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Maybe they could re-brand after privatisation with pseudo-old-style regional names, like they've done in GB..?

 

That's the old logo. Great Southern Railway in 'Stralia has been rebranded to Great Southern Rail now!

Rather bizarrely, in a number of locations, eg Mallow/Cobh/Killarney the fairly new White/Orange/Black IE signage was replaced with signage with dark blue background and white lettering.

I can understand a move away from the orange/black but this scheme doesn't really match anything.

Hard to spot from a moving train in darkness/poor light as well.

Was running late so didn't get a chance to take any photos of CCTV cameras in the end... however, just as the train rolled into the platform, I took a snap of another subtle feature found at all stations nowadays: emergency lighting.

 

 

Not something that's often seen on layouts, even though the boxes are usually found on every other lamp-post...

An IR-era tubular steel nameboard, can't be many of those left now!

CCTV would have been unknown in rural locations 10-15 years ago, they're everywhere now. They're also seen mounted on poles monitoring level crossings.

I've seen white plastic CCTV cameras, usually fixed to buildings or on a pole, that swivel around, probably with a motion sensor.

Open to correction but the P&T poles with the monkey-load of wires would be disused with +20 years, but remained in place for a while before arbitrary removal. I'd say they're all cut down by now, sometimes the lads just chop them down and leave them there rather than carting them away.

Central!!! Sure Corks center of da world boi!!!

Word.

Recently saw what appeared to be an early GA drawing of a 121 with what looked like 2 little apertures at the top rhs and top lhs of the nose.

Looked like they were intended for Yankee style 'road numbers'.

I seem to remember seeing a pic of one of the Inchicore 'cabs', a loco with attached coach effort in lined green somewhere in GSR days.

Ah, I knew I wasn't doting....

Makes a refreshing change from the 'death of steam/early diesel' layout.

I agree Pat. Do RTE have any decent footage in their archives. Although Ironing the land had some poorly researched information at least it had a begining, a present, and future look at the railways.

 

Rich,

And ITL had a truely dire theme tune. I don't know how the late Ronny Drew kept a straight face singing that. I'll catch the new show on RTE Player, but I'll not expect miracles.

There's a kit for the MGWR 'E' already, but GSWR No 90 on a Terrier chassis maybe??

Cork City to Passage West (Cork City)

Pretty much unchanged, some info display boards around Monkstown/Passage now and exercise machines around Rochestown. Nothing at all to indicate the start of the trail at the Cork end.

Carrigaline - Crosshaven has been developed as a proper trail since (I think)

Waterfall to Bandon (West Cork)

One end of Gogginshill tunnel blocked off with site type fencing, presumably by landowner.

Loo Bridge to Morley's Bridge (South Kerry)

Loo Bridge now restored as private house after years of dereliction after previous life as a hostel.

Glenbeigh to Valentia Harbour (Iveragh Peninsula)

Girder bridge at Cahirciveen now fenced off at the town side at least, it was dicey to walk across anyway.

Lower Camp to Glenagalt Summit (Dingle Peninsula)

Kerry Co Council to develop a bike/walk trail along Dingle road, not on the T&DLR formation though.

Tralee to Fenit now being cleared by Kerry Co. Co. as a new trail.

I grown to like the blue, but the lower panel lining with 19th cent scalloped corners doesn't suit a 1960's design IMO.

I did wonder whether Irish preservation sees more arson attacks than anywhere else.

The uk has more, a lot more, greater population density of scobes. The Middleton seems to have stuff nicked, vandal attacks and break-ins on a nearly monthly basis.

I don't know why they don't just call it a day and move.

Proof that Hornby collectors will have a punch up over anything - Two of them fighting it out one bid at a time...

Esp. over one of Hornby's fuglier creations. Ugh.

1:1 scale bridge portal for sale.

http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/buildingmaterials/4118810

These shunt discs are a minefield. I think CIE tended to use more of the square-faced ones.

 

If I tilt my head clockwise, the shape and appearance of the red and blue lenses on the circular disc appear similar to the design used on the Great Western Railway / BR (Western Region)

The round discs are very much a rarity now.

They tended to be enamelled (like an old enamel sign) rather than alum. sheet like the square discs(!) so prob some old ones were still hanging around in stores.

I know of ex BR stuff that was used over here, like a LNER marked signal lamp being used in an Irish lamp shed. Round disc may be BR(W), there's a blue tinge to the green glass you don't usually see here.

'Are you a train spotter?'

*sigh*

It's like saying "Are you a badge-wearing, number-taking, camera toting, anorak clad freak with no mates?"

Terrible pity he wont post to IRELAND

strange one ?

Irish locos = Irish market

tried a few bids but rejected

To get around this, ebay lets you put in alternative addresses. If you have a mate in the uk, use his/her address (with permission!) and make it the 'primary' mailing address. Arrange to get the person to post it onto you or pick it up when visiting.

Just make sure to put your primary address back to Irl when you go bidding on other things.

Alternatively, contact the seller well ahead of end and they may change the postage settings if you ask nicely.

Be warned, I had a Q kits 'A' and it was as rough as a badger's ar*e.

....and some interesting work on ex-Coey "K3" no.356, the ......mental Turf Burning Locomotive.

Tell them, "lads, it's a waste of time"...and..."Buy GM" as a parting shot.

I did hear of one Cork-based enthusiast offering to buy a Bandon Tank off CIE but it got scrapped anyway.

The W&TR Fairbairn was a great loss, seen pics post-derailment just a dome knocked off and minor-ish damage.

Didn't seem justified to scrap it, the GSR were said to be toying with the idea of preserving it.

Would there have been much worthwhile to save that wouldn't need major rebuilding?

Ex CIE locos were a kinda clapped out lot, compared to the nearly new BR Standards that got rescued from the scrapheap.

The same could be said of the truncated Tralee & Dingle just to the south of you. Lack of cash, lack of enthusiasm, lack of co-ordination.

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The T&D was run by idiots, Tralee Town Council in collaboration with FAS, who had imagined it as a giant train set it could play with.

There was a Belfast scrapyard, the name escapes me, that cut up the Courtauld's Pecketts and had a miniature loco knocking around for years under a mountain of scrap until it was rescued.

http://www.rhdr.org.uk/pages/04.html

What was the deal over this side of the water? Did CIE/UTA/NIR cut most of them up themselves or were there contractors involved?

Were locos marooned after lifting in closed branches and ng lines sold to the local scrappie or were they lugged all the way back to Inchicore for disposal?

Read somewhere that a number of old locos ended up in Spanish blast furnaces, CIE not being allowed export them as scrap described them as being working locos to get around this.

Brian Solomon has this photo of a bracket signal

 

Note the difference in the size of the red spectacle - the subsidiary arm has a much smaller "red", and a correspondingly longer "green" segment; there used to be examples of this all over the system, including one on the Quay end of the Westport "up" platform. My question is when was that variation was first introduced? Was it a GSR pattern, or a CIE design?

 

Also, are there any photos of the current IR LED colour light signal heads?

The spectacle plate on the small arm is of an older GSR/CIE pattern (timber arm with alum sheet bolted on) than that on the big arm (made entirely of aluminium, CIE/IR/IE era)

Imagine making the red section bigger would be erring on the side of *ahem* caution.