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Absolutely right JHB ! Was talking to my dad about this last night given his experience in the area ....

Indeed it is, hence my caveats!! Simple plasticard tank extensions would give the right outline but it would really only look half passable stuck at the back of a layout.

Inspiring work as ever, Eoin. One of her cousins watches over my workbench...

Great - thanks. More photos appreciated too

Bashing a Fleischmann Anna around might produce something that might pass muster in a badly lit room....

Lovely stuff. More info about the loco please!

Certainly beats the J15 survival rate! What’s the ratio for the CSE steam shunters and the BnM Barclays? Think it’s 100% for the latter, but it was a tiny class.

Isn’t that Cahir ? Fantastic pics though. This is the CIE I remember ...

As seen here....https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/152221-warning-model-shop-owners/page/3/&tab=comments#comment-3872322

Interesting how perceptions can creep in of how liveries were compared to the reality. SLNC nameplates are another - those currently on display in Headhunters are red with brass letters. A fortunate colour photo at the right angle - and the written testimony of the last CME - actually shows that SLNC locos had black numberplates with border and lettering picked out in red. Rather cheerfully, the coupling rods were painted red too.

I loved that book! NI railways were fairly sterile in the 80s - although compared with nowadays it was a paradise of interest! CIE by contrast was an amazing happy hunting ground full of relatively ancient stock - with Inchicore yard full of even older relics such as the G class and Sulzers. The departure of trains such as the Sligo Mail from Connolly had a real sense of occasion about it. Add in the freight flow, the ancient signalling that persisted in many places, a crop of derelict rusty branches that still trailed enticingly off the main lines, and you had a railway that held your interest !

The Hunslets were brought into service c1970 to work the Enterprise, in maroon livery. The arrival of the GMs (basically 071s in blue) in 1981 displaced them to lesser things. This is how I remember them in the mid80s - blue with an orange chevron.

Yes 44 apparently pulled off a major exploit in piloting an express, which led to her immortalisation in verse. Heresy perhaps but I wish that one of these ancient 4-4-0s had made it into preservation in place of one of the J15s! I acquired separate buffers from an English supplier for my Ivatt F6 which will hopefully convey something of that boxy look. One small point on livery though, as I’m researching this myself right now. I think GSR numberplates were black with the number and border picked out in red. Oddly, the buffer stocks were black. The front cover of Clements McMahon bears this out, which is confirmed in other reading I’ve done. It’s a rather unusual style!

Lovely work Eoin - and perfect colour. Love the brake gear - what kind of material did you use to make the rodding? Looks like a useful idea for a future build... I’m anticipating a similar issue with rod fouling on my current GSWR 4-coupled project so will remember the idea of spacers.... thanks for sharing this inspiring work. I do like those spidery 4-4-0s that roamed the south and west !

Funny you say that David - handrail knobs, bearings, and solder ordered yesterday...

@DiveController - your wish is my command! The pencil sketch is a detail work by the artist Raymond Piper who was commissioned in the 50s to paint the pre-war Belfast- Greenore boat train as it was c1914, for presentation to BR. It hung at Euston - now at NRM York. Piper found the original vehicles of the train still hanging about the GNR system in the 50s, and produced this composite painting. He managed to backdate the PP very nicely (Pic courtesy of York museum).

Agreed! This is a painting of a PP in pre-1920 livery that hangs on my office wall...and beside it is a drawing of one in its later less glamorous form

You hint at one of the classic traits of 30s-50s modelling, Mayner, which was operational interest more than copying the smallest details of the prototype. GP Keen, Jack Ray and Norman Eagles spring to mind.

I think the reference was to the Fry collection in its most generic sense - i.e. including the stuff that was built professionally for the Castle layout...

Any pics of GSWR locos please !

The curved Inchicore running plate beloved of the GSWR is a beautiful thing - until one has to replicate it! Much twisting and bending of metal and a loco superstructure emerges. Much as I’d rather have the nice cast number plates, my CIE timescale demands the rather ugly steel slabs on the tank sides. One half of loco done - I’ll do the other tomorrow hopefully...

Great stuff, and what you have done is very creditable. One thing which really helps in using card is constant changing of knife blades - card blunts knives very quickly! This gives a much sharper cut: Alphagraphix recommend 3 new blades for a wagon kit build.

Very informative, Mayner. And at least no Irish lines were employing slotted signals into the 1950s.....

Great value - and a nice companion to the GSR loco book!