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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Remotoring and cosmetic detailing has saved many an aging model...
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Point out the masses of never-used expensive shoes, cosmetics and outfits....or...maybe not.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    In the Rowlands/Francis/McGrath T&DR book, there's a pre-GSR pic of one of the Hunslets, a coat of arms can be just about made out on cab side sheets. Might have been a 'one off', applied to just one loco, never came across another pic like it. Also appeared on the cover of their 'Thro Rare West Kerry' tourist guidebook. The 'new' T&DR (incorrectly) applied the same design to coaching stock.
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    Another factoid: The Tralee and Dingle's coat of arms was one of the very few to feature the Irish language. The company seal of the Derry Central also had a motto in Irish.
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    The UTA was the only company on the island of Ireland to have what is called a 'full achievement' granted. The GCR was the first railway company to get theirs in 1898 and used it quite frequently, the LNER hand painted theirs on two locos only, one of which was something numbered 4472.
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    You see these belts quite frequently on Scottish clan badges as well, they were supposed to symbolise fealty to the clan chief. For the railways, I imagine that the garter belt was a neat way of displaying your company name around your shield or monogram.
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    JHB will be disappointed that the MGWR made quite a few errors in their coat of arms...the 3 castles of Dublin should have been on a blue, not red, field. The nag's heads of the extinct arms of Lord Blayney should have been of silver on a black field and erased (jagged edges to the cut) and not couped as depicted. The griffins and boars of Longford should have been of blue and silver on ermine and red fields respectively. Oddly, there is no obvious connection between Lord Blayney or his family and the company, and MGWR metals did not reach the family seat in Castleblayney.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Railway companies did consult with the College Of Arms about design, but very few went whole hog to have arms granted officially. The ones that did have heraldic devices officially granted were the Great Central, LNER, Southern Railway, British Transport Commission and the UTA.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Oh, no....look what you've started now...
  10. minister_for_hardship
    The GSR and the entity that is 'Northern Ireland' did not exist in Victorian/Edwardian times.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    The RN are operating an updated version of this?
  12. minister_for_hardship
    'Bonio' boxes. Handy if you happen to own a dog, if not.... you can always snack on them and you'll get a nice glossy coat.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Interesting that some news sites jumped to the conclusion that the unseen sub belonged to the naughty Russians.
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    Correct punctuation went down the toilet years ago. We can't even get English 100% right, and then there's the half-assed attempts at Irish in public signage.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Irony of ironies, they might be perfectly happy to see spot-on Irish rtr models with every rivet accounted for and then go run them on 00 track.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    People can choose to buy them or leave them. It's a free country last time I looked.
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    The IRRS journal had an article recently on the diesel locos tendered for by the GNR, only one of which actually made it off the drawing board. The link up between the Cork, Blackrock & Passage and the Cork & Muskerry via the Cork Electric Tramways. The tramway chose 2 ft 11 7⁄16 in gauge to allow normal 3' rolling stock to work through on and the CB&PR and C&MLR had identical coupling systems. The proposed fleet of mini 'Turfburners', outline sketches exist of these.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    The Cork & Macroom had notions of extending to Ballyvourvey and Kenmare and also a branch to Coachford.
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    According to lore, CIE officials examined the unfinished Bulleid Leaders with a view to purchase, but nothing came of it. According to the Irish Steam Loco register: a loco originally destined for the MGWR ended up in Brazil, as Maua Railway No.1 and it's still there today...http://www.revistaferroviaria.com.br/galeria_foto_mostra.asp?InCdMateria=5041&InCdFoto=191
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    CB&SCR proposed 0-6-6-0 Beyer Garratt 6' dia boiler & Belpaire firebox Heating surface 2,188 sq ft Grate area 34.8 sq ft (larger than 800 class!) 4 x cylinders 16'' x 20'' c/w Walschaert's valve gear Tot. length over buffers 59' 10'' Weight 87 1/2T 180lbs /sq '' boiler pressure Water 2,200 gals Coal 3 1/2 tons Tractive effort 30,100lbs
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    To kick off, two CB&SCR examples, both put forward Dec 1910: Large goods 4-8-0T Boiler 5' 1 3/4'' dia. Grate area 30.6 sq ft Heating surface 1,786 sq ft 4 safety valves, on top of firebox Max height from rail level 12' 10'' Driving wheels 4' 5'' dia 2 x inside cylinders 20 1/2'' x 26'' 180lbs boiler pressure Tractive effort 27,830lbs @ 75% pressure Water 1,800 gals Coal 3 tons Weight 77T 5c Cab profile to be the same as existing 4-6-0Ts so would look like an elongated, big boilered Bandon Tank with a squat dome and chimney.
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    The one the CB&SCR was offered was a 0-6-0+0-6-0 in around 1910 when the Beyer-Garratt concept was pretty new. Might start a new thread on Irish 'might have beens' as I have more details on this.
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    Recall reading somewhere that the CB&SCR were also offered a Beyer Garrett at one stage.
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    There were these ones as well, but only one Irish loco featured on it I'm afraid. http://www.amazon.com/Train-Steam-Locomotives-Poster-Print/dp/B0000WJPP4
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