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  1. Galteemore
    The last picture also shows how well Arigna has transitioned to the coast. Wouldn’t know it was the same layout !
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    Terrific as ever, David, and an unusual prototype too. With a special weekend bonus of a weathering masterclass thrown in....
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    That would fit. 94 was in that class - we still have 93 with us thankfully
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    Top loco looks very much like a GNRI JT class. The dress code suggests 20s-30s and the boys look dressed in a Scout uniform of sorts
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    Colin - I suspect these didn’t last long in SLNC service and the only ‘foreign’ coach around near the end was an ex GNR one. My dad thinks that the DNG ones may have been among the stock maliciously destroyed in 22-23.
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    Galteemore replied to NIR's topic in General Chat

    If modelling the steam era, don’t forget your Facing Point Locks if the turnout will be traversed by passenger carrying stock.
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    You could be right Robert. My student summer job was there 25-30 years ago, and I was involved in writing descriptions for archives as they were catalogued - it can take a while to make them publicly accessible. My favourite one to work on was the Orwellian-sounding ‘Ministry of Public Security’, which wasn’t quite as sinister as it appears....essentially Stormont’s wartime planning dept but it sounds splendidly conspiratorial....
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    The late Mike Sharman would have loved this project. Would doubtless have had some fiendish way to compensate and drive the chassis from a motor mounted in the dome or similar!
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    It is truly wonderful. About fifty years ago my father gleaned pretty much everything SLNC that could be found with the catalogues of Lens of Sutton etc, so I was familiar with a fairly wide selection of SL images. The IRRS archive has added significant new gems though. Anthony Bennett’s views of a goods train in progress, and PJ Flanagan’s rarest of the rare photo of Lisgorman are pure gold. Join up boys and girls! My only regret is that for the three years we lived by the Liffey, I was into German HO, and it never occurred to me to visit in person.
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    This is one of the most interesting threads on here right now. Chris Klein, who is a very skilled modeller with his own firm making O gauge locos : https://www.minervamodelrailways.co.uk has 3 rules: 1. Model railways are fun 2. It’s your railway so run what you want to 3. Any model railway is better than no model railway What you are doing fits all those ! Wish I’d done something like this years ago. It’s like some of those early Model Railway Constructor articles...inspiring effort.
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    Shaping up well !
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    Absolutely Nelson - I’d stuck to RTR suggestions.....Slaters’ kits are quite straightforward to make and unsurprisingly some of their old Midland stuff has a vaguely old style NCC look about them. I made one a few years ago as my first 7mm kit. Do make the chassis up on an old mirror or glass cutting mat though or it may rock about. Don’t ask how I know.....and sorry about the black running gear. I didn’t know any better !
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    Or get a friend with a 3D scanner and go straight to print ! Mind you, be almost as quick to knock one up from Plastikard....
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    Very interesting link, Mayner. The 1944 photo at Tripoli clearly reveals French practice of having named crew for a loco, compete with plates on the cab side.
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    Depends how much compromise you can live with! RTR is rather limited to Dapol stock in this area - some generic looking BR box vans and open wagons are available but would be a compromise eg number of planks used in wagon sides. You’d really need to scratch build a brown van or two, otherwise it will look just like another BR layout....
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    Good point, Mr H - some B n M stock may be coming up! Can’t think why I’d recommend the Manorhamilton - Dromahair section...... I think I’d reluctantly agree on this one Rich, in terms of a standard gauge project though. One of those lines where it’s almost better to remember it as it was, or use the formation for something like Suir Valley. No preserved SG line could ever do justice to an ancient 0-6-4T dragging all those cattle trucks round tight curves and sharp gradients....and the background was also important - a rural Ireland free of ‘bungalow blight’!
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    If that’s the case then it’s also pretty close to this which is that same Fairbairn design rebuilt with a saddle tank...and I have an outline scale drawing for that.....and a model....
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    What a fantastic project !
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    Especially with a few Provincial Wagons brown vans put through the enlarging ray !
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    It’s pretty genuine. They did exist ! Check out some of the Irish Railways in Colour albums. But it’s 4.75mm too narrow between the wheels
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    And rightly so The quintessential Irish railway perhaps - all the charm of the 3’ but on standard gauge. Last privately owned railway in the country and owner (ahem!) of the last conventional standard gauge steam locos supplied to an Irish railway. Carlsberg don’t do Irish railways but if they did....
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    Lovely - thanks as ever awr Only ever two, JHB! I suspect the plates may have gone to Courtaulds staff. The sidings site and halt at Mount were favourite spots on my school commute in the 80s, as you could still see the old gate that marked the boundary of Courtaulds/UTA trackage
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    Have a look here for pics I think was the intent...
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    Really good effort here Sean - and it's clear you are finding this fun and rewarding which is critical to sticking at it! If you haven’t got this book, I’d recommend it....https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781857801859/Modelling-Irish-Railways-Johnson-Stephen-1857801857/plp Published before much Irish RTR was available, it gives a good introduction to some simple conversions. Also search the back issues here to see what some folk have done...https://newirishlines.org/ That 6w chassis could make a nice coach too, if you wanted to cut and shut some of your 4w bodies...,.
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    Thanks Colin - that’s a very good price. Just bought one....
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