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  1. Track has now been laid and wired up on Mullaghmore which will now be known as Mullaghmore Town station. A block of timber is dropped into the the slot at the near end of the board to stop any rolling stock running off and down the 130 cm drop to the floor. If I use the detachable extension board which purports to be Mullaghmore Pier station and Dock sidings then this block is taken out and the end of the extension board drops into the slot instead. Mullaghmore Pier station is the terminus for the ferry to a greatly enlarged Inishmurray Island which has drifted up the coast. The Pier station means that I can run through passenger trains in the steam/early diesel era although if I am in the Irishrail period the Sligo shuttle will terminate at the Town station.
  2. 20 plus Jim, probably 30 odd GNRI and a handful at Loughrea also Cavan & Leitrim. There are about 100 slides but a fair number are station nameboards.
  3. Some more JG Dewing original slides arrived this week but they need a fair bit of work to make them presentable and re-mounted. A fair number of other photographers awaiting uploading, selection below. SLNCR 1957-06-08 Manorhamilton 'Lough Melvin' LN1118 Nick Nicholson. CIE 1959-03-14 Mullingar J18 593. CIE 1959 ca Limerick shed 109. CDRJC 1958-10-03 Strabane 11 on Stranorlar Goods , GNRI 43 on right JGD 58187, I also have his colour slide of this view awaiting restoration. CDRJC 1959-08-14 Strabane , mixed train arriving from Letterkenny x167
  4. No! I can't either and neither can I ride a bike. I have always been partially sighted and have balance problems. Ironically my eyesight has improved slightly in that I don't need to wear specs indoors . I wear then outside as my wonky right eye looks like I am looking at passers by who invariably then say hello and I havn't a clue whether I know them or not. Not having a car means I havn't had to in the old days ferry offspring around etc and has probably saved me thousands of pounds in the long run although Madame has a car which I have funded in the past. I don't go in it much. A few years ago she acquired a new one and it was over 3 months before I rode in it.
  5. I have one, a Pay-as-you-go from Tesco which is probably about 10 years old , mainly for Bank or Credit Card Security calls and so Madame can send me regular 'Check Up' Texts. Otherwise it doesn't see much use unlike hers which seems to be permanently in use and also the offspring who appear to use theirs for navigation rather than looking where they are going. At least its an improvement from walking round with a bottle of water in their hands in case of instant dehydration. The water bottle has now seemingly been replaced by a massive cup of coffee in the free hand with the phone in the other in use for texting companions approx 3 feet away!
  6. Yesterday I transferred and cut down the display shelves from the Loft and installed them round the desk under the fiddle yard with a small one at the fiddle yard throat. After the drastic reduction in the amount of stock for the IR/IE era I can actually fit the remainder on the fiddle yard and display shelving and hopefully can swop the 2 eras over between the 2.
  7. CIE 1949-05-12 Cahersiveen 182 JGD 490603. This negative has suffered a bit over the last 75 years. CDRJC 1959-08-14 Stranorlar , Goods awaits to cross arriving Railcar from Donegal Town. x171 CIE 1959 ca Ashtown Halt.
  8. 4 views of Ballyhaise GNRI on on 14 September 1956. 56 arriving from Clones with the Cavan Goods and JT 91 picking up wagons off the goods and adding them to the Belturbet branch train.
  9. Forgot to add the fiddle yard photo, managed to get 6 tracks in. There are isolating sections at the end of each siding so that locos can be uncoupled and isolated and then another loco can take its turn in running the train.
  10. I vaguely remember the Rev Awdry (Well the operator was wearing a dog collar so I'm pretty sure it was him) showing a Thomas the Tank Engine layout at Central Hall Westminster in the original MRC Annual Exhibition CA 1970. The layout plan also figured in Cyril Freezer's Peco 'Plans for Smaller Layouts' booklet.
  11. Work continues on Mullaghmore with the fiddle yard tracks now laid and wired up. I hate soldering! One advantage of the layout now being in a room with a window rather then in the former windowless loft ; is that I can now use natural sunlight when photographing. 192 crosses Four Masters Bridge on the passenger.
  12. IE 2000- ca Gort signal box. GNRI 1956-04-03 Strabane 174 3.50pm Derry - Belfast WACS2253. CIE 1959-03-14 Mullingar J5 627 station pilot.
  13. I am resisting the temptation to buy a Terrier! The Rails write up about the history of the class with regard to the Great Western Railway is a load of 'bullshxt' . The locos were an LBSC design most of which were sold off to industry , small minor railways and in WW1 some were used by the Government. The Southern Railway inherited the residue. Only 2 ended up on Great Western Railway taken over from the Weston Cleveland and Portishead Railway. They would have been hard stretched to have been seen across the Great Western Railway ,network. One was scrapped in 1948 and the other in 1954.
  14. C&L 1959-03-14 Dromod 6T on 12.20 mixed to Ballinamore (3). GNRI 1954-07-11 Clones shed Mck047. GNRI 1963-05-28 Belfast approaching Adelaide, VS UTA58 'Lagan' JGD630617.
  15. CBSC 1953-08-24 Clonakilty Junction 467 Dn Goods (2). CIE 1951-05-17 Dublin, Grand Canal Street 460 JGD510607. CIE 1968-05-04 Wicklow Goods B147 on 186 SPL Westport 078 ca 2000-5 ja048
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