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The average punter on a heritage railway will not care what is up front. What they will care about, quite reasonably, is - can I park easily? are the toilets clean ? is the food of acceptable quality for the price ? Did the staff treat me as a guest or as an inconvenience?
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Thanks both - and yes please Paul! David
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Not to mention the financial contribution that the IRRS London area makes …..
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Just after some advice please. For a GNRI J4 coach, what wheelbase of bogie would be desirable? Any particular standard pattern used eg Fox ? Just thinking about a possibility…for some reason I suspect @Paul 34Fmay know…...thanks David
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Are you an IRRS member Colin? The photo archive link only works if you are.
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Agreed JHB. The one lesson I learned from it all (having been pressed into fundraising work since I was able to walk) is that the general public’s generosity subsidises the enthusiast community to an incredible degree.
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I understand that option has been scoped but has proved unviable. There are also no main line locos ready for service in NI, and the commercial road moves required to shuttle engines back and forth would be prohibitively expensive.
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Latest info suggests no steam in NI outside heritage sites for the foreseeable future. In any case only steam locomotive in ticket at Whitehead is 3BG AFAIK.
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Having retrofitted a 32mm model to 36.75, I wouldn’t do it again. And that was a single wheeler with no valve gear to worry about! The advice above sounds like a polite disclaimer on the same lines! I know that @Horsetan is building the SSM one to 21mm. Might you be kind enough, Ivan, to provide some pics of what you’re up to, so that people can see what’s involved? If you are new to kit building, don’t start with an 800, but it will at least give an idea of what such a kit involves and what (challenges and rewards 21mm (and 5’3 modelling in general) poses. -
Gorgeous work Alan. And that cab front in particular is not ‘simple’! Lots of careful measuring and cutting there.
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The real excitement for the Irish Govt prewar railway-wise was in 1931 with the Drumm trains which were seen as world leading. The British Pathe site has a lovely little vid of WT Cosgrave taking a trip with Dr Drumm. I’m not sure if the 800s were ever launched officially or just gradually segued into service. McMahon and Clements certainly draw attention to the impact that they had on GSR staff morale. And when important VIP trains needed run in the 40s they were front and centre.
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Given that the 800 class are essentially the 1937 constitution in locomotive form, there’s a certain delicious irony that she’s ended up within shouting distance of Stormont. In the - highly likely - event that the RPSI mogul never steams on the main line, painting it up as 99 ‘King George VI’ and plonking it beside 800 would be a lovely illustration of how the railways echoed the divided nature of Irish society in the 30s.
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You could do a lot worse than stick a mixed bag of LMS stock in period III livery behind it. The colour won’t be far off, and the varied rooflines/profiles will give the apposite effect.
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They probably can. In the same way you can fit wheels to a tomato. But it will be messy, and frustrating. You will have to rebuild it from the bottom up, and in all likelihood end up grinding away parts of the bodywork - damaging an exquisite factory finish in the process. Better off buying an SSM kit if 21mm is the plan.
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A few delights from this year's Basingstoke Show
Galteemore replied to leslie10646's topic in What's On?
Most interesting John. From 2015 to 2023 we lived near Aylesbury and regularly visited Luton. My younger son was obsessed with buses (he’s currently restoring an ex Dublin Olympian and our house is full of Dublin Bus moquette fabric). So we often used to go to Luton and ride the Dunstable portion of the Luton Hoo line - now converted to a guided busway! The MRC’s Copenhagen layout is a beast, with some very clever modelling -
IRM Latest! History File; The Gaelic Goddesses of the Great Southern Railway
Galteemore replied to Warbonnet's topic in News
Begging for a Planxty really, Patrick….. -
Great little book. Frontispiece shows GN compound in what was arguably their most elegant form - original boiler and blue livery. The book is also a fascinating snapshot of Irish railways on the brink of huge change - LLSR, Schull and Skibbereen are included. The SLNC is listed as having 2 0-6-0 tender engines, and the Lough tanks are not yet featured - hadn’t been paid for or delivered !
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You don’t even need to get obsessive about accurate livery
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800 was last in steam in 1958. 801 was retubed to work a tour in 1961.
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The old Airfix LMS period III coaches could help make up a passable rake for a late 30s 800 in GSR trim. If you are running it at scale express speeds they will certainly pass the 2’ rule.
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Regner do a live steam one in 32/45mm gauge
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Not my scale, not my scene, but am hiding my credit card! Fabulous. What will really make these models pop, I think, over the excellent Scot conversions around will be the factory-applied GSR blue-green finish. Fabulous product - well done.
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Walker Fenn motors in the 30s used gramophone-sourced governors which acted as a regulator - speed could be adjusted to allow some precision. Drew certainly regarded some mechanisms as more suitable than others for shunting, given the demands that frequent stopping/starting imposed. Drew’s system, as Leslie remarks, was very precise. Locos and loads were adjusted by ‘boxes’ - the number of turns of the spring necessary to take a train precisely to a given point. It was far from unknown for Dublin enginemen to appear at Drew’s house to admire the operation.
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Delightful. And modest too. That chimney’s a fairly complex shape !
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LMS Royal Scot prob close enough - three cylinder loco with similar cylinder dimensions
