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  1. minister_for_hardship
    You could have done a lot worse in the naming stakes...
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Going through the Saga by Rail: Ireland (Boyd) was interesting to note that food and clothes were far more available in the ROI post war than in the uk. He even noted C&LR section level crossing keeper girls were attired in the 'New Look', so maybe Ireland in Dev's era wasn't such a dull, grey place after all...unemployment and emigration notwithstanding.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Always wondered why CIE had no problem with this parody of itself, making no attempt to 'fictionalise' or even cover up the then current logos on coaches and loco etc.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Static model, going nowhere. Just like 800.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Speaking of phones, still have my 1st generation iPhone...
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Those aren't watches, these are watches....
  7. minister_for_hardship
    The info is out there in printed form now, only no-one's bothered about putting it in.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Politics trumped common sense.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Wouldn't it be possible, if a once off, that goods could be loaded into a Brown Van in say, Belfast for consignment to somewhere on CIE's network? Would such goods stay in the Van all the way through and the Van returned when empty?
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Hmm, sounds like cascaded hand-me-downs to keep the Cinderella South Eastern going. The DSE got a fair bashing during the unpleasantness of '22-'23 losing locos and stock in the process, no doubt there were arrears in maintenance as well. Many rolling stock items could be described as near clapped out antiques when the GSR took over.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Far far fewer DSE items of rolling stock and I suspect some may not have been in tip-top condition and got withdrawn in GSR days.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Leave them off. If they get something done, fair play. And a message for the negative Nancys out there...
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Wasn't that staged in connection with 150th of the coming of the railway to Waterford with memorabilia etc? Think the layout at that was a different one.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Of course if one of the gurriers got blown to atoms, there would be weeping and gnashing of teeth. A shure God love him, dey have no facilitees for de kids...
  15. minister_for_hardship
    There would be a good bit of standardisation in the GS&WR, so components were freely interchangeable between certain locos. But how did they manage swapping boilers with clearly 'unrelated' locos, or were there standards there too? Think St Molaga got the boiler off one of the DSER former railmotors...or was it Argadeen that got it?
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Thought it nice at the start as a stand alone livery, but wondering how an asymetric livery is going to match up to rolling stock. Hate those stupid Euro bar-code/phone numbers.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Det Con Rod Harbron said: "A busy station is no place for horses". You don't say.....
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Familiarity breeds contempt.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    All the comfort of a high nelly without the cushioning effect of pneumatic tyres.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Always assumed that those rail cycles were of British manufacture, didn't think they'd buy them from Germany. After a bit of googling, looks like they were imported from the U.S. as well for use here...http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/bikes-1800s/1898-2/1898-teetor-railway-cycle-light-inspection-car/
  21. minister_for_hardship
    That's a Fordson Major, what's in Heuston is a Fordson Dexta. I'll let you off, this time.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    The GS&WR preferred laying track with staggered joints and the GSR was GS&WR influenced in pretty much every way, and so the machine was retired from laying track at any rate.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Trippy. http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/no-i-havent-seen-your-lsd.jpg
  24. minister_for_hardship
    One of the holy grails of Irish memorabilia. I believe a Dublin based driver who has long since gone to his reward got one of these many years ago. Most (but not all) of his stuff ended up in a skip after his passing away. His family had little interest in what they thought of as scrap metal.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    The whole FVR thing is a long drawn out mess. You would expect this 'Down Mexico Way', but N.I. where there's heritage lottery money, proximity of RPSI and DCDR, more interest per head of population etc?...Not so much.
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