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  1. minister_for_hardship
    At least if a steam loco or heritage diesel on a railtour fails...it's not the end of the world. There's something about gadding around in a 75 y/o-ish aircraft that doesn't inspire confidence in me. Nice to watch yes, at a distance.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    How far away would this be from an ex-WL&LR (or B&CDR) tank I wonder? The flat-topped dome jars a little...
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Pot was a cooking utensil and smack was something you got when you were bold...
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Trippy, man. Right on....
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Sorry, couldn't resist...
  6. minister_for_hardship
    We had dual gauge, not a lot of it mind, in Derry and Ennis.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    He once set off some unfortunate underling to design a pen so Bulleid could write letters using just one finger.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Britain kept the best coal for itself during the war, "Eire" got the dregs. With handling, loading/unloading what the GSR got was little better than dust. Inchicore experimented with various methods...eg binding anthracite dust with pitch or maybe cement(!) to make something resembling a briquette. Thus services were curtailed and some branch lines were closed to conserve fuel stocks. The only indigenious coal came out of Kilkenny and Arigna....a running joke was that you'd keep a ton of Arigna coal handy in case a fire broke out anywhere.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    The 800's didn't have a 'fair go', only giving a tiny hint what they were able to do before the shortages of WW2. Still, think there were way oversized and a more modest 400 or 500 class sized loco would have better suited the GSR, with a bit more flexibility than just Dub-Cork.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Was that the one that Harland and Wolff built? Any pics of it on trial? Think Railway Mag printed a grainy pic of it when new/just delivered a while back.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    4472 was worked and worked hard, craned and loaded into ships and onto low loaders god knows how many times, so things getting cracked and strained is hardly surprising. But steam is very labour intensive, imagine that's why it survived so long in places like India and China.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Grand Central Station....Dublin. And a terminus in Blacksod Bay. http://archiseek.com/2013/1872-proposing-a-grand-central-station-for-dublin/ http://archiseek.com/2013/1915-railway-terminus-blacksod-bay-co-mayo/
  13. minister_for_hardship
    The ones listed in the GSR book vary from 10-15 cwt up to 7 or 10 tons capacity. Most of the smaller ones were simple hand operated things with a timber boom usually.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    A loading bank crane? Looking thru the GSR appendix to the WTT, no 4 1/2T crane is listed anywhere. Unless you know where it came from, can't tell if Irish or not, these things were usually supplied by contractors, not built by the railways themselves.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    A (very) few narrow gauge section locos carried their 'pre-grouping' liveries into GSR days. The C&L's 'King Edward' comes to mind, though it probably did little or no work in this period before it was broken up.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Remotoring and cosmetic detailing has saved many an aging model...
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Point out the masses of never-used expensive shoes, cosmetics and outfits....or...maybe not.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    In the Rowlands/Francis/McGrath T&DR book, there's a pre-GSR pic of one of the Hunslets, a coat of arms can be just about made out on cab side sheets. Might have been a 'one off', applied to just one loco, never came across another pic like it. Also appeared on the cover of their 'Thro Rare West Kerry' tourist guidebook. The 'new' T&DR (incorrectly) applied the same design to coaching stock.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Another factoid: The Tralee and Dingle's coat of arms was one of the very few to feature the Irish language. The company seal of the Derry Central also had a motto in Irish.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    The UTA was the only company on the island of Ireland to have what is called a 'full achievement' granted. The GCR was the first railway company to get theirs in 1898 and used it quite frequently, the LNER hand painted theirs on two locos only, one of which was something numbered 4472.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    You see these belts quite frequently on Scottish clan badges as well, they were supposed to symbolise fealty to the clan chief. For the railways, I imagine that the garter belt was a neat way of displaying your company name around your shield or monogram.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    JHB will be disappointed that the MGWR made quite a few errors in their coat of arms...the 3 castles of Dublin should have been on a blue, not red, field. The nag's heads of the extinct arms of Lord Blayney should have been of silver on a black field and erased (jagged edges to the cut) and not couped as depicted. The griffins and boars of Longford should have been of blue and silver on ermine and red fields respectively. Oddly, there is no obvious connection between Lord Blayney or his family and the company, and MGWR metals did not reach the family seat in Castleblayney.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Railway companies did consult with the College Of Arms about design, but very few went whole hog to have arms granted officially. The ones that did have heraldic devices officially granted were the Great Central, LNER, Southern Railway, British Transport Commission and the UTA.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Oh, no....look what you've started now...
  25. minister_for_hardship
    The GSR and the entity that is 'Northern Ireland' did not exist in Victorian/Edwardian times.
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