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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Aha! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/40018-silver-princess/ Perhaps the bare aluminium stock was an attempt at an 'Aldi' version of this.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Wasn't there a demonstrator stainless steel bodied coach that ran briefly on CIE in hopes of a company placing an order? Looked a bit like those ones built by Budd in the US, but more UK/Irish -sized. Could that have been an inspiration?
  3. minister_for_hardship
    There's an alcopop called WKD = West Kerry Diesel.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    I believe the RAL code is filed under "Electric Mucus"
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Dear God. The double edged sword that is social media....dirty laundry being aired for all to see. Shame it had to come to this.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Well Dublin is due north of a lot of places in Ireland ...
  7. minister_for_hardship
    What keeps the door from opening en route so to speak?
  8. minister_for_hardship
    http://exclusivefirsteditions.blogspot.ie/2015/05/in-shops-may-2015_26.html http://www.ebay.ie/itm/261932492836
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Think there may be another variation, before they started double-stacking bodies for beet traffic, I've seen pics of these opens with an enormous, crudely painted letter "B" on the sides.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    If in English only, suspect it may be from a GNRI coach taken into CIE ownership, would make sense with where it was found. The sign at the top looks like it was 'added on' to me.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    GSR or CIE ownership if not origin. The GNRI weren't under any obligation to provide bi-lingual signage, could be ex GNR but writing looks a bit old-fashioned. Don't know how fastidious CIE were in interior detailing of ex GNR stock they took over. What is on the small sign? The sign on top is just a translation of "First Class Passengers Only" Maybe one of the RPSI or Downpatrick crew might be able to help.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    CIE did, but in churns, probably up to 70's. Have seen marked milk churns with things like 'GSR (or GS&WR) Station (name)' with the name of the creamery as well.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    We'll all have flying cars before that happens.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Yes. No 11 'Kilkee' was a later singleton 4-6-0T built by Bagnall.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    I don't know about coal consumption, but the WCR definitely overloaded and thrashed them and in common with a lot of impoverished Irish ng lines, maintenance wouldn't be up to scratch.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    No mention about the alleged railcars being diesel, petrol or steam 'railmotors'?
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Bagnall's didn't make very much for the Irish market, a lot of their locos went to customers like the LMS, GWR, War Dept., domestic industrial users and the colonies, South Africa, India etc. I suspect there may have been a small number of industrial/contractors locos that may have worked here in addition to Mayner's list, the WCR's Bagnalls being the most (in)famous.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Over the weekend, saw the most inept attempt at fake railway memorabilia yet, based on the GS&WR 40 shilling gate notice sign. Instead of "G.S.&W.R." it was headed with...wait for it.... "C.I.E.R." I nearly dropped!
  19. minister_for_hardship
    I don't believe that a new heritage line, at least a standard gauge one, is a viable proposition in this country for a whole shopping list of reasons that have been done to death on other threads. I don't know how much business can be squeezed out of an extension from Midleton to Youghal, the greenway plannning seems to have the blessing of IE from what I can see.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Explain what?
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Pretty sure most venues would have kittens at the mere notion of a remotely controlled thing flying over patrons' heads however 'safe' it might appear to be.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Takes two to tango. There should be a special place in hell for ebay shysters.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    This may be of interest...unfortunately that dreadful Americanism 'train station' creeps in... http://ballyglunin.com/castletown-summer-festival/
  24. minister_for_hardship
    There's a greenway 'mania' right, fair enough some alignments will never ever open again either as a commercial or a preserved line (case in point, the North Kerry GST started out as a preservation group until road improvements chopped it in two) so it would be preferable that a disused line that has no hope of opening again have some afterlife and be of some use to the community rather than having big trees growing up through it. Having said that some of these groups seem to be losing the run of themselves.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Maybe the lawmakers think a drone is some sort of bee? There has been some impressive footage of urban areas that fell foul of the aviation authority, a strongly worded letter was the only outcome.
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