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@jhb171achillwould still prefer travelling in one of those to an ICR….

The Queen’s late racing adviser, Sir Michael Oswald, was as knowledgeable on iron horses as he was on fleshly ones - that came out at his memorial service last week. The Duke of Gloucester was once a regular customer at Chuffs Model Shop in London, so you never know if he’s lurking here….and the Queen does seem to take an interest in GN steam….although lip reading experts have apparently gleaned that she was saying ‘should have been a Mogul or at least a Mogul Tank on the NCC main line. At least they sorted me out with that in ‘53….’

They are mostly 7mm but Roger will often scale the card kits down if asked nicely

Excellent stuff. Very nice work on the Alphagraphix kit. The GSWR being major customers of Slaters Plastikard is certainly something I hadn’t realised

Presumably for running on the ‘Burma Road’. Love it

Glad you’re back Ernie! Do like those big Midland 4-4-0s, rough riders though they were. Looks as if the van is destined for Loughrea!

The design of the WT was also signed off under Ivatt rather than Stanier, too. Appropriate, given that Ivatt was born in the land of the 5’3”! Nice touch re Rev Harris too. Excellent models. Although very much of the LMS ‘house style’ , the NCC locos are possessed of deceptively subtle differences. These you have nicely captured.

Depends how you define ‘North’! WT class effectively also rang down the curtain on the final days of GN main line steam; they were thus, for some three years, the last real active steam in the Republic. Moguls were also occasional visitors to Dublin. So they both did a fair amount of cross border work, even before preservation days - and we will hopefully see a Mogul in Dublin again one day. The extra braking capacity the Moguls had though,being tender locos, meant that they tended to do Derry Road goods duties more

They own it too. Took over ABE in 2008.

Indeed, Darius, and I often tread this path too. It nicely illustrates, however, the complexity of all this. ABE books is owned by Amazon….it’s hard to completely avoid funding recreational space travel no matter how hard one tries To throw in just one supplier I use, Grosmont Books in Yorkshire has a big railway selection and worth a look- it’s genuinely independent too!

W and T ideal for a scratch build 21mm or 36.75 scheme, where small amounts of stock are a bonus! Would be a nice project for time shifting eras too - with those wonderful single wheelers and quirkily modified J26s

Locomotive length 40’ 11.75” Tender 26’2.75”

What’s especially striking here - compared to many 60s images - is the cleanliness of the engines. And look at that PW in Claremorris station - not a weed in sight !

Very nice - what kind of hornblocks are you using ?

Their provider is, according to other sources, apparently working off a ‘disaster recovery’ scenario. This is all you get for now when you attempt access.

Never mind the track technicalities, show us more locos ! That 2-4-0 is gorgeous

Those are wonderful Ernie. That close up of the VS is a gift to modellers! Might inspire @leslie10646to run a few more trains today!

Sorry to hear that David - hope they recover well.

Excellent John. And virtually all of the above available as 7mm kits,too….

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.

That’s a lovely little E class; and with the correctly painted green underframe, too!

Very pleasant day it was too, David - thank you! Really enjoyed being immersed in County Tyrone for a few hours.

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