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Eastern end of Waterford. Where the car park is wedged in.

There's an actual loco oil tank in a very public place somewhere in an Irish Rail station, if you know where to look! Painted grey and barely noticeable, last time I saw it.

Beyer Peacock sold near identical locos to the L&SWR and another batch were sold to Swedish railways.

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The originals came with Yankee chime whistles, they were replaced with normal Irish/British whistles after a short time as they annoyed locals around Albert Quay too much. Why the very short working life? Surely they can't have worn out?

Were there any sanctions for staff giving out or members of the public having circulars in their possession?

Have seen pics of abandoned and upside down cars that clearly should have stayed at home and personally saw an occurance with a pair of idiots in a car at the top of a steep hill which could have ended VERY badly if they didn't manage to stop where they did. The simple fact is this country is not used to or set up for such conditions, there would be absolute carnage if drivers were given carte blanche to drive whenever and wherever they liked.

Typical Ireland. This is why we can't have nice things.

What was the point of the car as payload? Resembles a student rag week stunt (albeit an expensive one)

Many people on this site would love for a project like this to come to something, but Ireland is nothing like the uk in terms of population or level of interest in such things. The history of preservation here is littered with abandoned projects and bust-ups.

I think the other vans are Fordson E83W / Thames vans, easily available as 00 models. Both VW and the Ford were favoured van types for the ESB Rural Electrification.

Have one. Far too large for 00 scale. The P&T also used VW vans, available in 00 scale in Hattons, paint and decal up your own.

A real-life Ford T with added weatherproofing.

Moyasta has designs on bringing Lady Edith back. The Donegal tanks (e.g. Meenglas) are quite large machines in Irish NG terms, a 4-4-0T type would be more manageable.

Unless it is based on a railway where it can recoup costs I can't see this working. 'Sharing' it between the small pool of existing ng preserved lines is a recipe for squabbling. There might be a case for a broad gauge new-build but either way I very much doubt the necessary cash could be raised in the first place.

In days gone by, old stock would be cascaded down to secondary duties or sold off to developing countries. I guess the amount of technical gimcracks that would need to be sorted precludes this?

Clusterfudge.

And the lack of stone throwing vandals in the desert.

On a number of lines built as single lines, there was room left for doubling if the need arose, which probably never happened. Would agree with jhb, would be a little too tight to be double, plus the earthworks around it would need to take double track as well if that were the case.

That North British loco has a very DSER-ish cab....and the Peckett looks an awful lot like the Allman's Distillery/GSR/CIE one.

You won't get any CIE single deckers in die-cast/rtr form, they're all limited run resin kits, unless you're prepared to bodge a Lledo bus into a 'P'.

One thing I can't understand. I assume MGW locos were driven from 'the other side' IE rhs like GWR locos. Why on earth were they designed that way when most signals were sited on the left?

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Spotted on ebay, location and photographer unknown. From the context they appear to be one of a batch of holiday snaps of a U.S. visitor. Appears to be a fairly clean 'convertable' and two grotty open topped cattle wagons with numbered tarps fitted, note the grime and bits of straw poking through the slats.