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It would have to be a top brass photo opportunity shaking hands with politicos and ministers or "celebrity" puff piece these days... Bertie's young wan who writes bukes travels on IE scenic route and gets paid to put a positive spin on it.

I've never heard that term being used as such. There is another Rocksavage on the coast near Clonakilty, I would be thinking someone who had connections to that locality, a country retreat perhaps, named the city area after it. Alternatively there were Earls of Rocksavage (A courtesy title of Marquesses of Cholmondeley) so may be named to honour or curry favour with them, and/or an attempt to put a respectable veneer on the area perhaps.

A child could put the beet wagon kits together. It's not like it's a brass etched loco kit. It would help pass the time in this lockdown anyhow.

The "Phony War" was still ongoing, before all hell broke loose.

Is the one with "LMS" only from a regauged wagon?

Some people are beyond shaming, it hardly matters when most locals may not care whether or not they have a steam railway. If locals are indifferent you can forget about help, volunteers or putting on political pressure from that quarter.

A platform, a signal and a footbridge. The rails in the station area were lifted years ago, now the rest is being lifted. The branch is to become yet another greenway although the virus has possibly stalled that. There was talk to make it dual gauge and run 5T there in GSRPS days. 5T went to the Blennerville and everyone knows the rest of that story.

Somewhere to stow a large type staff perhaps? MGWR locos once carried similarly sized tubes on the cab side sheets.

The Greenway fad is far easier than preservation, free money to spend and someone else does all the work. All you need do is rock up with your push bike.

Didn't a Dublin & Blessington vehicle end up as an unpowered trailer on the Donegal? Just copped the reference was to the wagon behind it. It's an odd one alright.

It can all be distilled down to lack of interest and the very small gene pool of people inclined to work and support such things. There has always been an underlying current in this country that railway heritage isn't really Irish, that it's all a bit "foreign". If Richard Maunsell was an All Ireland hurler, I'm sure there would be a statue of him somewhere!

It would have been like another well meaning but naïve project, the Cahirciveen "C", that got several shades of sugar hammered out of it by local youths. Unless your exhibit is under cover and lock and key here, forget it. It's going to get vandalised.

I visited the site, many moons ago. The shed doors were wide open, not a sinner around. Had a look at the above mentioned coach and the beet loco. Was there for at least 40 mins. Not too long after the place was torched. You would think someone would at least pay visits and make sure the site is secure. Not knowing anyone or anything about the group I just went on my way.

Kildare? Ok just saw previous guess so nope

Does it include alternative names and numbers for Paddy (Shannonvale horse), Dick (Fintona tram horse) and Shergar?

What are the numbers on the loco smokeboxes on the magazine cover about? Clearly not the running numbers.

It's an Irish thing, anything other than mainstream culture, GAA and chronic alcohol consumption is looked upon as weird.

And as it says on RTE, "It is the first of 10 flights to Beijing to deliver PPE to Ireland as part of a €208m deal." Possibly one or more donations and everything else we have to stump up for?

I guess like major BR stations having never gotten a regional "hotdog", I don't recall that Kingsbridge, Broadstone, Westland Row ever got a GSR nameboard either? Ditto Cork, Galway(?), Limerick(?), Waterford(?) Sligo did get one, it had a fine display of GSR signage well into the 1990s.

Ones that I can think of that never got a bilingual board...open to correction. Headford Jct, Loo Bridge. Dooks, Listowel, Abbeyfeale, Newcastle (West), Ballingrane Jct, Rathkeale, Fermoy, Bruree, Newmarket, Mourne Abbey, Rathduff, Clondulane, Dunkettle, Little Island, Cobh Jct, Carrigtwohill, Midleton (cabin had a small version, ditto Killeagh and Youghal) Blarney (both), Ballymartle (Kinsale branch), Clonakilty. Early closures, Clifden branch, Achill branch. Curiously the Muskerry got one GSR board (Western Road) as did the Passage (Monkstown) and some perhaps not all T&D roadside halts got them. Manhattan, there's a Bagenalstown GSR board in Fitzpatricks Hotel.

New Ross got a standard bilingual GSR board on concrete posts, saw it in a photo somewhere, possibly removed after 64 along with footbridge and other trimmings.

A pair in captivity. Cheap painted-on plywood with metal angle surround edged in orange. More substantial timber sign, stuck on black plastic letters and grey surround.

They were also English only at GNRI, CDRJC, DN&GR, L&LSR and SL&NCR stations in the ROI. Anything that wasn't GSR/cross border.

No. English only.