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Galteemore

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  1. These are fabulous. Given the cost of a colour photo in the 50s, unsurprising that few people took such views - better to spend the money on 3/4 loco shots! So glad he did though - gives a real insight into what it was like to travel on the Irish NG.

    3 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

    It would have been unusual if the T2 was on the Irish North - I suspect it had come up through Armagh on the Ulster Railway. They were used on trains through Richhill in the late fifties - I remember travelling behind one out of Portadown with my grandmother (mind you just to the said Centre of the Universe!).

    No.58 is on the Thursday All-in tour to Dublin  for tourists staying at UTA hotels in the North - the Laharnara in Larne especially if my memory serves. Note the diner!

    Thanks Leslie - I’d just never seen one at Clones before. 

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  2. 25 minutes ago, commerlad said:

    I told him.

     

    I do not know what it is but it not CDR

    The type is wrong they never had an 0=6-0

    The Gauge is wrong it should be 12mm

    The colour is wrong.

     

    His reply.

    New message from: atmodels18 (470TURQUOISE_STAR Star)

     

    Hi

    Don't need you to message thank you I know what it is!

     

     

     

    If it’s any consolation he can’t tell a 9F from a Britannia either! 

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  3. Lanyon Place to Dublin is 113 miles 46 chains. Dundalk is 54 miles 30 chains from Dublin. So something in region of 59 miles plus. I’ll let you have fun of doing the precise maths. 80 chains per mile btw.

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  4. Excellent David - pushing the frontiers again…..very distinctive vehicles. Railcars/railbuses are dead easy to build so an extra challenge will help sustain interest ;) 

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  5. 4 hours ago, Horsetan said:

    There's generations' worth of lack of values.

    That’s one thing we don’t lack. Values are everywhere - everyone has them. But it’s an economic term: values have no hard or fast standing and can change. And we all value things differently….

    What we increasingly lack are virtues, I think.

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  6. Much as I hate the place, with its deterministic aisles to force shoppers on a certain route, it is an ideal place for acquiring cheap baseboards - my ‘Abohill’ diorama being one. Whole RM web threads are devoted to its products .and my own modest Irish layout rests firmly on IKEA foundations..  

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  7. Well, my drawing purchase has just landed. For obvious commercial reasons I won’t post the images here! Suffice to say they are top notch and incredibly well done. Even if you aren’t a scratch builder they would be a nice bit of wall art. No connection other than satisfied customer. 

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  8. The reference to the dance hall is a nice bit of colour and I can just see the evening workings from Drogheda… although of course Ireland’s premier and legendary ‘Ballroom of Romance’ was located on Ireland’s premier and legendary railway, within walking distance of Glenfarne station on the SLNC…..the movie it inspired in 1982 is still wonderful…. 

     

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