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  1. Galteemore
    That’s a great close up. For brass workers like me, it’s also a reassuring proof that platework on the real thing could also be shonky. Check out that front splasher on 655, and as for the gap in the boiler cladding….
  2. Galteemore
    What’s you modus operandi for construction, Darius? Given your background, I’m imagining you guesstimate unknown dimensions based on proportion to known or likely sizes, and then make up a drawing ?
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    Sea was warmer than BRA pool IIRC!
  4. Galteemore
    Esp in its original form as an outdoor pool
  5. Galteemore
    Nice work. Is that designed to fit a proprietary chassis ? I figured you’d have to make one.
  6. Galteemore
    Totally captures the place. Having visited there pretty much weekly growing up, you’ve nailed its distinctive look. Just need 171 or 4 crawling past the Station Bar with Portrush Flyer ECS……
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    That’s great Alan. Interestingly I had to do similar surgery to clear the heat wheel on the 7mm version….Dremel used in my case !
  8. Galteemore
    Interesting they went for outside vs inside cylinders on such similar locos
  9. Galteemore
    Fab work. Having built the 7mm version I agree it’s a nice kit. And you’ll make a great job of it! Will look well running a diverted train through Kilmore
  10. Galteemore
    One fab little rarity in that vid. Can just see remains of Henderson’s Siding trailing in at Bleach Green. Mike Henderson, son of the last owner, is a keen modeller. The narrator R G Morton was a noted author on N I railway matters, and I think a teacher at Belfast Inst
  11. Galteemore
    Was interested to see that the NCC plate went for more than the GN one. Totally agree - bargain prices for plates
  12. Galteemore
    Buy it! Rare kit and you will do it justice. Be a nice loco for an IRRS special to the mill….
  13. Galteemore
    Fabulous. How did you do the trefoil type valance ?
  14. Galteemore
    Now that’s clever. Were you some kind of structural engineer ?….
  15. Galteemore
    The narrow gauge coupler. Derry dock locos were equipped to shunt both 5’3 and 3’ wagons - up until 1953 you had two railways of each gauge in Derry !
  16. Galteemore
    Looks fabulous. Really captures the look - I had to look twice to notice what was missing!
  17. Galteemore
    Fab stuff Ernie. 27 still in her SLNC livery before the UTA makeover.
  18. Galteemore
    Don’t worry Patrick - it will also cover up the shaky hand lettering !
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    The tipping wagons are on the 5’3” harbour branch - the track of this can still be traced and the bridge in the background still exists. In later years the branch was used for carriage storage. It could take a few WT tanks some significant effort to lift long rakes off that steep and curved branch
  20. Galteemore
    These are very interesting, as they show sailors (rather than Royal Artillery troops) with field guns. Might be something to do with the Royal Navy Brigade and the Boer War….the album dates fit.
  21. Galteemore
    Agreed. I remember Lord O’Neill visiting our house about 1980-odd to assess some vintage Hornby for his collection, and he’s no fool. So I just don’t know what’s happening here. What you can be assured of is the provenance of these items - there won’t be fakes or knock-offs in there. The art estimates are interesting in their variability. The auctioneers clearly like Jack Hill’s work!
  22. Galteemore
    Yes, but the concept never took off.
  23. Galteemore
    That’s interesting. It may be for military use. The RAF had a reasonable presence in Ireland up until 1922, with airfields in all kinds of places including Fermoy. Indeed, the RAF actually used machine guns and bombs against the IRA! The a/c would have been stripped down with wings strapped parallel to fuselage.
  24. Galteemore
    50 years ago today. Last trains pass at Tubbercurry. Although I’m fascinated by the flag given that this was 1970s Ireland when detente was a long way off….pic from Castlerea Railway Museum FB page
  25. Galteemore
    Fabulous. Having been engaged in something similar of late, it’s very satisfying modelling, watching a structure emerge from carefully arranged strips and sections of card/plastic - and is that some laser cut valancing/planking? Really captures look of original.
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