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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Used all over Ireland, Britain and further afield. No real way of knowing where it came from if not marked with a location.
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    It's a bit rich of the antiques trade advising people to invest in antiques on the sunday newspaper supplements when they knowingly flog so many duds.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Different sort of GNR chair.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    GS&WR, D&SER, GNR(I) and GSR. CIE chair with Gaelic font. MGWR soleplate and washers compared with GN chair. (Both found lying by the newly laid Navan greenway)
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    Cameras are set up to monitor operation of barriers rather than catching idiots crashing into them. Maybe IR could liase with Gardai and others who may have better cameras along the route the truck took, ie toll booths, and work out who the offender was? But I guess this wouldn't be a high priority for Gardai as no one appeared to be injured.
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    Not really. The specialist UK railwayana auctions, on the other hand, will remove anything reported as a replica as their reputations matter.
  7. minister_for_hardship
    20 years of Luas has been doing the rounds in media. None of the rest would be of much interest to news media and non aficionados, they'll have mark the 200th of the D&K in 10 years time with something.
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    Ordinary junk "upgraded" with bogus lettering and that old offender, the Indian made candle lights.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Some of these were just ground frames in a glorified garden shed. Maam cross has a ground frame with a mini staff release.
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    Freshly robbed from an IE bridge!
  11. minister_for_hardship
    A staff to release the frame in a sub cabin. Kilmallock once had two cabins.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    It was already in decline for decades, like it or not, English was seen as the language to acquire to progress oneself. The education system did the language a huge disservice, foisting a heavily edited and sanitised "Peig" onto disinterested school children.
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    It has a small number of very positive reviews, looking on Reddit I get the impression from people that while it's well-run and organised, it's a "one and done" kind of experience. Less positively, one Mayo councillor called it "an hour and a half of boredom" and added “I actually brought my niece with me, she hasn’t talked to me since". https://www.mayonews.ie/news/home/1298195/westport-councillor-calls-kiltimagh-velorail-an-hour-and-a-half-of-boredom.html
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    The Tipp - Kilmallock (sic.) one is a nice example of staff "recycling".
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    I guess it's better than nothing but like greenways a tad "ableist", esp when B na M have a modern passenger coach from their previous operation just lying there and the pick of the best locos.
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    Perhaps due to grain traffic finishing up in the 70s(?) when photography was relatively expensive and beet lasting into the early 00s. Large and well known beet "campaigns", grain traffic may have been small bunches of wagons trundling up and down nearly unnoticed.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    RPSI Sales used to sell GNR coats of arms.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    Can be got for as low as £50. Tearnes manufactured transfers for railways all over Ireland, Britain and overseas, hundreds of them survived in unused stock, mounted on boards and sold to collectors. Very few that turn up for sale were actually cut from the side of a coach.
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    Everyone and no-one in this shell company?
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Wouldn't be trustful of Irish auctions and the posters they offer. Could well be a laserjet printoff stuck in a cheap frame. I see that there's a producer of replica vintage Irish travel posters now, these could well be passed off as the real thing. Ridiculous price. IE cast these for bridges a few years back, not such a good idea as they're all disappearing now!
  21. minister_for_hardship
    DPD should be called Drop-Pic-Dash. There was someone in the house if they could be arsed looking. Thankfully I recognised which wall they ditched the box at.
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    Taken through the gap under the door recently. Going by the amount of light flooding in, either the clear lights have been replaced (unlikely) or they've blown off. The site is an overgrown mess.
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    Genuine but usual Irish auctioneer calling something "Victorian" or "19th century" when they don't have a clue.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    Irish railways were forced to mend and make do, from the 20s onwards. Great for visiting enthusiasts but a nightmare for the railway. One CME was quoted "I like historic locomotives, but I wish I had less of them!"
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    Singletons and batches of non standard locos generally tend to be short lived. By the time they need heavy repairs it's not cost effective to be tinkering with them any further.
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