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  1. Galteemore
    Interesting they went for outside vs inside cylinders on such similar locos
  2. Galteemore
    Fab work. Having built the 7mm version I agree it’s a nice kit. And you’ll make a great job of it! Will look well running a diverted train through Kilmore
  3. Galteemore
    One fab little rarity in that vid. Can just see remains of Henderson’s Siding trailing in at Bleach Green. Mike Henderson, son of the last owner, is a keen modeller. The narrator R G Morton was a noted author on N I railway matters, and I think a teacher at Belfast Inst
  4. Galteemore
    Was interested to see that the NCC plate went for more than the GN one. Totally agree - bargain prices for plates
  5. Galteemore
    Buy it! Rare kit and you will do it justice. Be a nice loco for an IRRS special to the mill….
  6. Galteemore
    Fabulous. How did you do the trefoil type valance ?
  7. Galteemore
    Now that’s clever. Were you some kind of structural engineer ?….
  8. Galteemore
    The narrow gauge coupler. Derry dock locos were equipped to shunt both 5’3 and 3’ wagons - up until 1953 you had two railways of each gauge in Derry !
  9. Galteemore
    Looks fabulous. Really captures the look - I had to look twice to notice what was missing!
  10. Galteemore
    Fab stuff Ernie. 27 still in her SLNC livery before the UTA makeover.
  11. Galteemore
    Don’t worry Patrick - it will also cover up the shaky hand lettering !
  12. Galteemore
    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
  13. Galteemore
    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.
  14. Galteemore
    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!
  15. Galteemore
    Yes, but the concept never took off.
  16. Galteemore
    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.
  17. Galteemore
    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
  18. Galteemore
    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.
  19. Galteemore
    I had access to a similar thing about 40 years ago and could make the needle swing with a 9v battery
  20. Galteemore
    Not much chance of that in Whitehead! I suspect it’s Mac Arnold and Drew Donaldson out to watch the last stone train….
  21. Galteemore
    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:
  22. Galteemore
    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….
  23. Galteemore
    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….
  24. Galteemore
    the quality of turnout does make me think that these are actually Dubliners on an excursion rather than locals
  25. Galteemore
    Incredible man. European aristocrat who served in Royal Navy WW2 and did much to popularise railway modelling with intelligent and accessible broadcasting. His enthusiasm is infectious!
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