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That’s terrific - well done !

Little accents like the whistle really set it off. Lovely engine

That’s really nice work and neatly done. Wish my 7mm version looked as good !

That’s coming on very nicely indeed

Me too !

Excellent work Paul. From bitter experience, soldering a riveted smokebox is extra hassle as cleaning off solder can have a deleterious effect on the rivets. But your soldering is prob cleaner than mine!

That’s a fabulous pic. Wonder if he got any SLNC that day ….

I love seeing old kits brought back to life. Looking great.

Yours definitely looks the part David and is poster boy for Alphagraphix box art! The engines changed so much over their lives that yours actually did look exactly like that in real life at some point!

Some progress. Interrupted the recommended route of construction to focus on the chassis to make sure it fits before progressing any further - esp to 5’3 clearances. Thankfully it all seems to roll ok. Am building 558 which had numerous changes to the norm - including no handrails on tank sides, or staff holders. This meant 6 holes to be filled in on tank sides alone….and you can just see on back of bunker where marking out is going on for the rear steps that 558 had, but few others.

Excellent. Worth having a go at making a single cab end out of plasticard just to see how you get on. Those card kits make excellent working drawings

Sometimes the alterations were dramatic. Here’s a Jinty ex works at Darlington in 1965 ready to serve out its last years as a heating boiler in Manchester

Variety of things - heating, washing, machinery supply. 130 was on railtour duty in June 64 so this is mid to late 60s. The GNR loco 131 was stabled in front of her on similar duties but more intact !

One of the most glaring gaps in Irish preservation is the absence of a ‘southern’ 4-4-0. This would have done nicely !

Excellent Alan. If it’s any consolation I’m facing similar struggles right now with the cab handrails on mine!!!

Also worth remembering that such organisations as CIE were a little less monolithic in those days. There was still a little scope for employee deviancy…..this was certainly how BCDR 30 survived. The price of copper had soared and the UTA accountants wanted to scrap it. Harold Houston at York Road arranged for 230 as it then was to be hidden at Cookstown Junction shed until the copper market stabilised !

It’s plausible that scrapping was considered. 800 was in the process of being dismantled when it was decided to save her - several parts had been removed and had to be reinstated. This document is probably dated c1960 as GNR 150 is listed - this was a very early casualty of the CIE takeover of GN stock.

No worries Alan. Let’s just say it resonated with something I’ve done myself

Alan - just admiring this again, but noticed one of the cab handrails is adrift? Makes it look as if rear bunker is askew….

GW chimneys seem a fair bet. Maybe a Dean Goods or similar ? TBH I think you could get off with the 14xx one near enough…,

Here’s a pic of Tim Cramer’s drawing. With 7mm ruler for scale.

Enlisting in @Tullygrainey @Horsetanand @Mol_PMB’s J26 club. The excitement of opening an Alphagraphix package and enjoying what’s inside. Also got the research books out / and a very useful article by Tim Cramer which will help with the bunker extension needed for my little beastie which will be 558 the Sligo pilot…..even though it means l’ll have to ditch the lovely etched plates Roger has provided as she had painted numbers in my era. Prototype pic (when she retired to Dublin) from Ernie.

Looks fabulous Alan. Characterful loco. As for the brakes, just be glad it’s internal rods

What a lovely little thing. And by some accounts the most successful GSR internal combustion experiment! Such a shame it wasn’t saved, but would be fairly simple to build a replica…,

Designed to carry the infirm on pilgrimage trains to Claremorris (for Knock Shrine) https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2312188505670533&set=gm.1195432550610101&type=3&theater&ifg=1