Fake Railwayana

[Mol_PMB]

Hmm, there must be a gap in my knowledge of Irish railway history. The little known GN&WR...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257088734101

[Flying Snail]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

Hmm, there must be a gap in my knowledge of Irish railway history. The little known GN&WR...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257088734101

The Galway, Newry & Waterford?

[Mol_PMB]

30 minutes ago, Flying Snail said:

The Galway, Newry & Waterford?

Goraghwood, Newry and Warrenpoint?

[leslie10646]

You missed the best bit - it's labelled Great Southern and Western Railway!

 

 

[Horsetan]

4 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

Hmm, there must be a gap in my knowledge of Irish railway history. The little known GN&WR...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257088734101

In time to come (probably now, in fact), AI will probably say this is genuine....

 

[jhb171achill]

2 hours ago, Flying Snail said:

The Galway, Newry & Waterford?

That's the one..... known for the fact that every single locomotive, wagon and coach they ever possessed, ran in the wrong livery, and on the wrong gauge track.

[Broithe]

1 minute ago, jhb171achill said:

That's the one..... known for the fact that every single locomotive, wagon and coach they ever possessed, ran in the wrong livery, and on the wrong gauge track.

And the chassis were black.

[jhb171achill]

6 minutes ago, Broithe said:

And the chassis were black.

 

6 minutes ago, Broithe said:

And the chassis were black.

Sometimes they were even blacker...

[Flying Snail]

8 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

That's the one..... known for the fact that every single locomotive, wagon and coach they ever possessed, ran in the wrong livery, and on the wrong gauge track.

I think you'll find it was the right livery, just applied in all the wrong places 

[airfixfan]

Glenties Newry and Wexford Railway all 3 foot gauge with sleeping cars

[Killian Keane]

1 hour ago, Flying Snail said:

I think you'll find it was the right livery, just applied in all the wrong places 

Did the locos whistles play all the right notes just in the wrong order?

[Flying Snail]

35 minutes ago, Killian Keane said:

Did the locos whistles play all the right notes just in the wrong order?

caused no end of trouble whenever a conductor tried to point it out to the engine crew

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Killian Keane said:

Did the locos whistles play all the right notes just in the wrong order?

[Mayner]

11 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

Hmm, there must be a gap in my knowledge of Irish railway history. The little known GN&WR...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/257088734101

The Great Northern and Western Railway--------Athlone-Westport and Ballina otherwise known as "Lord Lucan's line", or the Mayo Line

The line was leased by the MGW in 1859 until amalgamated with the larger company in 1889/90.

Whether genuine GNWR gate signs ever existed, I am not really bothered.

[Broithe]

On 1/11/2024 at 11:07 AM, Broithe said:

I have one in the garage somewhere. I may find it during my current domestic archaeology process.

So, I did find it during a recent spate of domestic archaeology.

It is marked "Tested 15,000 volts" - I don't intend to see if that's still true.

I remember now that this one is not ex-RAF, but came from a coal mine, or, at least, via a miner.

I'm not sure that removing the web in the middle, as seen in the RAF version further above, is really a good idea - you might save half an ounce, but you could end up getting snagged up on fuselage stringers, etc., as you hack through the skin, especially from outside.

 

I wonder if I should stamp it "HS2" and save it to sell in the future?