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Fabulous views of the INW Ernie - thanks. Although those scenes of baby GMs also seem a lifetime ago now!

In the 1980s it was briefly considered sending 171 for a visit. She was quite troublesome at that time and I well recall the RPSI’s loco engineer being fairly philosophical about the risks of losing her at sea….he opined that as long as the wheels were rescued, everything else was fit for Davy Jones locker….

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Certainly happened at the Glenfarne timber railway in N Leitrim c1919. 2’ gauge including an ex WD HC well tank once used to construct Tallaght aerodrome outside Dublin. Picture credit….http://www.leedsengine.info/leeds/histhc.asp.

Very atmospheric. Hope the kettle’s on in the back office - looks a nice refuge on a winter’s night!

Great stuff. Loco shed has shades of Thurles…

Beautiful Leslie. LNWR and SECR late 19th century liveries are hard to beat!

Given that the RPSI’s initial aim (even before preserving an S class which was the main objective c1964) was simply to preserve a GNR railbus, they have actually been fairly open to the internal combustion engine….the RPSI’s perennial problem is balancing the costs of a hugely expensive motive power fleet with running enough fare paying and revenue generating efforts to cover it. The enthusiasts have always been subsidised by the general public stumping up cash. Having spent much of my childhood in muddy traction engine rally fields flogging RPSI merchandise I know how hard that exercise is. Had the purist hard core of Derry Road nostalgics really won over the levers of power in the early 70s, the organisation would have ceased to exist c1980…….any comments @jhb171achill or @leslie10646? As far as I know, the RPSI is generating very little revenue in NI right now and is largely held above the waterline by packed Dublin family trains, not all of which are steam.

Although I thought poetry was more in metres…..I’ll get my coat

Got to be narrow gauge. Cue lots of discussion as to whether it’s a small railway or a far away one.

Fabulous work Patrick. Pure GNRI in all its faded glory. To quote Thomas Moore…. Let Fate do her worst, there are relics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy; Which come in the night-time of sorrow and care, And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd -- You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

Coming on really well - great work!

Yep. Look at their loco crew….

Try Des Coakham’s NG rolling stock book too, plus David Lloyd’s. Worsley do the WCR Drewry car - I built it in 3mm scale when I briefly fell off the 7mm wagon a few years ago…..

Is it an island or a peninsula? If west Clare then an extension of the existing 3’ gauge system is highly possible. If 5’3 I’d suggest GSWR or WLWR as the most likely candidates.

I suspect it’s a riff off this….https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_a_green_hill_far_away

Yes it’s great stuff when used well.

Lovely stuff. Thanks Ernie. Ballyhaise looks very smart.

Even when the Bishop clarified ‘stations of the cross’ it didn’t help much. Off he went to Sixmilecross, Carrickmacross, Crossdoney, Crossgar…..

That’s terrific work Patrick. Really scene setting. Well done!

lol. Suppose GNR got close with 191. I think DSER may have had a few namers with saints appellation.

Lovely Patrick! Interesting diversion though as to why so few Irish locos bore Saints names, given the spiritual temperature of our land. Quite surprising, given the religious nature of the 1937 constitution, that the 800s weren’t called after Patrick, Brigid and Columba….

Such a shame but thanks for your commitment to excellence!

And his favourite racehorse Lurgan Boy….

Looks terrific Patrick. And more of the backstory emerges. At least one former PP was a Leitrim man. Why else is the church interior painted in SLNC railcar livery?