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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Short answer: very.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Railway Modeller does have a 'Student Modeller' section, dedicated to those starting out or re-visiting the hobby.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    It's horses for courses, you can make it as highly detailed and realistic as you want or run basic out of the box 00 or tinplate 0 gauge if you like that sort of thing. It's up to you. The magazines wouldn't want to feature articles with a whole load of carbon copy layouts with bog standard Hornby items. People just wouldn't find them interesting.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Are they supposed to be patterns/template for making something.....? Cos they look a bit like a leaf spring.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    I'm planning a steam-to-diesel era layout at the moment, not that I remember it or anything, just for variety. However I do think the uk 'death of steam' layout has been flogged, well...to death, in modelling circles. I take my hat off to folks who go pre-CIE/GSR or uk pre Grouping or go with making broad gauge trackwork. Would never have the patience for that.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Well, almost.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Think all the Shannon Scheme ones were temporary 600mm or 800mm or sumat, and a more permanent 5'3'' branch.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    I won't do well at this without my 'bibles'! The Marconi railway? And maybe those ones on Achill Island that whatshisname wrote about???
  9. minister_for_hardship
    As an aside, the ironwork for Cork loco shed I have heard, was originally supposed to go to somewhere on the North British Railway. Trying to get confirmation for this.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    The current D&CDR station was a gasworks manager's house.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Could have been...but the one I have in mind you would have passed through...quite often...
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Spot on, Cahir was a hunting lodge in a former life.
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Name two railway station buildings (i.e. booking offices/stationhouses) that didn't start life as railway stations?
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Think that was built by Budd, might be on to something. The W&LR had the first bogie coaches in these islands, described as 'American style', don't know if they were American built though. Doubt it.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Hence the inverted commas.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    That Riverstown 'preservation' effort up in Louth?
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Lough Swilly Cork Blackrock & Passage Finn Valley
  18. minister_for_hardship
    jhb has had his Weetibix this morning.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    You meant CB&SCR, so top marks. The original whistles annoyed residents so much that they got replaced by regular ones.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    1. What system was re-gauged TWICE. Started life as 3', regauged to 3'6'' and regauged again to 5'3''? 2. Where could you have once found US-built steam locos with chime whistles in operation in this country?
  21. minister_for_hardship
    here's another few Deutz's around Europe... http://www.rail-pictures.com/1024/the-shunter-locomotive-1024-pictured-10782.jpg http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2368/5803438321_90b5febf13_o.jpg presume locos all produced around the same era had identical or similar components or at least a 'family' resemblance.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    That neck of the woods, but not Kilmeadan.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Where could you have once found a railway owned toll bridge?
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Weedspray train was what I was looking for.
  25. minister_for_hardship
    What non-heritage train currently operated by IE carries headboards?
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