jhb171achill Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 The RPSI managed, very creditably, to get four of these from traffic with CIE in the mid 70s, when they were among the last in use. Thanks to scumbags, vandals and the associated dregs of society and walking filth who delight in wrecking things, three were destroyed by fire. (If I describe such people in detail I will be forever banned by the mods!)... One remains with the heritage set in Dublin. Among all the RPSI's carriages, it is one of the most historic, and would have worked with "Maedb". Whitehead annual Open Day, I think 1978. The carriages are painted maroon, and having been stored outside are weathered genuinely to what they might have been when awaiting repaint in GSR days. The lining is authentic for GSR, as far as it goes, but there should also be a single thin yellow line just above window level, and another just below the cantrail, as well as GSR numerals and crests. The suburban one - last survivor and now burnt...1333. When initially built, they had no gangways as they were intended for DSER suburban services. Incidentally, the last time I travelled in a "Bredin" was in summer 1976, on a train pack to the doors with teenagers going to the Kerry Gaeltacht.....! I don't remember seeing any in traffic after that, though there were possibly two still useable at Heuston... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craven1508 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 so true about the dirtbags that have nothing else to do but destroy everything out of pure badness!!! those coaches were historic:mad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 That's an absolute disgrace, brilliant,historic and wonderful coaches,destroyed by wastes of oxygen. Is the remaining one still in maroon or in the RPSI livery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted February 29, 2016 Author Share Posted February 29, 2016 No, it's CIE green now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted February 29, 2016 Share Posted February 29, 2016 No, it's CIE green now. Thanks mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 so true about the dirtbags that have nothing else to do but destroy everything out of pure badness!!! those coaches were historic:mad: Arson goes on everywhere, but for a while it did feel as though setting things on fire was something that went on in the North, especially the fixation with bonfires. RPSI also lost a GNRI K15 or two to the arsonists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 Yes, I remember getting a phone call from the late Sullivan Boomer - he was chairman and I was treasurer - made me sick to hear it. Six carriages (not all restored, but all very historic) reduced to ashes. If I was to print here what I would have liked to do to the perpetrators.........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Unfortunately they got rid of burning at the stake... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Unfortunately they got rid of burning at the stake... Health and Safety gone mad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaine Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Oh well, in todays Whitehead there would be no room for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 (edited) Oh well, in todays Whitehead there would be no room for them Need usually provides opportunity. I'm pretty sure that space would be found somewhere for a historic preservation. People only preserve what they love or respect and the resourceful enthusiast or benefactor seem turns up when one's back is to the wall ……………………… which is where the arsonists' backs should be, in fact it did feel as though setting things on fire was something that went on in the North, especially the fixation with bonfires Do the children still get a three week sabbatical from school to collect all those pallets on which to place the tricolor? I suppose education would be a subordinate need for these savants Edited March 1, 2016 by DiveController Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Do the children still get a three week sabbatical from school to collect all those pallets on which to place the tricolor? I suppose education would be a subordinate need for these savants What did the Ivory Coast ever do to them, anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 What did the Ivory Coast ever do to them, anyway? QED, Jim. Little wonder the Bredins were burned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 QED, Jim. Little wonder the Bredins were burned Can yis see the McDonaghs making a film about this? I'd suppose the title would be "In Bredin" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiveController Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Can yis see the McDonaghs making a film about this? I'd suppose the title would be "In Bredin" =))=)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted March 1, 2016 Author Share Posted March 1, 2016 On an earlier theme, Whitehead will be jam packed as from now; anything else RPSI has to go elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GSR 800 Posted March 2, 2016 Share Posted March 2, 2016 Couldn't they just store some stuff at Cork? The engine shed is barely used any more Or Mullingar...hmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhb171achill Posted March 2, 2016 Author Share Posted March 2, 2016 In both those particular places, unfortunately it's absolutely not. Places are thin on the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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