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  1. minister_for_hardship
    This gave me a chuckle.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Corgi Trackside have the same type van in their range, a transfer from Royal Mail to P 7 T service is all that's needed.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    The GSR list of "locomotive travelling steam and hand cranes." Athlone. 20T steam crane. Cork Glanmire. 7T 18cwts hand crane and *10T steam crane. Cork Albert Qy. * **15T steam crane (not self travelling) Dublin Broadstone. 20T steam crane. Dublin Inchicore. 20T steam crane. Limerick. 20T steam crane and 20T hand crane. Thurles. 10T hand crane. Waterford. 15T steam crane. * Not to run on Macroom section nor between Ballinascarthy and Courtmacsherry. ** For use on CB&SC Section.
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    The card included with the Morris van.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    It's all wrong. Wrong livery. Should have a black face and black running gear.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Mullingar would have been an excellent site for a transport museum if Mammy O'Rourke hadn't shot it down.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Interestingly, it was the reason why the Titanic wasn't fully booked out on its maiden voyage, many passengers had postponed their passages until the strike was over. The strike finished a few days before sailing date but too late to have much of an effect.
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    That's the wheelbase, so yes 1:54. I would think that would be one reason, or to keep their casting set up all the same size. Nice model but their use of oddball scaling is frustrating from a railway modelling point of view. You can see straight off in the set the Anglia looks huge compared to the horse drawing the post vehicle. Most their range is cheap and cheerful and not that sought after by collectors.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    47mm. In the meantime I uncovered the An Post set, having trawled through Lledo discussions it seems they used an eye watering variety of scales. Some of their buses (not the one in this set) look roughly 00. To be honest, they're a bit primitive, not finely detailed, like diecasts turned out in the 1960s.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Have that model. Far too big for 00. I don't think there's a scale printed on the box, but going by UK forums on these Lledo and Lledo derived diecasts, many are an odd scale of 1:60.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    I don't know about copied, it's generic looking, like all the variations of winged wheels used by numerous (usually European) transport companies.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    The logo of REFER, the former Portuguese rail infrastructure company obsolete since 2015.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    A number of systems had double cabbed steam trams or locos. The only other Irish example I can think of was on the T&DR, but that didn't last long in that state and had a short innings anyhow.
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    O scale I think, but 00 gauge as a compromise for 3'.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Might have potential as templates for building in another material or customisation. I dislike the blotchy watercolour appearance and painted-on street lighting.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Cork. Site to be occupied by a hotel that looks a bit like the monolith from 2001 A Space Odessey.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Yorkshire Engine Co?
  18. minister_for_hardship
    I found them to be very delicate, I wasn't sure if that's the way they are or if they degraded in storage.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Attempted to put on decals on SSM brake van, the 30 ton brake van/vac brake lettering broke up on me repeatedly, so I've only got the lettering done acceptably on one side only. Wanted to clear laquer on the rest to seal them, had a guinea pig wagon with a decal already on it to see if that would work before proceeding, but the brake van decals started reacting to the laquer.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Henkel bubble cars.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    I would expect little from the CIE Group, the Dublin Port Rally marked the 70th anniversary of CIE in 2015, plenty staff in attendance but officially a big fat nothing from the company. I think you were lucky to get a tweet off them.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Were these conversions from existing road buses or were they built as railbuses from the outset?
  23. minister_for_hardship
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/trains-hit-large-animals-three-times-a-month-on-average-1.4113597 This quote from IR spokesman: .... said none of the incidents resulted in any injury to staff or passengers. While “in most instances, without being glib, the animals do tend to come off worse” reminds me of when George Stephenson was asked what would happen if one of his locomotives encountered a cow on the track: "It would be awkward for the coo."
  24. minister_for_hardship
    What the devil is a "soft" opening?
  25. minister_for_hardship
    ZR is Wexford according to the table here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland
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