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  1. minister_for_hardship
    A real 1:1 vintage bus wouldn't be worth a million! http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C557709 It still is CIE's property though...might not be worth a mil, but a fair wodge of cash all the same, even considering its condition....
  2. minister_for_hardship
    According to Cyril Mc Intyre's CIE Buses book, it was exhibited in the Irish Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in GSR ivory and black, photographed in 1952 used as a window display in the American Express Company's Travel Service. Repainted in 1954 to match U class coaches, Last time it was seen in public was a CIE display at the 1956 Cork Summer Show before 'disappearing without trace'. *cough*
  3. minister_for_hardship
    One West Clare loco was reputed to have been dubbed "I'll Walk Beside You" after the Count John McCormack song because of its speed...or lack thereof.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Have heard the SL&NC rendered as 'The Slow, Late and Never Comes', the Cork & Muskerry as both 'The Muskerry Tram' and 'The Hook and Eye' and the Schull and Skibbereen as 'The Trameen'.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    One uk enthusiast remarked to me that it was like something applied in wartime....so maybe we can call it the 'Austerity' livery...
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Any one-off liveried pieces of rolling stock get nicknamed? Only one I can think of is the Civil War armoured car fitted with flanged wheels called the 'Grey Ghost' on account of its paint scheme and near silent progress on patrol.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    DN&GR - same livery as the LNWR 'Blackberry Black' for locos and 'Plum and Spilt Milk' for coaches. B&NCR - 'Invisible Green' CDRJC - 'Geranium Red'
  8. minister_for_hardship
    A few from the archives... Ah yes...they do have a wonderful sense of humour down under...
  9. minister_for_hardship
    They were either cast alloy or painted timber, had two brackets at the back for hooking them on coaches. Each train had boards with the train 'name', Failte/Slainte/Cu na Mara/Deiseach/Seandun/Sarseal and separate origin-destination boards in Irish and English versions. Must have been a RPITA for someone to put them all up/taken them all down/change them but sure labour was cheap.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Speaking of that general area, is that 4' 8 1/2'' 0-6-0ST and brake van still knocking about up there?
  11. minister_for_hardship
    There's a cluster of GNRI ones out towards Greenore direction, by the sea. Someone posted photos on this or another site some time ago.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    http://www.irishrailwayana.com/uta2686L.jpg Maybe in early UTA days, they ran off a few, before they decided to paint them on for cost cutting?
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Have an MRNCC one and it's cast iron. Would doubt they would fit lowly wagons with brass plates, brass is usually reserved for loco worksplates and the odd carriage plate but I have been surprised before. Hard to tell from pic if brass or just painted with gold paint. Need to see 'in the flesh'.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Plus preserved railways (which are pretty scarce and low profile here) and the ever present 'Thomas'. Never underestimate the power of sentimentality. God knows how many different variations of Flying Scotmen or Mallards were produced over the years. People never seem to tire of them.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Oh no, a new but equally ugly Santy 'head' board https://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/RPSIDublin/photos/a.254791681390467.1073741828.254769308059371/311362669066701/?type=1&theater
  16. minister_for_hardship
    IIRC, he declined a knighthood as well.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    They may still have a presence in Tuam, albeit running a restaurant/cafe in the station afaik. Steam crane and a GNR cement wagon with hardened cement still in it might still be there.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Undecided, depends on what it is, who's doing it and is it worth the candle.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    As rough as a badger's proverbial...
  20. minister_for_hardship
    And a very limited number of colour schemes over the years. 2 or 3?
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Quite prepared to play the waiting game for a MM 121. Sorted for an A, it might not be perfect, but it'll suit me fine.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Is it still a youth hostel or something??
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Oops....presume this is a GS&WR owned or contracted bus doing the Prince Of Wales Route.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Open to correction, but the one pictured may have been one of the ones purchased in the last days of the GS&WR and delivered to the newborn GSR with a GS&WR coat of arms on the side? Judging by the state of the roads on the 'tourist routes' they must have had very short lives.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=tractor&type=AllFields&filter%5B%5D=digitised%3A%22Digitised%22&filter%5B%5D=format%3A%22Photo%22'>http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=tractor&type=AllFields&filter%5B%5D=digitised%3A%22Digitised%22&filter%5B%5D=format%3A%22Photo%22 http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=tractor&type=AllFields&filter%5B%5D=digitised%3A%22Digitised%22&filter%5B%5D=format%3A%22Photo%22
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