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minister_for_hardship

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  1. With new releases of mk2s, the Murphys Models ones may be sold off at reasonable prices. Likewise secondhand Silverfox A class should be picked up for a song now.
  2. Another one for around the campfire. https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/home/217954/the-local-ghost-train.html https://www.newryjournal.co.uk/history/living-history/adavoyle-ambush/
  3. I'd say just the sheer density of their railways compared to us. And then there's the affinity British people have with their railways whereas here there is still a lingering notion that they are a bit "foreign" in the landscape, a product of the invader. There are a few stories, local in nature so not as well known.
  4. I don't know where getting the flying snail/broken wheel logo bit from. I've never seen a pic of them carrying either of these logos.
  5. The spelling gaffe is proof the maker's first language is not English. The real railway back in the day would never allow signage intended for the public carry an error like that! The actual text ran "GS&WR Notice Any person leaving this gate open is liable to a penalty of forty shillings." The holes are often staggered like that on the real notices, depends on what sort of gate they intended to affix it to.
  6. Rather different use of the red flag over there! Here as far as I know, a red flag means "omg STOP!" in pretty much all circumstances.
  7. Multiple profiles? It looks like something that got a quick roasting with a blowtorch and a spell in the garden.
  8. Unfortunately, a lot of grounded rolling stock body owners in this country have unrealistic expectations of how much their treasures are worth! So long as the metalwork is sound the plywood can always be replaced.
  9. It's a little odd they didn't make a set of the light green ones.
  10. Had put together a DC Kits G class some time ago and had gotten handrails for it, for the life of me I can't recall where. Anyhow, I'm firing together the Silverfox G and am a little short with the leftover rails. Mark's don't stock them, would anyone have any spare or direct me to where I'd get more? TIA.
  11. I think people here have been more engaged with who shot at whom in the War of Independence (the WOI sequel still being spoken of in hushed tones) but social and economic history is getting more attention than lists of battles in recent years thankfully. I've noticed otherwise professional historians producing articles and podcasts of excellent 19th/20th century material, but dropping terrible clangers when railways come into the story! Usually it's getting railway terminology and company names wrong.
  12. Good looking locos, but according to the GSR reports, rather a lot of duds. Dated, sluggish runners and poor steamers in the ex MGWR stud. G2 and J26 classes are probably the pick of the bunch in terms of usefulness and longevity, although both were tiny little things. Excluding the Woolwiches as not being an in-house design.
  13. The real life one was dated 1916, but an enamel, not cast from old Chinese bed irons in a backyard furnace. The 'apple for scale' is worth more than the junk sign.
  14. Long way from home. Looks the real deal. Price 280(?) a tad on the spicy side.
  15. Anyone intending to bid on this, don't. It's scrap.
  16. Bridge plate, but could be from anywhere on GNRI where there was a bridge no 25. "Engine plate", auctioneer numpties wouldn't know an engine plate if it dropped on their toes.
  17. That signal is there for decoration, no counterweight, no pulleys, no wires running to it.
  18. It's a platform for token exchange, overlooked by an oil lamp for illumination by night.
  19. The general population are as ignorant about railways as the auctioneers!
  20. They are clueless, like many antique auctioneers here, spoofers, making it up as they go along. Antique auctions here, with a few exceptions, have genuine articles along with fakes and "sexed up" items sprinkled into the mix designed to confuse. Genuine, but humdrum items with modern stuck-on bogus lettering to make them more attractive for sale. It's fun to spot how they get their descriptions wildly incorrect or even things photographed upside down. Non railway items described as "railway" this or that because they have a notion that railway things make more money. Buyer beware are the watchwords here.
  21. GS&WR beer bottle, unfortunately without contents.
  22. Wrong font as well. The real deal isn't that expensive usually, maybe 20 quid absolute tops.
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