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  1. Galteemore
    Thanks - sadly my RPSI knowledge has lapsed from the minute by minute currency I had in my childhood! There are a few spare boiler projects kicking around in GB so my synapses must have made a false connection … Going back to those RPSI days, when I basically travelled on any trip doing fundraising, the carriage officer was Alan Edgar, who later built this superb 21mm Mogul
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    Yes, I am aware of that. My heart applauds the project. My head says a second WT would have been a more prudent use of the spare parts. These spares - the boiler and wheels - are the core of the second Jeep that the RPSI could - and would have - bought in 1971 had the funds been available. I was born in Carrickfergus in spring 1971 - only realised recently that a mile from the hospital a number of Jeeps still slumbered awaiting their appointment with the oxy torch. But I don’t want to disrupt @WRENNEIREs thread. Hopefully he’s got a 21mm WT to post!!
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    Lovely. IIRC 97 was also the last to exist and almost made it to preservation.
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    Works for me just now…http://www.studio-scale-models.com/Orders.shtml
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    Unusual to see a model in the original 1932 livery - and with the correct non-Belpaire firebox.
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    Very gracious of you to reflect on it in that way all these years later JB . How did you make it home in the end?
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    With the added fun of shrinking a 3 axle bogie to a 2 axle one…..
  8. Galteemore
    Is that St Luke’s, Knockmourne? Great pics
  9. Galteemore
    Thanks Alan. For some reason I prefer the B and W images the iPhone puts out! The old geezer is actually a model of John Betjeman apparently….he would have loved the SLNCR given his penchant for railways and oddities….
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    Yes, we lived in south Dublin from 1999 to 2002 and that little area could be an interesting part of town…..
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    Track ‘ballasted’ (Sligo bay trackage was apparently encased in mud judging from photos)…….and the goods siding sleepers did look less ‘embedded’ than the main running line in real life. DAS clay, with various treatments such as emulsion paint and pepper. The bay was laid with FB rail up until about 56/57 when it was relaid with bullhead and reasonably ballasted. This, of course, represents the earlier era as shown in @Irishswissernie’s image at very top of the thread.
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    Interesting that her sister also remains fairly closely located to Downpatrick…..http://preserved.railcar.co.uk/RB002.html
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    Lovely Patrick. Where did you get the lettering transfer on the van please ? I need a 7mm equivalent……. a set of vacuum pipes would set that lovely GN van off nicely, btw, seeing as it’s in ‘fitted’ livery
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    it had occurred to me that Manorhamilton would probably have hoovered up RB3 from BREL had the SLNC lasted until the 1980s so you’re not a million miles off….would have suited that Belcoo scheme nicely…,
  15. Galteemore
    Ask Roger at Alphagraphix, who has it in kit form. Both @leslie10646 and @David Holman have examples …..it’s a former MGW hearse van, with coffin turntable!
  16. Galteemore
    The issue of course is not simply the cash. It’s replicating 10s of thousands of hours volunteer labour, not to mention sourcing obsolete parts. These last two can’t be fixed by a bank transfer.
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    Lovely. Bet people will hoover these up.
  18. Galteemore
    I never bother with them, David, except on loco buffer beams. And they are a pain….
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    Agreed, although contemporary sci-fi was predicting large amounts of leisure time! I have often wondered how preservation will weather the passing of that generation, who could retire relatively early and relatively wealthy. I will certainly not be able to retire at the age my father did - and the time that I would happily spend volunteering will have to be spent in paid employment.
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    That’s actually the point I was trying to make JB - even in the home of preservation, no one expected too much to happen!
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    Intriguingly, one father figure of British preservation, LTC Rolt, felt that even GB was ill supplied with Peglers, Holcrofts and Boyds….he opined in the early 50s that the Festiniog project would founder -‘there is only room for one preserved railway in Britain’……and the demographic you mention, small though it is in this country, is certainly highly prominent in the history of Irish preservation…..
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    Yes, it’s interesting to see that enthusiast groups started in GB some fifty years before the IRRS was founded - and the British movie industry was already satirising enthusiast run railways as early as 1952…..you could have caught a Swilly or SLNC train to watch it….
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    Heavily subsidised by Scottish govt, which pays about £9.80 for each passenger journey. Although this is quite good value…..every passenger journey from Inverness to Wick is subsidised at £25!!!
  24. Galteemore
    Yes, I suspect Lifford was regarded as being an extension of Strabane yard for this purpose, and the vans trundled across loose coupled, with a shunter in the cab.
  25. Galteemore
    Government involvement in public transport arteries goes back to the canals of Babylon and Roman roads. And continues through things like General Wade’s roads in Scotland right up to HS2. It’s just a fact of life. Ireland was a significant military establishment for the Crown, vital to defending the western approaches and a convenient place to garrison and exercise troops. So railways were built to facilitate that, just as they were to Aldershot, Portsmouth and Salisbury Plain.
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