Galteemore

David Weston, one of Britain’s premier railway artists back in the day, was finishing off a portrait of an A4 when a lady visited his studio. ‘Oh, I see you’re painting diesels now’, she said! I’ve a fair idea who that GN modeller was, having met him. An extremely gentle and gracious man, he nonetheless had strong convictions! He was a leader in his local church and always arranged GN motive power to haul their Sunday School excursion to Portrush…..

Interesting painting posted on BBC news of how Enniskillen could look - complete with an SLNC service !!

How fabulous! We used to live a few miles away from Cliddesden, the site where this was all filmed. Used to make regular pilgrimages there.

Very smart little loco David. You’ve made a lovely job of her.

Beautiful just beautiful. The shopping list helps show just what goes into a scratch loco built to this standard. Part of the fun is seeing just how many diverse specialist bits you can use - as well as repurposing household staples. In 7mm, I tend to send Laurie Griffin a photo and drawing to see what matches best from his range of castings. It’s quite possible to have an Irish engine equipped with parts from every one of the big 4 (LMS/GW/SR/LNER). One of my own bizarre quirks is to always include a small piece of Alphagraphix etch somewhere in each model as a tribute to the patron saint of 7mm Irish modellers - Roger Crombleholme!

29 would have been largely redundant by late 50s. No reason why UTA wouldn’t have sold her on to CIE or GNRB. After all, the GN had long experience of how good BP 0-6-4Ts could be, having given heavy overhauls to those from Ireland’s premier railway…. Of course, they could simply have done a swap - in its rush to dieselise the Co Down section, the UTA swapped 29 for the MAK diesel…..

Looks good to me Patrick. Agreed - weathered wood needs shades of grey rather than brown. When you apply that treatment you may find that the brown on the railsides actually looks ok without further intervention. A dusting of talc will also help it all blend in together.

Absolutely gorgeous. It’s not a true scratch build unless some existential crisis hits you near the end. But what a result! Fabulous work.

I am typing this on a northbound Enterprise - have just spent my first day in two decades travelling round Dublin by rail and bus. Much though I loved the dereliction of the push pulls in the pre Dart era, it really is a fabulous system now. Clean and efficient as far as I could see. Broombridge interchange is a wonderful facility- that LUAS/rail interchange is brilliant. I did feel rather aggrieved to see some green and silver snake sporting the legend ‘Sligeach’ crawling through. Everybody knows that the Sligo train is hauled by 121s with a buffet car and mail vans !!

O that Des Coakham were living at this hour. Spectacular.

Kilkenny shot is amazing. Change the loco and it could be 1953

Sale now agreed - thank you.

Fab. Galteemore senior was there. 800 was pulled out of Thurles shed to pose with 207. Think they met again when 800 came north

Last bump for this. Am transporting to Ireland this weekend all being well. Price drop to £300 if collected in greater Belfast area……and I’ll even throw in a panel of Peco track. Ideal starter set for the new Irish o gauge modeller!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_P50

It’s O gauge Michael - 32mm gauge so not true Irish 5’3 which is 36.75mm. Does mean it will be able to run on far more layouts ! Great Northern Railway (Ireland) served much of northern and western Ireland.

32mm gauge GNRI A class loco and wagons - fully working. £350

These guys must have been amazing modellers so.

Lancaster Bomber over Larne yesterday. Interestingly, the Stormont MP for Larne in the 60s was a former Lanc tail gunner.

So sorry to hear this news. A great loss to us all.

Looks fabulous David. Stunning little loco.

For the aviation fans inc @Darius43and @Georgeconna. Last Hercules 3-ship flew over our house yesterday. End of an era. Farewell Fat Albert.

I’d go for option 2.

Really coming on nicely. Looks so different to the J26 form!

What a fabulous portrait of 42. Got a soft spot for her ever since I built her some years ago. When not shunting the works, she ran the Kingsbridge-Inchicore works shuttle. Deceptively speedy locos capable of 60mph.