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  1. Galteemore
    Intriguingly George V’s visit seems to have gone down a storm, with cheering crowds, as you can see below ….This was actually quite a hopeful time for Irish Nationalists as Westminster was just about to pass the Parliament Act, which meant that Irish Home Rule was achievable without being blocked by the House of Lords.
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    According to Michael Hamilton, up to 5 specials a day could leave Collooney, each train of 20-24 wagons. On occasions the trains were half loaded the night before to speed up early departure. Each train had an empty wagon known as ‘the ambulance’ to accommodate animals injured en route. Sprinks comments that most trains were handed over to the GN in the afternoon, but also in early evening. At one time (prob pre partition) the GN had overnight cattle paths from Enniskillen to Dundalk, for the Greenore boat in all likelihood.
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    Is a nice photo in a recent New Irish Lines of a cattle train on the main near Moira.
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    Can’t see how else it could have happened. Possibly sea travel from Dublin to Cork but unlikely. Could probably check in local newspaper archives of the time.
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    Lovely Leslie but ‘interlopers’? I think you mean mainstay of traffic !
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    Interesting choice of motive power. A favourite of Drew’s. I understand there was some consternation among the pilgrims at Pettigo one day when Drew loudly announced his views on the impending train ‘(expletive) I’d love a P’……
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    Let’s be realistic here. What I think you want is an atmospheric Irish type layout which conveys an image - rather than being a dead scale replica. If you are using 16.5mm 00 track and adapted English stock then that is absolutely fine and a perfectly valid modelling posture. In that case, the 6w coaches could be a passable GSWR consist (not the 4w). Devote your skills to making an Irish setting with appropriate buildings and scenery and these coaches will look grand.
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    That’s really annoying Mark. Hopefully you will get something sorted.
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    Very sad. Almost lasted long enough to be saved. The UG in particular would have been a useful asset for current RPSI operating patterns in NI. Can still see the remnants of the white paint on 49 from her brief career as a celebrity railtour loco.
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    N Gauge Society did a Stove R which had a pretty good little 6w chassis. https://www.ngsjoin.com/stove-r-6-wheeled-brake-van-864-p.asp
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    Those ones are N gauge JHB, so not sure how much use to you !
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    The flying snails are indeed on the 111s too, but covered over with a York Road-installed plate.
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    At least he wasn’t throwing the snowballs that a few other Southern visitors got in 1967……over to the Irish Times…… In 2008 The Irish Times published a letter from renowned economist TK Whitaker who accompanied Taoiseach Jack Lynch on the visit. The late senior civil servant said the snowballs thrown by Mr Paisley were accompanied by shouts of “No Pope Here” which prompted the taoiseach to ask: “Which of us does he think is the Pope?”.
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    I spent hours in my childhood going through shoeboxes of photos just like that, which my dad had taken, mostly GN region from 59-65. Most of the ‘altitude’ images were taken from signal posts rather than trees though!
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    Lovely little scene in pic 3!
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    Prob worth joining the EM gauge society. I’m guessing many of their members will have carried out such conversions on Roderick’s English prototypes
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    Lovely work David. I imagine there’d be a scramble for the front seats on Railcar B to enjoy the lovely scenery !
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    Excellent. I really like reusing old bits of brass this way - seems a shame to chuck it out! The waste edges of a kit often provide very neatly defined thin strips that would be hard to cut from sheet without distortion.
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    Very nice. Do like the T2. The layering of levels in this photo is a world away from the ‘flat baseboard’ syndrome!
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    One of my favourite pieces of railway writing is a description of the 7:20 from Enniskillen by NW Newcombe, who described ‘Enniskillen’ struggling on Kilmakerrill bank at 16mph, issuing tremendous gouts of black and red smoke. The completion of Brake 2 means that I now have the complete consist modelled. When the smooth talking @David Holmanlured me in to 36.75mm, the 7:20 was the goal I aimed at making! So thanks David. Just need to build the layout now! Everything here is scratch built over the past few years and if I can do this, anyone can ! Note the white tailboard - and also just how big an H van is….
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    No steam era train is complete without a brake van, so I’ll have to build a few for my layout. First one done, built using the 1921 drawings from Manorhamilton works. Plasticard with compensated chassis. Tons of mistakes- hopefully it passes the 2’ rule - but the next one will be better! It’s a drovers van - effectively a one vehicle train comprising guards, goods and passenger accommodation! The homespun lettering is quite authentic - the SLNC didn’t run to elaborate fonts!
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    Yes, I think Ballymoney had a footbridge. That would have been quite a journey before 1933 - Ballycastle to Larne - most of which would have been on 3’.
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    Rather unusually for an Irish railway, it was more of a passenger than a freight line, and snappy running was pretty key to the operation. The double track section - which testifies to the traffic density either envisaged or achieved - was AFAIK unique in Irish NG (there were a few sections of parallel single lines eg at Ballinamore). The CBP locos which ended up in Leitrim gave a good account of themselves and lasted to the end in 59, although that long wheelbase barred them from the Drumshanbo line. Elegant locos in their way, although the NCC tanks in full maroon livery take some beating.
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    Lovely. Last photo esp good
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    These were ground breaking models back in the day. Modellers used to fret out the solid brake hangers and improved look enormously. Still hold their own in many settings, as you’ve shown.
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