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Galteemore
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I had access to a similar thing about 40 years ago and could make the needle swing with a 9v battery
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Not much chance of that in Whitehead! I suspect it’s Mac Arnold and Drew Donaldson out to watch the last stone train….
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It is a navigational sign. An email to County Antrim Yacht club might yield a reply:secretary@cayc.co.uk I can’t confirm what’s on the Whitehead one, but a similar one near Magheramorne (which I think the ferries use to align their track into Larne) looks like this:
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I know what you mean, but as someone who remembers that kind of railway - just! - it was often dirty, cold, and uncomfortable. Train toilets, for one, were a bacteriologist’s paradise….
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What a world we have lost. I first remember seeing the Burma Road about 1978 - was like something out of a fairy tale - ‘the sleeping railway’. Like you, JHB, I think the railway changed utterly, although I’m not sure any terrible beauty was born….
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the quality of turnout does make me think that these are actually Dubliners on an excursion rather than locals
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Model Railways Part 1 1980s TV series Bob Symes
Galteemore replied to Mayner's topic in Photos of Models
Incredible man. European aristocrat who served in Royal Navy WW2 and did much to popularise railway modelling with intelligent and accessible broadcasting. His enthusiasm is infectious! -
"Voiding the Warranty" - Mol's experiments in 21mm gauge
Galteemore replied to Mol_PMB's topic in Irish Models
That looks great Paul. I also have a G and H order inbound so would be interested to see what M6 ‘bits’ precisely you acquired! What height of legs are you going for ? -
News is now official. My final 2 orders from Allen have just arrived - sad to see this go! Who knows, someone may take it on….
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Yes I wondered that myself, but each of these catalogue listings says ‘photographic grey’ as the livery description. It’s not a ‘Coronation’ livery as that’s a W1, not an A4. I certainly recall seeing at least one Roco or Lilliput loco in grey about 40 years ago - a large German tank loco IIRC, which would have been black in working livery.
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Hornby, Heljan and Lilliput have all done it….
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It’s a clear story of enlightenment with no gaslighting. Seriously, though, such informed sharing of useful information is absolutely what this forum can do.
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Me too. Sound of those (with a Saracen or two) screaming down the road….
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Thank you !!
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Fab stuff - any chance of a 1950s Bundoran branch WTT pls ?;)
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Reminds me of how in 1939 the Garda caught a German spy, Walter Simon, in Dingle. He was waiting on the platform for a passenger train, apparently unaware that the last one had left fifteen months before. Only a man who had just landed from a U-boat would make a mistake like that !
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Ok - IRM are now morally obliged to produce a WT. And an 80 class. Stunning
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Saw it at Calne last year - had an impromptu railcar cavalcade! Delightful layout, especially given how Andy brings in the era before cream and geranium livery.
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We generally do - of our own efforts !’
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It also played a role in transporting Alcock and Brown after their pioneering Atlantic flight - fascinating little draisine!
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If IRM ever do produce a Jeep, at least the backdrop for the publicity shots is sorted. Fabulous
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There are no words …..that view under the bridge
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Great shots. Must be almost at the end of the Guinness broad gauge operations, certainly steam-wise. Presumably some of this traffic was northern bound given the UT wagon- very different to the Guinness trains I remember !
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Great project to dig into, and am sure you won’t get bogged down by it
