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Artwork by Judgement Day?

  • 19-03-2014 09:47AM
    #1
    corktina
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    10f57gm.jpg

    Where was I?


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  • #2
    Banjoxed
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    corktina wrote: »
    10f57gm.jpg

    Where was I?

    A graveyard for the Irish railway system somewhere? Prefer live ones myself.


  • #3
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    you could not be more wrong!


  • #4
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151909356557161.1073741931.630552160&type=1&l=1fef1ded9e

    more clues


  • #5
    Judgement Day
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    Nice photos of Downpatrick, I had a trip on the line back in 1983 and it seems to have come on well since then. Amazing that the poor old six-wheelers have survived - they were sold to Hammond Lane by CIE and the GSRPS had to buy them back. Poor old GSRPS - gone and forgotten!


  • #6
    corktina
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    Quite a few very old coaches there and some very good progress on restoration of some of them. Great to have a choice of coaches to ride in...I sampled a Park Royal (I think it was anyway...) and a GSWR saloon...


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  • #7
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,298 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Nice photos of Downpatrick, I had a trip on the line back in 1983 and it seems to have come on well since then. Amazing that the poor old six-wheelers have survived - they were sold to Hammond Lane by CIE and the GSRPS had to buy them back. Poor old GSRPS - gone and forgotten!

    Maybe I'm straying onto terre verbotten here but is the GSRPS alive in any way shape or from? Obviously they don't operate services but from a paperwork/research/legal end of things...


  • #8
    corktina
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    I don't think so.


  • #9
    Sligo Quay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭Sligo Quay


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    GSRPS - gone and forgotten!
    Gone but not forgotten, maybe a small legacy, still a legacy, some say a controversial legacy, history will decide.
    My own personal experience, lifting track in Shelton Abbey and Judgement Day cracking the whip, still remember that:D


  • #10
    Judgement Day
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    Losty Dublin wrote: »
    Maybe I'm straying onto terre verbotten here but is the GSRPS alive in any way shape or from? Obviously they don't operate services but from a paperwork/research/legal end of things...

    The GSRPS went the same way as the Southern Railway of Ireland (Thurles/Clonmel) did at the 1925 amalgamation into the GSR - no directors or shareholders could be found lest they be deemed liable for any debts. I was the last Chairman - it could be argued that I still am - don't tell anybody though. :D


  • #11
    Losty Dublin
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    The GSRPS went the same way as the Southern Railway of Ireland (Thurles/Clonmel) did at the 1925 amalgamation into the GSR - no directors or shareholders could be found lest they be deemed liable for any debts. I was the last Chairman - it could be argued that I still am - don't tell anybody though. :D

    Who owns the GSRPS? Some guy on the hinterweb said he does.

    Like I'm gonna believe that line :pac::D


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  • #12
    Grandeeod
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    This any help or is it old info?

    http://www.companiesireland.com/the-great-southern-railway-preservation-society-company-limited-e37d/


  • #13
    Judgement Day
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    This any help or is it old info?

    http://www.companiesireland.com/the-great-southern-railway-preservation-society-company-limited-e37d/

    Complete rubbish as the GSRPS Ltd was struck off years ago - I have the paperwork somewhere. The GSRPS (Society) as opposed to the company held most of the stock - excluding the steam loco No.131 and assorted rubbish now at the "Ramble Inn" nr. Ballinahassig, Cork - and technically still exists but who cares anyway.


  • #14
    corktina
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Complete rubbish as the GSRPS Ltd was struck off years ago - I have the paperwork somewhere. The GSRPS (Society) as opposed to the company held most of the stock - excluding the steam loco No.131 and assorted rubbish now at the "Ramble Inn" nr. Ballinahassig, Cork - and technically still exists but who cares anyway.

    Actually at Halfway, right next to the main road with the original line on viaduct behind and high above on the hillside!


  • #15
    whisky_galore
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    GSRPS: File under L for Lost Opportunity.


  • #16
    corktina
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    GSRPS: File under L for Lost Opportunity.

    I was just in the process of joining up when it all went to the dogs. I doubt I'd have made much difference though! (through the kindness of someone in the Society, I was enrolled for free in advance of me finding work..so technically I was a member, I only ever got one magazine I think)


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