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A shed.
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Rather oddly, Cork buses were plastered with Guinness ads, but their Dublin counterparts didn't seem to carry any Guinness advertising back in the day.
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THE FLYING SNAIL LOGO....
minister_for_hardship replied to burnthebox's question in Questions & Answers
The ones on Lima stock are far too elongated as well. The photos I've seen seen so far conform to what Garfield says. Many tender locos appear not to have received any logo at all. -
I'm surprised the lizard people and the Roswell cover up didn't have a part in it.
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The actual Wanderly Wagon used in the tv series was a converted CIE dray.
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Some eejit here bought, wait for it, a years supply of rice. The Chinese restaurant sector is on its knees because people think they can catch it there. Even sales of Corona beer have taken a dip because, stupid people.
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The original drawings of those L & B locos are still extant as far as I know. Some older Irish locos one would go on basic dimensions and line drawings, photos and educated guesswork to fill in the blanks.
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The Midland tank looks rather sad for something constructed so recently. Was the L & B model intended to run or be static?
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Folks on Adverts selling masks for many times their retail value now. You'd have to be some low life to do this.
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I checked the "official" written history of CIÉ earlier (On The Move, Micheal Ó Riain), that colloquial term is used more than once!
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Don't look through the possibly thousands of references to the logo on this site as they will no doubt cause offense. It's CIE, it's not like it ever had a TGV or a Bullet Train.
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G.F. Egan the last engineer and deputy manager was noted for being accommodating to visiting enthusiasts, I guess if the writing was on the wall anyhow no-one would care too much about a few guests in the guards van, especially in those far off pre compo culture days.
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Plenty? 12%, from CCC's own report, on the net. All submissions received are there for perusal. "Of the 388 public submissions, 312 (80%) were supportive of the proposed development. Of the total public submissions, 46 (12%) were opposed to the proposed Greenway and instead favoured the reopening of the railway. The remaining 32 (8%) submissions were neither clearly in favour nor against the proposed development and made observations or comments on the proposed development."
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Historically we used repaints/kit bashes and surgery of British 00 as nothing on the continent with very few exceptions (GNRI Mak, Deutz, CSE O&K and Cockerills) were remotely similar to Irish stock in appearance. We are left with this gauge/scale screw up because British manufacturers couldn't fit their large motors of the time into bodyshells.
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It's funny that many who may have problems with a railcar see no issue with 00 scale stock on 'HO' gauge track, wrong for UK outline not to mind Irish. It's fine, it's the Irish equivalent of a Hornby freelance loco set, it sold well and at a price bracket to suit folks who would baulk at the price of something like a RTR J15 I've no problem with that. If you don't like it, don't buy it. It's as simple as that.
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I'd like to know where the local opposition was during the public consultation stage.
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Smoke generator fitted?
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If "Bishop Brennan's" train broke down, all hell would surely break loose. Better safe than sorry.
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Cork, Bandon, Bantry, Baltimore, Skibbereen and Schull. (Cork and Macroom, see Omnibus Time Table for Road Motor Services) 12th Sept 1938 until further notice.
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I gather that. In order to have these things online for all to see, resources have to be funded for storage, materials, maintenance, web hosting etc. be that by subscription and/or from the public purse. So if people are interested and have the means, join the IRRS if you want this archive to keep going.
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For what it's worth, any filing, sorting, scanning, putting things online the IRRS does is done by someone on a voluntary basis, the state pays someone to do the same function in the NLI. In an ideal world, a branch of the National Museum would cover industrial heritage and railways. But since there is little interest there in such things it's up to regional museums that may actually take an interest (Limerick and Waterford city museums have an online presence with heaps of rail images) and the IRRS.
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Jhb, pretty sure Shannonvale was off limits to locos, even teeny things like 90 hence the horse. If the Sentinels had hung around longer, doing things the Deutz would have done, hired out to CSE in the sugar factories, Newmarket, Loughrea perhaps?
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Standard Sentinel products, albeit the GSR may have made alterations. Built 1927. Initially allocated to Cork and Tralee, one was tried on Castleisland branch. By summer 1931 both were at Tralee, moved to Limerick in 32, but still used in Tralee area on occasion. (Fenit branch?) Worked Markets branch in Limerick until that closed in 1940 and lay out of service until withdrawal. It's a wonder that two fairly modern units couldn't have other work found for them.
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