Genuine Railwayana

[cheesy_peas]

6 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Appears to have been made up by an Early IRRS member, I’m sure I’ve seen photos of it somewhere, but it’s like the Mandela effect, can’t find em anywhere now! 
 

some more pictures below 

A source told me they were made up for the IRRS and sold as a fundraiser around the 60s.

[Westcorkrailway]

18 hours ago, cheesy_peas said:

A source told me they were made up for the IRRS and sold as a fundraiser around the 60s.

Good to know! Was considering offering to get that one, as it’s a nice little niche thing, though there must be more around then I previously guessed!

[Westcorkrailway]

 

My 3 cap Badges. Really only short a points logo one. One of my favourite things to pick up. There is something nice about them 
 

although, looking below, there is quite an amount of them to collect if you wanted to be definitive about it…

 

[cheesy_peas]

On 6/7/2026 at 3:02 PM, Westcorkrailway said:

 

My 3 cap Badges. Really only short a points logo one. One of my favourite things to pick up. There is something nice about them 
 

although, looking below, there is quite an amount of them to collect if you wanted to be definitive about it…

 

A few of the smaller badges; the B&CDR, GS&WR and Donegal coats of arms badges are enthusiast badges, sold in gift shops/trade stands and not uniform badges as such.

The cloth badges are rare enough survivors, moths and bonfires usually got them first.

Uniform badges in the UK would have been manufactured in the hundreds of thousands (BR had 629,000 staff on its formation) here the numbers produced were far smaller, plus I think people here were more inclined to throw such things away, rather than hold onto them.