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  1. minister_for_hardship
    I had one up until a year or two ago before moving it on. They are that long.
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    Some images from a sheet of pre Grouping signal standards, including some Irish, possibly from a signalling contractor. Includes a colour key.
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    In reality, cab lighting is flicked on to read or write for a minute or so and then flicked off again. Most of the time drivers have it off anyhow. Ever try driving your car with the interior light on all the time? No, me neither.
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    I wanted to pick up a few bits to keep me busy so tried to shop local with Marks first. Very dated site, like something from 20 years ago, and not at all phone friendly. In the end went to the UK for both variety (frustrating the number of things out of stock) and price and to spare my eyesight. Sadly I think the brick and mortar model shop outside of a big city is a thing of the past and more so given CV19. We're not out of the woods, not by a long shot.
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    Or was rather. It's been scrapped since 2010, failed preservation attempt. https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?237472
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    Hard to believe but all that rail network was built relatively recently. Albania was the only European country not to have a standard passenger carrying railway before WW2. Sadly it appears that trains have stopped running there now due to CV19.
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    CIE public timetable booklets of the time were full of ads for Afton cigarettes.
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    I have a notion they were stencilled "CIE" or "GS", etc, with an id number. Need photo or eye witness evidence regarding this and colour.
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    The detail pack has four really tiny lamp irons, but no locating hole or recess for them on the model that I can see. There's a black cylinder like thing and two red coloured squares in the pack, but I don't have the foggiest where they are supposed to go. Also are the cables intended for later 121s?? On the plus side the oil lamps are a welcome addition.
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    The long defunct R.O.P. (Russian Oil Products) aka Rotten Old Petrol.
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    What we have here are a cohort of folks, with the connivance of certain of the legal eagles, who go out of their way to "injure" themselves, exaggerate injuries and so forth in hopes of a payout that would not be entertained on the Continent. That's why we have to plaster signs over everything and anything, build fences etc.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Nothing north of the border save Dub-Belfast, Belfast-Cultra. Haven't done Westport or Ballina branches. Everything else currently open covered, including mothballed South Wex.
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    Maybe removed and stored for use in coaches in service.
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    I would imagine they would have been unloaded firstly by climbing up on top, when fully loaded, then firing them out through the doors when they've dug down to that level to enable them to open. I think the windows would need to be boarded up, they would be shattered in a short time anyhow.
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    Given the number of preserved lines in the UK chances are the purchasers may well have travelled on one. Flying Scotman and Mallard are household names over there. Are Maedhbh or Merlin household names here outside of the enthusiast fraternity? I wouldn't think so!
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    Shame this site, once an intact although derelict terminus, is now unavailable with hotel development. The inevitable greenway is also making inroads into what is left of the trackbed.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Noticed it derailing a lot, put it on a flat surface and one axle, perhaps one of the axleboxes is a bit off, maybe when I made the hole a bit bigger. Any suggestions to rectify this?
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    That looks like the kind of thing, after a bashing around, a few pokes with a screwdriver and a spell in a container of tea could fool the experts. Curiously missing the comma in Company's. Unlike these days, they were sticklers for correct punctuation.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Sometimes that happens with mine. Not on purpose of course.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Unless B Na M resurrect the passenger carrying bog train and operate bog heritage environmental tours after cutting ceases I can't see much else happening.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    If councils were only as enthusiastic about this as they are about greenways!
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Stradbally have assembled short demonstration turf train. Probably the only working demonstration goods in the country.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    I believe the tunnel at Newport is not part of it due to landowner issues. I don't doubt the success of the above but let's not forget that region was already on the tourist map for many many decades, probably kick started by the MGWR, and the results may not be identical in less traditionally touristed areas. Dungarvan was an up and coming town in it's own right before the greenway appeared. There's current debate over a portion of WRC to become greenway, the scenery and towns there are, let's be honest, quite pedestrian at best, unattractive to tourists at worst.
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    The proposed South Kerry greenway is currently mired in a dispute between KCC and farmers over compulsory purchase orders, the land was purchased by farmers from CIE decades ago. There's a great deal of presumption that these projects are welcomed by all, and if they are a silver bullet to revitalise local economies. Unlike preserved lines, 'someone else' does all the work, and free money* is available for funding. *money may not actually be free.
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