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What was the story with the ownership of Lough Derg/Lough Melvin. AFAIK they were never the outright property of the SL&NC, carrying plates stating that they still belonged to Beyer Peacock. One was sold recently... 'This locomotive makers No 7138, is the property of Beyer Peacock & Co Ltd., Gorton, Manchester, England from 0-6-4T loco 'Lough Melvin' supplied by Beyer Peacock in 1949 under a hire-purchase agreement to the SLNCR rectangular, 33x10 cm in original condition, front and back, the name L. Melvin is also chalked on the back, SRA311 £1000 I presume BP were paid off when the UTA got them?

The GSR only ran passenger services up until 1935, so for a period of only 10 years that they issued tickets like that. Might have had the odd excursion before it closed completely but that was pretty much it. Nice find.

A Macroom ticket is a rare item, more so if it's been dated and used.

Artwork by someone called 'Curran' for CIE poster, around mid/late 50's when A Class were still in silver, full version here, another version has alternative wording for US market, offices in New York, Chicago, LA, etc: http://www.irishrailwayana.com/CIEposA2L.jpg Not of any actual location in particular, seems a trippy mish mash of somewhere on the South Eastern with a bit of the lakes of Killarney thrown in. Note cab that looks a bit early Sulzer-ish and interesting double brake hoses!

Seller should be renamed 'fakeirishstuff'. Would love to know who is churning out these babies (and derivatives thereof) by the bucketload. http://www.ebay.ie/itm/Irish-40-Shillings-Fine-Railway-Gate-Sign-Ireland-/190757780449?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c6a0cbbe1

Fake, you often find 'distressed' reproduction items in Paddywhackery pubs since supplies of the genuine article dried up. Font looks far too modern....Also: there hasn't been trains to Kinsale since the mid 30's, pretty unlikely a real destination board would retain such a long closed location, since when was there ever a direct Kinsale-Limerick and Baltimore-Limerick service and where the hell is 'Lough Hee'???? The tricolour border in the circular thing on top is a tad too convenient and Oirish for my liking as is the encirling text 'National Line Of Railway' sounds like it was manufactured in Beijing rather than Inchicore! Came across stained glass panels inset into timberwork with 'GSR' and CIE broken wheel logos in Perth (WA) once, with text in mis-spelt Irish decorating the walls. Sure as sugar they didn't come from the Emerald Isle. One place you will get some real articles is in the Pub in Fitzpatrick's Hotel in Manhattan...incl a brass nameplate off a loco named at the Inchicore 150th, the other ones sprouted legs and walked as they were stuck on with resin instead of being rivetted on!

No, unless the steam crane is still there? 90 is up north, the E is at Dunsandle and the tuam sugar factory shunter would have been scrapped after local morons burnt the shed it was in down.

To use the oft hackneyed phrase, 'in the current economic climate'.... snowball's chance in hell. Nice going, Mammy O'Rourke.

It's not up to CIE/IE to preserve anything, but maybe offering 6111 to a (responsible) interested party or else put it out of its misery.

Ugh, NIR/Translink have plonked for that awful Yankee-ism 'Train Station'.

Somehow I don't think NRM will close, given the British people's love of their industrial heritage. They could have saved a lot by not p*ssing it away on the debacle that was the Flying Scotsman. The thing is a played-out money pit.

Wonder what CIE crews made of them? Better (or worse) to operate compared to what they were used to? Imagine that steamers were a lot better looked after by Dundalk than by Inchicore.

What routes and how far from their native system were they used by CIE in the pre-preservation era? Was there such things as runs for gauging or was it 'yerra f___ it tis grand'?

Something to do with the Chester MRC T&DLR model layout that was exhibited in Dingle a while back?

That violates just about every H&S regulation in the book as well as child labour laws!

Yep, that the same 1 I found, but it's not really typical to find one jerry-rigged for weed spraying back in the day!

Hi, looking for a pic, in book or elsewhere, of a good view of a milesman's/per way bogie. (iron wheels/timber frame) preferably in use? For a contact of mine who doing a little write up on it. Copyright will be requested and source will be credited. The only one I've found online so far is this...but it's not really the use for which a bogie was intended for! http://www.steamtrainsireland.com/gallery/ja_whitehead_weedtrain1971.html

Let's face it...if Irish Railway modellers are a minority, then 21mm Irish is a minority within a minority.

The little enamel one is a modern replica, I got the tie pin version of this selling at Fry Model Railway souvenir shop.

That was the DUTC version of the snail, think 'iomchar' may be a portmanteau of 'iompair' (transport/transit) and 'car' (car/vehicle) there being no ready made word in Irish for 'tram' or 'tramways'. There were a lot of winged/flying wheels used in Europe (OBB in Austria had a very chunky stylised one) and elsewhere, but the Dutch one is uncannily similar to the Irish 'snail' albeit a bit elongated like the old Lima HO CIE logo.

In the car park at Waterford. Thought it was an ordinary tank until I saw the lifting eyes and the sticky out bit in front.

Looks the right shape and size, doesn't it? Well if it's been under an awning and painted, with oil sloshing around in it, sure why not?

Have taken pics, just need to extract them from camera!

To access the oil tank when oil firing was all the rage. BTW I think I may have spotted a vitually complete oil tender tank over the weekend now serving as heating oil storage.