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Do as I say, not as I do.

At least they got the name of the railway right. Had to wince when I saw this full colour poster displayed at Mullranny MGWR advertising the so-called Great Western Railway... as it's known as now! Worse, some marketing folks thought it best to call a future greenway on a portion of the DN&GR the "Great Eastern Greenway", an obvious copying of the Achill version

They're entitled to be on it. They're cyclists don't you know?

Old Mallow line, good luck with that one. There can't be very much left of that alignment at this stage. If only there was as many interested in a rebuilt railway as greenways that mountains seem to be moved to accommodate. Witnessed an amusing incident recently at the Maam Cross project site. Picture this, heaps of these cyclists came pedalling through, two mounted the platform on their rufty tufty all terrain carbon fibre bicycles only to be forced to dismount when they encountered the water tower at the far end. One reportedly asked "is this going to be the new greenway?" despite all this railway track quite obviously in place. It's like a craze, a quasi religious cult. Everything has to revolve around my pedalling leisure activity.

I'm pretty certain it is not Muskerry. Doors at extreme ends and open saloon with longitudinal benches, not compartments, a la Tralee and Dingle, should be a dead giveaway.

If it had match strikers, these may have had initials, luggage rack brackets, or a builder's plate on the frames underneath if that's still there or accessible to see.

Compartment passenger coach. Could be anything from mid 19th to early 20th cent. Hard to tell without more photos. Is it in Ireland?

That's what you get when you leave stuff on an unsecured area in plain sight by the side of a main road. It's like you're asking for it to be interfered with.

Apart from the two tone green, there doesn't appear to be any across the board livery used by both rail and bus. The tour bus "banana boat" livery compliments the coachwork, together with the individual river names looks intentionally chosen to stand out from the sea of green buses, it was a favourite subject for publicity photos and at least one poster. Beyond some GM promotional material, the 121 in grey/yellow didn't get much of the publicity machine limelight for what was a brand new loco. The CIE bus red/white scheme may be a carry over from IOC days, perhaps the city services dark blue/cream was GNRI motor coach dept inspired. As an aside, the grey/yellow 121 does make an appearance of a few seconds in the old Soviet Union-esque RTE National Anthem reel.

It looks like an oddball placeholder livery, not matching anything on rail. Could be a grain of truth there. It's like works grey with a bit of yellow detail and wasp stripes thrown over it rather than anything a great deal of thought went into.

A decent RC vehicle or drone will cost maybe 150-200 upwards, people spend that kind of money for a child's gift without thinking these days. The IR set would be fine as a starter set, seems sturdy enough, no outside moving parts or fiddly bits to break off. It's a repaint, but so what, it's grand for what it is, a starting point. Many Hornby starter sets are some freelance loco and stock in wildly inaccurate liveries anyhow.

CIE and a bell symbol, probably a makers trade mark.

Seek and ye shall find. CIE version is identical apart from 'CIE' on firehole door.

£2 was a big fine for the time.

I would assume, judging by the state of steam towards the end, the Belfast based C & L loco is likely to be clapped out. No one is getting their hands on 5T as long as the current Blennerville stalemate persists.

The LT roundel passes the test of a good logo, it doesn't need words, the "dumb" version without any lettering is instantly recognisable.

Another eyesore removed from public view, now if they could take that dilapidated bus as well before it returns to nature.

It's a wonder architects can't design a nice looking building anymore.

It's faintly ridiculous putting streamlining on locos normally operating at pedestrian speeds, like NZ or Tasmanian Government Railways locos. Maintaining locos is enough of a pain without useless panels to remove.

No such thing as liquid "slurry" spreading then. Dung was manually shovelled and wheelbarrowed to a dung heap to be periodically loaded onto a horse cart for manual spreading, or later on loaded on one of those curious tractor drawn trailer devices with endless chains to deposit the contents on the field or the large cylindrical drum gizmo with rotating flails.

Anything is possible with a huge railfan base, no line restrictions / clearance issues and firms like Exxon Mobil and Boeing throwing money at it. Here we have to take a more realistic view.

Yes, just an identical data sheet to your one and the relevant text. That's it. As above, I don't think it got beyond being anything other than a proposal.

Oddly enough, a red painted one showed up being offered for sale. Coincidence? Or has someone been busy over lockdown? They only got painted red in the southeast, black everywhere else.