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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...

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.

Where’s the Irish pic of, Mayner ? Looks familiar but can’t place it!

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 !

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.

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...

Not just the postman...

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 ...

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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