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  1. minister_for_hardship
    It was, a sort of blood and custard scheme with 'whiskers'.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    A LC gate target, but colours are the reverse of what you'd expect.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    There was model of Hibernia made a long time ago by someone whose bag was early locos. Saw it on a Railway Modeller, think it was around the 1980's and was in 4mm scale.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Private afaik. The remains of what once was Westrail.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Just compare IE to Bus Eireann. BE buses have carried a variation on the red/white scheme down through the years and the logo, albeit in imitation of Greyhound, has hardly changed at all bar updating the fonts. Still looks good.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    +1000 on this. There's been a lot of woolly-minded mucking about with logos, corporate images and colour schemes. The flag logo was (almost) universally panned on various forums. The navy/white/snot green railcar livery had to be the worst example of an awful colour scheme,reminiscent of something a budget airliner would carry. I wouldn't mind the DARTS so much, at least they're easily identifiable, looks reasonably well and it's a strong brand name.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Also the GSWR had two pay carriages named Fairy and Sprite, I'm pretty sure they got held up and raided at different times during the Civil War.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    There was, at one time...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallins_Train_Robbery
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Not too bad, 5 quid less than DC for body/chassis only.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    It's not a major gripe, it can be corrected with some bodging, but might as well do it right as wrong when sold as a RTR. Would want to be on a par price-wise with other resin G if I were to purchase it as a kit, that is if it's powered by the same unit.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    There's no grille (under worksplate) at the front of the bonnet in the older G's. Also that raised area on top of the bonnet doesn't seem to feature? http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway%20Stations%20B/Belmont/slides/Belmont_19600909_001_CC_JA.jpg
  12. minister_for_hardship
    The roads of 1940's Ireland would be less forgiving to the older vehicle. Older vehicles back then tended to have shorter working lives than nowadays.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    My uncle has an Austin 7 saloon just like the one in front of the garage. I suppose it's safe to assume people could have held onto a car dating from the 30's into the late 40's.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    One of the C&LR 4-4-0Ts. Pic is in recent GSR pictorial book.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Lay a hand on one of them and it's 'assault'.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    you in the blue hoodie you are trespassing on private property, leave this area immeeeediately!
  17. minister_for_hardship
    The Stop/Look/Listen sign is Southern Railway (of England) the footbridge sign is a painted CIE one to replace the old enamel type with the Gaelic script.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Does it have its original 19th century Quartz movement?
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Out of curiousity, the Slainte Express...did CIE even still use that name in the 1980's? Thought they dropped all those named trains (incl. Failte/Seandun/Sairseal) and probably retained the Cu Na Mara name, in the Supertrain era.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Dammit, thought it was something rude. Thread disappoints.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Is the inscription suitable for polite company?
  22. minister_for_hardship
    A 'G' is probably little more than a glorified tractor! (well, they did make farm tractors too!) https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4102/4764653101_c16094afe9_n.jpg
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Have a thin-ish green covered booklet for the A's as originally built, appears to be a booklet for drivers to familiarise themselves. Suppose the heavy manuals are more workshop manuals for the use of lads in Inchicore?
  24. minister_for_hardship
    They would have been originally painted according to pattern, but the paint would have worn off in service. A was red B was blue C was green http://freespace.virgin.net/david.holden4/index.htm (go to 'token configurations' and scroll down) Better to clean off the steel and laquer it to prevent any further corrosion. Wouldn't worry too much about what rattling inside them, probably loose blobs of solder.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    At a guess, it might bend rails out of alignment and /or stress rail fastenings if crane moved under load?
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