Mol_PMB Posted August 20 Posted August 20 22 hours ago, jhb171achill said: That's the boxes of chocs that were given out at the Christmas dinner....... Could be wrong on this, but I think the black'n'tan one is the last survivor of several built by the GSR. Indeed, and here's a photo for the livery aficionado, thanks to Ernie. GSR livery and GSR-style lettering, but it says CIE. A mishmash worthy of the painters at Cultra! And this is in 1961 - was this the only vehicle to go from GSR livery to black and tan without any shade of green in between? 3 Quote
jhb171achill Posted August 20 Author Posted August 20 (edited) On 20/8/2025 at 5:59 PM, Mol_PMB said: Indeed, and here's a photo for the livery aficionado, thanks to Ernie. GSR livery and GSR-style lettering, but it says CIE. A mishmash worthy of the painters at Cultra! And this is in 1961 - was this the only vehicle to go from GSR livery to black and tan without any shade of green in between? Almost without doubt, yes. Several silver vehicles (and locos!) skipped the green, and several GNR coaches and quite possibly railcars likewise - GNR livery straight to black'n'tan. In routine service, one coach on the C & L had disgracefully faded GSR livery as late as 1956. Numerous main line coaches were still maroon into the early 50s. Edited Saturday at 21:52 by jhb171achill Quote
jhb171achill Posted September 5 Author Posted September 5 (edited) In preparation for the annual Dugort Parish Knock Pilgrimage on Sunday, the excursion set rests overnight at the harbour station. At Tralee it will join another six, and the ten-coach train, two heating vans and a diner will trundle their way to Claremorris, via the North Kerry, Ennis and Tuam. Looks like a pair of 141s will end up on this. In 1966, there’s still the odd green coach to be seen. Edited September 5 by jhb171achill 15 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Saturday at 13:49 Author Posted Saturday at 13:49 (edited) “Ah c’mon lads, I told ye already - get down, sure yiz could hardly walk straight out of O’Donoghues….. if ye don’t get down NOW and go home, I’ll ring the guards. Big McNulty will soon shift ye… . ”Sixty pounds, and it’s less than a year old, 1961 model. Does forty miles an hour! Sure a new one now’s over a hundred, I couldn’t afford that on my wages! How’s Agnes, by the way?” Edited Saturday at 13:52 by jhb171achill 8 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Saturday at 13:58 Author Posted Saturday at 13:58 (edited) “See the state of PJ when Christy told him about the two wagons off the road up at the mill siding! Wouldn’t like to be in Paddy Connor’s shoes now!” ”PJ had his own moments as a shunter, though - that’s why he’s behind a desk now! Just ask him some time if he remembers the Macroom fair special in 1940!” . “Is John away to Canada yet? Haven’t seen him about…” ”NO!! He only put that story about! Sure ye know he ran off with some young wan from Cork half his age. They’re away up to Dublin!” “Talkin’ of young wans, see what’s after gettin’ into the other carriage?” Edited Saturday at 14:09 by jhb171achill 7 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Saturday at 14:08 Author Posted Saturday at 14:08 “All very well for him, but it’s too high to lift these things. We’d be better waitin’ till it’s at the platform!” ”Ye goin’ to the game tomorrow?” ”Yeah, I suppose, but Carrick will beat us by ten points, I tell ya”. ”What about the dance - what’s that showband called again…?” 8 Quote
Horsetan Posted Saturday at 14:42 Posted Saturday at 14:42 31 minutes ago, jhb171achill said: “All very well for him, but it’s too high to lift these things. We’d be better waitin’ till it’s at the platform!” ”Ye goin’ to the game tomorrow?” ”Yeah, I suppose, but Carrick will beat us by ten points, I tell ya”. ”What about the dance - what’s that showband called again…?” This almost reads like Roddy Doyle's writing style, particularly the conversations at the bar in his books "Two Pints" and "Two More Pints" 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Saturday at 22:11 Author Posted Saturday at 22:11 “Ya serious? In America? Yer wan that was livin’ with his ma up beyond Pat Maggie’s in Cloonagh? Mad eejit, even at school… Jayysus. Me cousin went to school with him. What’s a congress man anyway, is it like, a TD?” 9 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Sunday at 00:36 Author Posted Sunday at 00:36 (edited) . Edited Sunday at 09:58 by jhb171achill Quote
jhb171achill Posted Sunday at 00:41 Author Posted Sunday at 00:41 “OK, now, LISTEN to me before yer man comes back. You telephone Burke - Gerard Burke, not Gerry - GerARD - on Tuesday morning in Tralee Goods an’ tell him what I said. OK? He’ll sort ye out. Tell him what I told you, ok? Don’t listen to Dennis. Serious, don’t even listen!” 8 2 Quote
Mayner Posted Sunday at 05:12 Posted Sunday at 05:12 6 hours ago, jhb171achill said: “Ya serious? In America? Yer wan that was livin’ with his ma up beyond Pat Maggie’s in Cloonagh? Mad eejit, even at school… Jayysus. Me cousin went to school with him. What’s a congress man anyway, is it like, a TD?” Needs to be narrated in a Beara-South Kerry accent/dialect with English subtitles, back in the 90s I had a work colleague (an accountant) from Sneem who some people thought he was French! Years earlier a girl in a Dunlaoire chip shop could not understand a colleague from North Kerry when he asked for sausageandchips and asked his friend from Meath to translate and became even more confused. 1 5 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Sunday at 10:00 Author Posted Sunday at 10:00 4 hours ago, Mayner said: Needs to be narrated in a Beara-South Kerry accent/dialect with English subtitles, back in the 90s I had a work colleague (an accountant) from Sneem who some people thought he was French! Years earlier a girl in a Dunlaoire chip shop could not understand a colleague from North Kerry when he asked for sausageandchips and asked his friend from Meath to translate and became even more confused. On more than one occasion I’ve had American tourists ask me if people we deal with around the Ring of Kerry or dingle peninsula are speaking in Irish! 1 Quote
GSR 800 Posted Sunday at 10:12 Posted Sunday at 10:12 4 hours ago, Mayner said: Needs to be narrated in a Beara-South Kerry accent/dialect with English subtitles, back in the 90s I had a work colleague (an accountant) from Sneem who some people thought he was French! Years earlier a girl in a Dunlaoire chip shop could not understand a colleague from North Kerry when he asked for sausageandchips and asked his friend from Meath to translate and became even more confused. There was a fella from the north, spoke fast and quiet, I was almost certain he was french at the start! 1 Quote
Broithe Posted Sunday at 10:49 Posted Sunday at 10:49 48 minutes ago, jhb171achill said: On more than one occasion I’ve had American tourists ask me if people we deal with around the Ring of Kerry or dingle peninsula are speaking in Irish! To be fair, it can be a bit of a challenge... 3 Quote
Galteemore Posted Sunday at 11:01 Posted Sunday at 11:01 So we finally know. Rowley Birkin KC is actually from Annascaul….https://youtu.be/1Cwyq3XWeHE?si=cn9biDAO2kJ6hvrf 2 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Sunday at 15:23 Author Posted Sunday at 15:23 4 hours ago, Broithe said: To be fair, it can be a bit of a challenge... Even by Kerry standards that’s a strong accent! 1 Quote
Broithe Posted Sunday at 22:38 Posted Sunday at 22:38 7 hours ago, jhb171achill said: Even by Kerry standards that’s a strong accent! The chap across the road is from Kerry and he struggled with it. I love the fact that that was a genuine evening news item and it might as well have been in Klingon... Some my remember the old Pirelli tyre adverts. They were much easier to follow. 3 Quote
Tullygrainey Posted Monday at 12:43 Posted Monday at 12:43 Stanley Unwin! Brilliant. He was a one-off. The only man able to talk completely comprehensible gibberish. 3 Quote
Galteemore Posted Monday at 12:51 Posted Monday at 12:51 8 minutes ago, Tullygrainey said: Stanley Unwin! Brilliant. He was a one-off. The only man able to talk completely comprehensible gibberish. That’s a 50% overlap with much of this forum… 5 Quote
Mol_PMB Posted Monday at 13:01 Posted Monday at 13:01 6 minutes ago, Galteemore said: That’s a 50% overlap with much of this forum… The same thought went through my mind, but I wasn't quite brave enough to write it down. I suppose at least you're leaving it to the reader to decide whether the 50% overlap refers to 'comprehensible' or 'gibberish'... Quote
Galteemore Posted Monday at 13:10 Posted Monday at 13:10 8 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said: The same thought went through my mind, but I wasn't quite brave enough to write it down. I suppose at least you're leaving it to the reader to decide whether the 50% overlap refers to 'comprehensible' or 'gibberish'... It depends on the contributor. Some veer more in one direction than another ….. 2 Quote
Broithe Posted Monday at 13:24 Posted Monday at 13:24 12 minutes ago, Galteemore said: It depends on the contributor. Some veer more in one direction than another ….. Anyone who has paid proper attention to the shipping forecast would know that a wind can only veer in one direction, to the right. Turning to the left is backing. https://jollyparrot.co.uk/blog/the-difference-between-a-backing-and-veering-wind-489 2 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Tuesday at 11:48 Author Posted Tuesday at 11:48 In the last few years of the Dugort Harbour line, A23R arrives one dull autumn morning with the midday connection off the Tralee mail. It’s September 1973….. 5 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Tuesday at 12:03 Author Posted Tuesday at 12:03 The same month sees the first-ever appearance at Dugort of a newly-repainted loco in the “Supertrain” livery….. it’s bringing in empty ballast wagons. Quite a contrast with its scruffy sister about to depart on the 11:40… 4 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Tuesday at 12:10 Author Posted Tuesday at 12:10 (edited) ”Yeah, I saw one in Mallow on Tuesday like that, first I’d seen. Very bright, isn’t it?” ”Ye see they’ve dropped the “B” from the number. I wonder does that mean the “A” class will just start with “1”?” ”Tell ye wan thing, I can’t see any o’them air-conditioned super trains, or whatever they call ‘em, coming down here!” ”Wonder what it’s like IN an air-conditioned train? Is it some sort of heating? And ye can’t open the windows in those things, apparently…” ”No idea….. what I’m wondering, is what’s for dinner!” Edited Tuesday at 15:15 by jhb171achill 5 Quote
Westcorkrailway Posted Tuesday at 12:21 Posted Tuesday at 12:21 9 minutes ago, jhb171achill said: . ”Yeah, I saw one in Mallow on Tuesday like that, first I’d seen. Very bright, isn’t it?” ”Ye see they’ve dropped the “B” from the number. I wonder does that mean the “A” class will just start with “1”?” ”Tell ye wan thing, I can’t see any o’them air-conditioned super trains, or whatever they call ‘em, coming down here!” ”Wonder what it’s like IN an air-conditioned train? Is it some sort of heating? And ye can’t open the windows in those things, apparently…” ”No idea….. what I’m wondering, is what’s for dinner!” Does sitting out the back of the brakevan on the lifting train count as “air conditioned” 1 Quote
jhb171achill Posted Tuesday at 15:21 Author Posted Tuesday at 15:21 2 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said: Does sitting out the back of the brakevan on the lifting train count as “air conditioned” In MY book, vastly superior to it! (Apart from the “lifting” bit…..)! 3 Quote
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