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  1. 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.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    And the lack of stone throwing vandals in the desert.
  6. 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.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  8. 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'.
  9. 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?
  10. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
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    Thos. Jennings of Cork was another mineral waters producer, again I haven't seen any adverts from them either.
  16. 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.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    No, they look closer to the look of the AEC than the first batch offered by SF.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Has anyone bought, tried out one of these yet? Considering a purchase.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    iirc, spotted a photo, taken in Inchicore, of this somewhere. It was earmarked for an IRRS trip, but a rough shunt condemned it. Part of metalwork on the balcony can be seen as having broken away.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Another one that appears to be two-tone green with 'broken wheel'.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Oddly enough, there's a similar sized tube attached to the inside of the cab of 'Merlin'.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    They had an intermediate logo IIRC, just 'CIE' in bold letters on a white rectangle, used on road freight vehicles, some general publicity and lasted into the 80's in the form of a cap badge.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Except for the CIE broken wheel on green of course.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Just when you think you had seen them all, pic gleaned from a FB group. Photographer unknown.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Wrong shade of green klaxon. Someone get jhb171 on the case.
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