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  1. Galteemore
    He was a top bloke as you say David - very helpful to me. His buffers adorn much of what I’ve built. Lots of nice tributes to Graham across the modelling forums. As you say, also a big blow to scratch builders.
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    Nice one Ernie. I think it’s D16 532, ‘Wolf Dog’ - just coming off Mr Holman’s workbench as she was in happier times - look at his mail train thread Withdrawn 1949 or thereabouts and on washout duties at Broadstone till 57. Only scrapped in 1960 apparently after three years on a siding.
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    Also known as Eastleigh Works Green or Maunsell Green. My first ever brass 6w coach was painted this colour ...just after this photo I glazed it and next day sold it to Rails of Sheffield to buy Irish kits ! Rather crudely finished but building it taught me a lot - not least that 6w coaches need some kind of forgiving chassis !
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    If you fancy one I’d get it now if you can. OO Works locos are very hard to get hold of when they run out and they only do short production runs....
  5. Galteemore
    Makes the UG look like a bargain !
  6. Galteemore
    I knew the Duchess was going to do voice overs etc for Netflix and Spotify but I must say I didn’t expect her to work in this market.
  7. Galteemore
    Yes the scale to gauge ratios look like that. Looks like an old Farish Compound chassis underneath the loco
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    Lol my wife is from near there! @LARNE CABIN may be able to help...there’s a Facebook group called ‘memories of Larne’ which may offer some help if you ask.
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    We had one of these when I was a kid and I well remember the inky ribbon. Yes letters were available as well as digits. Preserved railways on the Big Island use them so I imagine some form of consumable supply is in place. Might be worth asking some of the bigger concerns like Severn Valley etc. BR stopped using them c1990.
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    Here’s a DWWR one Leslie ...and a GWR one!!
  11. Galteemore
    Suitably green after that west of Ireland dampness. Nice work.
  12. Galteemore
    Great stuff Ernie. Isn’t this the railtour working to Ballaghadereen when the steam loco allocated failed ?
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    Asahi tanks

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    That’s correct. Guinness were well aware of the practice and there was a certain brand of biscuit tin which could be used to draw off just enough ‘overfill’ in each cask without diddling the customer. Story is in here I think https://www.amazon.co.uk/Round-Ireland-Gear-Eric-Newby/dp/0007367929/ref=nodl_ Just to keep vaguely on topic, Newby’s book also includes a few snippets on what it was like travelling with a bike on CIE trains in the 1980s - I remember his account of an ex Rosslare train.
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    Asahi tanks

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    Some might say this one was even more important, Noel....
  15. Galteemore
    Cracking pics today Ernie. Downshire was my station for school - amazing to see what called in that day in 1968!
  16. Galteemore
    Hopper isn’t a million miles out.....https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/rpsi-collection/41/8309-ballast-wagon all looking good!
  17. Galteemore
    Agreed. That fourth shot, of the light just catching the top of 188 and her train is just magic.
  18. Galteemore
    Nice. That’s a very fair effort. NCC locos and their UK equivalents can be like the ‘false friends’ you get in language learning - a word that looks like one you know but is actually very different! There’s a host of subtle differences between a WT class and any Stanier/Fowler/Fairbairn/Ivatt. This model captures the NCC look nicely though. A smokebox door wheel and a UTA roundel will be the icing on the cake!
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    Given that Joe Biden is the first Irish-American president for a while, and a known railroad fan, I can just see an IRM presentation of a 121 on the White House lawn...would make a nice news item in Model Railroader....
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    Excellent. Part of the ‘knack’ of this business is working out what the signature features are of any model and getting that right - such as these doors. I can already see those distinctive side windows of a P van shaping up.
  21. Galteemore
    Excellent stuff. Got one of these to build so will be coming back to look at these photos!
  22. Galteemore
    Thanks John. I agree about the Castle Rackrent echoes. What a treat those WLWR locos look.
  23. Galteemore
    Shades of Owencarrow or Gleesk. Very nice.
  24. Galteemore
    This is very exciting. I can see a series working best, as the subject is huge. As a starter, I’d suggest looking at a fairly small outfit. Plucking a name out of the air, SLNC? No personal axe to grind, of course
  25. Galteemore
    Great stuff. What the Lough Swilly might have looked like today...
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