minister_for_hardship

Donaghadee was a house prior to being a station. I suspect Downpatrick was not an original railway building either; for that matter, nor was Soller on the Palma-Soller electric line in Majorca, if anyone's ever been on it......

The current D&CDR station was a gasworks manager's house.

Donaghadee?

Could have been...but the one I have in mind you would have passed through...quite often...

Spot on, Cahir was a hunting lodge in a former life.

Name two railway station buildings (i.e. booking offices/stationhouses) that didn't start life as railway stations?

Please say it's the Silver Princess Coach, might redeem my miserable score in this thread..... Richie.

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.

Not sure if it was a preserved line, it served a purpose as a car park shuttle. Rode on it once, it prob never rang again after that!

Hence the inverted commas.

That Riverstown 'preservation' effort up in Louth?

Lough Swilly

Cork Blackrock & Passage

Finn Valley

jhb has had his Weetibix this morning.

2.cb&wcr?

You meant CB&SCR, so top marks.

The original whistles annoyed residents so much that they got replaced by regular ones.

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?

That "CDR" one is particularly interesting as it shows the cab window style of the G601 type, rather than the later ones. So it is clear that locos of this standard type were being built for at least three gauges between the mid 1950s and early 1980s.

 

I wonder are there definitive records anywhere showing what other G class loco's there might be kicking about? The one in Majorca was not owned by the railway company, but by the outside contractor relaying the old line from 3ft gauge to metre.

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.

Kilmeaden. I suspect elsewhere too, from back of memory, but old age precludes me accessing levant memory.... :-)

That neck of the woods, but not Kilmeadan.

Where could you have once found a railway owned toll bridge?

Weedspray train was what I was looking for.

What non-heritage train currently operated by IE carries headboards?

Wind-up thingy? Far too technical a description that!

Hand generator!

There's a wind-up thingy for operating remote points...Charleville?

Edit: Or Albert qy more likely, timber interior?

Killaloe?

Any clue at all?

Presume it's part of a walkway now, clad in unweathered stone and surrounded with modern Health & Safety barriers?

Is it a blocked up passage thru an embankment?

Bit of a squeeze for 186.

Waterford & Tramore?

Stephen

Correct.

The Listowel & Ballybunion?

No, the L&B would have to have doors on both sides.

Clues within the question would be; it would have had platforms all on the one side and that the original stock became time-expired and it received conventional 2-sided stock at some point.

What railway's original coaching stock had doors on one side only?

Now that's one I didn't know, Minister....

Would have been a handy way to get a new loco or stock from a ship on the quays to Western Rd, don't know if was ever done though.

The tramway/Muskerry rails were quite close, but not connected near the gates of UCC.