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  1. Galteemore
    After much headscratching, the F6 chassis is done I think! Brake gear and pull rods, buffers and automatic Lincs coupling installed. Will trim rodding when I have conducted a second check that the wheels fit! There was a dummy ash pan included as a motor cradle which didn’t work for 36.75mm gauge. So I cut it up and just kept the sides, adding a bit of 3d relief to make it look as chunky as the original. Bodywork can start now. And some nice research material came in the post....
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    Thanks for sharing. Some real gems in there for the 50s modeller
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    Yes. Little known fact that the Dubliners’ hit ‘the hot asphalt’ was originally titled ‘the hot Tufnol’.... ’And if it doesn’t last for ever sure I swear I’ll eat me hat’.... kudos for a connection to Dave Gorman, though. And I have been looking up Tufnol to make brake blocks - laminating brass ones right now which I hate!
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    Might be an MGWR thing - when I bought this Alphagraphix kit it was billed as an ‘Elf’ rather than Class 3....’Titania’ was the most dignified name on the etch fret.
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    I think the Bat kits may have gone to Perfect Miniatures in Suffolk (formerly trading as ‘Chuffs’). He was advertising them till quite recently - he’s cleared the business now and shut down. Kicking myself I didn’t buy one when I saw them listed but wasn’t modelling Ireland at the time. I did clear up some of his book stock including a picture album of the GSR and the Clements/McMahon loco book .
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    Yes, JHB, if memory serves he was killed cycling c1978. Devoted to clockwork - or ‘spring drives’ (his locos were impressively engineered), he referred to people who used electricity to operate their layouts as ‘sparksmen’. Mind you, between us we could clog up this thread with tales of the characters who still graced the RPSI into the 80s! But to revert to the original point, I think ‘flying snail’ is on a par with ‘floozie in the jacuzzi’ or ‘tart with the cart’ - it’s affectionate ownership and my layout will be liberally festooned with snails - but not on the tanks of my CIE locos
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    Drew Donaldson - now there was a character! What contributions he would have made to this forum - his writing still fizzes with his personality some 40 years after his death. That is a most interesting book, but the only copy I have seen had serious quality control issues, and the pages I wanted to look at on the F6 tanks had been left out! Drew seems to have rather liked the brighter livery of the snail era, as his stock is liberally painted green whether it warranted it or not. I met Drew but sadly was far too young to appreciate it. I have never forgotten the sight and sound of his layout though !
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    Beats the ‘arrows of indecision’ any day!
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    How wonderful! Minister is correct - Mr Egan was very kind to enthusiasts, an assistance he continued even after the closure. I suspect the indemnity form is on a par with the contemporary footplate passes issued by CIE which presumably absolved them of any responsibility! HC Casserley certainly travelled by brake van on the SLNC at least once and some of his pics of that are available online - I think on IrishSwissErnie’s site.
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    What he said! Lovely stuff.
  11. Galteemore
    Not sure Mike - sorry! I use the yellow ones which are just right for 7mm. Square plastic rod from Evergreen or Plastruct can also help make a very good 90 degree corner.
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    I find this really helpful in construction....https://proses.com/prestashop/tools-for-modelers/74-45-degree-snap-glue-set-square-8680979260678.html - helps hold corners square whilst glue dries. I find Rocket card glue works really well, drying quickly with a good bond.
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    Enough civil engineering at Rosses Point - it’s time to face the mechanical engineering again. After putting it off for months I got out the cutting broaches and the 2-4-2T chassis of the F6. The rods were off and on again numerous times, gradually shaving tiny amounts of thou off the surfaces. But finally she seems to be running ok..quick shunt down the harbour branch. The hesitancy has more to do with the capricious single wheeler rather than the chassis! Hopefully the build will progress now ..... IMG_2421.MOV
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    Great progress David. Nice blending of layout with backscene, too
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    Nice piece of work. Always good to make a solid start and turn your ideas into 3D reality! Looks a nice neat job.
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    there’s a few of Mayner’s little gems that I’d like to see put through the expanding ray!
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    Looks great Angus! Was reading Michael Hamilton’s account of freight flows through Dromahair only this morning - fascinating insight into what would actually have travelled over your sidings!
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    Certainly good times for Irish modellers. On this trajectory there’ll be an RTR Dalkey atmospheric train in 10 years !
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    Amazing work, Eoin. And in 4mm, too! Could easily pass for a much larger scale
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    Good point JHB. The flip side of this is that for other types of business, the commercial model simply didn’t factor in travel either by customers or employees. Hence the myriad of cottage shops (which I remember in 1970s Leitrim). My father started his banking career in tiny towns where the banks probably don’t have a presence now. But in those days the manager and clerk both lived over the shop. And my dad’s laundry travelled home by train more often than he did! Those of us who model the steam era do well to read novels and short stories by the likes of William Trevor and John McGahern which give rather nice glimpses of the social dynamics back then. Alongside Sprinks on my shelf I also have Michael Hamilton’s personal history of the SLNC, which nicely illustrates how people actually used the line. We also have a letter from him describing in detail my grandfather’s fish trade with Dublin...
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    Presumably such commuter traffic as existed in Cork (the solicitors, bankers, and business owners must have lived somewhere!) was channelled through the tramways and the Passage line. With its double track section and rather racy tank locos, the latter system was (like the BCDR) something of an exception to the Irish railway leaning towards freight
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    Fascinating stuff. Is that the timetable in its entirety? Just seems that nothing arrived in Albert Quay before 1035! Must have made commuting rather difficult....
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    Shame! But as we both know, the reality is that it would probably have spent the 70s and early 80s mouldering outside Witham Street until it decayed into oblivion , or been reduced to ashes by the East Antrim Arsonists who regularly targeted Whitehead!
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    Agreed !! This is one of my hunting grounds - the Bluebell Railway archive of JJ Smith’s Irish stuff, http://www.bluebell-railway-museum.co.uk/archive/photos/jjs/i/index.htm,. It’s fascinating as you can track his movements around the SLNC just before closure and afterwards. He had the wit to record some really interesting stuff including the BCDR main line - four years after closure but still intact.
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    Just received another edition of my favourite Irish railway book - the one I’d take to a desert island- off eBay. It includes my favourite Irish railway pic - by JJ Smith. But I’d never noticed the car on the flat wagon before.....just ahead of the bogie brake being worked back to EKN for the 7:20 ....
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