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  1. minister_for_hardship
    https://www.modelrollercoasterhq.com/index.php/shop-by-brand/TYCO-Bicentennial-Spirit-of-America-Steam-Train-Set-w-Accessories-HO-Scale-p90584011
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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.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    The Peckett was unnamed. "Paddy" was the ex GSWR coal gantry loco, bodged together from an ancient loco tender, vertical boiler and odds and ends.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Irish/Cork specific signs... Very much doubt a Dublin dairy product (Premier Dairies) made it all the way down to West Cork without going sour. No shortage of local product. Down that part of the country I would expect newsagents/grocers shops to advertise The Cork Examiner (aka 'de paper'...pre name-change), The Farmers Journal and the local (well, Skibbereen) Southern Star on sale.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    From the O'Dea Collection, he took at least 2 street scenes of Bantry, but they're both a bit fuzzy... I can make out an 'Afton' Cigarettes hanging sign, probably an illuminated one. Here are two scenes of Bandon he took, presumably on account of the cloak-wearing woman, the garment being very much a rarity at the time. Bandon seems to have a lot 'busier' shopfronts than Bantry, with signs for the inevitable booze and cigarettes, but there's BSA, HMV and Lyons Tea as well. By the way, there's a Bantry 'Down Memory Lane' Facebook group, might be another source of photos.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Thos. Jennings of Cork was another mineral waters producer, again I haven't seen any adverts from them either.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Tobacco products are probably the easier, there being a plethora of advertisments; Player's Please/Wills's Woodbines/Garryowen Plug/Clune's Kincora Plug/Carroll's/Sweet Afton were all popular brands. They were advertised all over the country. Some had identical signage to those in the UK, some had variations....Irish language versions or in the case of some Player's signs "made in our Dublin factory" or "Irish made". Mineral waters...in West Cork territory would be Deasy's Mineral Waters Clonakilty, but have not come across adverts for them.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    No, they look closer to the look of the AEC than the first batch offered by SF.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Has anyone bought, tried out one of these yet? Considering a purchase.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    iirc, spotted a photo, taken in Inchicore, of this somewhere. It was earmarked for an IRRS trip, but a rough shunt condemned it. Part of metalwork on the balcony can be seen as having broken away.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Another one that appears to be two-tone green with 'broken wheel'.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Oddly enough, there's a similar sized tube attached to the inside of the cab of 'Merlin'.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    They had an intermediate logo IIRC, just 'CIE' in bold letters on a white rectangle, used on road freight vehicles, some general publicity and lasted into the 80's in the form of a cap badge.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Except for the CIE broken wheel on green of course.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Just when you think you had seen them all, pic gleaned from a FB group. Photographer unknown.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Wrong shade of green klaxon. Someone get jhb171 on the case.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    https://marklinstop.com/2011/12/marklin-at-carinhall-hermann-goerings-miniature-railway/
  18. minister_for_hardship
    IE attempted a full Continental and failed miserably. Truly awful scheme. Collectable maybe, but not my cup of Earl Grey.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Did the real things ever stray from the Dublin area or did they work there for all of their lives?
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Not quite, there were some things he designed only a mother could love.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Probably better off making up a replica, if I had one I wouldn't leave it out in the open for it to sprout legs and walk esp. in an isolated place like that.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    And topped in MGW section style with a footbridge notice, quite possibly the bilingual GSR/CIE white with black lettering enamel sign. The tubular steel yellow painted handrailing on the other footbridge is a modern addition.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    That's just a replica of the film prop nameboard. The real life blue/white enamel WL&WR Ballyglunin nameboard still survives. The footbridge looks like that of a design favoured by the MGWR, it could have been transplanted from an Ex MGW location in GSR or CIE days.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    A brass one surfaced back in 2004, lettered 'GSR 222 Inchicore Works 1924.R'. I assume the 'R' stands for 'rebuilt' as the loco was built in 1900 by Kitson of Leeds.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    While the T&D model is very nice, it's a shame the real deal is locked up out of sight within a stone's throw of the hall.
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