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Galteemore
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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...
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Not just the postman...
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Absolutely right JHB ! Was talking to my dad about this last night given his experience in the area ....
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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.
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'Hibernia' Dublin & Kingstown Railway 2-2-0 Loco Build Gauge O
Galteemore replied to murrayec's topic in ECM Model Trains
Inspiring work as ever, Eoin. One of her cousins watches over my workbench...
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Great - thanks. More photos appreciated too
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Bashing a Fleischmann Anna around might produce something that might pass muster in a badly lit room....
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Lovely stuff. More info about the loco please!
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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.
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Isn’t that Cahir ? Fantastic pics though. This is the CIE I remember ...
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As seen here....https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/152221-warning-model-shop-owners/page/3/&tab=comments#comment-3872322
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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.
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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 !
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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.
