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On 24/8/2023 at 4:04 PM, airfixfan said:

1916 of course as nothing happened that year!

The real life one was dated 1916, but an enamel, not cast from old Chinese bed irons in a backyard furnace.

On 24/8/2023 at 1:45 PM, WRENNEIRE said:

 

Maybe if the (1) was (I) I might have been convinced

 

The 'apple for scale' is worth more than the junk sign.

Long way from home. Looks the real deal. Price 280(?) a tad on the spicy side.

Anyone intending to bid on this, don't. It's scrap.

12 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

So it wasnt an Engine plate after all.
Rub of a smelly cloth and this appeared
Back of plate would suggest it was a bridge plate and possibly from the Derry Road?

 

 

Bridge plate, but could be from anywhere on GNRI where there was a bridge no 25.

"Engine plate", auctioneer numpties wouldn't know an engine plate if it dropped on their toes.

16 hours ago, Wexford70 said:

Interestingly, there was a semaphore signal placed in that location some time later.

Am not sure if that has any connection to the item shown.

 

That signal is there for decoration, no counterweight, no pulleys, no wires running to it.

It's a platform for token exchange, overlooked by an oil lamp for illumination by night.

47 minutes ago, airfixfan said:

Sitting in a pub in Burtonport last Friday. Proudly displayed as a Swilly relic was a BC&ER trespass notice!

The general population are as ignorant about railways as the auctioneers!

23 minutes ago, bufferstop said:

That wasn't as interesting as the detonators(they weren't described as such),that were originally listed as an lot in the initial auction listing. They were taken down by the following morning. Fair to say that they're not railway experts.

The Bundoran Junction cabin diagram was interesting, went for €850

They are clueless, like many antique auctioneers here, spoofers, making it up as they go along. Antique auctions here, with a few exceptions, have genuine articles along with fakes and "sexed up" items sprinkled into the mix designed to confuse. Genuine, but humdrum items with modern stuck-on bogus lettering to make them more attractive for sale. It's fun to spot how they get their descriptions wildly incorrect or even things photographed upside down. Non railway items described as "railway" this or that because they have a notion that railway things make more money.

Buyer beware are the watchwords here.

GS&WR beer bottle, unfortunately without contents.

10 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

This plate has turned up at several different auctions over the last few months, 
Painted, unpainted with the same running number every time.
Caveat emptor!

Wrong font as well. 

The real deal isn't that expensive usually, maybe 20 quid absolute tops.

Looks bang on with their estimate.

Ironically banned on trains here.

2 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

It’s almost like a combo of the 2. CIE greens in the one. which don’t go well together unfortunatly. 
 

but the 29k is my least favurite loco/unit on the rails…being shuffled off the comfy quiet DD sets and into that was a killer after 3 hours of Cork train already done  

It'd be nicer with a line of another lighter relieving colour between the two. It looks dull especially in our often overcast weather.

On 17/5/2023 at 9:30 AM, Georgeconna said:

Fella's nicking stuff of the track? Nuts.

The display area inside, all that's separating people from goodies is a railing last time I visited. You could reach over, grab something and stick it in a bag and be out the door before the bored receptionist would cop it. I heard memorabilia went walkies some years ago. (note, don't do this)

Things need to be bolted down or locked away or under cctv because the public cannot be trusted, it's naive to think otherwise.

https://www.adverts.ie/other-home-garden/iron-railway-house/30107448?utm_source=email&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=SearchAlert

Some assembly required. Contains small parts. Not suitable for children.

Perhaps the scrappers were giving away, or selling or appropriating bits for themselves.

A dome is hardly the sort of thing you could walk off with in your pocket. I imagine it would not have happened as much in a scrap line sealed off from public view behind the walls of Inchicore.

Barely visible is the "K", GSR suffix for the Muskerry, making it 1K.

Formerly "City Of Cork", now sheepdipped grey.

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

RTE included a shot of Inchicore Works, footgae of T & D cattle trains at Castlegregory junction, and interior shots of a driver in a West Clare "F" class diesel. Typical lazy research.

At least it didn't have A4 Pacifics this time!

Another blooper was mention of 'two railway companies in Donegal', they forgot about the poor old GNR.

They had some excellent ACTUAL CDR/LSR footage. I wouldn't mind but there isn't really a shortage of still CDR/LSR images they could've used instead of stock 'old timey train' footage trotted out for such features.

Imagine the uproar if they had gotten sports teams and personalities from different counties mixed up!

Usual RTE thrown together effort with archive footage from railways hundreds of miles from Donegal!

Who you gonna call?

17 hours ago, Noel said:

Seems daft for what in truth are Toy trains, that will one day eventually be re-run with better specs, so collecting 1st gen models now will devalue not appreciate. This seems like a repeat of Lima 201s all over again and you couldn't give those away now even as a door stop.

The trick is to sell to the mugs while the market is buoyant.

I'm glad 'Snot & Club Orange' livery never made it beyond the planning stage.

I wonder what is supposed to happen when Kiltimagh Velorails encounter each other, assuming there are a few of them? Or walkers for that matter? What happens at farm and road level crossings, if there are any?

I assume they can't practicably cordon off the length of the line keep random people out?

Edit, I see from the reviews of a French operator, they go out in one direction in a convoy. Could be a little frustrating if you get differing groups who want to slow down to smell the flowers and others who want to cycle them flat out.

6 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

My definition of the West Cork Railway would be a mixture of the Cork, Bandon and south coast, Schull and skibbereen, and macroom lines. As much as the macroom had it’s own identity. (Bassically any line where you began your journey at albert quay to get to the destination) as after 1925 was when the term “west cork railway” was being used to describe the system not the company and by that stage trains for macroom were using Albert quay 

And yes the west cork railway Co. Is confusing…I didn’t know about “the trameen” 

 

there was a name for the fermoy line but I can’t think of it 

 

 

 

I wouldn't include the S&S or the Macroom in that grouping, but each to their own. I wouldn't even call Macroom 'West Cork', more mid-Cork or at least the gateway to West Cork.

Most books and articles on the CB&SCR system only mention the S&S and Macroom in passing and where relevant. Both had their own flavour and culture even into GSR/CIE days and even the GSR/CIE regarded the sections separately. Plus I think it only confuses the non-savvy public and by god they're confused enough as it is.

The North Kerry.

The West Cork, basically the CB&SCR, confusingly there was also an actual West Cork Railway Co., a constituent of the CB&SCR. Some lump the Cork & Macroom into the West Cork (incorrectly imo)

South Kerry (Kenmare & Valentia Harbour branches)

The Cork & Muskerry was known as the 'Hook and Eye', and the Schull & Skibbereen as 'The Trameen' colloquially.