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  1. Galteemore
    My dad did that one a few times just before closure in 59 - managed to get all over the system. It was pretty spectacular all right. I think the trip I envy him most though was on a lifting train near Enniskillen. He made it to Bundoran by train too but biggest regret is probably not getting over the SLNC.
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    Have just spoken to Mike Shannon’s travelling companion of the era, who took many similar photos. He thinks it’s taken off a Strabane - Derry goods, possibly near 1965
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    Is that the Cooper photo collection from Strabane? I catalogued some of that in a summer job at PRONI 30 years ago.....it often took a lot of head scratching to work out what many of the images were. There was one particularly impressive sequence which turned out to be the funeral of General Ambrose Ricardo in Sion Mills. I have a vague memory that there were images of the Strabane - Letterkenny line under construction in the collection.
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    True classics last. Some US outfits still employ the Dakota as a workhorse and not a museum piece.
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    The Hunter is a truly beautiful airframe. Still in use, I think, by MoD contractors for various purposes such as the ‘Thursday war’.
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    Check out the IRRS photo archive too. Tony Burges’ book on ‘Lakeland railways’ has a good external view. Strictly speaking, Manorhamilton didn’t have a shed. This was the loco works, but it was used for stabling engines in the absence of an appropriate alternative. A photograph from Ernie’s archive may help illustrate what the exterior would have looked like at the Enniskillen end.
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    The x is probably aimed more at road traffic when swung across the carriageway. The signal is an indicator to the oncoming train that the crossing keeper has closed the gates in a timely manner !
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    Almost certainly worked by the crossing keeper themselves. Day glo orange on both arms by CIE period. The arms are the same both sides
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    Bog Road, Cork. This what you’re after ? Interlocking is unlikely on the SLNC ones as they are in the middle of a block section anyway. Their slotted posts did last till 1957. SLNC signalling was arcane but effective!
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    Nice finish on the paint, Nelson.
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    By all means! There were enough ‘might have beens’ in the minds of Victorian railway planners to add another. Irish lines frequently exchanged rolling stock, so you could easily ‘cascade’ recognisable locos and wagons etc. There were even a few cases of standard U.K. designs being used (such as the LNW tanks on the DWWR), and the forthcoming CBSC 0-6-0Ts from OO Works. If the track gauge is correct, which you have sorted, and the scenery is right, that’s half the ‘Irish’ side of the picture anyway.
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    Try Portadown in its 1970s incarnation - or Derry
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    Hadn’t realised until today that there was a diesel powered NG railway there in the early 30s
  14. Galteemore
    Depends on the water.
  15. Galteemore
    And the Sligo van would be quite prototypical. Turf trains ran from Dromahair - the loads were brought in by Leitrim Co Council lorries. The destination was Dundalk via GNR but no reason a few loads could’nt have gone west via Collooney South and the WLWR....
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    Impressive - as are the books....I always enjoy looking at other libraries !
  17. Galteemore
    Excellent progress. I know that this has been used for a G class conversion in the past...https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254048838248
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    There is a Dunsandle on the old Loughrea branch. Check out the book ‘Baronial Lines of the MGWR’ for more. http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway Stations D/Dunsandle/IrishRailwayStations.html
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    Very nice indeed Sean. That little 0-4-0 tank is a good find - the chassis in those often runs like a Scalectrix car! Have you thought of buying a spare body to experiment on? If you cut out the boiler and put in a plain tube, built a new cab and rounded off the tanks, you could have a GSWR might have been. To complete the illusion, put in a spilt smokebox door.....
  20. Galteemore
    That looks very good indeed - nicely observed and reproduced. A regular sight in my childhood so very nice to see! I am just old enough to have appreciated the last years of the Larne Line as an old school railway with semaphore signals and classic 70 class traction. Larne Harbour cabin - gone but not forgotten - great effort here.
  21. Galteemore
    Sounds correct Ernie. That was certainly the case with the loco chimneys - old photos show a different version. By the 50s all had acquired GN chimneys.
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    Mid 20s would be my guess, Brack. There is a picture of ‘Enniskillen’ at Sligo with the new door but with lettering on the tank sides. That lettering had all gone by 1930 so the flush doors seem to have come in during the 20s.
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    Look good to me. Memories of the sidings at York Road in the 80s.....next to the odd Metrovick and the steam crane....
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    Sorry to hear that Brack ! Looks good so far. Lough Gill is an interesting one - last one of the trio to keep the smokebox lubricators. Here’s some I took last year of Lough Erne....
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    Lovely, Mayner. Gap in the market beautifully filled. A 7mm version which could take 36.75mm wheelsets would be very welcome and just what I’m after....
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