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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Not a million miles away superficially...
  6. 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!
  7. minister_for_hardship
    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?
  8. 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.
  9. 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)
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    You could have done a lot worse in the naming stakes...
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Static model, going nowhere. Just like 800.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Speaking of phones, still have my 1st generation iPhone...
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Those aren't watches, these are watches....
  20. minister_for_hardship
    The info is out there in printed form now, only no-one's bothered about putting it in.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Politics trumped common sense.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Wouldn't it be possible, if a once off, that goods could be loaded into a Brown Van in say, Belfast for consignment to somewhere on CIE's network? Would such goods stay in the Van all the way through and the Van returned when empty?
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Hmm, sounds like cascaded hand-me-downs to keep the Cinderella South Eastern going. The DSE got a fair bashing during the unpleasantness of '22-'23 losing locos and stock in the process, no doubt there were arrears in maintenance as well. Many rolling stock items could be described as near clapped out antiques when the GSR took over.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Far far fewer DSE items of rolling stock and I suspect some may not have been in tip-top condition and got withdrawn in GSR days.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Leave them off. If they get something done, fair play. And a message for the negative Nancys out there...
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