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Well they never said it was confidential! So lines they were looking for photos were Dundalk, Newry & Greenore, Lough Swilly, Achill-Westport, Giants Causeway & West Clare plus the Dungarvan one. I have this one, not yet uploaded to Flickr, on the Bandon to alleviate your suffering. A well photographed Special 17 March 1961

Its not on the list I have been given for what is hopefully a first series. I have provided views for the Lough Swilly programme but don't know how many will survive the 'cutting room' I doubt that I will be able to view the series here in the "Centre of Britain"

Title amended, the late photographer TJ Saunders was more a devotee of the Great Western Railway! At least he didn't describe it as probably a West Clare 2 WHEEL coach.

The last photo though is actually narrow gauge West Clare railway No 5, possibly the " W C" initials fooled the Editor/Author!

Progress at Four Masters. Building up the embankments etc

A couple of JG Dewing images added to Flickr today. These 2 of D4 346 near Rathdrum date according to his records from the same day 20 April 1955

I did 32 years with Midland Bank and got out when HSBC took over. If it had been 6 months later when I was 50 I could have had a full pension . As it was at 49 i had to settle for 32 years redundancy instead, but I put all the redundancy payment over 30K into the pension fund to avoid income tax and then took my pension at age 50 but at 50% of the normal retirement pension. In the good old days Bank pensions were none-contributory ie nowt was deducted off your salary when you were working. I then worked part-time for Nat Worst bank for another 10 years thereby accumulating another none contributory pension. I didn't want to end up like my late father who worked until he was 65 in the Blood Transfusion Service and in the evenings on week days taught Haematology to medical students. He always told my mother that when he retired they could go out and enjoy the fruits of his labours, however 6 months after he retired was diagnosed with Stomach Cancer spent most of his time in hospital and passed away 3 years later.

You have one in a million there

I have 1400 followers on Flickr ERNIE's Railway Archive. A fair number of these seem to be Eastern European or Asian young maidens!

Our late Border collie Chumbawallah Pondicherry still has a facebook account created by my daughters . One of their facebook friends regularly corresponded with him for 6 months before she realised he was a dog!

I am not a fan of Faecesbook either. I mainly use it to chat to the offspring as my cheapo Tesco Pay as you Go mobile doesn't support WhatsUp and I am only a member of various Groups to keep an eye on what photos they have nicked off my flickr and doctored to get rid of the copyright overlays. There are just too many Groups basically churning out the same stuff or in some cases perpetuating false or flawed information. Now does anyone remember a Group I had years ago when, I think it was Microsoft, had some site (MY Daughter says it was MSN Groups!) where you could form a Group. Mine was Irish Railway something - I can't even remember what its Title was . Any way Microsoft or whatever decided to pull the plug on MSN and I closed it down. Shortly after IRM started up and I joined here instead. Some of the lads on here were members, H Gricer was one. My memory is definitely getting worse!

Found this on Facebook Tony. https://www.facebook.com/RailOmagh This has a lot of Archive images on it. You can post your photos (where you have copyright or the copyright holders permission) etc on there if you join Facebook yourself (I think) Ernie

Its a Tank engine and therefore carries its water in the saddle tank and coal in the bunker behind the cab rather than having a separate tender. Looking at the instructions (I don't use DCC) there is space in the boiler to fit a chip which will need to be cold wired, OO Works do not provide this service. I notice that whilst the loco comes with a 12 month guarantee for manufacturing faults fitting a DCC chip also voids the guarantee.

It is. He has listed them on E Bay (all 3 liveries) at £280 which is a £1 more than his web site but then on E Bay I get 280 Nectar points so save 40P! Postage £9 UK Special Delivery. He has listed 2 more green ones available. Purchased Thursday, posted friday, left on the step this morning as the van roared off into the distance. I don't know how clued up OO Works are on selling to the EU so deducting VAT (They may be too small to be VAT registered even) So it may be an idea for someone in the EU to check out if E Bay does this on the Global Shipping Program for this particular model. Nice heavy loco which negotiates 17 inch curves and points.

Four Masters Bridge. The rail bridge over Edenville Road is now awaiting painting and here are a couple of shots showing their position on the layout. Also just arrived today S&DJR No. 5 from OOWorks

http://donegalrailway.com/?event=santa-2-2-2-3-2-3-2-2-2&event_date=2021-03-19 Links on the above site

The Broadstone photo was 28 June 1952. By 23.10.1960 532 had been consigned to Ashtown Halt, next appointment no doubt the scrapman Couple of views by GT Robinson

Added this one to Flickr today. Unidentified 4-4-0. Looks like its probably in use as a stationary boiler. No buffers, no track! Broadstone Dublin shed

I am after a UG but not at that price particularly as having to import into the independent state of Haltwhistle from the EU there will be Vat to pay. I see that OO Works have the ex CBSC 0-6-0st tank varieties on E Bay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OOWorks-Irish-CBSCR-Saddle-tank-Green-New/114726371064?hash=item1ab6397ef8:g:xU4AAOSwLQtgTfid

Looking good Alan. Started on the last bridge for Four Masters (Small railway overbridge over a minor road) Hopefully might have some track laid by the Summer Hols! Just watched a program called "Walk The Line" at 7pm on BBC4. Belcoo via Enniskillen to Bundoran. Had some shots of SLNCR & GNRI including film. Not sure what films of a WT and some colour Dundalk Newry & Greenore (I think) were doing in it though. Plus no scenes of the Sligo & Donegal Junction. Its just vanished , air brushed from memory

This one. https://www.videoscene.co.uk/irish-rail-archive-volume-8-tara-to-clara

Did a quick search of the IRRS Flickr archive and 67 images came up including a number of building images. Don't delay join today!

Hi Paul, the original layout containing Glengarriff and the fiddle yard etc is 10 feet x 5ft-3 ins . There are 6 baseboards. 2 end boards 5'-3'' x 2'. these are separated by the main fiddle (1ft wide) and the back fiddle yard (6'' wide) They are 6 ft long. These 4 boards have no scenery on and if the layout was dismantled could be transported relatively easily. In front of the back fiddle yard are the scenic boards for Glengarriff each 3ft long x 2 ft wide. They were designed to be taken out and could be stored box-like screwed together facing each other. It is possible to run trains without the scenic sections in place as the continuous run still exists. One other criteria was that I sometimes want to run long trains so the 3 longest fiddle yard loops can hold a 20 wagon + 2 baby GM's. The longest loop will hold 10 Tara's and 8 Fertilisers at the same time. The operating well is therefore 6 ft x 20 inchs - not very wide but neither am I! The original idea with the removable scenic part was so that I could build other boards displaying different scenarios covering my NER/Scottish models and possibly USA or 7mm narrow gauge without having to build a lot more fiddle yards etc. This concept however has been modified owing to the passage of time and a consequent lack of cooperation from my knees and back! I decided therefore to give up on the switching scenic boards idea and instead build an extension which could also include more elaborate scenery. Four Masters Bridge is the result. L shaped 5ft x 8ft. Maximum overall layout size is 15 feet x 8 feet. This extension is dual purpose, Irish modelling wise it is the Sligo & Donegal Junction railway but it will also serve as a station on the Caledonian & North Eastern Junction railway a direct line from Morpeth then over the Border into Scotland to Carstairs on the West Coast Mainline. This will be late steam early diesel in both Irish and UK formats. The scenery in both areas is very similar. There will be some loss of the original fiddle yard capacity when operating in S&DJ or C&NE format but this will be offset by a new 7 road fiddle yard at Four Masters. Hired a drone to take some views from up in the rafters.

Drowes River Bridge basic painting now completed.

Yes 603 failed at Sligo so B132 worked Sligo-Ballaghadereen and back to Kilfree where B129 took over to Mullingar (According to 6 Bells Junction Railtour files.) At Boyle the train waited to cross B130 heading to Sligo- have this slide to upload in due course.