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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Very nice. IIRC correctly, round bales were only in use for only the last 25 years or so. Before that, square bales... and before that again haycocks.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    They were both applied with stencils. Depended on who was doing the painting, whether they were bothered infilling the blanks left after the stencil or not.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Maybe it could be modified to look like an Irish NG 4-4-0T on a wagon heading to or from Inchicore for overhaul?
  4. minister_for_hardship
    As well as passengers...staff! I can't recall who mentioned it at an IRRS show, but it was said that if aliens got hold of some pictorial railway books, they could be forgiven for thinking that railways ran without any human intervention.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    How long has it been since train services ran on the 25th/26th?
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Were the Guinness ones de facto Private Owner wagons?
  7. minister_for_hardship
    South Wexford. Tralee and Blennerville. Upton Railway (rough agricultural effort run at the steam rally, constructed of plywood and held together with six inch nails, chicken wire and hope...)
  8. minister_for_hardship
    I do abhor the term (or rather euphemism) 'anti-social behaviour' Sounds more like not engaging with people at a dinner party rather than acting like a scumbag.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Without knowing the nature of the 'anti-social behaviour', it is hard to say. Is it seasonal partygoers/12 pubs of Xmas shower or something else entirely?
  10. minister_for_hardship
    And still cheaper than building model railways...
  11. minister_for_hardship
    People were easier to please back then, most of the major manufacturer's offerings back then were riddled with inaccuracies, wrong colours, wrong fonts, motors and wheelsets from whatever shoehorned into bodies, moulded handrails, etc.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    JHB would be IE's answer to Michael O'Leary...
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  14. minister_for_hardship
    Feign an illness or something. There will always be more weddings, not many opportunities like this...
  15. minister_for_hardship
    http://www.athlone.ie/visit/open-day-at-midland-great-western-railway-station/ The Midland Great Western Railway station, Grace Road, Athlone, will open 2.30-5pm on Saturday, November 19th to launch a new radio series about the railway in Athlone called The Railway Children. The station has been closed to the public since 1985 and holds fond memories for locals. The event will include a guided tour which will allow access to the old platform, railway memorabilia, tea and snacks, and radio presenter Noel Henry will be taking song requests for his Through The Years programme.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    How I understand the works is that the portion of the cabin outside of the overall roof is life expired and will be removed and the portion that is inside the roof retained and the void bricked up. Not so bad, the bit outside looked rather shack-like anyway. In other news, the old dorms on Water Street (and nearby billiards/reading room) are no more.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Read a book on North British Loco works once (which had some Irish interest in the NBL "might-have-been" offered to CIE) Some toe curling stuff on completely deaf boiler-makers and a charming little story about a lad involved in assembling loco frames...instead of putting any sort of tool in to check if the holes were lined up, he put in his finger. Frames moved momentarily and you can guess the rest.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Add to that the widespread use of asbestos in insulating coaches at the time.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    A tarp will only stop rain getting in, it won't stop salt laden sea air circulating around under the tarp.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Like the Titanic conspiracy theory?
  21. minister_for_hardship
    The blame culture, find someone...anyone to blame for one's own actions. It's the new thing now, like.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Looking across the pond at Tornado and other projects (Hengist/GER 4-4-0/Beachy Head/Patriot/P2 etc) I wonder is there an appetite for a replica??
  23. minister_for_hardship
    800 getting the chop would have been a shameful loss. Not the most practical loco in terms of ever getting it to run again but still... Pity no MGWR representative survived the purge, or even something like an ex GSWR 4-6-0 which could have been very useful to the RPSI, or a Bandon tank for a handy Maynooth run.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    If that is 800, looks like scrapping was about to happen but was stopped in time. Name and numberplates removed obviously but the cab windows appear to have been taken off as well. I assume it was contractors that scrapped the locos, with the sheer volume of withdrawals CIE gangs couldn't possibly manage all that?
  25. minister_for_hardship
    I think that was the one where under certain firebox conditions with the milled peat, a mini explosion could occur. Its regular crew in time could engineer these minor bangs to get rid of unwanted footplate guests.
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