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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Nope. Sure most of the Manx Railway's locos came from Beyer Peacock.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Kudos on 4 (you got one of them anyway, name of Sambo was on a plate until plate was removed and name then painted on) and 5 (not one I had thought of)
  3. minister_for_hardship
    1. Not really what I had in mind, and not a name as in a surname as such. 4. No, name has to be physically carried! 5. Biccy for that 'un.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Bush isn't a junction, hence nul points. Actually -1 points, because I thought you were being smutty
  5. minister_for_hardship
    Wrenneire - nul points, must try harder. Broithe - you may award yourself 1 (one) biccy.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    1. A railway junction in Ireland that was officially named in honour of a woman? 2. Name Ireland's only private (1:1, not fun size!) steam loco builder, and is known to have built one for export? 3. What does a 'spoiled basket' refer to? 4. What locos, other than the 800's and ex GNR locos, carried names in CIE days? 5. Also can you think of any stations in Ireland that have changed names more than once?
  7. minister_for_hardship
    Yeah it the GNR loco alright. Get someone to visit the UFTM and clamber up on her for a pic. Last time I was there, kids were using Blanche as a climbing frame with no staff to clear them off.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    This image was forwarded to me, courtesy of the Minister for Post Boxes and Telegraph Poles. TV licence spongers beware!
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Didn't know locos could have religious affiliations.
  10. minister_for_hardship
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216072/The-Picca-SILLY-line-Tube-pranksters-liven-London-Underground-journeys-comedy-stickers.html
  11. minister_for_hardship
    Not the real deal, I might add. Whereas this one is an original DN&GR sign. Wonder what actually constitutes a 'nuisance'? Does the top sign apply to the Ladies or the Gents I wonder???!!
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Ere...to the right and up a bit, what's that? Is it English? Midland Rly?
  13. minister_for_hardship
    Fun fact: Guinness no 3 was only named in preservation, the nameplates came off one of the Guinness-owned broad gauge diesels. Think it may also have carried full skirts for street running too.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    Think they were always black, as delivered. Again don't think the GSR would have bothered much with them, apart from renumbering.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Not the Allman one, but of the same type in lined Works Grey. http://www.martynbane.co.uk/images/peckett/locos/1011-peckett.jpg There's a pic somewhere of the aftermath of it colliding with a horse and cart, horse went to stable in the sky I think. Didn't last too long in CIE ownership, withdrawn in '49-ish and rather camera-shy. Used on the quays in Cork after GSR purchase.
  16. minister_for_hardship
    The GSR had an 0-4-0ST, ex Allmans Distillery. A broad gauge version of Peckett's 'Beaufort' type. Hard to tell what it livery it carried from pics in GSR ownership, being covered in gunk latterly. May well have carried lined green, probably what Peckett's painted it as delivered. Doubt the GSR would have bothered their barney painting it.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Yes, two plates...one on each side that were bolted on.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    CIE Man, wearing a black woollen overcoat...resembling a cape. And his side kick, the Boy Porter Wonder.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    No RTR coaching stock model will give you precisely what ran on CIE back then. You'll have to start building kits or bashing an existing model to the best of your ability if you want that level of accuracy.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Got mine the other day, but it's going back. One of the 'snails' seems not to have been applied very well, little gaps in it.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    The C class plate is a lot rarer than an A plate, in terms of the number produced and C's being scrapped at a time when it would have been quite likely to have been binned rather than kept.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    He probably knows full well it's only a tenner scrap value. The description should include 'replica' or 'reproduction'...but business is business (I know it is neither replica nor repro, just a work of fiction)
  23. minister_for_hardship
    Was it being sold as the 'real deal' or as a replica...of sorts? Seriously though, who the hell is making this stuff?
  24. minister_for_hardship
    A bit of a Paul Daniels...he can turn a herd of cows into a field. Another couple of less well known individuals, Charles Blacker Vignoles - early Irish born railway pioneer R.L. Ross from Coleraine- inventor of the pop safety valve Charles Yelverton O'Connor from Co Meath- engineer-in-chief and acting general manager of railways in Western Australia
  25. minister_for_hardship
    Apart from the well-known CME's whose careers shuttled between England and Ireland. To get the ball rolling... Playwright Sean O'Casey, worked for a time with the GNRI as a clerk. Writer Frank O'Connor, did a spell in Cork Goods I think. William Hulme, formerly of the L&NWR, involved in the apprehension of William Smith O'Brien at Thurles. Accounts say he bought a public house with the proceeds of the reward and was his own best customer. Former Taoseach Albert Reynolds. Any more?
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