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  1. The loco is in Inchicore en route to Maam X, as is the Bulleid open. The latter has been refloored and painted by now. The 6 wheeler is on a private site not far away from the Halfway.
  2. Boyd refers to the tram engine livery as simply "green" in the book, with no mention of shade or lining.
  3. They would have been fine on a level-ish street tramway as near identical designs worked successfully elsewhere, but the course of the S&SLR was more like a roller coaster.
  4. Even in GSR days, Cark did not stick to the playbook. Cork & Macroom stock, simply lettered 'GS' and not a coat of arms to be seen. Or lining.
  5. If it's not in the Boyd book, I doubt you'll get a definitive answer, short of deep digging in the IRRS library, and even then that info may not have survived. I have the book and can check but like other similar books I say just a colour mentioned in passing. Most loco greens of that period were darkish, tending towards olive green. A default green that the makers slapped on rather than railway officials going through colour cards for their preferred shade.
  6. I'd imagine much of the stores and matereil for these bases would have come by sea even for security reasons alone. Perishable things such as food I could see being sourced locally and transported by train and ferried across to Hawlbowline. Laundry, unless they had a facility on site, could well be shuttled over and back between the base and laundries in the city.
  7. I've never seen a pic of a Murphy Bros open actually in use, just a builder's photo. I imagine they had a short Murphys branded life, probably sold to the GSR or CIE to become yet another anonymous looking grey, filth covered wagon.
  8. I assume the original doors got burnt out and they just used standard Inchicore doors rather than trying to source or replicate the old ones?
  9. I have seen something similar before and was told it was attached to a horse drawn vehicle belonging to one of the landed gentry. A sort of forerunner of a vehicle registration plate.
  10. Like an ebay listing I saw once "faithful reproduction of an authentic item".
  11. It's almost a novelty for an 'antique' auction to offer something that IS antique.
  12. The three Cork ng lines, had to be different, and adopted a central link and pin coupler rather than the 'chopper' aka Norwegian coupler.
  13. Had a similar issue (slipping axle gear) replaced FOC. Might be a bit light-duty for such a weighty loco?
  14. If you're talking about CIÉ's system, then green and cream or red and cream.
  15. The Getty images photo is captioned incorrectly and picked up by whoever edited the piece. Not the author as I'm sure he'd spot that straight away! https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/great-southern-western-railway-4-6-0-steam-locomotive-no-news-photo/90779726
  16. Grey was the standard colour by and large. A grey loco, weathered, cleaned and polished with oily rags for a special will appear black.
  17. Something unspecified, belonging to a dog is welcome.
  18. Brexit is no excuse for our own crowd to rob us blind!
  19. Got a railcar set from them, bypassed customs, got them brought in as hand luggage. Have had enough of An Post fudging and being shaken down by Revenue.
  20. "Troublesome" people being shuffled into made-up jobs is not unknown in that organisation.
  21. Just looks like a bitta fun to me, not everything has to be a po-faced unboxing. Good on them.
  22. A flat roof in a country famously known for its rain. That's archithicks for you.
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