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  1. Galteemore
    But of course, Hawthorn Leslie was a North Eastern workshop. Bound to turn out ugly stuff. You need to head to Manchester for true locomotive elegance
  2. Galteemore
    No way could I do such a thing myself Mike but I know there’s some who might find it a short cut to a chassis ! if I was building a Bandon tank it would be an Alphagraphix 7mm one…. The A5 looks a lovely model and it’s another NE one for you Ernie!!
  3. Galteemore
    Lovely Ernie. Having visited a few times, I get the charm of it! I had a an IOW terrier in 7mm before I moved to 5’3”. The Vectis lines are almost Irish at times, with a gentler climate. These are good times for OO modellers - Sonic models have just shown a GCR 4-6-2T, one of my favourites, which might be a useful donor chassis for a CBSC 4-6-0T if you can live with a few discrepancies…..
  4. Galteemore
    Great - thanks Ernie. That tool hut looks suspiciously like the pay carriage off the GSWR ‘Sprite’. Image courtesy ‘Locomotives of the GSWR’ via RM Web
  5. Galteemore
    Great stuff Ernie. Hope you get some positive news on the health front.
  6. Galteemore
    And some fool spots it….I can do none of the things you mention there but do spend much of my working life editing text …sorry Ken ! The wagons really have a classic Irish look and a world away from the repainted BR box van with a flying snail transfer that many of us have passed off as Irish!
  7. Galteemore
    “Very pleased with how the detail has poped out once painted” Excellent work Ken, although I am struggling to see the Roman influence……;) In all seriousness these wagons look the business
  8. Galteemore
    Tracked it down. RPSI PWI special was 1985…..https://www.geograph.ie/photo/3789663
  9. Galteemore
    Wasn’t there a special for the PWI with RPSI wooden stock, steam hauled with a number of loco changes?
  10. Galteemore
    They operate at the other end of the supplier spectrum to Hornby etc and production fluctuates! I am pretty sure I saw it at Scaleforum a few years ago. SE Finecast do a thin corrugated sheet which I think would be more amenable to bending than Evergreen sheet and certainly than Ratio’s toffee-like slabs.
  11. Galteemore
    IIRC Ambis Engineering do or did corrugated sheet like that. http://www.ambisengineering.co.uk/Products/Products_Index.htm
  12. Galteemore
    Those are top notch Ken. Instantly recognisable Irish prototypes and nicely finished. Will look wonderful when painted up.
  13. Galteemore
    Looks well so far. The cycling coach Dave Brailsford talks about marginal gains and the cumulative effect on a teams performance - the small steps that add up. This is a classic example of marginal gains at work. Every piece of point rodding, every ground signal, adds to the composite picture of Larne Harbour. The whole thing is coming together so well.
  14. Galteemore
    Thank you. I can enjoy the pictures properly now
  15. Galteemore
    That’s looking really good. Loads of atmosphere even without the exiguous buildings. Shouldn’t that distant be fixed at danger though ?;)
  16. Galteemore
    The NCC locos are very tricky - David Lloyd and Charlie Insley both say so ! They don’t have a normal footplate so the tanks are effectively the loco foundation. All the same I fancy a try some day, but have a few things in the mix first……
  17. Galteemore
    Some of the West Clare locos look very tidy - and the NCC tanks are delightful.
  18. Galteemore
    Excellent idea. These are great quality pics that deserve an appreciative, informed audience.
  19. Galteemore
    Loco and setting looks more like a German park railway than RHDR, I’d say, JB….
  20. Galteemore
    Harbour pic is possibly Newport, Isle of Wight. Crouchers was a shipping company linking Southampton with the island.
  21. Galteemore
    Thankfully MS still survives in part - the firm’s engineering division has become Whale Water Pumps.
  22. Galteemore
    What a treat - these are lovely. Quite a rarity too - shows what IOMR livery was like before the colour explosion of the Ailsa era. J I C Boyd argued that the Irish NG was far more akin to IoM than Welsh NG in its scale and practice, and the IOM Rlwy still allows one to experience something of what the Ballymena to Larne section was like with BP 2-4-0Ts.
  23. Galteemore
    Works here - can see it well.
  24. Galteemore
    Great pics . Hard to beat a 103. Almost as good as a V200
  25. Galteemore
    I suspect it’s suiting fabric from the North. This happened on the SLNC. A crew was given such a bale to get across into Eire and hid it in the coal bunker. Someone at Enniskillen saw them do it, and gave Eire Customs a tip off - the white capped inspectors moved purposefully towards the loco at the Glenfarne customs stop. The crew quickly disposed of the hundreds of pounds worth of material in the firebox…
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