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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Were there any sanctions for staff giving out or members of the public having circulars in their possession?
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Have seen pics of abandoned and upside down cars that clearly should have stayed at home and personally saw an occurance with a pair of idiots in a car at the top of a steep hill which could have ended VERY badly if they didn't manage to stop where they did. The simple fact is this country is not used to or set up for such conditions, there would be absolute carnage if drivers were given carte blanche to drive whenever and wherever they liked.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Typical Ireland. This is why we can't have nice things.
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    What was the point of the car as payload? Resembles a student rag week stunt (albeit an expensive one)
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    Many people on this site would love for a project like this to come to something, but Ireland is nothing like the uk in terms of population or level of interest in such things. The history of preservation here is littered with abandoned projects and bust-ups.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    I think the other vans are Fordson E83W / Thames vans, easily available as 00 models. Both VW and the Ford were favoured van types for the ESB Rural Electrification.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Have one. Far too large for 00 scale. The P&T also used VW vans, available in 00 scale in Hattons, paint and decal up your own.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    A real-life Ford T with added weatherproofing.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Moyasta has designs on bringing Lady Edith back. The Donegal tanks (e.g. Meenglas) are quite large machines in Irish NG terms, a 4-4-0T type would be more manageable.
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    Unless it is based on a railway where it can recoup costs I can't see this working. 'Sharing' it between the small pool of existing ng preserved lines is a recipe for squabbling. There might be a case for a broad gauge new-build but either way I very much doubt the necessary cash could be raised in the first place.
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    In days gone by, old stock would be cascaded down to secondary duties or sold off to developing countries. I guess the amount of technical gimcracks that would need to be sorted precludes this?
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    Clusterfudge.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    And the lack of stone throwing vandals in the desert.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    On a number of lines built as single lines, there was room left for doubling if the need arose, which probably never happened. Would agree with jhb, would be a little too tight to be double, plus the earthworks around it would need to take double track as well if that were the case.
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    That North British loco has a very DSER-ish cab....and the Peckett looks an awful lot like the Allman's Distillery/GSR/CIE one.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    You won't get any CIE single deckers in die-cast/rtr form, they're all limited run resin kits, unless you're prepared to bodge a Lledo bus into a 'P'.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    One thing I can't understand. I assume MGW locos were driven from 'the other side' IE rhs like GWR locos. Why on earth were they designed that way when most signals were sited on the left?
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    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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Thos. Jennings of Cork was another mineral waters producer, again I haven't seen any adverts from them either.
  25. 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.
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