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Galteemore
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Amazing. I’m getting flashbacks now to my 83-89 years….the hours I spent on those (the school had 2). You way wish to add the distinctive damage marks from stones thrown in the Limestone Road each day. This, as you know, bisected the peace line, and the bus was stoned from both sides. The Catholics stoned it because it was seen as a Protestant bus, and the Protestant kids stoned it for being a grammar school bus! Fabulous work Darius.
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Looking well Patrick - nicely edged
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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. -
Rachelstown and St Stephens Green
Galteemore replied to The Derry Road's topic in Irish Model Layouts
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. -
AEC Railcars - where were they painted when new?
Galteemore replied to Mol_PMB's question in Questions & Answers
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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 In the bizarre way of things though, it was 93 - withdrawn as long ago as 1955 - which made it into preservation !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.
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Yes. If you stray away from the cosy world of all those inside cylinders on the County Down it’s Baltic out there…
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Fabulous work as ever Alan. Reminds me how grateful I am to model railways which eschewed external valve gear….
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1920 was the year in question
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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
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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!
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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…..
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Where to begin…..
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How Stalin would have loved it. So much easier than manual airbrushing. The issue is a significant worry, as surveys find people are putting more and more trust in social media (where AI thrives) as a news channel rather than established outlets.
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Worsley works - you know me DJ - no RTR in sight! Given the topic thread title, it’s the creeping disappearance of suppliers like Allen that disturb me. In tens of trade barriers, I’d wanted an SSM PP but the Brexit effect put paid to that idea - amazingly I found one on UK eBay thanks to contacts on here.
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I’m not going to quibble about incommensurables v relative values. Let’s just leave it there and attribute it all to me processing my guilt about having just made my largest ever single modelling purchase
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It’s not really a generalisation DJ, but is based on empirical observations. Having spent parts of my working life in places where people literally cannot guarantee if they will eat tomorrow has rather changed my perspective on the relative luxury I live in. And yes, I have sold off previous stuff to fund my habit! The fact that I can allocate any assets at all to a mere hobby would be simply inconceivable in some of the places I have worked.
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To be brutally honest, anyone who can afford to spend significant sums on what are essentially toys is, in global terms, rich beyond measure. In terms of Maslow’s pyramid, most of us are living quite far up on it….
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Will PM you @Rob R if I can find the details ….
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Poor old 184 was very short of breath by this stage. It’s a remarkable event though - probably the last standard gauge steaming in company service (CIE still owned 184) in these islands. 1907 has a strong case for being the last steam hauled passenger carriage!
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Now that is rather nice. Like the flexibility being built in, too.
