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  1. minister_for_hardship
    The LT roundel passes the test of a good logo, it doesn't need words, the "dumb" version without any lettering is instantly recognisable.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Another eyesore removed from public view, now if they could take that dilapidated bus as well before it returns to nature.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    It's a wonder architects can't design a nice looking building anymore.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    I thought it was an ugly livery, at any price.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    The same data sheet is in the appendix to the E. Shepherd Turfburner book. "General Motors ...as early as May 1947, offered their services, one of the suggestions being a Type EX locomotive.. Considerable correspondence ensued, right up to Sept 1952, in the course of which it became clear that GM would not supply completed locomotives, but expected CIE to carry out work at Inchicore. In any event, the whole scheme faltered when the Government refused to make available the necessary dollars for the purchase."
  12. minister_for_hardship
    The old dyed in the wool union man would never buy the Indo!
  13. minister_for_hardship
    I read there was a last of class loco in the UK, forget which one, intended for preservation. Cutting gang didn't see the painted-on reprieve as they approached it from the 'wrong' side.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    The red would be a great relief from all the dull greys and browns.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    There is what looks like a green painted H van at Inchicore in Irish Railways in Colour II, can't see numbers or logo. Internal user van?
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Named after Newcomen Bridge, wasn't it? Not directly after Newcomen. Nesbitt Junction specifically named after a landowner, Miss Downey Nesbitt who largely paid for the Edenderry branch.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Oddball ones were Inny Junction/Liffey Junction after rivers. Nesbitt Junction is the only one I'm aware of here named after a person.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Former and current junction stations never getting the suffix Junction; Mallow, Banteer, Streamstown, Gortatlea, Roscrea, Sallins, etc. was there criteria for being called Junction or just historical accident or local or official preference?
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Salmon pink ends? Was that day glo panels before that concept was even thought of?
  20. minister_for_hardship
    I think it may be more to do with the GSR being dominated in almost every way by the former GS&WR, hence everything had to fall into line with Inchicore practice. Inchicore was never all that fond of colourful liveries, brass and copper fripperies and evocative loco names.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    The GSR went to great pains to remove traces of past ownership, name plates, number plates/numerals and works plates went into the melting pot. Only a very few locos, those that rarely or never got called to Inchicore for attention escaped.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    They were used on most if not all of the short branches, Athboy, Killeshandra, Edenderry. Achill and Clifden branches as well, although think they were banned in later years, both of those would be a bit of a strain on a small tank with limited fuel and water. After amalgamation, DSE section, Tramore as you say, Courtmac, Cork City and quays, Fenit branch.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Voices on it are daft, like a pirate!
  24. minister_for_hardship
    I really don't know what it is with companies getting makeovers. Take CIE, the first two logos had a decent run and then it's a rehash every few years. Imo the original of the species wouldn't look out of place on modern stock even now, like BR double arrows you could tell what it was without explanatory text used for the current origami tricolour / "confused bat". DB has had a few tweaks but still near identical logo but same house colours for decades.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    I have seen GS&WR and GSR tickets date stamped well into the 1950s. No throwaway culture then. Rather than order new sets of tickets, just use up older stock.
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