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Galteemore
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Certainly surpassed the sucking diesel stage! Look forward to seeing some of your 21mm stock posing on this. Aesthetically , that 5’3” is quite captivating. I think it works especially well on FB track as the width is visually accentuated. -
Clogherhead - A GNR(I) Seaside Terminus
Galteemore replied to Patrick Davey's topic in Irish Model Layouts
Fabulous work all round Patrick. Sad though it is to see Brookhall go, this will be a more satisfying layout to operate. The greater sense of space also tells here. The U with a healthy rake doesn’t look crowded or compressed. I think a backscene - simple sky/landscape - would set it off very nicely. -
I’m most grateful to those who post links for scarce Irish items. It has scored me a few 36.75mm locos. Including this SG2 - it’s on the workbench since last night for minor work - which arrived as a restoration project and is absolutely delightful. Other stuff I have passed on as the duty etc works against me as a GB resident. So Paul, and those like you, please don’t stop!
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Don’t know how I missed this before. Am planning a layout - a proper working one rather than a diorama as before - and turned to my trusty Gauge O Guild books. And look what jumps out….from our own @Northroader Name clumsily expunged by me BTW - it’s not a fault in the original
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Irish Railway News ‘Enterprise Watch’
Galteemore replied to IrishTrainScenes's topic in General Chat
If only ! ;courtesy of Ernie….
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Clogherhead - A GNR(I) Seaside Terminus
Galteemore replied to Patrick Davey's topic in Irish Model Layouts
Great stuff Patrick. Just need to get some coal in those tenders! -
The NCC certainly had some ex MR stock, and the RPSI had at least one IIRC. I have a vague memory that one of them had now gone back to GB. One ex MR coach, 68, has recently been restored and runs on trips within the Whitehead site.
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Jet 2, Brute ?
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It’s tiny. Having built the chassis for it in 7mm (awaiting body etches) it is simply dwarfed by a PP (not a giant itself)
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@Paul 34Fhas been very helpful to me on GN coaches
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I have zero interest in this - not my era, not my thing - but have made a donation. Why? Because 50 years ago we missed the chance to preserve the last Irish cattle wagon, a synecdoche of the classic Irish freight scene. Let’s not make that mistake again. We always say ‘they should have preserved X…’ now’s your chance!
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Thanks Paul. Was thinking mostly of the inside cylinder version. I just know that many people would be happy with a steam loco that looks more or less right, given that no workaday RTR Irish steam loco seems on the near horizon ! I wasn’t even considering 21mm. If my experience in 7mm is anything to go by, when modelling 5’3 steam to scale gauge, you really need to build the whole thing as such from the get-go, such are the clearances involved. I retro-fitted a loco from 32 to 36.75 once and wouldn’t do it again .
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It’s a pity that none of the chassis are generic black wheels. Would surely be an ideal 3d body print opportunity to produce something Irish. The dimensions must be a rough match for something 5’3!
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Have checked out the handbook on Irish industrial locos and it certainly wasn’t a powered line. As Eoin says, perfect way to do such heavy lifting. I remember seeing such a line at the Acropolis in Athens c1984 being used for heavy stone transportation. image courtesy ‘Industrial Gwent’. Just across the Irish Sea was a fascinating line, detached from the BR system, which did similar work with ancient locos. Search ‘Holyhead Breakwater Railway’
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I have access to an e-version through my county library - it refreshed to the Oct edition this week. Great article and photos - with a nice plug for seeing it live at Aldershot !
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Both trunk route and branch line gone then.
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Interesting. No recent TripAdvisor reviews mention the railway. A review in 2021 says ‘they got rid of the train’. Doubtless someone will know more. Something may have happened the loco or track work and OPW just decided it wasn’t worth sorting. Appropriate they had a US style loco but something with a NYC or Boston and Maine livery might have better suited JFKs New England connections than Santa Fe!
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Oh dear. I belong to the Order of Unreconstructed Luddites. We don’t even recognise the existence of DCC. But I’m sure we can get along
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Lightnings….amazing to think they lasted as late as 1988 for what looks so 50s a design. So I did a bit of googling… Apparently Concorde was used in tests around 1985 against various NATO fighters; Mirages, F-15s etc. The only one which managed an intercept was a Lightning! A year before, the same pilot managed to intercept a U2 at over 26 kilometres of altitude….no wonder the thing drank fuel so much.
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Always good to see you Bob. Would be especially worthwhile if you helped me sort the pickups on my stuttery JT…..my department left Gloucester about twenty years ago and another part of the business uses our old offices there so I don’t get back much.
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Fab stuff Bob. I can always come and persecute you for an evening with some 36.75 stock ? Google says I live about an hour away…
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I’m not really into planes but this is excellent. The F3 is a more elegant jet than its celebrated GR1/4 sibling!
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As a 7mm modeller I don’t have a dog in the fight. I just know that many modellers, who are quite legitimately satisfied with an impressionist rather than pointillist approach, will be happy to see a steam loco which can quite easily be adapted to a reasonable likeness of an Irish engine. If you want Irish RTR steam, the options aren’t many !
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Well quite. Hence my suffix of ‘-ish! ‘.
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Bachmann model is of an N class - that’s the one with 5’6 drivers. This one is 6’, as per the K1a class. Very similar locos, different sized wheels
