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Looking well Patrick - nicely edged

In fairness the site host confesses a lack of knowledge of Irish stuff and pleads forgiveness. His/her GNRI section has some gems, including a gleaming QL about to leave Dublin whilst a Compund simmers in the distance.

So sorry to hear this Ray. Hope your health stabilises and you have much meaningful modelling ahead. Thanks for sharing your great work with us.

Also factor in the vagaries of early colour film and its subsequent reproduction

Fabulous. 91 had an unexpected new lease of life post 58, and seems to have become something of a pet loco around south and west Dublin. In the bizarre way of things though, it was 93 - withdrawn as long ago as 1955 - which made it into preservation ! F6 no42 seems to have been similarly useful right up until 1963 - clearly a well designed 2-4-2T stands the test of time.

Yes. If you stray away from the cosy world of all those inside cylinders on the County Down it’s Baltic out there…

Fabulous work as ever Alan. Reminds me how grateful I am to model railways which eschewed external valve gear….

1920 was the year in question

Dunluce Castle it is then! I used to have the whistle off 83 ‘Carra Castle’. Looking very well. The UT Black looks well when clean. Wonder what a VS would look like in it

Most interesting. Perfect way to move bespoke loads such as horse boxes. The UTA, of course, aspired to predicate its entire freight traffic on such methods!

That’s very nice indeed. I’m sorely tempted by 09 - love the concept of a 15” gauge railway meandering through the landscape. Would be so easy with Kato mechanisms. Seeing stuff like the North Weald really doesn’t help me at all…..

I’m sure you could turn one out in plum and navy to appear at Whiterock, taking the BRA girls’ hockey team to play Whiterock High School.

On strict historical terms, Horsetan, it was not ‘The Emergency’ as far as the six counties were concerned. It was only called ‘The Emergency’ in Eire. NI was a fully fledged part of the UK and as such was a combatant region. Indeed, the first US troops to land in Europe landed in Belfast, and the US Rangers were formed in Carrickfergus To remain vaguely on track, Whitehead/Whiterock shed played a key part in ensuring the NCC’s resilience after the devastating raids on Belfast in April/May 1941.

An incredible number - 228 - Leopards were hi jacked and burned. Ulsterbus was run in those days by the remarkable Werner Heubeck - an Afrika Korps veteran from the Herman Goering Division. Heubeck was known for rescuing vehicles in highly risky settings - doubtless deploying skills he’d learned in Tunisia. The RUC despaired of his lone jogging round Belfast in the 70s as a prime target for IRA kidnap!

It’s an issue on the big island, where Network Rail have a dedicated department to deal with it. Drones/UAV/RPAS have a number of safety and security issues, as you hint at. Prob no harm to engage with IE’s operations team for guidance.