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  1. minister_for_hardship
    It's not MGWR mileposts. It doesn't have the diamond with the chunk taken out of it. ie 3/4 mp.
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    Teacher to class. "Can anyone put the word "contagious" into a sentence?" Reply from student, "a man came to paint the house at home and it took the contagious to do it".
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    Was that the occasion where another well known enthusiast was passing by, spotted the smoke, barged in with camera in hand to what was in effect a private party, and words were exchanged?
  4. minister_for_hardship
    If I were you, I'd wait it out for the upcoming IRM A Class.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Dug out a pic from the archives, one form of CIE motive power where the snail orientation is not as expected.
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    Railcar snails were all of the standard type it seems, no matter which side. I did see one rare occurance of a reversed snail on publicity material, on a timetable poster still stuck to a posterboard in a derelict station. I never thought to seek to procure it or take a photo. Shortly afterwards the place was burnt out and the poster, board and all incinerated.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Correction, the instrument was located in the station house, not in the hut.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    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 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.
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    I'm surprised the lizard people and the Roswell cover up didn't have a part in it.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    The actual Wanderly Wagon used in the tv series was a converted CIE dray.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    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?
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Folks on Adverts selling masks for many times their retail value now. You'd have to be some low life to do this.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    I checked the "official" written history of CIÉ earlier (On The Move, Micheal Ó Riain), that colloquial term is used more than once!
  19. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Smoke generator fitted?
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