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  1. 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)
  2. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  3. 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.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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?
  7. minister_for_hardship
    According to the description, it's a 'fright wagon set'. Certainly looks frightful.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Contact for info/availability of tables: Kevin Meany: 0862530238 kevinmeanydisplays@gmail.com
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  10. minister_for_hardship
    http://www.ehattons.com/101993/Oxford_Diecast_76LRT006_Leyland_Royal_Tiger_Coach_Lough_Swilly/StockDetail.aspx
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Bit of a 'Heilan' Coo' look about them, what with the handlebar horns.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    We're gonna need a bigger barge.
  13. 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.
  14. 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
  15. 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.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    This should explain it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_pay_cheques
  17. minister_for_hardship
    They are, quite modern ones though.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Smaller key is 201 / 071 class key
  19. 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.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Bet drivers would have loved those, horrible uncomfortable things by all accounts and serious lacking in the brakes staying on dept.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    I'm sure that is quite right, was thinking out loud purely in theoretical terms. It's a pity there isn't as much hoo-hah about preservation as there is about greenways, but that's Ireland for you.
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