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I have trouble seeing pics posted by others, any reason why???

They just show up as default image icons.

They'd want to start walking the Foynes branch too if that's physically possible now, there's a well known epicentre of 'cultural activity' close by....

Not the first cable theft...though it's been plaguing both preserved and Network Rail for a few years now across the water.

http://www.joe.ie/news-politics/current-affairs/cable-theft-shuts-down-dart-services-0011753-1

http://www.nationalist.ie/news/local/cabling-theft-disrupts-rail-services-1-2568685

From memory crossing gates were taken at a couple of locations and rails taken from Campile I think.

NOTHING will happen until the lead is stripped off the roofs of Stormont and Leinster House.

Q. Is there anywhere a date guide/info on CIE freight stock liveries? I've scoured the internet without much success.

There is/was a small pocket guide that may come up on Fleabay on occasion, Locomotives & Rolling Stock of Coras Iompair Eireann and Northern Ireland Railways by Doyle, O.;Hirsch. Has useful running no's, basic stats and dates of building etc., some pics, but they tend to be smallish and in b/w only.

Have fond memories of WA, found orange and black GMs there too!

Great stuff.

 

What is the strange little tower at the Port Laoise end of the Dublin platform? There'e a smaller one at Ballybrophy, that you could hardly stand up in. I've often wondered what they were for.

 

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They may have been used as a bell towers, to announce a train arrival. A few locations had bells for this purpose, the only one I can think of that lasted into modern times was that attached to Mallow signal cabin.

Tourists must be more interested in fictional little green dressed ,ginger bearded people than a model railway

 

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They're not fictional. The b*stards got me Lucky Charms.

Why do they call it a Casino when there's no one-armed bandits/roulette or any of that jazz in it?

Interesting. Have a few GS&WR clerks entrance exam papers from 1919-1920 for Latin and (unusually for the time) Irish.

The only Latin motto I can think of (apart from the Cork one in the CB&PR coat of arms) is in the UTA coat of arms 'Transportatio Cultum Significat' (Transport Is Civilisation)