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  1. From An Post heritage dept...asked the q as I have an ex P&T high nelly and take her for spins at vintage events. The design of postmen’s uniforms have not changed very often over the years and in relation to the style in use during the 1950’ to the 1960’s the following details may be of assistance to you: · The jacket and trousers were a charcoal colour with the jacket containing 3 buttons with a harp symbol, 2 lower pockets and a left breast pocket. A dark woollen worsted coat was worn over the uniform and had 3 buttons with harp symbol, 2 lower pockets and 1 left breast pocket. · The jacket and coat had 2 green circles near the end of each sleeve and the identity number badge was attached to the breast pocket of the jacket. · The cap had 2 green circles around the rim and identity badge with the ‘P & T’ symbol/harp symbol. I assume by 'green circles' he means lines of green piping.
  2. That's the pub where you get barred for fiddling with a mobile phone! A neat idea, but I don't like the 'watercolour' look of them. Need a bit of work to make them presentable on a layout.
  3. Have the HO version with funny couplings and that awful elongated snail. Is it supposed to be a Laminate? The Cravens never came in green iirc.
  4. Is that for buses/road vehicles fuelling, the hoses etc appear to be road-side?
  5. For earlier scences, refuelling points were pretty informal in outlying areas, oil storage tank(s) and small pump house with yellow signs with black lettering reading CIE DIESEL FUEL OIL.
  6. Don't think there were many forktrucks going around in the 50's /60's, unless in the bigger depots. How would the barrels be gotten off without a loading bank, suppose with a couple of planks and rolled off / using a filled sack to cushion the fall like the beer keg deliveries?
  7. Green looks too bright to my eye and the eau de nil has a yellowish tinge.
  8. http://www.donedeal.ie/buildingmaterials-for-sale/railway-bridge/5843447
  9. http://www.waterfordcountyimages.org/exhibit/web/BasicImageSearch/offset/45/fromyear/000000000/toyear/201312311/?keywords=train Searchable archive, useful for old pics. Also some old pics and then-and-now on Bookface. https://www.facebook.com/#!/MallowFermoyLismoreWaterfordRailwayBranchLines/photos_stream
  10. That's something you don't see everyday...a Sulzer, a 201 and a Kreigsmarine flag in the one pic.
  11. Shocking how dilapidated the old station area under the overall roof has become since 're-devilment'.
  12. 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...
  13. 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
  14. Does the Tschu Tschu count as an extra service?
  15. The bus driver has an evil Richard Nixon look about him!
  16. 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.
  17. There's a chapter on Irish Railways in Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948 by E.F.Carter which has a colour sheet.
  18. Add hot oil/smoke/dust/paraffin oil to that mix and get Glade to commission an air freshener based on it.
  19. 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.
  20. 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!)
  21. 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(?) ________
  22. What branch line (closed in 1963) was known as 'Lady Mary's Railway' and why?
  23. Wexford (O'Hanrahan)
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