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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Not a tablet, no configuration holes to fit into a tablet machine, more like a plate once attached to the end of a staff. As just part of something and not a whole item, it's overpriced for what it is. A few surprises in the results, overly high and low prices for some things, but low overall compared to what it would make in the UK.
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    Had a look, it's the broken off label of the castlecomer jct - Castlecomer branch manual staff, normally held in a subsidiary instrument.
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    Think it's an oddball one like a miniature staff label or key token with the key bit broken off as it looks very small.
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    Maybe the Lartigue people in Listowel, they have some North Kerry items.
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    Fair play to you. Abbeydorney is very elaborate for a staff, think it may be off a cash bag. Hells Kitchen Castlerea is always good for a swap or donation.
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    Caveat Emptor as the sage once said. It's up to the buyer to educate him or herself esp with the Del Boy and Rodney style auction houses.
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    It'll be interesting to see if stuff comes up for sale on Donedeal in the aftermath, as it did in the weeks and months after the first auction. Seems to be a bit of speculation going on, people not buying because they like it or have the faintest interest in it, rather buying to make a quick buck on a resale. I do hope such people will be disappointed in this regard.
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    Some misidentification of certain lots and crazy high ball estimates abound. Clean signal cabin diagrams at same estimates as dirty stained ones, some gems but a few lots of what could best be described as broken rusted junk. Quite an amount of utter rubbish and replicas in the non railwayana section.
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    Site of an old dump, not necessarily of railway origin, could have come from anywhere in town. Would think if it did originate from the railway, they would be more inclined to cut something like that up rather than dump it in a hole.
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    I must be one of the few who really doesn't care what way the plane is painted, provided it gets me where I want to go for the cheapest price. I can't recall scrolling through Skyscanner and choosing a more expensive or inconvenient flight because I preferred the colour.
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    Colour schemes only matter to aethestes and plane 'spotters', the public, who help pay the bills, only care about how cheap fares are and the service they get, not what the outside of the plane looks like.
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    Detail of photo of Carlow in 1960 of what I assume is Thurles No.3, all the Cockerill VB locos having been withdrawn by 1955/56. Faint trace of a light colour lining visible. Interestingly Carlow No 2 was transferred to Mallow in 1950, Mallow having two No 2s for a while. Mallow No 1 sent to Carlow as a stationary boiler in 1956. Thurles No 2 sent to Carlow in 1959 for same reason.
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    RN Clements pic of Thurles No 1, small brass (?) '1' can be made out. No lining discernible. Sporting shunting hook and GSR/CIE style headlamp instead of the large continental type, as supplied when new. The smokebox lamp iron appears to have been omitted on the DCDR restoration.
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    Brand new out-of-the-box Mallow No.1, no lining or tank numerals. Company painter hasn't gone near it yet, one assumes.
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    Actually Mallow No 3 when I went looking. Seems to have an additional spark arrestor(?) atop the chimney as well. Faded CIE snail on wagon behind.
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    I *think* I saw a pic of one with a bufferbeam number somewhere, perhaps one of the Tuam ones, will have to check.
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    Sorry, can't resist. This is actually in Co Sligo. Further examples, with commentary, can be found in Mc Mansion Hell (Irish Edition)
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    Anyone model a modern era McMansion yet? Some things unique or different to those found in Britain; schools and churches esp the faintly Art Deco 30s and 40s built ones, many still in use now. Vanishing or in declining numbers; combined grocery store/pub and/or hardware store. Combined small grocery store/filling station. Thatched or tin roofed dwellings or shops, think there may be some regional variations of thatched house. In country areas; Marian grottoes, graveyards with high crosses/tombs, ruined castles and 'big houses' with accompanying high walls and gate lodges. Ring forts, Megalithic monuments. Creamery buildings, many disused or repurposed now. 70s bungalows, traditional two story farm dwellings and the maligned McMansion.
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    Good find. The Cork tram is noted as an 00 gauge kit, but they were a strange gauge of 2 ' 11 7⁄16 " in reality to allow 3" gauge stock from the Muskerry and the Passage railways to run over the tramway system, which never actually happened in the end.
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    Disappointed, but not surprised, unenlightened Ireland being what it is. One train set (sic.) is as good as the next it seems. From the post above it looks like it's going to be a new fangled "Interpretive Centre" rather than the Fry Model Railway we knew.
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    They carried the GSWR type doors that opened in two halves, the more usual doors with 'dart' opening handles and the typical GSR/CIE smokebox wheel so there's a few varieties. Wasn't 184 painted in an interpretation of GSWR lined green complete with cast numberplates when still on CIEs books?
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    Found a few more images online and they all either have '40' or '25' so must be a long service badge. The railways here didn't have those as far as I know but CIE bus drivers did get small star shaped ones for 10, 15, 25 years safe driving.
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    If German, the Crown would mean it's one of the old pre Deutsche Reichsbahn companies. Could be Royal Bavarian State Railway or something. Don't think it's 40 years service, 40 may be just the staff id number. The model loco appears to be carrying the old SNCB livery and logo.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    These are journalists. They refer to diesel hauled trains as 'choo-choos'.
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