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https://marklinstop.com/2011/12/marklin-at-carinhall-hermann-goerings-miniature-railway/

IE attempted a full Continental and failed miserably. Truly awful scheme. Collectable maybe, but not my cup of Earl Grey.

Did the real things ever stray from the Dublin area or did they work there for all of their lives?

Not quite, there were some things he designed only a mother could love.

Probably better off making up a replica, if I had one I wouldn't leave it out in the open for it to sprout legs and walk esp. in an isolated place like that.

And topped in MGW section style with a footbridge notice, quite possibly the bilingual GSR/CIE white with black lettering enamel sign. The tubular steel yellow painted handrailing on the other footbridge is a modern addition.

That's just a replica of the film prop nameboard. The real life blue/white enamel WL&WR Ballyglunin nameboard still survives. The footbridge looks like that of a design favoured by the MGWR, it could have been transplanted from an Ex MGW location in GSR or CIE days.

A brass one surfaced back in 2004, lettered 'GSR 222 Inchicore Works 1924.R'. I assume the 'R' stands for 'rebuilt' as the loco was built in 1900 by Kitson of Leeds.

While the T&D model is very nice, it's a shame the real deal is locked up out of sight within a stone's throw of the hall.

The old oil headlamps had a red filter glass inside, you could swivel the top to turn them from white to red, that is if the glass wasn't broken.

Mainly British makes, "Sit up and beg" Fords..Anglias/Poplars/Prefects, Vauxhalls, Morris, Wolseley, Riley, Baby Fords aka Model Y. Older 30's and 40's cars might be still on the road in the 50's. More upmarket cars might be used by the better off, Ford V8 Pilots. Smattering of continental cars, Fiats/Renault etc. and very small numbers of cars of American outline, Chevrolets, etc. (Bulleid had a Chevy Bel Air as a company car) VW Beetles and the VW van (Kombi to Aussies/Kiwis) used by the ESB and the P & T. Farmers sometimes used small Fordson or Thames dropside trucks for bringing animals to market or churns to the creamery but the number of vehicles on the road would be tiny compared to today. Small businesses; shops, bakeries, etc. might use the panel van versions of the above for deliveries. Most people used bicycles and younger lads bought a motorbike before graduating to a car. In country areas, the grey Fergie 20 would have to feature even though a lot of work was still carried out by horses. CIE still used drays and carthorses well into the 60's for local deliveries.

Pretty dry now, if the dry spells continue she wouldn't want to be firing out any sparks in all that woodland!

Sounds like something off a uk-based manager's office, perhaps at a ferry port.

From same youtube poster... WESTPORT QUAY, The Lifting Of The Railway Track in 1977

Short compilation of railway station footage.

It was a clever design, pity it had to be scrapped. Almost an Irish equivalent of the BR arrow logo, in that it could be recognised for what it was without any superfluous lettering.

Tank wagons carried petroleum products for Irish BP/Irish Shell. Perhaps tar/bitumen as well. Petrol was taken into Cork Capwell by train for the buses before the rails were lifted. No milk tank wagons as far as I know. Milk traffic was taken in churns. https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/19679374_10154472857555518_6257775770344332206_o.jpg?oh=68d61c1e00f24a99ded4fd845ace589a&oe=59C55A20 https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/19780406_10154472857525518_8808116909148472446_o.jpg?oh=a9b411e1b1294a465ac1ceb633bcaa5a&oe=5A050973 https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/19800834_10154472857655518_6211736408334363390_o.jpg?oh=4e02463317ac00e138f2d86701611b48&oe=5A0101D0 https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19657329_10154472857520518_1137165526766865400_n.jpg?oh=125b808b1fcfdea6415943dad14bb207&oe=5A0FD9C9 https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19748406_10154472857715518_1766130273810708941_n.jpg?oh=9e91ea9ce6c0f69018faed522ade647e&oe=59D12ADA https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19748718_10154472857795518_9066970399742709856_n.jpg?oh=eb155970f7aec40dda4ac0ca8b9ebcab&oe=5A049581

The ladder and cut-out on the tender from oil-firing conversion days. Think the original smokebox doors got replaced with GSR standard ones after a short time. Also too many lamp irons.

Did they get withdrawn not long after '25 like a share of DSER locos, with being clapped out or written off during the Civil War?

Greenways are easy. A preserved line involves hard, sustained work that people here haven't the interest or inclination to do.

The by-now obligatory greenway group is already eyeing it up.

Well, they've raised the target sum of money, fair play. I would agree that it is a very out-of-the-way place, unless someone there is running some specialist tour of the movie sites (possibly bundled with other attractions) or pay for its upkeep by other means, I don't see how it would attract a lot of visitors.

That would make more sense, they had all the tooling and patterns for bus bodies. Why not make a body in the new instead of attempting to butcher and re-use the body of a battered old bus which was life expired anyway?

I thought it was the practice to strip a closed station of anything that could possibly be re-used or sold, esp. signalling gear, apart from a few anomalies, i.e. 'mothballed' lines or places still in railway ownership?

I realise there's a number of new builds up and running or in planning stages in the uk. I was referring to the situ here.