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  1. Galteemore
    Hurrah for SSM of The West !
  2. Galteemore
    No one’s mentioned the Sligo Leitrim !
  3. Galteemore
    Lovely job David. Nice to see them coming together. I do know one 36.75mm modeller who may have bought a few.....! I’m thinking of the resin route myself when I get round to wagon building again. The sheer amount of bolts, rivets and brackets required to produce a single wagon only becomes apparent when you start trying to model them....
  4. Galteemore
    Looks terrific Ken, especially that last lineside level photo.
  5. Galteemore
    Very slow progress on ‘Enniskillen’. Compounded by a lack of time and lots of mistakes. But a buffer beam is done, ready to solder up. The safety chain eyelets are Slaters wagon bearings. Much of the learning has revolved around the mighty GW Rivet Press. A capable tool in the right hands - but am sure even I can make something of it. I’m slowly learning its modus operandi ! And literally counting rivets.....the buffers are really meant for a Fowler 4F btw but they seem to pass muster.
  6. Galteemore
    The 15 from College green to Rathmines for me - although usually walked it. Lovely models.
  7. Galteemore
    Thks Ernie. This was indeed the last ‘normal’ goods working, my source confirms - he was on it with Mike that day. He then got a Derry-Omagh train - returning to Strabane to catch last train of day to Sixmilecross. Overnight there then last train of all from Derry to Belfast
  8. Galteemore
    That figures. The trees in the background also look rather bare which suggests a date late in the year.
  9. 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.
  10. Galteemore
    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
  11. Galteemore
    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.
  12. Galteemore
    True classics last. Some US outfits still employ the Dakota as a workhorse and not a museum piece.
  13. Galteemore
    The Hunter is a truly beautiful airframe. Still in use, I think, by MoD contractors for various purposes such as the ‘Thursday war’.
  14. Galteemore
    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.
  15. Galteemore
    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 !
  16. Galteemore
    Almost certainly worked by the crossing keeper themselves. Day glo orange on both arms by CIE period. The arms are the same both sides
  17. Galteemore
    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!
  18. Galteemore
    Nice finish on the paint, Nelson.
  19. Galteemore
    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.
  20. Galteemore
    Try Portadown in its 1970s incarnation - or Derry
  21. Galteemore
    Hadn’t realised until today that there was a diesel powered NG railway there in the early 30s
  22. Galteemore
    Depends on the water.
  23. 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....
  24. Galteemore
    Impressive - as are the books....I always enjoy looking at other libraries !
  25. 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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