested and have the means, join the IRRS if you want this archive to keep going.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    For what it's worth, any filing, sorting, scanning, putting things online the IRRS does is done by someone on a voluntary basis, the state pays someone to do the same function in the NLI. In an ideal world, a branch of the National Museum would cover industrial heritage and railways. But since there is little interest there in such things it's up to regional museums that may actually take an interest (Limerick and Waterford city museums have an online presence with heaps of rail images) and the IRRS.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Jhb, pretty sure Shannonvale was off limits to locos, even teeny things like 90 hence the horse. If the Sentinels had hung around longer, doing things the Deutz would have done, hired out to CSE in the sugar factories, Newmarket, Loughrea perhaps?
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Standard Sentinel products, albeit the GSR may have made alterations. Built 1927. Initially allocated to Cork and Tralee, one was tried on Castleisland branch. By summer 1931 both were at Tralee, moved to Limerick in 32, but still used in Tralee area on occasion. (Fenit branch?) Worked Markets branch in Limerick until that closed in 1940 and lay out of service until withdrawal. It's a wonder that two fairly modern units couldn't have other work found for them.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    People are free to do whatever they like with their time and money.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    This gave me a chuckle.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Corgi Trackside have the same type van in their range, a transfer from Royal Mail to P 7 T service is all that's needed.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    The GSR list of "locomotive travelling steam and hand cranes." Athlone. 20T steam crane. Cork Glanmire. 7T 18cwts hand crane and *10T steam crane. Cork Albert Qy. * **15T steam crane (not self travelling) Dublin Broadstone. 20T steam crane. Dublin Inchicore. 20T steam crane. Limerick. 20T steam crane and 20T hand crane. Thurles. 10T hand crane. Waterford. 15T steam crane. * Not to run on Macroom section nor between Ballinascarthy and Courtmacsherry. ** For use on CB&SC Section.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    The card included with the Morris van.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    It's all wrong. Wrong livery. Should have a black face and black running gear.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Mullingar would have been an excellent site for a transport museum if Mammy O'Rourke hadn't shot it down.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Interestingly, it was the reason why the Titanic wasn't fully booked out on its maiden voyage, many passengers had postponed their passages until the strike was over. The strike finished a few days before sailing date but too late to have much of an effect.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    That's the wheelbase, so yes 1:54. I would think that would be one reason, or to keep their casting set up all the same size. Nice model but their use of oddball scaling is frustrating from a railway modelling point of view. You can see straight off in the set the Anglia looks huge compared to the horse drawing the post vehicle. Most their range is cheap and cheerful and not that sought after by collectors.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    47mm. In the meantime I uncovered the An Post set, having trawled through Lledo discussions it seems they used an eye watering variety of scales. Some of their buses (not the one in this set) look roughly 00. To be honest, they're a bit primitive, not finely detailed, like diecasts turned out in the 1960s.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Have that model. Far too big for 00. I don't think there's a scale printed on the box, but going by UK forums on these Lledo and Lledo derived diecasts, many are an odd scale of 1:60.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    I don't know about copied, it's generic looking, like all the variations of winged wheels used by numerous (usually European) transport companies.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use

  I accept