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    And another one !!
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    Youghal Turntable, 6th July 1985, is that yesteryear?....
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    George Mahon covered the Enniskillen & Bundoran Railway, The Enniskillen & Bundoran Extension Railway and the Enniskillen, Bundoran & Sligo Railway in the IRRS Journal in a long running series of articles "Irish Railways in 1860 to 1879, over 10 volumes of the Journal starting in Volume no 6, issue no 30 Spring 1962 to Vol 15 no 95 October 1984. His total contribution to all the Irish Railways in 18XX series started with the year 1853 in the Spring 1954 Journal, and he finished with 1879 in the June 1984 Journal, some 30 years later, producing an invaluable resource of the early days.
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    Book... The Cavan & Leitrim Railway , the last decade by Tom Ferris & Patrick Flanagan, published 1997 by Midland Publishing has good pictures of sister vans 14L and 17L on page 54.
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    Jb1911... I know this is slightly outside your time period ( it is from the Railway Gazette series of articles dated December 1930) featuring the singling of double track by the GSR on the former MGWR section between 1927 & 1930. The diagrams show the layout post-singling if you decided to go for that option ! If you want any other MGWR stations let me know, the Railway Gazette diagram covers from Clonsilla to Inny Junction, Mullingar to Ballinasloe and Athlone to Roscommon.
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    I have one the same here in my collection from the 73rd mile box... the canvas bit is 35 cms long, 15cms across, the canvas wrap around bit to hold the ETS adds another 5cms to the end, the overall thickness is 1cm.
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    Mainly for Wexford 70...... on the subject of "Chairs" A few pages from "Railway Construction 1898" by WH Mills who was engineer in Chief of the GNR(I)
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    Colin, I cant seem to find CIE bell codes, they used to be displayed on a poster which hung in every cabin, so maybe they were not published in manuals etc. The GSR green appendix does not appear to have them, the GNR published them in their green appendix, I attach a couple of scans from the May 1930 copy...
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    It is all out there,.... its just knowing where to look !
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    There is some useful information in NIL (New Irish Lines) magazines, articles by Colm Flanagan... Hornby Fowler to Jeep conversion, Vol 3 no 5, May 2004. Building an NCC Mogul from the Fowler tank, Vol 3 no 6, Nov 2004 The Mk2 Jeep and Mogul, Vol 4 no 2 Nov 2005
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    The LMS had used taper boilers since 1933, the Jeeps like the Moguls always had boilers of the parallel type, indeed the W and WT boilers were "non-standard" in LMS terms, when under Stanier the taper boiler was commonplace. The boilers were interchanged between Moguls and Jeeps, I think at least two Jeeps, certainly no 50 and 51 had Mogul boilers towards the end.
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    Was there UK VAT in the £4.20?, if so they should not be charging you VAT as you end up paying VAT on top of VAT, next time tell them you want a VAT exclusive price as it is being exported outside the UK.. I know the VAT on £4.20 is not that much, but if the purchase price was considerably more then it would matter.
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    The IRRS Journal mentions the Avoca Mineral Tramway in the following Journals.. History...Vol 1 pages 13-18, 6 pages 49, 296, 7 page 232 10 page 263 Locomotives... Vol 2 page 78, volume 6 page 296, volume 7 pages 232 & 326/7 vol 9 page 82, vol 13 page 442 Derailment...Vol 12 page 233 1873 Civil engineering... Vols 7 page 74, 7 page 282, 8 page 255, 9 page 82 Closure... Vol 13 page 286 traffic.... Vol 8 pages 175 & 255, vol 12 page 233 wagons & vans... vol 6 page 296 The Irish Railfans News has but one mention, Vol 18 no 2 page 17
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    Yes, it is Killarney.
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    while we are on the subject of the GSRPS at Mallow, anybody any ideas on what happened this one, seen at Mallow in June 1991 ?
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    From the GSRPS magazine Southern Steam 1986 & 1987
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    Jonathan, No mention, and the fact that it is recorded as "centre corridor" is not quite correct, centre & side as I recall.
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    1097 is listed in the February 1961 register as... 56 feet buffer to buffer, 52 feet over headstocks, 9 foot 3 maximum width, 12 foot 7 maximum height, accommodation for 4 "male" stretchers, and 30 seats, 2 corridor gangway connections, centre corridor, 2 lavatories, fitted for heating, electric lighting, , two gas rings, two cloakrooms, fitted for radio. Built in 1924, and re-built in 1959. It was renumbered AM12 in September 1965
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    Coach number 900... In the CIE internal use booklet "Classification of Passenger Rolling Stock", dated 1st February 1961, no 900 is listed on page 35 under "Ambulance Vans" along with 1097, 94M, 163M, 1900 (these four were re-numbered AM 12/ 10/ 11/ 13 in September 1965) 1097 went to the RPSI. Non-Bogie, 34 feet buffer to buffer, 30 feet over headstocks, max width 9 feet, Max height 11 feet 3 and a half inches, open saloon, 1 lavatory, heating- yes, lighting- yes, gas, passenger communication - yes. Under seating accommodation it records "two berths", year built 1891.
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    Staying on the thread but "off NCC plates topic" I agree with previous comments about researching and publishing based on material in the IRRS archive. Bob Clements kept a travelling diary right up to the early 1970's detailing not only locomotives and numbers but train workings along with fantastic details about drivers and other railway staff. Those 1000-odd closely typed A4 pages are a phenomenal resource, match up a couple of his diary pages with his own pictures (which Ciaran Cooney can work his magic on) they would make a fantastic addition to every issue of the "Journal". All it takes are volunteers !
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    Russell Currie's immaculate notes are perfectly filed in a filing cabinet in the IRRS archive, and very detailed they are too !
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    Limerick Junction before the shot-blasting was moved to Silvermines
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    Billboards!
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    Beet wagons at Wellington Bridge 16.10 1990, and Limerick Works 18.6.1991
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