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    Makes sense, as one thinks about it, in the era before on board radios.
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    Intrigued by this, I looked up the 1936 SLNC rules, as photographic evidence was inconclusive. The guidance is sparse to say the least. But they went all out on whistle codes....
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    Thank you. Much simpler than the GB system. I’ve just been installing lamp irons on the F6 I’m building and did wonder why it only had four in total!
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    Lamp code meanings broadly equivalent too? Thus F6 No 42 is on some kind of trip working....pic from Ernie’s archive...
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    Most helpful Angus - I can see some applications for the technique in 7mm too. Love the track - a long way from the Setrack and Kato I used as a N modeller !
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    Thanks David - a shameless borrow from your G2 build. This witness was mainly hostile as it turned out. After a bit of work it’s already improved though. There were a few gaps that have now vanished! It’s also blended the boiler in with the firebox. Almost at the end now. Frames have early painting and finishing in hand, including the odd CIE practice of painting the buffer stocks black (dark grey I mean ) Am so tempted to paint this loco in green with a flying snail on the tanks......
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    Very nice Noel. Brings out the detail.
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    Looks good. Is the text along the lines of ‘to run in passenger trains’ maybe?
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    https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&an=Clements+McMahon+&tn=&kn=&isbn= A rare copy has appeared. Very useful given your intentions
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    No problem. I used it to inform the signalling arrangements on my layout - ie none! Rosses Point is worked as Ballinrobe was.
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    Yes it’s an interesting book with lots of background material. I’ve attached a pic of the contents page.
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    Yes. If a Belfast factory was making linen sheets to be sold in Limerick, it’s more than likely that a Belfast railway company’s wagon would be used. Old photographs of UK railways certainly show lone wagons ending up hundreds of miles away from home.
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    Lots of variety, Mark. Look at SLNC trains in the 50s and you’ll see GN and CIE wagons freely mixed in with the home stock. WLWR and GSWR would have been common in your chosen area, DSER probably less so. But you could have had GN and BNCR wagons heading south to Limerick, for instance.
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    The cutting would make an ideal scenic break too. As David says, a good short term project. Also a good way of trialling scenic and other techniques - that ground cover is DAS clay territory. In a small space you could really go to town on the scenic detailing. Wouldn’t require masses of stock either. Ideal for a 21mm starter project in many ways - convert a 141 or new A class, and build a few H vans. Although I’d probably get Marcway to do that three way point for me !
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    Oh we have a smorgasbord of such suppliers in 7mm, JHB! Alphagraphix has an email address so is quite cutting edge by comparison with some ! His catalogue is £2 but you get £1 off your first order. JHB is right about the liveries but perhaps a display stand full of GSR grey might not be so appealing.... It’s all part of the charm .
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    No dramas Mark. I’m a 36.75 modeller myself and have had a turnout made by Marcway. New Irish Lines is brilliant and the editor Alan O’Rourke is a very helpful bloke. He has already given me a lot of tips! You won’t find much about Alphagraphix online - it’s mail order mostly and a few shows. Here’s a list of their card kits for 7mm -easily scaled down to 4mm..... David
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    1. This is useful https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=irrs+mgwr+pictures&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5ytyWjfXoAhVHXhUIHUoQCsQQ_AUoAXoECAwQAQ&biw=375&bih=553&dpr=2#imgrc=UXCO1gXLMirpRM 2. The MGWR drawings from the IRRS are good. I used them to build this. Not the best model but one of my first scratch builds. 4. Alphagraphix have some good MGWR models in card which make good coloured drawings for scratch builds.
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    Here’s some from my dad’s collection. Think this is at Collooney post closure. One is more of a drovers van.
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    Brilliant David ! Fantastic to see the Sligo Leitrim stock out again.
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    Nice work, Angus!
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    Have you got O’Rourke and Johnson’s book, MM? Great pics of Moate on p.40. Cheap as chips secondhand btw. https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781857801859/Modelling-Irish-Railways-Johnson-Stephen-1857801857/plp
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    Really sorry to hear this. Prayers and sympathy for his family at this dreadful time.
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    Old railway companies used to paint their locos grey for a workshop portrait which showed off the detail. A similar process with Halfords’ Grey shows the mistakes ! Lots of the 3 Fs ahead - filling, filing, and futering....
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    Reminds me a little of the altered GW ‘Toads’ used for PW work, where a verandah was similarly boxed in.
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