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Fab stuff Ernie. 27 still in her SLNC livery before the UTA makeover.

Don’t worry Patrick - it will also cover up the shaky hand lettering !

The tipping wagons are on the 5’3” harbour branch - the track of this can still be traced and the bridge in the background still exists. In later years the branch was used for carriage storage. It could take a few WT tanks some significant effort to lift long rakes off that steep and curved branch

These are very interesting, as they show sailors (rather than Royal Artillery troops) with field guns. Might be something to do with the Royal Navy Brigade and the Boer War….the album dates fit.

Agreed. I remember Lord O’Neill visiting our house about 1980-odd to assess some vintage Hornby for his collection, and he’s no fool. So I just don’t know what’s happening here. What you can be assured of is the provenance of these items - there won’t be fakes or knock-offs in there. The art estimates are interesting in their variability. The auctioneers clearly like Jack Hill’s work!

Yes, but the concept never took off.

That’s interesting. It may be for military use. The RAF had a reasonable presence in Ireland up until 1922, with airfields in all kinds of places including Fermoy. Indeed, the RAF actually used machine guns and bombs against the IRA! The a/c would have been stripped down with wings strapped parallel to fuselage.

50 years ago today. Last trains pass at Tubbercurry. Although I’m fascinated by the flag given that this was 1970s Ireland when detente was a long way off….pic from Castlerea Railway Museum FB page

Fabulous. Having been engaged in something similar of late, it’s very satisfying modelling, watching a structure emerge from carefully arranged strips and sections of card/plastic - and is that some laser cut valancing/planking? Really captures look of original.

I had access to a similar thing about 40 years ago and could make the needle swing with a 9v battery

Not much chance of that in Whitehead! I suspect it’s Mac Arnold and Drew Donaldson out to watch the last stone train….

It is a navigational sign. An email to County Antrim Yacht club might yield a reply:secretary@cayc.co.uk I can’t confirm what’s on the Whitehead one, but a similar one near Magheramorne (which I think the ferries use to align their track into Larne) looks like this:

I know what you mean, but as someone who remembers that kind of railway - just! - it was often dirty, cold, and uncomfortable. Train toilets, for one, were a bacteriologist’s paradise….

What a world we have lost. I first remember seeing the Burma Road about 1978 - was like something out of a fairy tale - ‘the sleeping railway’. Like you, JHB, I think the railway changed utterly, although I’m not sure any terrible beauty was born….

the quality of turnout does make me think that these are actually Dubliners on an excursion rather than locals