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    West Clare today, Kilkee and Ennis June 1960
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    Order done!
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    A few from the early days of NIR today NIR 1967-06-01 Belfast York Road, RPSI ex CIE J15 186 working for NIR as station pilot. NIR 1967-06-01 Belfast York Road, ex SLNC 'Lough Erne' now no 27 NIR 1967-06-01 Belfast ,Skegoneill WT 4 on spoil wagons assisted by WT 53 at rear.
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    Web site and Amazon UK now say Publication date 20 Jan 2022
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    3 Guinness Brewery views from 1962 today. The colour view has suffered and this is the best I could do.
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    GNRI today. First one 1953-04-21 Londonderry sta 133 9.25 to Belfast HCC78485b Second was 1952-06-29 Dundalk shed 170
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    Suffering a bit from "Carntbearsedtosis" today but no doubt it will pass. Here is 138 at Clonmel 21 March 1960, I already have John Dewing's black and white negative and recently acquired his original colour slide.
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    I'm back in the land of the living. Here are the results of my days in self isolation. I also did a few running sessions which confirms that as usual my track laying is up to its usual crap standard so I have endeavoured to ensure that the new sections are up (or should it be down to) to the same standard. I have also ordered a Bachmann Ffestiniog Double Fairlie - well your only on this planet once. The plan is to put a 5'-2' board above the fiddle yard between Glengarriff and Drowes River but 12 inches above it and do a roundy roundy on that. Here are some views of the last few days handiwork.
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    OK I will sign off for a few days with some more views, fingers crossed back this weekend!
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    I have 4 LMS old Main line cattle wagons which I have slapped some grey paint on and I might try whilst isolating putting some of the Railtec snails on them plus I have an idea about using some real cow dung which I can collect tomorrow before my Swab to weather them up realistically. The question is does Halti cow dung look the same as Sligo dung!
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    I am out of action for the rest of the week so have uploaded a bumper pile of Irish views to flickr this morning. A few samples appended, click on each photo to get the caption.
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    Alan are these the transfers that Leslie supplied with the kits? I've found the Railtec ones I'd lost in the pending negative scanning box so you can have them. The kits were hanging about in the loft since before Covid so the adhesive may have suffered some kind of damage from the heat in Halti's tropical summer heatwave.
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    My best mate David Ford often supplies UK photos to a Steve Rabone who I believe is or was the Editor or a regular contributor to Traction Magazine. Coincidentally being a bit nosey I checked Traction Mags Web site and this is the current issue:
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    That sounds plausible, you can't tell from the photograph that the pipe is actually connected to the locomotive.
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    I've been catching up on the scanning today and in the batch is this neg at Guinness Brewery with a rather odd attachment on the loco ! A small pipe at the far end which has been inserted into a kind of 'drain pipe' on the wall. Why? It could be a water column but is somewhat over-sized for the locos water capacity and you would think if water is coming down the pipe then the connection should be the other way round with the 'down' pipe inside the 'up ' pipe. I'm not holding out much hope of an answer but you never know!
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    Oops missed off the photos!
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    Had 20 minutes playtime today so here's the result. My last 2 A's have arrived and put to work
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    Northern Counties Committee today NCC 1930-xx-xxca Belfast Yk Rd B3 no.24 reb 1928 and named 1932 so between these dates. Second view, NCC 1935-xx-xxca Belfast York Road U2 77
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    2 more John Dewing views today of the County Donegal Railways. Castlefin 8 May 1959 Railcar 12 and Blanche crossing. Railcar 15 crossing the abandoned Londonderry & Lough Swilly track bed just outside Letterkenny 9 May 1959
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    A bit late today as I have been hammering away at composing a spreadsheet which is now done and dusted. Ex Dublin and South Eastern. I already have the JG Dewing black & white neg of C231 at Dun Laoghaire, here is the colour slide taken at the same time 16 May 1959. I have cropped the original image to make the locomotive stand out a bit more. On the 17 May 1959 he took this view of Railcar 2619 at Killiney The train displays at least 4 shades/hues of green!
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    More GNRI but a bit different. Hill of Howth Tramway. Teak liveried No 10 at Howth station 18 May 1959 & 10 + 4 at Summit on the same day.
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    You could just plant a large tree and undergrowth, trees are far higher than buildings and there were plenty on the south side of Fintona station though unfortunately not far enough up the exit to the junction.
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    Belturbet and Enniskillen today JT 94 on the branch train 19 August 1953 and PP 74 on Enniskillen shed 12 August 1954
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    One ex M&GWR today J18 583 at Mullingar 18Aug 1953. Handy view of some backhead detail.
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    A couple of County Donegal views today from 3 July 1959 Van 155 with some interesting plank repairs at Strabane and a Trespass sign
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