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minister_for_hardship
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Have seen tickets dated well into the thirties with 'Cobh (Queenstown)', CIE working timetables from the 50's and 60's still mentioning 'Maryboro', and I know oul' fellas that still refer to 'Kingsbridge' to this day! Old habits...
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Looks the absolute business. Very minor niggle, I'm pretty sure the Gilroy Guinness (toucan on a weather vane) ad as depicted was intended to be a printed framed poster rather than an outdoor enamel sign. I'm aware there were later cheap tin versions produced, mainly for tourist souvenirs or pub decor. http://jacquieverettdesign.wordpress.com/guinness-advertising/ There was a walking toucan toting a pair of pints produced as a hanging sign, but think that may be a later 60's/70's item. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3550/3834899456_bac7a78796.jpg
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Does the Tschu Tschu count as an extra service?
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The bus driver has an evil Richard Nixon look about him!
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I remember seeing it somewhere years ago, I can't remember if it dealt with GSR, seemed to concentrate on pre-Grouping and pre-GSR. Out of print with donkey's years, NRM would hold a copy I'm sure.
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There's a chapter on Irish Railways in Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948 by E.F.Carter which has a colour sheet.
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Add hot oil/smoke/dust/paraffin oil to that mix and get Glade to commission an air freshener based on it.
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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.
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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!)
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GSR / CIE Wagon Liveries
minister_for_hardship replied to jhb171achill's question in Questions & Answers
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(?) ________ -
What branch line (closed in 1963) was known as 'Lady Mary's Railway' and why?
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Wexford (O'Hanrahan)
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Spot on.
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No, dates don't fit...and the horse tram to Fintona lasted a lot longer than a few months!
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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.
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Is this the same Supertrain publicity pics with the loco, rather bizarrely, carrying steam era oil headlamps painted white?
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Not listed in Irish Steam Locos book as being a builder of any loco, ironwork, cast columns and footbridges was their main business.
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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.'
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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.
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My condolences.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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I'm guessing Clogher Valley, with to those gi-normous headlamps carried??
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Bessbrook & Newry it is. Fun fact: had no signalling, operated on 'time interval'.