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  1. minister_for_hardship
    This was for many years the definitive book on badges and buttons, long out of print. There is an Irish section down the back, but mainly detailing buttons.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Just go to your chosen stations, ask around if they still have the older signage still on hands after it was taken down. Maybe it got skipped, maybe got tossed into a back room if contractors weren't sure what to do with it. Worth a shot, don't ask, don't get. FOI is probably not really of use for small scale stuff.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Enquire locally, in person. Going through departments rarely if ever works. An enquiry through formal channels gets forwarded through a merry go round of people unable or unwilling to do anything for you. They are definitely missing a trick, they could easily offer obsolete signage that has been replaced for sale, maybe giving proceeds to charity. Good PR too.
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    The metal skip most likely. There may be instances where they may get thrown into a store room to gather dust until a clear out. You would really need to contact whoever is in charge before the old stuff comes down or better still be there on the spot when it's happening.
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    An interesting example of reusing the old tubular steel. Haven't seen that anywhere else. Cork has an ancient faded network map showing the south wexford, no Ennis to Athenry, no midleton either.
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    A lot of this can be down to practicalities. A loco is in for repainting, someone's there to do the job but there's not enough of the correct colour because someone else has forgotten to reorder. Rather than delaying / putting off the job, paint it with anything acceptable on hands because it's desperately wanted out in traffic again. We see oddball liveries to this day for pragmatic reasons, the public won't care what colour the loco pulling their train is.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    They had the blue/white scheme in the Telecom Eireann era. A very small number survived into Eircom days.
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    https://www.oakhillworks.co.uk/shop/00-scale-listowel-lartigue-locomotive/
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    Still lots of examples of the "three pin plug" logo in evidence. On rolling stock theres still etched glass on mirrors and sliding doors and luggage rack signs with them. Probably literally thousands of trespass and "keep back from yellow line" notices with the old IE.
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    Still money to be made from shonky signs made out of Chinese bed irons. Auctioneers are worse to be flogging this sh*te, especially when posing as experts on the Sunday newspaper supplements urging people to invest in so-called antiques. Del Boy Trotters most of them.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    C.I.E. in block caps was a placeholder "logo" until the broken wheel, but survived for a time on road transport containers and vehicles, uniform cap badges and some publicity material.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    I got a 2 car set in meantime, but as mentioned the shade of green is rather dull and has a blue tinge compared to the actual livery carried but better than nothing at all.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Probably was one of the very few reinforced concrete water towers on the island? https://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/local-news/1708446/end-of-an-era-irish-rail-demolish-historic-water-tower-at-laois-train-station.html
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Open to correction, but I recall it was coaches in as-built bare aluminium sheet rather than being painted silver.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Re the SSM Sulzer kit, how is the body supposed to be fixed to the chassis?
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Get advice before putting cash down, find out what your selected one is worth. It is not unknown for bodies like BnM to take the Michael.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Why and when did the station building go? Was there pre ww2, gone by the sixties
  19. minister_for_hardship
    It's quite a bit different to the classic diecast van Denny's themselves had as a free offer with sausage labels some years back.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Indeed, haven't seen a tonnage plate in fractions of a ton.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Following the discussion on PO wagons, decided to have a Google on the Murphy Brothers Limited wagons as released by Murphy's Models. Found this rather sad family history, modelling wise the company name as depicted on the wagons passed out of use as early as 1909. https://discoveringmyfamilyhistory.com/murphy-family/
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    An Irish example, quite scarce due to rarity of PO wagons on the Irish system.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    When repainted from Ranks livery to GSR/CIE markings does that indicate Ranks sold them off?
  24. minister_for_hardship
    The railtour WAGs they would be called now!
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Since we are doing cats, here's an IR tippex liveried example.
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