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  1. Galteemore
    Would like to see some photos if possible please !
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    Excellent start. Beware, this gets very addictive!
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    Duck test, 2’ rule. Passes both for me! Nice work Noel.
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    Where does one begin to comment? Simply spectacular. Really evokes Victorian elegance. I can identify with the exponentially growing list of jobs...... This has been a huge project for you, involving new techniques such as lathe work. It’s turning out incredibly well.
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    Gort workbench

    Galteemore replied to Noel's topic in Workbench

    Great stuff Noel. This problem solving is a key part of the modelling process. On my regular running route there is a very steep and unpleasant hill - I often save up a problem that needs solving to give my mind a distraction from the torment my lungs are in!
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    Yes - that’s him! Roy Grayson purchased 27 from NIR in 1970 and then sold it to the RPSI in 1980. Here’s the relevant magazine. - complete with a letter from one JHB Snr....https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/38423919/five-foot-three-number-25-railway-preservation-society-of-ireland Over 40 years since that photo was taken - and in 1980 Lough Erne was barely thirty years old.....
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    This was the handover in 1980. £5k it cost the RPSI then. Equivalent of £21k now. The planned (never happened) restoration was estimated to cost £15k in 2021 prices!
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    This is brilliant. Proper old school CIE.
  9. Galteemore
    Excellent stuff. Kato make good units at a fair price - I had a fair amount of Japanese N at one stage and loved the quality.
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    Very nice Jb. I’m sure I was there (aged 1 so don’t recall, but probably not far from the sales tent ! ). Lough Erne looks deceptively healthy here. By 1972 I have heard she could barely hold enough steam to move!
  11. Galteemore
    This is brilliant. Really recalls the western corridor stations I remember
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    LOL I liked those so much I’ve already posted separately ! Interesting details such as the sheer size of the larger vans, and the lightly rebranded ex GN open.
  13. Galteemore
    Nice shots in Ernie’s Flickr account today for you....
  14. Galteemore
    Those look great !
  15. Galteemore
    Wow. Time travel to 1900. This is just gorgeous. Well done on the lathe work too. Sir Henry’s photobombing is also noted ! And I know what you mean about that scratch building list.....
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    Gort workbench

    Galteemore replied to Noel's topic in Workbench

    Is that the Irish equivalent of the classic ad that graced linesides on the Big Island ?
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    Lovely. Little bits like the point rodding have a huge effect on a micro layout: you have to focus in on a small area so the detail really pops in a way that can be lost on larger layout.
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    This is how it works in the military field ...https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/royal-air-force-loses-battle-control-trademark-roundel/199607 The basic issue I think is about protecting a particular brand identity, rather than common cultural symbols. The Union Flag is a common cultural symbol - the RAF was arguing that the roundel is not. And the RAF actually retains a fair degree of control as to who uses the symbol. Airfix (or its parent) will have an MoD licence for producing kits of RAF branded aircraft.
  19. Galteemore
    Welcome back Colm. Hope you post more. BCDR tanks have been under discussion here of late so your fine work is making a timely appearance !
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    Yes. Interestingly, 4 was not an RPSI engine at this point, and was still in ‘company’ service. 171 was running with an old VS tender in those days. And the RPSI didn’t own her either at that point - think it was the NI Transport Holding Company who actually owned 171 until 2003. As her boiler went out of ticket in 02, she has, technically, never steamed under RPSI ownership!
  21. Galteemore
    Wasn’t it stunning? Proof positive too that SLNC locos had red coupling rods!
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    Tamper at Downpatrick (now converted to a hedge trimmer) looks roughly similar. I do remember NIR had several when I was growing up.
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    Gorgeous. I first encountered these as a child when I saw Drew Donaldson’s clockwork ones - in the layout that dominated his house ! I’d love to build one myself if I get my current scratch loco finished, although I have struggled with Inchicore’s curved footplate before on a kit. Mr Holman may well beat me to the D19 anyway!
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    My dad thinks Limerick or Connolly might be candidates. Bottom pic - looks like a tamper. Note Lough Erne at far right. Apparently pilot loco would drop off at Kingsbog Junction after the formidable climb up Monkstown Bank and then run back light to Belfast.
  25. Galteemore
    Just finally acquired this book. Lovely little anecdote in the intro about Mr and Mrs Bredin’s housemaid, who was a bit of a spotter and was not happy to learn that GSR policy of banking trains out of Kingsbridge should apply to the 800s too. She interrupted breakfast one day in breathless excitement to report that 800 had just passed on the Cork Mail with the supposed banker frantically racing a coach length behind trying to catch up!
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