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It is Youghal, turntable is still there if anyone has a shovel.

Just to clarify, 'Black and Tan' is usually a cover-all term for both 'Temporary Constables' and the later 'Auxiliaries'. Due to a shortage of police uniforms, the TC's were generally supplied with a mixture of army khaki and bottle green (bordering on black) RIC uniform, when uniform supplies normalised, the full dark green uniforms were issued but the B 'n T nickname stuck and was used to refer to both forces.

http://www.scalerail.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=10634 Is this anyway close to an ex WL&WR 0-6-0?

Wouldn't mind a single decker, though I'm guessing these releases are British buses that just happen to be the same as/similar to the Irish equivalent? Probably nothing available that would pass for a 'P' class?

Wear a hoodie and a back to front baseball cap.

The only advertise in the Irish Times, so they don't get the riff-raff, lower orders and the great unwashed. Keep an eye on the rpsi website is what you do.

No details apart from those given by an 'expert' in the NM. 'Model Steam Train Engine; number 22. The Dublin to Wexford railway line. This route was constructed by the Sharp Stewart Company of Manchester, 1865. Re-built in 1891.'

The National Museum was bandied about as a venue and they were having none of it, unsurprisingly. They do have this little gem, probably gathering dust in the bowels of a storage room, was it from the Fry collection originally or where did it come from? http://www.museum.ie/en/list/artefacts.aspx?article=6be86067-a764-4507-9907-7891c46f455a

In CIE 5c carried a fully lined out livery for its short movie career. Did 90 and 184 carry 'heritage' lined green before or after they were on the preserved list? Think 184 was still active whilst in green, 90 may just have been dolled up for display at Fermoy.

Pretty sure I saw a pic somewhere of one of the Inchicore cabs, a sister of 90, carrying lined green in GSR days. Maybe in one of the HC Casserley books? I think one of the last MGWR locos to retain green (Luna?) bogged about in its old livery for a good while before finally getting repainted.

Smells of fudge. Quelle surprise.

Too soon? For a slightly later period, I was thinking of getting a suitably scaled Lancia armoured car and a wee power unit....

Was intrigued by a caption along the lines of 'New Dutch locomotives, Inchicore'....only to find a shot of G classes.

Well, they did call them 'bras' over here when the short hi-vis came out first!

These would no doubt fall foul of today's advertising standards authority. http://www.travellingartgallery.com/landscape/print/merchdetail/S498.html http://www.travellingartgallery.com/landscape/print/merchdetail/S740.html http://www.travellingartgallery.com/landscape/print/merchdetail/S455.html

What was the point in taking the grab rails off? What if you needed to climb up there for instance, to get crap off the windows assuming the wipers weren't doing their job?

I wouldn't mind the layout, people make and display WW1 and WW2 dioramas, no-one suggests they glorify war.

God, they're dog-rough, even for toys. A yellow light on the Garda Transit, is it the Garda Construction Corps?

How come it's always 'Wexford Strawberries' being sold on the side of the road... never 'Kerry Strawberries' or 'Leitrim Strawberries'?

What is the purpose of the flappy cover thing on the bog that men get so much stick about leaving up, apart from standing on top of to reach something?

Their heads would get cold. Can't have that.

The one at Mallow is dated 1920 and looks very small compared to the BR monsters.

It's in the same style as the numbering on the AEC's in B n T days, were they numbered in any other place other than the front? The plate appears to be too small to have been cut from the aluminium at the front of the cab. I would have expected to see traces of the old green paint, unless they were re-sheeted at some stage? Looks like a bodge job done to repair something, a primitive means of renumbering or block a hole I imagine, and then fell off? A lot of re-use of old material went on before, a contact of mine found the GSR enamel nameboard of Athlone, but was gutted when it turned out to be just one half of it. It had been cut in two to block a hole up in something. Saw an old BOVRIL sign once that had been made into a backplate for a pot belly stove with a hole cut through it for the flue.

Joe Public would have to be exceptionally stupid to mistake a train for a postal van,