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5 hours ago, martc said:

'Slow down mate, oo do you think you are, Stirling Moss or sumfink? Can't you see there's a child playing in the street?'

I'm finking 'e might be pointing out the numerous white painted arrows along the middle of the road.. "it's a blinking one way street mate and you're going the wrong flippin' way"  :ph34r:

 

And the kid, well he just knows, intuitive like, that you throw a tantrum and run away from traffic wardens ! 

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3 hours ago, artdjones said:

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I think ; Plastered with Smithwicks great Irish red Ale., bus and driver pops in to the chemists.  The van driver sees the beer advert and stops for a quick one. Bus conductor is there to take the order. "was that with crispy bacon crisps sir ? " 

"Well you better be right Morse"

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3 hours ago, Bfg said:

I think ; Plastered with Smithwicks great Irish red Ale., bus and driver pops in to the chemists.  The van driver sees the beer advert and stops for a quick one. Bus conductor is there to take the order. "was that with crispy bacon crisps sir ? " 

"Well you better be right Morse"

A brake failure, I believe.

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20 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Another sight long-banished from the streets of Cork.

Cork once had something like three or four railway termini in the city centre, but only the ex-GSWR one remains open today.

Yes, also the three standard gauge lines had no physical connection for years until 1912 when the GS&WR and the CB&SCR were joined by the Cork City Railway. The other line, the Cork and Macroom Direct  was originally joined to the Cork and Bandon but preferred to be completely independent, so built their own terminus at Capwell, now the main Bus Eireann garage in Cork. They remained severed until 1918, when they were forced to reinstate the connection.

The locomotive in the picture is traversing the Cork City Railway to cross to the other side of the Lee.

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47 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Yes, also the three standard gauge lines had no physical connection for years until 1912 when the GS&WR and the CB&SCR were joined by the Cork City Railway. The other line, the Cork and Macroom Direct  was originally joined to the Cork and Bandon but preferred to be completely independent, so built their own terminus at Capwell, now the main Bus Eireann garage in Cork. They remained severed until 1918, when they were forced to reinstate the connection.

The locomotive in the picture is traversing the Cork City Railway to cross to the other side of the Lee.

There was also the 3-foot Cork Blackrock & Passage Railway, which was possibly the closest Ireland had to a narrow-gauge urban/suburban commuter system and which even operated over a considerable length of double-track.

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28 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

There was also the 3-foot Cork Blackrock & Passage Railway, which was possibly the closest Ireland had to a narrow-gauge urban/suburban commuter system and which even operated over a considerable length of double-track.

Yes, and the Cork and Musketry a roadside railway that started in the Western Road and went out to Blarney and Donoughmore. Both it and the CBPR closed in the 1930s. I believe the CBPR never made much money. It was a very well equipped, and fast railway with speeds of up to 50mph, not bad for narrow gauge. The original part was Irish gauge, but converted to 3ft gauge when the line was extended. Four of the engines went to the Cavan and Leitrim, and 2 lasted until 1959.

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