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Old Irish Railway Postcards

  • 11-11-2014 12:45AM
    #1
    Judgement Day
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    Hope it's okay to start a new thread for this - it seems a shame to lose them in the general Photo thread.

    Found this 1917 view of Nenagh on eBay tonight. Interesting pointwork.

    Nenagh%2B1917%2Bpc.JPG


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  • #2
    Temp101
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    Avoiding a facing point by bringing the goods exit over to the down loop. Fairly common for the time. At that time, the two loops would not have been bi-directional, just up and down.


  • #3
    whisky_galore
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    Wonder why all the platform advertising seemed to vanish during or after the War/Emergency? Did they go in some sort of scrap drive or did the contract with the various advertisers / their advertising agency and the railways end?


  • #4
    Judgement Day
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Wonder why all the platform advertising seemed to vanish during or after the War/Emergency? Did they go in some sort of scrap drive or did the contract with the various advertisers / their advertising agency and the railways end?

    I imagine that some went in the scrap drive but in later years inflation meant that many signs carried out of date prices. A lot of the old signs ended up in shed roofs.

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  • #5
    Judgement Day
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    Two more from eBay.

    Killarney%2BExpress%2BGSWR%2BLoco%2BPublishing%2BCo.%2Bpc.JPG

    Killarney Express: GSWR published by Locomotive Publishing Co.

    GSWR%2BPC%2BValentine%2Bposted%2B1927.JPG

    Valentine postcard postally used in 1927.


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