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Galteemore

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  1. Never mind the track technicalities, show us more locos ! That 2-4-0 is gorgeous
  2. Those are wonderful Ernie. That close up of the VS is a gift to modellers! Might inspire @leslie10646to run a few more trains today!
  3. Sorry to hear that David - hope they recover well.
  4. Excellent John. And virtually all of the above available as 7mm kits,too….
  5. And for those of you who, like me, never saw it, this is what we missed. To Dublin ears which had become accustomed to the 2 cylinder exhaust of the WTs by the mid 60s, the occasional appearance of that 3 cylinder beat of Boyne would sound subtly different….images thanks to Ernie. Note in the top photo how Adelaide shed staff, disgusted by the removal of her nameplates, provided a wooden substitute.
  6. That’s a lovely little E class; and with the correctly painted green underframe, too!
  7. Very pleasant day it was too, David - thank you! Really enjoyed being immersed in County Tyrone for a few hours.
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  9. R8096, if they are 12mm, which if ancient they are likely to be, rather than 14mm. Beautiful work with the stock, Patrick. Only one thing missing from those buses/ Howden-Meredith wheels !
  10. Nice shot of 16. Hard to believe that something so elegant was built as late as 1945.
  11. Yes that’s what I’d figure. Very healthy traffic that day!
  12. Not sure it’s the Cookstown goods as the NCC side closed in 55; only the GN line to Cookstown was still open in 59
  13. I think this one is Clipperstown
  14. Wonderful stuff. A railtour over this line in 59 was my dad’s first big railway trip. Knockloughrim is - or was until recently - fairly intact under modern additions! I have vague memories of it looking as it did in 59. The goods shed at Toome has an almost Far North of Scotland look.
  15. Lovely. Looks really well thought out
  16. Wow - that’s incredibly good!
  17. I used Kato N track for several years. I can’t comment on the HO stuff much but the key benefit is that Kato stuff is actually designed to be repeatedly taken apart and stored (Japanese homes often don’t allow much room for layouts so huge temporary systems can easily be built this way - running on the floor - and taken down). It’s got robust connectors and should give a reliable way of running trains without the ‘fishplate’ connectivity issues that often come with other sectional makes.
  18. Interesting! Shows how tenders could swap around - that’s not a ‘typical’ J15 tender. There’s some fascinating photos out there of a PP scuttling round the Irish North c1957 coupled to a UG tender, which looks most unusual. Image by JJ Smith. Also a very nicely composed shot at Bawnboy Road. That platform at left is a very tempting project !
  19. Interesting, Angus. Worth noting, perhaps, that the SLNC beyond Dromahair had corrugated buildings (the money running out?). Florencecourt’s goods facilities were also fairly unpretentious, being a mix of brick and wiggly tin. Images courtesy Ciaran Cooney
  20. With all the sausages, eggs, milk and bacon on that train, I wouldn’t be fitting into anything afterwards !
  21. Spectacular stuff. And much of that line still slumbering under its cover of greenery and debris. Lovely top photo with siding suggests a nice micro layout fed by cassettes either side
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