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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Let's hope they're better than the faulty batch the Netherlands got from China. Meanwhile the wet markets are back in full swing. Great bunch of lads.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Looks disturbingly like a headstone!
  3. minister_for_hardship
    If anyone was interested in running a Woolwich in oil burning form, the following were converted. 372/4-9, 382, 386-91 (381 & 385 converted but never ran as oil burners)
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Allman's had their own locomotive, the first one known as Allman's Coffee Pot from its archaic appearance and its replacement, a Peckett, ended up in GSR hands after the closure of the distillery. That's not to say a loco could have been borrowed or leased from the CB&SC if their own was out of traffic, six coupled may have been a bit big for a poky distillery, the Peckett was like a toy, size-wise.
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    Inchicore smokebox and Inchicore type chimney on that, its lost its original flush rivetted sloping smokebox and plain chimney. Think some of that BP design ended up on Swedish Railways, but being 00 not much use to that market.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    I'm attempting to learn Spanish, building a card kit and growing a batch of trees from nuts. After that maybe arrange my collection of cast iron rail chairs, not sure should I display them alphabetically or chronologically.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Vot time does der nächst train kommt?
  8. minister_for_hardship
    There's no shortage of small native locos to suit Downpatrick's needs.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    The "big wheel" was very much a feature of MGWR cabins, where sited to overlook the road to keep an eye on road traffic. Think a few GN cabins had them too, Poyntzpass(?) I'm not aware of WL&WR/GS&WR cabins having them.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    I doubt it. I think they may have been all replaced by or before early CIE days. First pic was K1 376, still carrying MGWR headlamps date unknown but noted as GSR days, 2nd is K1a 393 in 1947, 3rd is 383 in 1956. Nothing for it but to trawl through photos.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    In the early years, they sported the original flat SECR wheel-less door. Gradually as doors got burnt or worn out, they got replaced with the Inchicore dished door with dart handles or the more widespread wheel. Note CIE budget numberplate, numerals simply painted on sheet steel and welded to door. The supplied wheel with the model would not be correct for the flat door, strictly speaking.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    What have the crows done?
  13. minister_for_hardship
    All the B Na M steam fleet survived, 1 albeit in heavily rebuilt form.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Happy worst St Patrick's Day ever.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    I wonder if Britain has it better, it seems their company colour schemes were recorded in minute detail. Possibly more uniform application of liveries, less variation?
  16. minister_for_hardship
    ALL the GSR/CIE number plates on display at IRRS hq are red numerals/border and black background and a few of the lamps/other plates plastered in one or the other, or both colours. Possibly where the artist got the notion they were to be red/black. There must have been a special on red and black tins of paint.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Well the Cavan and Leitrim and Tralee and Dingle got mini MGWR ones in GSR days. Come to think of it, wasn't there MGWR type ones on Burma Road? A cheap and cheerful GSR replacement for (presumably) timber mileposts that rotted away.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    432 was a DWWR tank, but C&M is written on the sheet. Thought it might be a Macroom loco until I looked it up. Was it used on the Macroom in GSR/CIE days?
  19. minister_for_hardship
    It's not MGWR mileposts. It doesn't have the diamond with the chunk taken out of it. ie 3/4 mp.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Teacher to class. "Can anyone put the word "contagious" into a sentence?" Reply from student, "a man came to paint the house at home and it took the contagious to do it".
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Was that the occasion where another well known enthusiast was passing by, spotted the smoke, barged in with camera in hand to what was in effect a private party, and words were exchanged?
  22. minister_for_hardship
    If I were you, I'd wait it out for the upcoming IRM A Class.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Dug out a pic from the archives, one form of CIE motive power where the snail orientation is not as expected.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Railcar snails were all of the standard type it seems, no matter which side. I did see one rare occurance of a reversed snail on publicity material, on a timetable poster still stuck to a posterboard in a derelict station. I never thought to seek to procure it or take a photo. Shortly afterwards the place was burnt out and the poster, board and all incinerated.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Correction, the instrument was located in the station house, not in the hut.
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