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  1. minister_for_hardship
    To be fair it's quite a good representation, pity the artist hadn't copped there's two buffers. Railway Magazine did a short series a while back on bad railway pub signs, one of the better ones was a pretty good image of a loco and train but with a massive tension lock coupling up front.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    The hazards of painting murals from photos.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    In the first link, it's interesting that the painter picked out the letters and numerals on the wagon plate on the chassis. Normally they didn't bother with this.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Its an attractive thing esp in regional colours, I don't mind it at all in Britain and in its proper context, it just seems to be a go-to, copy/paste design element now. It doesn't matter so much in a cafe or pub but in an historical or museum setting it gives me the ick. Irish railways had all their own distinctive heraldic coats of arms, modern era logos, advertising, typefaces...GSR & CIE Gaelic fonts. There's a deep well to draw on already.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    One thing that slightly annoying me is creeping "totemisation" (if that's a word - it is now) here. British Railways 1950s hotdogs at Clon Model Railway, various local community displays and Inchicore open day!
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Maybe they're fans of Guns N Roses?
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Should have had more 500s, and forget about building the three enormous white (or is that green?) elephants.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Could be between "cattlebank and station?" From the cut of it, missing axlebox cover and what look like weeds growing out of it, it's likely not doing serious mileage anymore. Don't think rolling stock numbers started with "0" pre SuperTrain era.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Ebay photo listing of ancient looking open with a literal sh*te wagon load. Before listing disappears, it has MULLINGAR painted on top RH corner, PXP painted in two places and carries number ?731 (first digit could well be a 6 or a 9) and painted instruction "TO RUN(?) BETWEEN WATERFORD (?) STATION (?)" Presumably, given the cattle wagons in background this is filled with the manure from them. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335714102551?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338722076&customid=&toolid=10050
  10. minister_for_hardship
    If it looks too good to be true, it usually is. Fair amount of car boot sale grade rubbish in that same auction.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Likewise. Bank account breathes sigh of relief.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    It did, two large esso ovals , 1 per side that were removed subsequently. You can see the oval shaped set of anchor points that held them on in later photos before those too were removed.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    I dislike the freedom of choice being curtailed. That and the postage situation of delays, bureaucratic bumbling, expensive postage/Revenue shakedowns, that this is happening in the 21st century and it's kind of normalised now is wild. Everything's HO in EU zone, architectural bits and bobs, loco and rolling stock elements pretty much completely different, road vehicles are of continental outline. It's yet another unintended consequence pain in the face.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Reduce, reuse, recycle!
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Sadly, you could write that about the present day and it would be equally true.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    "This isn't a ballast wagon, it's a 'ballast van'. The presence of two of these in the working timetable listings for the 1975-1986 period had been puzzling me - why on earth would they use a van for ballast? Well the answer is that they were vans for people to shovel the ballast. 24803 and 24804 are listed in the 1985 WTT and here is the first of them, a 6-wheeler that looks purpose-built as a PWD mess van:" That wouldn't look out of place in Germany, very Continental looking design.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    I guess by the 30s-50s it was probably seen as just another antique loco they had to work with, old pre GSR company brand loyalty having dissolved somewhat.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    The railways would have generated tons of the stuff; accident report forms, luggage labels, returns of stock held at stations (everything from shunting poles to pen nibs), handbills, etc etc. There was a specialist collecting group called the Railway Print Society, unfortunately it folded a few years back.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Real, most paperwork is of relatively low value, bar say the likes of posters. Not worthwhile faking.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Interestingly, one of the old buildings has the Masonic compass and square symbol carved into a keystone.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Another auction room favourite. The worthless Indian made 'vintage" candle lamps, never used on a real railway.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    The real deal, looks nothing like the one pictured above.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    They are up against some stiff competition: 1st gen Sulzer Sci-fi B movie props, Morton's extended loco smokebox tumours, Guinness' Hudswell Clarke diesel/chelsea boot on wheels, Listowel & Ballybunion freak shows.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Sorry, no deal.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    The GS&WR ones were long ago melted down, but the ones carried at Fermoy and Mallow may be in an attic perhaps...
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