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I've got a fair bit of old 0 gauge tin stuff, I love these as they're proper hefty metal and have a real 'railway' feel about them, tho they aren't scale models as such...I've got one of those mamod steam locos tucked away somewhere too, which I must dig out and play with !

I dug out an old banjo (which I got ages ago for literally pennies off ebay)  ..and have been annoyin the dogs with it...

As I recall ( not that i was around then obviously!) Auxiliaries were recruited from all ex officers, whereas b&t's were a motley of unemployed ex soldiers, ie other ranks.

Just seen this..awesomely good..

My lovely horse indeed.!..that's started off me watching Father Ted now !

I agree with popeye, we used to play on the railway tracks as kids and climb about on wagons etc, great fun!..I don't suppose in todays safety culture this happens much nowadays...

There was a posh estate house built in the 1850s, called Rocksavage, near Castletownroche...??

You just wonder, who it was that thought colour schemes like that would be good on a railway..!

No link to the fillum then Spud..?

14 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I'd love to buy that building and restore it!

My late grandmother used to play in the loco yard as an 8-year old girl with her two friends, one of whom was the daughter of the traffic Manager, William Henry McAdoo..... and they'd no PTS or dayglow vests.......

She used to relate a story about chasing the hens which belonged to one of the railwaymen, which used to potter about at the back of the loco shed....

Only in Leitrim!

I believe they're planning to use it next as a community centre or something, it has been a school previously..

57 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Is that 3ft gauge? Looks more like 2'6"....?

I get the impression they just found a few bits of old track and bits of sleeper, and threw them on the ground any old how,  just as a token memorial, it wont be a section still in place. Where the track was going thru the station has been filled in to 'ground level'. Its just a flat area now behind the building.

There's a little memorial stone and a few feet of track nearby..pic taken when over that way last year.

The Ballinamore station building is still in good condition, and in use as far as I know (not as a railway station of course! ). I got the Mrs to take some pics recently when visiting relatives nearby..

These pics and stories are gold dust JHB..!  

1963 it Cost 3d. ( three old pennies!)

This is brilliant ! ..I too haven't seen the thread before and just gone thru it all.. Some very interesting background and discussion in the comments too.

Sounds great, I'd also be very interested to see pics....

Could it be each shape is code for a particular type of wagon or load..?

Ha! Is that you Spud ?...nice moves, nice shirt too..!

Maybe it was the Murphy's, as he wasn't bitter.! 

Now I've got four old cars, does that mean I've got Carownervirus....??

12 hours ago, WaYSidE said:

Turns out the 'Ex' soviet union 'wanna bee' flyovers are not spying on UK defenses.

They trying to figure when the A class will be delivered.

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Nah....looking for a decent supply of sardines.....

Very atmospheric, great stuff ..!

That's an admirable quality in a wife, the ability to cast some metal components for you whilst the soda bread is in the oven....

I didn't do too badly at all compared to some poor souls who got exposed to blue asbestos for instance. A friend of mine's father sadly passed away as a result of asbestos, he could even name the job he was on when it likely started....  I always say the railway ( especially in England ) couldn't have even existed without those generations of mainly Irish lads digging massive tunnels and cuttings etc through solid hillsides, with nothing but hand tools.