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  1. minister_for_hardship
    There's a chapter on Irish Railways in Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948 by E.F.Carter which has a colour sheet.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Add hot oil/smoke/dust/paraffin oil to that mix and get Glade to commission an air freshener based on it.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Not much point in sending stock esp. ng to Inchicore unless heavy overhaul/refurb/rebuilding/scrapping was called for. A simple paint job could be hand applied. Presume places painting stock remote from Inchicore had to make do with what they had on hands giving rise to unofficial variations. The painting of buses would have been much more centralised.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Back to the Duke... Seems to be a very wide stripe above the windows and a relatively narrow one beneath, don't think Bachmann or Dapol really nailed that. I know there was some variation in timber stock schemes, saw a pic of a West Cork based coach with no striping at all and what looked like a very dark green. Or maybe that was an optical illusion, the absence of any lighter bands making the overall thing look darker? (interesting in other pics of the movie...the 'smoking' notices on the windows carried ads for Wills Gold Flake!)
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Outline of an oval plate it had once on LHS, must have been a GS&WR wagon. What is the faded lettering 'To run between Inchicore & Fairview(?) ________
  6. minister_for_hardship
    What branch line (closed in 1963) was known as 'Lady Mary's Railway' and why?
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Wexford (O'Hanrahan)
  8. minister_for_hardship
    Spot on.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    No, dates don't fit...and the horse tram to Fintona lasted a lot longer than a few months!
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Mystery station.. Opened 1 Nov 1853 and closed 17th Oct 1976. A branch line from this station opened on 1st July 1885 and closed on 1st Oct of the same year. It was worked by horse.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Is this the same Supertrain publicity pics with the loco, rather bizarrely, carrying steam era oil headlamps painted white?
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Not listed in Irish Steam Locos book as being a builder of any loco, ironwork, cast columns and footbridges was their main business.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Rain-checked the Flanagan book...'Mr Lawder was particularly incenced in Aug 1902 over the actions of Driver Kealagher and Fireman Shanley..had torn down flags with which James Ormsby (Lawder) had dressed Engine No 8 Queen Victoria, for Coronation Day. The board was, no doubt, in a bit of a quandry here; the 'political' atmosphere being what it was, the idea of dressing the engine was surely a good one; on the other hand, Lawder was undoubtedly a nuisance. Eventually the directors decided to have a crack at him and wrote to tell him that no one had the right to put up flags or emblems without their permission.'
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Cork (Penrose Quay/Summerhill/Glanmire Rd) and Cork (old and new CB&PR termini) Dunleary and Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) think were two different locations. Old and new Newrys. Bandon once had two stations, before the WCR one closed, likewise Bantry. Waterford Newrath/Waterford South and Waterford North.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    My condolences.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Even so, think around the 1900's, a C&L driver who had decorated his loco with 'party colours' for the Twelfth was instructed to remove them.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    The nameplates were hacked off at by a patriotic staff member and buried, but were found some time later by a stationmaster's son and reattached. The plates came off for a second time and this time round it was made sure of that were never found again.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Irish loco unofficially named after a monarch, but not an Irish or British ruler....and not even European...but very much in the news of the time?
  19. minister_for_hardship
    I'm guessing Clogher Valley, with to those gi-normous headlamps carried??
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Bessbrook & Newry it is. Fun fact: had no signalling, operated on 'time interval'.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Let's just say it's somewhere on the island of Ireland.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    What line had freight wagons that could also run on road?
  23. minister_for_hardship
    For far off a MGWR 'cattle engine' is the 4F dimensionally?
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Brown Jack and Gay Crusader???!!! Why did someone think 'Sandwich' would be a good name? Pretty Polly, can't but think about ladies tights! If IE/IR tried it there would be mutterings about Galway Race tents/brown envelopes/bloodstock tax breaks.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    A share of the nags were turned into glue by the time they were so honoured. http://www.lner.info/locos/A/racehorses.shtml
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