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Galteemore
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Do it one way this week and the other way the next. One of the toilet graffiti memes that I remember from my undergrad days was - why did the arts student leave his curtains closed in the morning? So he had something to do in the afternoon ....
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He should have gone to Buggleskelly - ‘next train’s gone’!
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Lovely - one of my favourite spots. Apparently the Guards captured a German agent in the vicinity either there or at the Junction in 1940/41. He was waiting for a train by the most up to date timetable the Abwehr had - which didn’t factor in the closure!
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Hazards of age is right. ‘Lion’ of ‘Titfield Thunderbolt’ fame still has a dent in her rear end from a rough shunt in the 1952 movie
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Stranger things have happened ...https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=furness+railway+20&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiNzILTjK7oAhUT4RoKHcszDWwQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=furness+railway+20&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.3..0j0i8i30.10809.14590..15051...1.0..0.131.1789.17j4......0....1.........35i39.BEg6n6Lx5Ek&ei=L1x3Xs34EZPCa8vntOAG&bih=628&biw=375&client=safari&prmd=insv&hl=en-gb#imgrc=Res66z8zI69inM
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And this one really is held together with matchsticks by all accounts...Image from cork heritage.ie
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Even the gift of 186 was the result of a chance intervention by the Chairman of Guinness - someone who must have had considerable clout back then! He chaffed the chair of CIE when Guinness handed a shunter over to the RPSI - ‘we have two steam locos and we gave them one. You have a lot more - why don’t you donate one?!’.
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Yes, I had a conversation with the character who was RPSI treasurer in 1971 (when No 4 was secured) about this. I suspect he might agree! Mind you, wasn’t there also a UG and an SG3 kicking around Grosvenor Road till about 1970? What name for 211, Leslie? Tolka, Bann, Farset ?!
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True. I suspect any new build steam will have to be fuelled by coal scented ethanol anyway
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Bandon tanks were pretty good - and held their own when drafted into DSE commuting turns...
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If there was the spare cash (and I think all our spare cash for decades will go to paying for the current crisis) I suspect that a new build one of these might be better - no less Irish but rather more manageable size. How fast they could shift a rake of Mk2s to meet timetable paths is another story....https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/IRISH-RAILWAYS/CORAS-IOMPAIR-EIREANN-STEAM/i-2ZdkRzC/A
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Yes it’s a shame that Ireland just doesn’t have the economic basis to support anything like the same variety UK preservation sees. Having said that, the restoration of 131 from what had become a kit of dispersed bits is highly impressive. Lough Erne is a lovely loco but too big for Downpatrick (ie inefficient to run) and too small for mainline work. The same issue means that 186 and 184 will almost certainly never steam again. There is a case to be made for Dunluce Castle but I suspect the money would be better spent on the new build NCC Mogul ( although a 2nd WT class probably has more utility).
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Love the Hazlewood, the real thing sadly just missed out on a place at the new Belfast Transport Museum as it was known in 1957. Nice story about the wagon too. When travelling the back road from Manorhamilton to Dromahair in the 80s, there was still part of an SLNC carriage in a garden. Gone when I visited last year.
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Yes is rather nice. Much of the material comes from Michael Hamilton’s book - ‘down memory line’. This is a cracking little book, and one of the best descriptions I have ever read of the traffic flowing through an Irish station. As a child visiting my grandparents in Dromahair, I hadn’t the wit to realise that most of the old farm equipment that was there in the 70s must actually have made its way there via the SLNC.
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Re the Lincs - they are apparently easy to set up and are quite tolerant of variations in installation! I’ll let you know how it goes....tried inserting a video but computer says no... IMG_1172.MOV IMG_1172.MOV
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It’s odd syntax and lacks proof-reading I agree, but it’s a fairly niche hoax if it’s a con! Interesting choice if genuine. I suspect even UK modellers who don’t model the LSWR will find a light railway use for such a loco - it’s got a real Colonel Stephens appeal as some of the prototype locos ended up with him. Combine this with the new Hattons coaches and you could have a nice little bucolic scene. https://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/RAILWAYS/RALWAYS-EXCLUDED-FROM-THE-1923-GROUPING/COLONEL-STEPHENS-RAILWAYS/i-KfdZ4Lx/
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Cheers Mayner. It looked Burma Road which is what confused me - it’s so neat and tidy! I remember when all those stations, such as Tubbercurry, looked that way - they are rather greener now...
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Clarke would make sense. His shop was on the Northside, so relatively local. It was actually at 55 Amiens St - strange why the eponymous station was renamed Connolly when it had an immediate local connection to Clarke!
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Indeed, JHB. Takes more than a numberplate to truly identify a loco! As for the Moguls, Dev probably put a clause in the 1937 constitution calling for the removal of Saxon smokebox doors...
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Had a look through the books and read the narrative on the moguls in Clements McMahon. As we thought, no 1950s pics show an original door. The magisterial duo just mentioned imply that doors were replaced on a rolling basis in the 30s.
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Where’s the Irish pic of, Mayner ? Looks familiar but can’t place it!
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Some may have survived - photos are your guide. I’ll have a look when I’m at home. TBH if it was me I’d put a dished door and wheel on anyway. Nothing says 5’3” like a smokebox door wheel !
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Ernies Massive Irish 1930's to 2005 Photo Archive
Galteemore replied to Glenderg's topic in Photos & Videos of the Prototype
Lovely ! My dad confirms Queens Quay. That’s a nice early shot of No 42 -cast numberplate and no door wheel. -
This is a nice topic! The Irish smokebox wheel probably has a PhD waiting to be written on it - it’s an interesting subject. Best advice - study photos. Wheels seem to have come on and off different locos. On the SLNC a loco could have a wheel one week and not the next, going by the dates on photos. As to finding them, some Great Central locos had similar wheels - so a UK kit supplier may have some. SLNC and NCC wheels weren’t far off the LNWR pattern - kits again. Or you could make your own from a flat headed pin with a small ring.
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The classic McDonnell/Ivatt Inchicore style cab takes shape....lots of tidying up to do yet...it was lots of ‘fun’ fitting all the handrails and curving the cab into shape...
