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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Why couldn't they schedule more frequent services with shorter trains instead of building three monsters just to carry out this one task?
  2. minister_for_hardship
    I vaguely recall IR checkers using portable ticket machines on a shoulder strap that looked rather heavy and boxy and didn't seem to work properly all of the time, when the credit card-sized tickets came out. Didn't seem to last long in service not surprisingly.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Try this site for lots of pics (links on RHS of page), but the vast majority of these handheld machines were for buses although the Almex type machine pictured in the second post superceded the Edmondson ticket press and were used in CIE/IR booking offices from about the 1960s to 1990s iirc albeit fixed to the counter rather than hand held. T.I.M. machines with the phone-like dial was used by the bus services of the DUTC and CIE and nicknamed 'Flintstones' because they were so primitive! I believe trams used the 'Bell Punch' type tickets and equipment. http://www.ticketmachinewebsite.com/
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Off top of my head, may suit then again may required a hell of a lot of cut & shut.. LNER Sentinel-GSR Sentinel railcar http://www.mremag.com/index.php/news/342-lnerrailcarreintro LBSCR terrier-GSWR 90 or sister locos. L&YR 2-4-2T-WL&WR/GS&WR/C&MDR 2-4-2T Wainwright C - WL&WR or MGWR 0-6-0? GWR Star - 400 class? New Hornby Peckett-Allman's/GSR/CIE Peckett
  5. minister_for_hardship
    The broad gauge sidings out of Kingsbridge indeed appear to be crossed by the Guinness tramways in a number of places. One BG siding seems to transform into narrow gauge, must be the place where the NG locos were lifted into BG convertor yokes to shunt BG stock. http://www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/22/Guinness_17.jpg
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Ennis had mixed gauge as well.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Who was it that did the pre-recorded layout self-guided tour voiceover? Some former RTE presenter putting on a stagey Irish brogue? It was streets ahead of an imitation like Clonakilty in terms of genuine Irish models, even though from a child's point of view the operators were a bit on the grouchy side and a fair trek to come up the country to see it.
  8. 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.
  9. 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)
  10. 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.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Not a million miles away from Allman's Distillery (later the GSR's) singleton Peckett.
  12. 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?)
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    The 'raspberry ripple' paint scheme doesn't look too bad.
  18. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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?
  22. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    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?
  24. minister_for_hardship
    There wasn't any lettering, just a plain black background.
  25. 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.
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