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That’s brilliant Angus, and a great way to build up a mixed train quite fast. They look really good.

Oh dear - that poor VS looks lovely but also as if it’s had an argument with a much bigger engine…either that or that’s a profound case of buffer droop…

Indeed there is Jb - Sir Frederick Hamilton, who built the castle in Manorhamilton, was the son of an earlier Claud Hamilton - a direct ancestor of the GER chairman. One wonders what he would have made of the SLNC - a world away from the GER and its expresses ! And to avoid thread creep entirely, imagine if the SLNC had been renewed and relaid by Euro money and re-equipped with As in two tone green and Cravens in SLNC maroon….that, however, is the kind of fantasy you want to paint up Lima class 33s and Mark 1s for, not IRM and Murphy models!

Interestingly, Claud Hamilton (the big blue loco) has a strong Irish connection. It was named after Lord C H, an officer in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and son of the Duke of Abercorn (the family seat is still at Baronscourt in Co Tyrone). Hamilton was Chairman of the GER and took a huge personal interest in it, travelling across the system and seeking to thoroughly understand and improve it.

Yes, there’s common ground with that cab and tanks - classic Beyer Peacock DNA shared across more than a few designs. At least one modeller has simply painted a Radial tank black and adopted it as an honorary SLNC loco.

Ah come on now, JB . There’s some serious competition there!!! These are the pick of the bunch,surely….,.

Nice work. Some seriously subtle modelling here.

Definitely Angus - thank you. Just checked Neil Sprinks’s older book and some 14 cattle wagons were either fitted or piped.

Quality loco, quality stock, quality setting. Another Irish layout in the pantheon of greatness !!

Thank goodness I don’t model in 4mm. Serous offers there.

Multicore is grand for light electrical work, and what you have described is sound practice. You only really need separate flux when doing brass kits etc, which then need washed after each work session to remove excess flux. Washing electrical stuff doesn’t really work ….;)

Bunker first working on the SLNC was normally for light engine moves to Collooney or for trips to Manorhamilton works - engines always entered the works with chimney facing Enniskillen.

Good work Tony. Soldering scared me for years. If the iron’s hot, the metal’s clean, and the flux is flowing, there is much satisfaction to be had. Change one of those factors and it does your head in!

Prob means vac braked? You’re right @Angus, it’s not one I’ve seen before. Bearing in mind the value of the traffic, it’s surprising more cattle trucks weren’t vac braked. I wonder if the GN’s ‘prize cattle’ wagons were fitted.

Cheers Ernie. Bunker first working was most unusual. These are probably cattle empties heading for Collooney. The shunt has been nicely organised to let the railcar through !

Is this a conversion back in time to a Scotrail livery with head code boxes? I noted the Eastfield dog! Nice work.

Must be something about priests and colour film…..Monaghan by a Canon. Looks like a Diocesan gig with x-border passengers, given the Customs bit

So that Schools Class isn’t slated to become a VS then ?

If he can produce a photo of the sleepers with the snow still on them we’ll believe ! https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/handle/10871/20057

The chairs may have been so stamped, or a symbol on them was so interpreted. Rumours of British-made Russian surplus were aplenty in that era- such as the fallacious idea that the RAF got its light blue uniforms from a batch that had been ordered by St Petersburg and were suddenly not required in 1918…..in a tangentially related point to the original topic, a few air forces have buried jets. The Australians buried a load of asbestos-ridden F-111s, and Saddam buried his Air Force to stop the US destroying it! The cautionary tale of the Burma Spitfires perhaps suggests that most stories of buried locos be treated with a pinch of salt…..https://news.sky.com/story/amp/burma-spitfire-mystery-is-solved-10454358

This is what they were like in 2015. I saw them in July and they are just as JHB describes. Image from Morgan Young on Flickr …click for more…

That’s lovely work. The gated, cobbled siding especially effective

As with so often in this Forum, a thread has got me exploring. There is an 0-6-0T buried in England near Wigan. Unlike so many of these tales, the incident happened within living memory and is well documented - including a pic of the loco in the pit. Good to see that the driver has been honoured by a memorial. https://www.wiganworld.co.uk/stuff/past1.php

The NIR thing is genuine. Loads of old multiple unit stock dumped in a County Antrim quarry underwater. Had been an alternative plan to relay part of old Goraghwood - Armagh line to enable sealing them up in Lissumon tunnel.https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2004-11-16.196086.h According to Hansard, some 18 items were disposed of this way. As for burying steam locos, they contain far too much in the way of recyclable ie resellable materials for that to happen! It has happened perhaps occasionally overseas when an engine cannot be recovered or a scrapped on site (there are a few NZ cases) but not here !https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/119847636/second-locomotive-buried-in-river-bed-may-be-recovered

I suppose, to the UTA, it was inconvenient for short workings being single ended. CIE’s pair, I think, were largely employed on the INW stump workings till 59 and then went the same way. Here’s one of the last workings : https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304436 My dad has great memories of railcar A - above - on the Derry Road. Had a fine mahogany interior apparently