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  1. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Is that for buses/road vehicles fuelling, the hoses etc appear to be road-side?
  3. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    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?
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    Green looks too bright to my eye and the eau de nil has a yellowish tinge.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    http://www.donedeal.ie/buildingmaterials-for-sale/railway-bridge/5843447
  7. minister_for_hardship
    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
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    That's something you don't see everyday...a Sulzer, a 201 and a Kreigsmarine flag in the one pic.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Shocking how dilapidated the old station area under the overall roof has become since 're-devilment'.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    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?
  13. minister_for_hardship
    The bus driver has an evil Richard Nixon look about him!
  14. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    There's a chapter on Irish Railways in Britain's Railway Liveries 1825-1948 by E.F.Carter which has a colour sheet.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    Add hot oil/smoke/dust/paraffin oil to that mix and get Glade to commission an air freshener based on it.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    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!)
  19. minister_for_hardship
    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(?) ________
  20. minister_for_hardship
    What branch line (closed in 1963) was known as 'Lady Mary's Railway' and why?
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Wexford (O'Hanrahan)
  22. minister_for_hardship
    Spot on.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    No, dates don't fit...and the horse tram to Fintona lasted a lot longer than a few months!
  24. minister_for_hardship
    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.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Is this the same Supertrain publicity pics with the loco, rather bizarrely, carrying steam era oil headlamps painted white?
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