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  1. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    The Cork & Macroom had notions of extending to Ballyvourvey and Kenmare and also a branch to Coachford.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Recall reading somewhere that the CB&SCR were also offered a Beyer Garrett at one stage.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    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
  9. minister_for_hardship
    The only things I can think of in that line was this stamp... The Inchicore 150 logo had a 201 together with a steam loco of indeterminiate type. Don't know if there was any poster done officially, possibly there might have been posters printed by RPSI or ITG that were intended for enthusiasts?
  10. minister_for_hardship
    I just don't get this. Any other town or city would kill to have a ready-to-go museum. The priority now is that the artifacts are secured or moved to a secure location before someone decides to hold a bonfire.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Friesians wouldn't be that common in 1950's Ireland, native Irish and British breeds of cattle would have been found in every pasture.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    You can pick your era and still find short consists...1900's to 1970's branch line pick up goods, short AEC railcar sets in the 50's/60's or short ICR sets in the '00s....or 1 loco, 1 craven (or Park Royal) and a GSV operated into the early 90s in some places IIRC. You will need longer platforms in the modern era, but Banteer is one place that still had a short platform well into the 1990's.
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    With no-one making affordable RTR Irish dmus (not repaints); again, who knows how popular (or otherwise) it would be? Can't see the fascination myself with modern dmus insofar as I wouldn't bother to take a pic of them. Every modern day station is uglified with cobble-lock paving, modern additions and wheelchair lifts and every trackside defaced with palisade fencing. But some people seem to like the modern scene. Horses for courses.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Not a million miles away superficially...
  15. minister_for_hardship
    One piece was cut from the opening scene..In the intended opening scene, Wayne speaks to a mother and her child gives him an apple (he exits the train holding the apple and thanks the unseen child). So we missed out on footage of a GSWR compartment interior!
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    Looking through old magazines; before the 70's there was quite a bit of pre-Grouping, then an obsession with Big Four. Into the 90's and the 'death of steam' was, well, quite literally done to death. BR blue and grey etc. Things move on all the time. Maybe someone will look back nostalgically on modern DMU's, who knows?
  17. minister_for_hardship
    That was architectural thinking worldwide, tear down the old and construct something 'new' and 'bold'. Look at what replaced NYC's classically inspired Penn Station...you used to be able to detrain and enter NYC like a king, after they tore it down, you scrambled out of a concrete 'thing' more like a rat coming out of a sewer.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Probably was, but what was lacking then was disposable income (when people were packing emigrant boats) and a general interest in industrial heritage in the population (true both back then and now)
  19. minister_for_hardship
    There was a time up to the 80's and maybe early 90's that pottering around railway property or crossing the lines to take photos during railtours was par for the course. Can't have that on a modern railway. Period.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    It was said that the local fire brigade kept a few tons of Arigna coal handy in case a fire broke out in the area... in other words, it wasn't very good.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Apart from outposts like China where labour was cheap as chips and coal was bursting out of the ground or India and places in Latin America where labour was also cheap and an impoverished economy where railways had to 'mend and make do' even there steam was living on borrowed time and ultimately going the way of the dodo.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    It had teething troubles, probably could have been made more successful in a 'Mark 2' redesign, but CIE had tired of tinkering with it and besides diesel was the way of the future. Once Bulleid left, the project was destined to be shelved anyway.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    You could have done a lot worse in the naming stakes...
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Going through the Saga by Rail: Ireland (Boyd) was interesting to note that food and clothes were far more available in the ROI post war than in the uk. He even noted C&LR section level crossing keeper girls were attired in the 'New Look', so maybe Ireland in Dev's era wasn't such a dull, grey place after all...unemployment and emigration notwithstanding.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Always wondered why CIE had no problem with this parody of itself, making no attempt to 'fictionalise' or even cover up the then current logos on coaches and loco etc.
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