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Mound of earth and sleepers, topped with what looks like a tin shed. Likely nothing left.

22 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Not the NCC No 4 we automatically think of! Interesting to see that the number plate was not re-used. The WT has a much plainer style of font.

The old B&NCR house style on the older No 4.

13 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Is it available online somewhere?

Those bulleid Railcars looked so industrial and square, some would even say ugly 

Or as he himself would say “another successful design”

I've seen way worse, they did the job they were designed to do.

CIE 356, Bulleid's Dr Frankenstein's monster!

"Pat", the Cork coal gantry loco. Bodged together from an ancient Wakefield tender, vertical boiler, odds and sods and added customised corrugated iron sheet weather protection.

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.

6 hours ago, David Holman said:

Depends whether is for an Irish project or elsewhere, I suppose. Early loco names often focused on speed and strength, or something from mythology, so for Ireland check out some of those early kings and chieftains. Another oft used option was to name locos after directors and their families, or indeed loco landmarks, towns etc. 

 Pretty much anything goes therefore as long as it is not something with a modern spelling!

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. 

Not really missing the overpriced refreshments either, I'll bring my own thanks. Bringing in contractors has been a race to the bottom.

8 hours ago, Galteemore said:

They’ve already robbed it of its glorious 5’3” axles. What damage could be worse than that ??  

Yanks attempting to pronounce Howth.

3 hours ago, Lambeg man said:

 

As for the above, bought a bottle of "Guinness Export" in Sainsburys last week. Got home and finally got my glasses on. "Brewed in Nigeria"!  

They've only been brewing it there for like 60 years.

9 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

How about the brown coloured ones, I saw a few of them in my locality?

Have seen loads of those too.

A link to nerd out on insulators here. https://teleramics.com/type/indextype.html

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.

2 hours ago, connollystn said:

You'd hardly call the SF A a work of wizardry! 

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.

On 11/4/2022 at 5:44 PM, connollystn said:

Can't think why anyone bought them in the first place, were Irish modellers that desperate, REALLY?

Please point out where one could have a rtr A class pre IRM for those of us who aren't workbench wizards?

Oh god, there's always one. 

As Lima once did, a Fowler 4F could pass as a Cattle Engine.

On 4/4/2022 at 9:55 AM, connollystn said:

 did any other city/town have trains (not trams) operating on their' streets?

Off the top of my head; Dublin, Tralee, Wexford Quay, Passage (CB&PR), Fivemiletown/Caledon (Clogher Valley).

19 hours ago, popeye said:

SOLD OUT 

There's still spots, it's the advance tickets intended for staff are gone.

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.

On 15/3/2022 at 8:09 AM, Galteemore said:

Spectacular stuff. And much of that line still slumbering under its cover of greenery and debris. Lovely top photo with siding suggests a nice micro layout fed by cassettes either side 

Its being lifted, probably most if not all of it done by now, for the by now ubiquitous "greenway".

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.

7 hours ago, Ironroad said:

Even a kid knows what a CHU CHU is 

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.

23 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

Castleisland today, 15 Sept 1960.

 

The only thing left standing in 2022 in those scenes is the stationmaster's cottage, just visible in the first photo.

23 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

Headford Junction 4 june 1958 and then off down the Kenmare branch to Morleys Bridge

 

The second photo is of Loo Bridge, the building is still there, it was a youth hostel for a while.

6 hours ago, Robert Shrives said:

I guess it broadens search engine enthusiasm to catch more fish. 

Robert 

Exactly. A schnakey way of getting more hits.