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Not aware of any Land Rovers with CIE, although the ESB were (and still are) big users of those vehicles. Many years ago I came across what looked like a furniture removal truck in a scrap yard, still had faded Orange paint and CIE LOCO DEPT writ large on it. The make I did not take notice of but looked 50s or 60s in origin.

Light rust and marks from a few years outdoors fixed to something. Still a fake.

Not at all, named after a sandwich innit?

The urinal was still on the site 2 or 3 years ago, but in pieces, perhaps a tree had fallen and hit it.

Hopefully the new owners will take care of it and not gut and modernise the place out of all recognition.

I'm a great believer in "if it aint broke, don't fix it".

Looks like something that was paired with or adapted from a steam wagon or WW1 era truck.

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Well, gricers have no business being anywhere the public isn't allowed to be fair without official permission or supervision. Not on a modern rail way operating at high speeds. Have heard of photographers/phone photographers doing really stupid things to get that Instagram cool pic, sometimes literally on IR metals. The past is a different planet, I don't think we should tolerate gricers swarming all over per way like they did in days of yore. If you saw the photos of the Buttevant aftermath with public wandering and gawking around cranes and lifting gear, no one in their right mind would think that's ok now, but par for the course back then. Don't think people could have been that bothered reporting them, even if someone did, by the time the law came out they would be long gone. There was a near miss with a few graffiti lads a couple of years ago, they are lucky to be still in the land of the living. For what it's worth the law isn't taking these offences as seriously as they should. There's a bit of boys will be boys about it all.

They're hardly 'kids', these appear to be at least late teens if not 20 or 30 somethings with money to spend on cans of paint which aren't that cheap. Questions would have to be raised on where they get current branded IR vests. Further IR should pressure YouTube to remove any movies showing them at 'work' as this only gives them the oxygen and publicity these guys crave. Its also vital, where possible, to remove vandalised stock from service for cleaning. If it gets cleaned asap it's going to be a fruitless exercise for them. I do like well executed urban art, like in Waterford and elsewhere, in a proper site, this stuff is only an imitation of what gets plastered on trains from New York to Naples. An illegible mess, the artistic equivalent of a dog p*ssing on a wall.

Spectacle plate retrieved by a friend of mine from a ditch some time ago. No lettering visible.

Fake. Had it from someone in the antiques trade, a foundry in New Ross churns out fake signs by the bushel. Worth 10 or 15 euro, scrap iron value. I wouldn't pay any more for a novelty sign.

The second Kingscourt signal is a rare bird now, manufactured by Courtney and Stephens iirc, likely made under licence from the Railway Signal Co. and missing its spiky ball final, similar examples were to be seen on former GSWR, CBSCR and Macroom lines up to the Fifties.

Yellow armed distant on former GN turf, 1964.

"Sí Gaoithe" (sp.?) was the name of a very early C&BR well tank supplied by Adams of Bow, the 4-6-0T Bandon tanks never carried names.

According to Shepherd's MGWR book, it saw very little use post 1925, it was said to have been unsuitable for dealing with staggered rail joints which predominated on the former GSWR. Ended its days as chassis for wagon no. 3408.

At a guess, part of the MGWR track laying set?

According to the GSR appendix... Special Trains with Shipping Stock must have precedence over all trains other than Passenger trains. Horses must as far as possible be loaded in roofed cattle trucks. Live stock on slow goods trains should, as far as practicable, be attached next rear van in order to avoid injury to stock during shunting movements at stations. Calves, sheep, goats and swine, if carried in the same railway truck or other railway vehicle with any head of cattle (other than a calf), or a horse, ass, or mule, shall be separated therefrom by a suitable partition; but this provision shall not apply to the conveyance of a cow with its unweaned calf, if they are separated from other animals. Between each first day of November and the next following thirteenth day of April (both days inclusive) every railway truck or other railway vehicle in which shorn sheep are carried shall be covered and inclosed (sic.) so as to protect the sheep from the weather, without obstruction to proper ventilation; but this article shall not apply to sheep last shorn more than sixty days before being so carried.

There were diagrams in the GSR appendix to the wtt of examples of loading long timber baulks, as opposed to unprocessed tree trunks, onto multiple wagons.

Only had the privilege of travelling the South Wexford on the 'big' railway, most of the closures having predated me or I happened to be in short pants at the time. Went on the short stretch of railway at Upton many moons ago, a ramshackle thing made of timber and chicken wire that would fail to reach modern h&s standards and more recently (and depressingly) the Tralee & Blennerville. Just happened to spot recent pics of the latter this morning, the locals were more concerned about wild flowers and making a walkway than reviving the railway. Just goes to show the complete lack of interest and the waste of time and money it was.

00 Works might? The prototype shared some parts in common with the 101 I had thought.

The IE driver's despair! AEC railcar set for me, had been toying with purchasing the SF version, but the funding has dried up with the buying of other things.

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The LNER Galtee More was named after a racehorse, which in turn was named after the mountain.