Irishswissernie

Its a few weeks since I managed to do any more work on Four Masters Bridge, but have done a bit today. The main hold up was finding a source of small fragments of stone and sand so that I could detail the river bank. Last Saturday we went to the seaside and I filled a small doggy bag on the beach but on getting it home realised that the contents were a kaleidoscope of colours with a high content of coal dust etc. Not very suitable unfortunately. I pondered over where I could find a supply of material with more appropriate colouring and it came to me this morning that approx 90 seconds walk away from where I have resided for the last 30 years is the River Tyne which possibly might have the odd pebbles and correctly coloured sand. I accordingly dragged one of the dogs out for a mid-day constitutional and on finding a suitable supply loaded a dog bag and put it in my pocket. Disaster! One of the old dears observed me doing this, and didn't notice that the contents hadn't just seen the light of day from the dogs rear. My behaviour has no doubt been broadcast through the local Granny Mafia Media and I shall no doubt be getting a few peculiar looks over the next few days! Here are a couple of views - appears to look (and smell) OK

I have one negative of No 7 , 20 April 1948. Henry Casserley and one of No 8 same date Note the differing roof racks

I would like a grey with snail.

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They are done individually through a tippler which removes and replaces the lid and also moves them sideways after unloading to the left hand track. Wagons don't have any bottom or side doors.

The Tara traffic only uses the first part of the Tramway before turning off into their own yard (unless somethings changed over the last 15 years) whereas the containers appear to have to be handled on the track in the road at the eastern end of the tramway. The video shows the loco running round the wagons on the tramway and then propelling them into the righthand track of the Tippler shed

I see the BBC have toned down their heading from Summer "Essentials" to Summer "Products"

No problems, add as many railway views as you like. The small Guinness Van view is from a Casserley negative which is now in my collection . Omagh 20 April 1948

I received this slide today of 021 at Arklow 25 May 1990 having worked the 17.25 from Dublin. Looking at her ( or him or it) its got me thinking that rather than just adding weathering to my A's maybe I should also be removing paint.

I saw that coming and stocked up with the ESSENTIAL essentials early last year. I did have a minor hiccup when planning the afforestation at Drowes River Bridge in that I mainly use heather as the base for the trees and my last forage oop into the hills was over 15 years ago and I have now used up the stock pile. In the meantime the local farmers have burned off the heather and replaced it with grass so this time I had to hike a further couple of miles before I came across a patch.

JUST when you think it can't get any worse, headline on the BBC News today. Brace yourselves, there's going to be a shortage of - Garden Furniture, Picnic Baskets & Outdoor Toys. Nothing to sit on! Nowt to put the butties in! and no Toys to keep the brats er children happy . Well thats it Can't get abroad, Can't have a picnic, Can't even sit in the garden. Back to the man cave for a bit more railway modelling!

Holywell Town ex LNWR always struck me as an ideal minimal space prototype. Only 4 points but a large 2 arch road bridge went across the station which would act as an ideal scenic break . The goods yard was the other side of the bridge alongside the running line which descended at 1 in 27 to the main line. Because the yard points faced the dead end rather than more conventionally (no doubt because of the topography) it meant that all the shunting of the yard took place at the 'dead end' and restricted to 1 or 2 wagons at a time. Photos on this site http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/holywell_town/index.shtml

The large platform is a goods bank on the right. The station platform was not on the direct run in from the junction but off to the right as seen on the last photo where the tram is on the passenger line and you can see the crossover from the running line behind it. Sorry for the dirty great ERNIE's Railway Archive COPYRIGHT overlays. Those images date from the time when someone was nicking images and flogging prints. I might get round to re-doing them but that old mans affliction known as Cantbearsedtosis is ever more present these days!

Copy of Fintona from Norman Johnston's excellent little book on the Tram. I have a fair number of views in Ernie's Railway Archive in the GNRI Album but probably easier to search Fintona photos in the album header rather than wade through the 800 plus images.

A7 above was done as a Link from Flickr no problems with displaying whereas A22 had to be reduced under 1mb before it would upload from my PC files. As an aside just noticed the window size differences to accommodate the Tablet Catcher.

Checking through my photos I have a feeling that some locos did end up with rather black looking domes. Check out Erne and Blanche below, both domes look polished rather than dirty but there is a hint of red on Erne's dome. Possibly wiped down with old oily rags but on Erne they didn't bother trying to clean the cab front

I have acquired some 200 plus Graham Roose original slides which will be added to flickr over the coming months. Here are some of his night views of Sugar Beet trains in Waterford Yard 28 October 1995.

The photo showing goods traffic in the sidings at Ennis looked a little suspect with the Molasses tank and even more so the bulk cement! It looks more like Limerick Works alongside the wagon shop I think. The caption to it gives the date as 1996

The Mill is set at an angle to the backdrop which is why the roof level is how it is, hopefully it won't be so obvious when the backdrop is fully painted with trees etc so there will be far less contrast between the dark roof and blue sky.

I have slapped a bit of basic colour on this morning to get rid of the 'snow' scene. Hopefully 130 + 127 will draw the viewers attention rather than looking too closely at the paint job.

This was the Wasp livery at 2638 Limerick Junction 2660 at Albert Quay 1960. Was this a rebuilt crash repair?

Photgrapher was a D Twibell. Looking at the shadows with the sun setting on the left it looks like a late-ish afternoon shot.

Cork, Albert Quay 12 September 1960. I'm wondering if the photographer was on holiday with his wife and she asked him to take a photograph of the cute little cat, and " not another boring old train picture".I hope he got away with it!

There are 35 pinned etc posts before yours appear so just keep going down the page until you reach the 3 posts you have made. Your posts will always be added after the pinned ones ie the green circle , the thing that looks like a tailors dummy etc.

Some Cavan & Leitrim views uploaded to Flickr today including this one of 5T on a Well wagon at Broadstone on 28 June 1959. The second more broadside view not uploaded yet shows how to 'tether' your iron horse to the wagon.