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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Not too bad, 5 quid less than DC for body/chassis only.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    One of the C&LR 4-4-0Ts. Pic is in recent GSR pictorial book.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Lay a hand on one of them and it's 'assault'.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    you in the blue hoodie you are trespassing on private property, leave this area immeeeediately!
  9. 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.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Does it have its original 19th century Quartz movement?
  11. 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.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Dammit, thought it was something rude. Thread disappoints.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Is the inscription suitable for polite company?
  14. 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
  15. 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?
  16. 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.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    At a guess, it might bend rails out of alignment and /or stress rail fastenings if crane moved under load?
  18. minister_for_hardship
    ESB vehicles... http://europe.nxtbook.com/nxteu/zahra/em_20130607/index.php?device=accessible&pg=24 http://europe.nxtbook.com/nxteu/zahra/em_20130607/index.php?device=accessible&pg=25
  19. minister_for_hardship
    Its the Bowmakers Bank logo. Probably a customer giveaway item, back around the times before hi-vis vests and those miserable armbands were thought adequate for walking at night.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Why anyone would want to buy such bizarre items is beyond me.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    'Inverness once more has a friendly railway station cat.... named Hi-Vis by station staff, who have taken a liking to the ginger animal....' Unless it happens to be some weird hairless breed, they usually come pre-packaged with furry overalls.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Think there was such a thing as a stipend for food for the shed cat in BR days so they were semi-officially on the payroll. http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/featuring/wk-rail04a.html
  23. minister_for_hardship
    You need to work on your sales pitch.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Was a flooding blackspot for years. Back in the day CIE had to temporarily reprieve a GS&WR 4-4-0 from death row to 'wade' through the floodwaters.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    The lifeboat is being secured which is positive, but I don't think the plan to have it displayed outdoors on a plinth is a terribly good idea to get hammered by vandals. Smacks of typically Irish half baked preservation.
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