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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.

Uploaded this one to flickr today.B129 at Boyle 8 June 1961. What makes it even more interesting to me is the footbridge. I like the shed built in to the footbridge support on the left and also the black painted panels above the tracks - add details like these to your layout .

I always went early in the morning and departed before noon prior to some of the locals arising from their slumbers. I was asked once if I fancied a one way trip to the Wicklow Mountains! There was always something going on (railway wise that is) 144 + 149 shunting June 2001

The Drowes River viaduct at Four Masters Bridge is now awaiting painting. Its still in 7 separate pieces to facilitate painting. Just chanced putting a wagon on it rather than a pair of 121's Construction is Plasticard, Plastruct odd bits of wood and plaster hole filler.

A39 Gort 27 March 1999 Photographer G Roose

A bumper bundle of Irish narrow gauge uploaded to flickr; 71 Londonderry & Lough Swilly and 7 colour slides West Clare Diesels and railcars. I thought there had been a colour shift on some West Clare slides but there does appear to have been 2 shades of green as both appear in some of the views.

The Drowes River Bridge Deck is ready for painting so I took a few photos to check out the layout sight lines.

Found a photo of 223 coming off the Waterford line at Cherryville June 2005 hauling a Push/Pull set Driving Trailer first. Now were the 201's all push/pull fitted when first into service. My Platform 5 first edition indicates that only the 4 dedicated Enterprise locos 206-209 plus 228,229 & 230 were push/pull fitted initially. A quick check through my photos from May 2000 at Drogheda only confirm 228 and 229 on the push/pull sets. Coincidence? Muine Bheag 220 October 2000 This video also shows 220 running round the set at Kilkenny and also illustrates that the trailer was somewhat noisy to travel in. footage between 5.17 and 7.10

Dublin - Waterford 2003 -2005 trains were a mixture of MK 3 sets, Push/Pull sets and Cravens. Some of the Push/Pull sets I travelled on were not worked in Push/Pull mode by the 201's and they ran round at Kilkenny and Waterford. One of the Cravens sets sometimes included a coach with the buffet at the end. They all appear in Ernie's Archive on Flickr either photos or on video. One from up the hill at Waterford in June 2005