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  1. minister_for_hardship
    The U class turned out in primrose yellow were nicknamed 'Banana Boats' (a hit of the time was Harry Belafonte's 'Banana Boat Song'!) Latterly the U's were predictably known as 'U Boats'.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    You might have to delve into the records of the SL&NC of that period, unless they happen to be mentioned in passing in the Turf & Trains book. Don't think there would be too many toting cameras in that neck of the woods around the time of the Emergency/WW2 (delete as applicable, depending on what jurasdiction you're in)
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    I imagine turf traffic was at its height during the Emergency and perhaps a year or so afterwards until things got back to normal? Maybe a brief burst in conjunction with Mr Bullied's turf-burning experiments and of course the Turfburner itself before tailing off again.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Re fert, you would expect farmers to be applying it in summer if they wanted a second cut, hence there would want to be a supply flowing to the co-ops and obviously there would be no activity during the winter.
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    The one at Kent is no more, demolished maybe 10 or so years ago. IIRC the bog standard GS&WR type was an arc-roofed shed made of corrugated iron, half sheeted down the sides, and maybe a bit wider than the Ratio kit shown. Perhaps there was something like a simple wooden platform inside to aid the carriage cleaners. But as mentioned above, most if not all of those were removed in or around the 30's.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    There was/is something that looks roughly like a footbridge close to where the line for Waterford South diverges from the line across to the North bank the river on Google maps.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    The flakes of CIE green paint and with no signs of later CIE grey or IR blue would suggest that it hasn't seen railway use (or a paintbrush) in a VERY long time. Wonder where it came from?
  8. minister_for_hardship
    According to the description, it's a 'fright wagon set'. Certainly looks frightful.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Contact for info/availability of tables: Kevin Meany: 0862530238 kevinmeanydisplays@gmail.com
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    http://www.ehattons.com/101993/Oxford_Diecast_76LRT006_Leyland_Royal_Tiger_Coach_Lough_Swilly/StockDetail.aspx
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Bit of a 'Heilan' Coo' look about them, what with the handlebar horns.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    We're gonna need a bigger barge.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Names would most likely have been rendered in Irish a la the 800's if that had even been in the realms of reality. Pacifics? Hardly required. The 800s were oversized vanity projects with no use outside of Dub-Cork. Smaller, cheaper to build and maintain locos with wider route availability would have been a better investment.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    No it's the hand cranked (and ill fated) US Civil War CSS Hunley. The RN DID have steam subs, with a pretty awful service history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_K_class_submarine
  16. minister_for_hardship
    There would have been thousands upon thousands of British pay checks, check ebay any day of the week, not so many Irish floating around.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    This should explain it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_pay_cheques
  18. minister_for_hardship
    They are, quite modern ones though.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Smaller key is 201 / 071 class key
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Dr Cox's rebuilt and relocated CDR in the United States that never came to pass. What is now the Great Southern Trail started life as a preserved railway proposal afaik.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Bet drivers would have loved those, horrible uncomfortable things by all accounts and serious lacking in the brakes staying on dept.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    The population would have risen to unsustainable levels so there would certainly be emigration, no question, but more at a steady slower pace. Perhaps things like many of the relief public works (roads/bridges/piers etc) would have been scaled down or not happened at all. Don't see railways being affected much, if at all.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Never seen any coaches produced to run with it either. Well, horses for courses, there's probably even a subset of collectors who specialise in 'new-build' clockwork.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    I'm sure the quality is good, but for that price and esp. in O gauge, you would at least want motion that looks less toy-like.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    I knew that the C&L purchased Mohill station house way back as a future station to run into and I was aware there were difficulties, but somehow there seems to be a local political and community drive behind greenways that is noticably absent in preservation.
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