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  1. minister_for_hardship
    Have a few holding up sheds and forming fences here, marked variously DW&WR, GS&WR, MGWR and dated in the 1870s/1880s and some very small unmarked flat bottomed stuff.
  2. minister_for_hardship
    Very, very few named after native kings or chieftains, just two were named after Brian Boru (W&LR and Giant's Causeway) Most named after figures from Greek or Roman classics and as you say placenames, directors their families and their homes. Rivers, mountains, animals/birds and saints featured.
  3. minister_for_hardship
    Not really missing the overpriced refreshments either, I'll bring my own thanks. Bringing in contractors has been a race to the bottom.
  4. minister_for_hardship
    Yanks attempting to pronounce Howth.
  5. minister_for_hardship
    They've only been brewing it there for like 60 years.
  6. minister_for_hardship
    Have seen loads of those too. A link to nerd out on insulators here. https://teleramics.com/type/indextype.html
  7. minister_for_hardship
    I've seen hundreds of GPO and P&T ones. The real rarity is a red coloured one for lines carrying electricity, saw one once ever at an IR railway station, still in place and unbroken but no longer carrying any wires.
  8. minister_for_hardship
    I never said it was, one way or the other. It was simply all that was available to many for a long time. Half a loaf is better than no bread.
  9. minister_for_hardship
    Please point out where one could have a rtr A class pre IRM for those of us who aren't workbench wizards?
  10. minister_for_hardship
    Oh god, there's always one.
  11. minister_for_hardship
    As Lima once did, a Fowler 4F could pass as a Cattle Engine.
  12. minister_for_hardship
    Off the top of my head; Dublin, Tralee, Wexford Quay, Passage (CB&PR), Fivemiletown/Caledon (Clogher Valley).
  13. minister_for_hardship
    There's still spots, it's the advance tickets intended for staff are gone.
  14. minister_for_hardship
    I walked the course of that a good few years ago, I picked up this fence wire tensioner along the way, not far from that viaduct I think.
  15. minister_for_hardship
    Its being lifted, probably most if not all of it done by now, for the by now ubiquitous "greenway".
  16. minister_for_hardship
    The South Wexford booking offices as far as I know were identical or near identical, being all constructed for the Fishguard & Rosslare Railways & Harbours. The DWWR had variations on the arc roofed shed theme, probably in different sizes for various classes of station or halt. At least one cabin (Gorey) carried a contractors sign saying it was built by Thompsons of Carlow. These would have been subbed out to specialist contractors like Thompsons rather than built by the railways themselves.
  17. minister_for_hardship
    Funny that regular trains haven't made a "choo choo" sound in over a half century that kids (and not a few adults) still call them that.
  18. minister_for_hardship
    The only thing left standing in 2022 in those scenes is the stationmaster's cottage, just visible in the first photo.
  19. minister_for_hardship
    The second photo is of Loo Bridge, the building is still there, it was a youth hostel for a while.
  20. minister_for_hardship
    Exactly. A schnakey way of getting more hits.
  21. minister_for_hardship
    Horse sold separately.
  22. minister_for_hardship
    This x 1000. There are models that do not interest me personally but I dont go out of my way to dump all over them. If someone is able to produce and sell them whether it's a 22k or a J15 fair play to them. If you dont like them dont buy them. Others will be glad to have them on their layouts.
  23. minister_for_hardship
    A strange looking Temperance banner.
  24. minister_for_hardship
    I think it may have been in the aftermath of the 1983 Cherryville collision?
  25. minister_for_hardship
    In the catacombs of Cark public museum.
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