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  1. minister_for_hardship
    'Supposedly', would doubt the Irish locos had that nickname applied. Perhaps the railway industry technical press or enthusiasts called them that, there is a marked near-absense of nicknames used to describe loco classes in Ireland compared to Britain.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    And one here, scroll down towards end to see. http://www.corkcoco.ie/photographs/ColmCreedonCollection/CorkBandon&SouthCorkRailwayVol1.pdf (Actually two pics, incl a collision with horse dray pic)
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Think there's one in the IRRS booklet Railways of Co Cork, one in the Ernie Shepherd CB&SCR book and one in the ITG Steam Loco Register book.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Not a million miles away from Allman's Distillery (later the GSR's) singleton Peckett.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Because we're Irish it's automatically assumed we love GAA* and drink to the exclusion of everything else? (*Or maybe rugger in the case of a typical IT reader?)
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Plenty orange/black/white IE era signage still knocking about, and some IR era tubular steel station nameboards with 'IR' logo showing through the faded 3 pin plug logo stickers, if you know where to look.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    I've seen copies of the GSR 1935 Appendix to the WTT with a series of dates and signatures inside the front cover well into the 1980's.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    What would the point be of tagging an item of rolling stock for marking territory when it's going to be moved somewhere else? It's rather less about street gangs and more about wannabe Banksy's. The 'art project' defence is pretty laughable.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Would be called Virgin Mary (Ireland) so as not to cause offense. I would think there would be two sectors, PaleRail for the Dublin area and SnailRail for everywhere else.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    The 'raspberry ripple' paint scheme doesn't look too bad.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    There's a kit for the vertical boilered Cockerills knocking about, expensive (for the size of it)and in HO. Not 100% sure were they the same as the CSE Carlow ones, photos of the Irish ones are not easy to come by. http://www.portail-trains.com/coin-des-passionnes/petites-annonces/ads-entry-8667.html
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    Yes, we could have become a dumping ground, the SL&NC and other cash-strapped lines could have an influx of woebegone British rolling stock. Perhaps a train ferry, or ferries?? Or British companies having more of a stake in Ireland a la Midland Railway/LMS and its NCC offshoot.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    What if the D&KR's lead had been taken up (or the D&DR and UR had been forced to regauge to 4' 8 1/2'' instead of 5'3'') and all the standard gauge railways ended up actually "standard gauge". Imagine there would have been many more purchases of second-hand British stock and maybe a few continental interlopers.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Did NG railways not have to adhere to RCH wagon/rolling stock standards, or unlike standard/broad gauge railways, they could they pick and choose what stock specs they wanted? Since they both had the'chopper' type, it wouldn't be a big deal to have a standard height for these?
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    The Kiltimagh ones have gained yellow (not eau de nil) stripes and the PR's at Clon didn't look quite right colour-wise, probably too dark a shade of green. Seating layouts might well have been altered in all of them, esp. the one in Clon serving as a cafe.
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    The Swilly was looking for a loan of a CDR loco around the time of the War of Independence, the Donegal declined, fearing their loco would end up derailed and stuck in a bog somewhere. IIRC there were through CDR excursions onto Swilly metals, think they were for pilgrimages?
  17. minister_for_hardship
    There wasn't any lettering, just a plain black background.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    There sure is! I can think of a location where there are two, one quite close to the line and the other maybe less than a km away as the crow flies. There's a third I just thought of, which can be seen approaching the terminus of this particular line... One privately owned, one is a museum and one is ruined with access cut off by the rail line.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Was reminded of this thread when I came across a reference to the territory of the CBSCR parodied as 'Come Bask in Summer's Ceaseless Rains'.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Wonder what the jerry-built 'sheds' under the footbridge legs were for? They're in the pic taken in '61 and they seem to be gone in '67.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    There would be far less trackwork now, look up osimapviewer and find Charleville c.1900 (historic 25'' series) to get an idea how extensive it was then compared to now. Imagine there would have been a bit of trackwork lifted around where the water tank is after the demise of steam and Croom Branch closure and maybe something like the Gasworks noted on the map would be redundant, derelict or even demolished by that stage.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    There was also a large water tank (still there) and small signal cabin (dubbed Charleville 'B', gone since 1980s?) at the Cork end.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    I never knew working steam and, all things being equal and if there was stuff available, would love to do a pre GSR layout maybe something offbeat like a WOI or Civil War theme. The death of steam/new diesel era has a lot of variety as well, down at heel steam side by side with (a few) clean diesels. The present day has relatively little interest for me, even station surrounds have become really ugly looking with Euro-cobble brick platforms, hideous palisade fencing and awful modern steel footbridges more suited to an oil refinery or chemical plant.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    And many adults, "ooh look at Thomas" (typical parent with kid pointing at an ICR)
  25. minister_for_hardship
    I wouldn't even class Clonakilty as a museum, more a place to bring the kids to a birthday party and whatever tins of Valspar are on the shelf at the local hardware shop will do as being 'close enough'. Even the P&T phonebox is decked out in a paint scheme it clearly never had. Met one of the founders of Clon once, not an enthusiast at all, just someone who wanted to bring an attraction to the town. Cultra should be better than this, should be on a par with the likes of NRM York.
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