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Think there may be another variation, before they started double-stacking bodies for beet traffic, I've seen pics of these opens with an enormous, crudely painted letter "B" on the sides.

If in English only, suspect it may be from a GNRI coach taken into CIE ownership, would make sense with where it was found. The sign at the top looks like it was 'added on' to me.

GSR or CIE ownership if not origin. The GNRI weren't under any obligation to provide bi-lingual signage, could be ex GNR but writing looks a bit old-fashioned. Don't know how fastidious CIE were in interior detailing of ex GNR stock they took over. What is on the small sign? The sign on top is just a translation of "First Class Passengers Only" Maybe one of the RPSI or Downpatrick crew might be able to help.

CIE did, but in churns, probably up to 70's. Have seen marked milk churns with things like 'GSR (or GS&WR) Station (name)' with the name of the creamery as well.

We'll all have flying cars before that happens.

Yes. No 11 'Kilkee' was a later singleton 4-6-0T built by Bagnall.

I don't know about coal consumption, but the WCR definitely overloaded and thrashed them and in common with a lot of impoverished Irish ng lines, maintenance wouldn't be up to scratch.

No mention about the alleged railcars being diesel, petrol or steam 'railmotors'?

Bagnall's didn't make very much for the Irish market, a lot of their locos went to customers like the LMS, GWR, War Dept., domestic industrial users and the colonies, South Africa, India etc. I suspect there may have been a small number of industrial/contractors locos that may have worked here in addition to Mayner's list, the WCR's Bagnalls being the most (in)famous.

Over the weekend, saw the most inept attempt at fake railway memorabilia yet, based on the GS&WR 40 shilling gate notice sign. Instead of "G.S.&W.R." it was headed with...wait for it.... "C.I.E.R." I nearly dropped!

I don't believe that a new heritage line, at least a standard gauge one, is a viable proposition in this country for a whole shopping list of reasons that have been done to death on other threads. I don't know how much business can be squeezed out of an extension from Midleton to Youghal, the greenway plannning seems to have the blessing of IE from what I can see.

Explain what?

Pretty sure most venues would have kittens at the mere notion of a remotely controlled thing flying over patrons' heads however 'safe' it might appear to be.

Takes two to tango. There should be a special place in hell for ebay shysters.

This may be of interest...unfortunately that dreadful Americanism 'train station' creeps in... http://ballyglunin.com/castletown-summer-festival/

There's a greenway 'mania' right, fair enough some alignments will never ever open again either as a commercial or a preserved line (case in point, the North Kerry GST started out as a preservation group until road improvements chopped it in two) so it would be preferable that a disused line that has no hope of opening again have some afterlife and be of some use to the community rather than having big trees growing up through it. Having said that some of these groups seem to be losing the run of themselves.

Maybe the lawmakers think a drone is some sort of bee? There has been some impressive footage of urban areas that fell foul of the aviation authority, a strongly worded letter was the only outcome.

The Civil War put paid to the overall roof. http://cdn1.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article28981919.ece/dfa41/ALTERNATES/w620/47e3c1af-0961-4a51-bb31-da4267cf0bbe.jpg It once had a fine display of GSR bi-lingual signs for station facilities that all disappeared in the 1990s.

It might be considered by some a waste of film taking pics of mundane tasks and dirty locations. Plus some of these tasks may be carried out very early in the morning when it was too dark, or when photographers were still in bed?! Inchicore had the only mechanical coal stage on the CIE system afaik. I know at interchange/break of gauge places like Dromod, manually shovelling from one set of open wagons into another was commonplace. Wouldn't fancy that.

The deeper toned of the two whistles sounded when the emergency cord was pulled. Older coaching stock still retained the brackets that once held that cord. Think the GWR had something similar (EDIT just spotted, used them for braking instructions and other purposes), other railways in early days had a gong on the tender which rang when the cord was pulled.

Leafing though photos of GS&WR locos, wondered why the express locos in particular got a pair of lamp irons on the smokebox door. Some carried them into early GSR days, before being removed or the doors were replaced. Never seen any pics of them having a headboard or even lamps on them. What was the purpose? Some long forgotten and short-lived headlamp code? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-unHigzNWtHU/VG3CRijsBlI/AAAAAAAADho/YZiSHinoig8/s1600/Killarney%2BExpress%2BGSWR%2BLoco%2BPublishing%2BCo.%2Bpc.JPG The singleton "Sir William Goulding" got them too... http://www.maunsell.org.uk/newsletter/newsletter%20images/13line_drg.gif

Interesting to note what appears to be a Fordson tractor as a load in an open wagon as opposed to the expected flat. Would imagine flat wagons wouldn't be especially plentiful, probably they just needed to check if there was a crane of the right capacity at its destination to unload it.

Distress? Panic-stricken more like.

Maybe just one or two to brighten up things, rather than masses upon masses of varying shades of grey! Not quite PO, but the GNRI and GS&W did bright yellow(?) butter wagons, imagine they got the grey treatment eventually.