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  1. minister_for_hardship
    The columns, or rather, what's left of the columns are boxed around with plywood to prevent injury to people using reopened platforms. Rumour has it that the hat will have to be passed around to replace the canopy!
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Indeed. It looked like a carbon copy of a story that was circulated some time ago. Happy are those who do not see, yet believe.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    I'll believe it when I see it.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    They were known as the 'Krugers' after Boer leader Paul Kruger. The carbuncle on top of the boiler is a sandbox.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Dual gauge didn't happen a lot in Ireland, Ennis and the LP&HC lines in Derry are the only ones I can think of.
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    It would be too small (N is 9mm) which it just about 2' gauge. The correct one for 3' is 00n3. (12mm)
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    A mate from the uk was shocked at the amount of roadkill on Irish roads...'why doesn't someone from t'council go round picking them up?'
  8. minister_for_hardship
    The drivers look a bit small to me for that, besides it seems like an expensive way to get a GSWR 4-4-0.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    I think this wins the prize for butt ugly GWR. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/GWR_Dean's_ten-wheeled_goods_engine_(Howden,_Boys'_Book_of_Locomotives,_1907).jpg
  10. minister_for_hardship
    The smokebox is huge in comparison to the rest of it. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    What colour schemes did they carry? Was it silver tank, red frames with 'IRISH SHELL' or 'MEX' in red or were there variations on this?
  12. minister_for_hardship
    This is the Aussie Walker interior, somehow doubt leather would ever be used here! There seems to be a two-tone paint job as well. I'd say this would be a query best answered by senior IRRS members. Not a lot of folks took pics of interiors, and fewer still took them in colour!
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    Now that I think of it, got a present of a book written by a past staff member of NBL who recalled putting a lot of work into a tender for diesels for CIE. Think it had a pic and all of the Irish 'might have been.' This is it...http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/m2KLvSusfSH6j3pyl7Yd1uw.jpg
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    Considering its size NBL didn't build a whole lot for Ireland. Some for the GSWR (due to a strike in Inchicore I think) and MGWR. Their predecessors Dubs, built a small number for the West Clare, including the surviving Slieve Callan.
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    London buses had white mudguard trims too during wartime. Only they stopped the practice when hostilities ceased. Got the Cyril McIntyre CIE buses book for Xmas, half price at that bargain bookshop near the GPO! Has a few pics of lorries, mainly ex GSR ones that were converted into service vehicles.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    This was a hangover from the 'Emergency' blackout.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Assorted 'lurries'. http://www.limerick-classic-car-club.com/page20.htm
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Very nice, any maker's name on the back? W.R. Sykes and Railway Signal Co would have churned out lots of these. Connect a 6V battery up to the terminals and see if it still works.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Did CIE actually have AEC Mercurys? AEC was a very rare marque on the bus side of things.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    And Macha not similarly treated? Mustn't have come to the attention of the lad with the angle grinder! Some loco plates of the GWR had the build dates ground off as the GWR was embarrassed by elderly locos. Looking at Irish loco plates (Jumbo and Sambo) in the IRRS library, 'GS&WR' is ground off and a little 'GSR' tablet screwed on in its stead. Hardly seems worth while as these two were unlikely to come into contact with the public much.
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    Hmmm, wonder why the letters 'GSR' on 800's plate were ground off?? Examined the real deal a few years ago and there was traces that they were there at one time.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Thread is a bit of 'shooting the breeze', would like a 121 myself but will have to hunker down and wait it out I guess. Kits aren't my bag, apart from the simplest ones. Got an MGWR tank kit, but have subcontracted that, don't want to make a hames of it.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    The Model Rail GSR sentinel and the CIE Leyland Comet flatbed
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Well, a decent book was squeezed out of the Turfburner, only a singleton.... if you discount the 2-6-0 guinea pig, and never turned a wheel in revenue earning service.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Anyone wondering why THREE 'Maebhdh' nameplates existed (two on the loco and one in the former Fry Model Railway)? One was cast from a proof to be inspection and approval, the two for the loco were cast before the mould was broken up. Think that OS Nock Irish Steam book had a story that there was yet another plate cast spelt 'Maeve'...wonder where that went to??? Actually, re the 800's, always wondered why no book was ever dedicated to them, a la the glut of books on the works of Bulleid, Stanier, Gresley etc. Maybe they didn't get a 'fair go' and the class was far too small?
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