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  1. minister_for_hardship
    They are, quite modern ones though.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Smaller key is 201 / 071 class key
  3. 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.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Bet drivers would have loved those, horrible uncomfortable things by all accounts and serious lacking in the brakes staying on dept.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Guess this proposal if it goes through will prevent the (new) C&L from ever getting beyond Mohill. Greenways are the new black, it would seem.
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    Noticed a few photos going around of new and nearly new GM diesels (already equipped with electric lighting) sporting steam-era oil headlamps. Also there are CIE publicity shots of a 001 in SuperTrain garb and modern electric lights also carrying white-painted oil lamps. When did oil headlamps cease to be used? Not counting RPSI specials and similar here.
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    Going out on a limb here, maybe the added 'S' a reference to braking? Think it may have had a manual wheel to apply the brakes inside, a la a brake van?
  13. minister_for_hardship
    From memory.. L - C&LR P - CB&PR K - C&MLR R - C&MDR S - S&SLR C - WCR The T&CLR had an oddball section letter as well that escapes me now. Edit ....think it was 'J'.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    The steel bodied ones weren't particularly nice places to be, esp. in extremely hot or cold weather.
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    Misprint on box label, I guess?
  16. minister_for_hardship
    'extremely rare to find' Shyster. Dublin based yet has ad in sterling. Hate that.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    The closure of the GNR route effectively pulled the rug out from under the SL&NC, plus its main stock in trade, cattle, were quite easily transferred to road.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    A might have been, in the unlikely event that CIE got a few rakes of stainless stock, they could still be running today. They were built like brick toilet facilities.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Aha! http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/40018-silver-princess/ Perhaps the bare aluminium stock was an attempt at an 'Aldi' version of this.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Wasn't there a demonstrator stainless steel bodied coach that ran briefly on CIE in hopes of a company placing an order? Looked a bit like those ones built by Budd in the US, but more UK/Irish -sized. Could that have been an inspiration?
  21. minister_for_hardship
    There's an alcopop called WKD = West Kerry Diesel.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    I believe the RAL code is filed under "Electric Mucus"
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Dear God. The double edged sword that is social media....dirty laundry being aired for all to see. Shame it had to come to this.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Well Dublin is due north of a lot of places in Ireland ...
  25. minister_for_hardship
    What keeps the door from opening en route so to speak?
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