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    Only had the privilege of travelling the South Wexford on the 'big' railway, most of the closures having predated me or I happened to be in short pants at the time. Went on the short stretch of railway at Upton many moons ago, a ramshackle thing made of timber and chicken wire that would fail to reach modern h&s standards and more recently (and depressingly) the Tralee & Blennerville. Just happened to spot recent pics of the latter this morning, the locals were more concerned about wild flowers and making a walkway than reviving the railway. Just goes to show the complete lack of interest and the waste of time and money it was.
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    00 Works might? The prototype shared some parts in common with the 101 I had thought.
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    The IE driver's despair! AEC railcar set for me, had been toying with purchasing the SF version, but the funding has dried up with the buying of other things.
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    https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/de-havilland-dh84-dragon-ei-abi-iolar-72dg003
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    The LNER Galtee More was named after a racehorse, which in turn was named after the mountain.
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    Omit the insulation and then it would be a Dublin home.
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    Bog standard CIE "H" van. Steel looks solid, could be restored with minimum difficulty. ( As a shed rather than a runner)
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    A British one, but they all looked similar. Not a lot of them left as most of them were phased out with gas and electricity and casualties by being dropped in the lighting up process.
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    The oil lamps were loaded with one man throwing them up to another man walking along the roofs catching them and opening each lid and putting it in. There was just a tamper proof glass globe in the coach interior. Colza oil was the fuel used. The lamp itself was called a pot lamp, had a smaller sized glass globe with burner inside, a central flue and a doughnut shaped fuel tank. Oil lighting was still used up to the 50s and 60s in the groom's compartments of horse boxes.
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    Brief glimpse of "Royal Daylight" on tanker wagon on second YouTube movie, probably carrying paraffin, a brand of Anglo American Oil Co, later Esso.
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    Feel free to copy.
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    No. Not by a long shot, there were far, far worse car crash (or is that train wreck?) posts and series of posts.
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    A number of the lots still have estimate and not hammer prices, suggesting they're unsold. Not that many physically turned up on the day, most everything done by internet.
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    Not a tablet, no configuration holes to fit into a tablet machine, more like a plate once attached to the end of a staff. As just part of something and not a whole item, it's overpriced for what it is. A few surprises in the results, overly high and low prices for some things, but low overall compared to what it would make in the UK.
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    Had a look, it's the broken off label of the castlecomer jct - Castlecomer branch manual staff, normally held in a subsidiary instrument.
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    Think it's an oddball one like a miniature staff label or key token with the key bit broken off as it looks very small.
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    Maybe the Lartigue people in Listowel, they have some North Kerry items.
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    Fair play to you. Abbeydorney is very elaborate for a staff, think it may be off a cash bag. Hells Kitchen Castlerea is always good for a swap or donation.
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    Caveat Emptor as the sage once said. It's up to the buyer to educate him or herself esp with the Del Boy and Rodney style auction houses.
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    It'll be interesting to see if stuff comes up for sale on Donedeal in the aftermath, as it did in the weeks and months after the first auction. Seems to be a bit of speculation going on, people not buying because they like it or have the faintest interest in it, rather buying to make a quick buck on a resale. I do hope such people will be disappointed in this regard.
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    Some misidentification of certain lots and crazy high ball estimates abound. Clean signal cabin diagrams at same estimates as dirty stained ones, some gems but a few lots of what could best be described as broken rusted junk. Quite an amount of utter rubbish and replicas in the non railwayana section.
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    Site of an old dump, not necessarily of railway origin, could have come from anywhere in town. Would think if it did originate from the railway, they would be more inclined to cut something like that up rather than dump it in a hole.
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    I must be one of the few who really doesn't care what way the plane is painted, provided it gets me where I want to go for the cheapest price. I can't recall scrolling through Skyscanner and choosing a more expensive or inconvenient flight because I preferred the colour.
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