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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Donegal town railway museum?
  2. minister_for_hardship
    CIE 254A, the A the suffix for Internal User/Departmental at an antiques fair. At a saucy 96 euros it did not come home with me.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    I'm all for inclusivity but letting colour blind people pick the paint out? The pinstriping position is a bit odd too.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Probably up to the mid- 20th century, there was no Whisky/Whiskey spelling 'rule'. If you look at older advertisements, they flipped between one or other way of spelling.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Deafening silence when quizzed by media 'no one available for comment' - state bodies here tend to circle the wagons (pardon the pun)
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    Both railways are pretty remote from Dublin, and the main tourist trails, to be fair.
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    Seems a shame that a brewery not short of a few bob, a turnover of 2 billion, wouldn't restore one to working order as an attraction at St James' Gate. Or one of the barges.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Did they ever stray beyond the former DSE or did they mainly stay put until withdrawal?
  9. minister_for_hardship
    I was quietly impressed with the added sound effects until they stuck in a United Statesian chime whistle.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Maybe a lot of spares or interchangeable bits that had been cannibalised whereas more modern but one-off locos or those in tiny classes were more likely to be cut up? Usefulness or lack thereof could have something to do with it too.
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    I guess you could say it identifies as a steam loco now. Clonakilty is not really a museum or a place to learn anything about the West Cork, it's a railway theme kids birthday party venue.
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    I'll have another look but flicking back and forth to a page to find out who took it and when is equally if not more annoying! EDIT looking at it again, there are pages with say two images, two photographers credited, but you don't know who took which photo. Dates or even year of image not stated. Not really good enough in my opinion.
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    Recieved a copy as a gift at Christmas. It's annoying that few of the images give the source or the photographer credit. Some I recognise from Irish Railways in Colour.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    GSR horses in horse boxes.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Race specials and horse fairs you'd have long rakes of those horse wagons. The Midland had ones with a compartment for the groom and even a built-in dog kennel, perhaps catering to the hunting set. The ones with groom's compartments still retained oil interior lighting long, long after it had disappeared from regular coaching stock.
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    A p*ss poor imitation of the bogus T&DLR notice also doing the rounds. It looks like something manufactured in a backyard Chinese foundry. More fool whoever buys that piece of junk. Websites hosting these dont care even if they are reported unless they are human body parts or associated with a failed Austrian artist.
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    The other Tayto (the Free Staytos) did a choc bar a few years back. It wasn't the rip roaring success they thought it would be, in fact I think its discontinued.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Just regular vans were used, no dedicated fish only vans I'm aware of.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Imagine if they did a GAA related series and fecked it up, or a historical documentary and showed a pic of Collins and said it was Dev, as they're both two ould rebels who fought in 1916, like, who cares...there would be uproar. Joe Duffy would be inundated. But broadcast any poorly researched railway shyte, and no one complains.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Well meaning but unrealistic Euro-twaddle. No quick buck to be made hence no interest.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    https://www.anglocelt.ie/2023/01/17/the-south-kerry-greenway/ This time aimed at food anoraks. Let's see how many rail related things they get hopelessly wrong!
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Only because Midleton wanted it and was hoarse from shouting for it. Youghal on the other hand, couldn't care less. Railway...greenway...briars... like whatever man. IR left to its own devices would never have reopened it.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    They don't call the NTA the No Trains Authority for nothing.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    https://www.live95fm.ie/news/live95-news/rail-works-causing-homes-privacy-and-security-to-be-stripped-away/ Home owners: we need to meet climate targets and there's too many big lorries on the roads. Also home owners: but a train driver will be able to see into my house now. Some people seriously need to give their heads a wobble. I bet these same sorts would often be the ones using the railway at the end of their precious property as their own personal rubbish tip. Some cheeky sod in Foynes threw his busted home heating oil tank over the wall into the station yard no less.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Mostly it was a shorter, dumpy-looking sort of lamp used here. The GSWR and GNRI marked their initials on their lamps. Railway Signal Co supplied the GN, the GSWR likely made up their own themselves in Inchicore.
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