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Nah, got that one - another noisy little "Silver" thing, which looks OK. BUT - an E Class would be something else ........ I remember them well - the tented variety and the "normal". By way of a PS, you guys at Accurascale realise that you sell three times as many "C"s as B1a?

This is very good news for you youngsters. My Silver Fox C Class will be adequate for me - I'll be 82 (DV) when the iRM one comes out - and it's sound-fitted already - noisiest loco on the layout thanks to whatever John planted the body on. John has done us older guys a big service in that he produced reasonable replicas of Irish locos long before anyone else.

Hi Paul I assume that you've got Richard McLachlan's scans of the IRRS Archive set of the drawings? You realise that now that you have announced your intentions that IRM will announce theirs for delivery RTR, with sound, lights, passengers and ten liveries by Christmas (although not saying which year).

Well spotted, Paul. Someone had been careless at Amiens Street, it appears? The Express did carry Bundoran Express roof boards, although I cannot find a photo which CLEARLY shows that, even in the excellent Fermanagh's Railways book. There was a through coach from Belfast, which attached/detached at Clones - replacing the buffet car, which awaited the return service! The double-headed "New" U Class is a find. As Stevie says above, long may you continue to enthrall us with such views!

So that's how it is pronounced! Please, just say it again, JB, so that I catch it right.

Members 2.6k Posted 1 hour ago (edited) I realise that I probably posted this in the wrong place ...... So, I've moved it to here! I think that many of you know that I sell books, but maybe you didn't know that I sold on-line through the Abe Books website? You can browse my books through: https://www.abebooks.com/the-syndicate-camberley/90369263/sf The books are a mixture of Stock previously sold "over the counter" by The Syndicate at events in the South of England; Collections donated to the London Area of the IRRS; Some of my own. The profits on the IRRS books go to the IRRS London. We have been regular supporters of the RPSI and to a lesser extent the DCDR. If you see something which you would like to buy, buy the book through ABE (but be aware that we lose 25% of income that way) or PM meand I'll sort something out. Those of you in The Republic, I am happy to bring the book (or books) over in November for collection at the exhibition and would take payment in Euros. Obviously, NO postal charges in this case. However, take note that I will not be at the exhibition on the Saturday - I have something much better to do that day! Thanks for looking. I am just about to list this book - there isn't a copy on ABE, so it must be rare! 112 pages, illustrated in black and white photos. Comes with a free map of Cork's tramways by the late John Gilham (that's a bit big - equivalent to 16A4 sheets - neatly folded. Listed at £20. SORRY THIS BOOK SOLD WITHIN THE HOUR! THANKS FOR LOOKING, PLENTY MORE! Edited 1 hour ago by leslie10646

I think that many of you know that I sell books, but maybe you didn't know that I sold on-line through the Abe Books website? You can browse my books through: https://www.abebooks.com/the-syndicate-camberley/90369263/sf The books are a mixture of Stock previously sold "over the counter" by The Syndicate at events in the South of England; Collections donated to the London Area of the IRRS; Some of my own. The profits on the IRRS books go to the IRRS London. We have been regular supporters of the RPSI and to a lesser extent the DCDR. If you see something which you would like to buy, buy the book through ABE (but be aware that we lose 25% of income that way) or PM me and I'll sort something out. Those of you in The Republic, I am happy to bring the book (or books) over in November for collection at the exhibition and would take payment in Euros. Obviously, NO postal charges in this case. However, take note that I will not be at the exhibition on the Saturday - I have something much better to do that day! Thanks for looking. I am just about to list this book - there isn't a copy on ABE, so it must be rare! 112 pages, illustrated in black and white photos. Comes with a free map of Cork's tramways by the late John Gilham (that's a bit big - equivalent to 16A4 sheets - neatly folded. Listed at £20.

Thanks, @Mol_PMB and Ernie. that's as clear as crystal! All I have to do now is to work out how to use their software to get a map from around 1950!

David I've had a look at photographs from Henry Casserley (a 1934 photo of "Palms" - obviously on a family-oriented holiday!), David Soggee and Lance King. There was a turntable, as seen in Ernie's photo, I have even one of No.156 being turned on it (there was obviously one at Headford as well as the the loco was always chimney-first. My CIE WTTs are at my other residence, but those show TURNTABLES, but not about other facilities. Kenmare had a sheaf of sidings, a loading bank is visible in one photo, but neither goods shed or loco shed appears. The same applies to photographs I have seen of Headford as well. When I get my hands on a WTT, I'll be able to check if the day's work began at Headford or Kenmare (which would point to some kind of shed?). We need a track diagram and I am unaware of a publication with such. Time for one of you younger guys to do that as book - a good research project and would sell well, I think. I'm now trying to think of books which might offer a view of the place which we haven't seen! More if I find them!

Ernie Who took the Kenmare branch shots. I have very similar colour ones! Thanks Leslie

Yes, the Hunslet sounds are impressive. By the time they arrived, I was in England, so I have no real knowledge of them, bar the run mentioned earlier. I now need to play with it a bit to get the sound effects which show it to advantage, as after p[ractice I got the 121 B type to sound exactly as I remembered them - DCC has its mpoments!

Well, Mr Impatient continued with his running in of the (very noisy) Hunslet, and as this was a test run, the Dynamometer Car came along: IMG_5760.MOV Then, I discovered that if you rev'd it up and eased back to about 80 on my Digitrax, you got a very nice sound......... IMG_5761.MOV After light engine testing, the Inchicore test train of old GNR coaches had arrived and is about to hand the train over to the new Hunslet. IMG_5762.MOV Meanwhile, the loco which had brought the test train up from Inchicore had run forward out of the way, leaving the coaches to be picked up at the Junction. IMG_5764.MOV So, all is well. A very fine piece of model engineering, even if the manufacturer tries to bamboozle its eighty year old customers. I really like the throttled back sound effect - I'll demo that another time without the B Class interfering! Mind you, I have to read volumes of stuff to find out how to turn lights on and off on my handheld Digitrax. Thanks, @Darius43 for keeping me on track!

Thanks for that interesting piece of information about commonality with the Class 20s - one of the real successes of the Modernisation Plan on BR. A pity that NIR didn't just get a few regauged ones? As for the fact that there were just three. If my memory hasn't failed me, the Government coughed up the cash as part of the 50th celebration of the foundation of the State (in 1922) - and I guess they weren't going to spend too much on railways which they detested?

I got this notice in my box: On the other side it said and note the word MUST: Now: I thought, this is rubbish, the loco is factory fitted, so should work out of the box. So, I stuck it on the track, turned the knob a bit (enough to send anything else shooting halfway to Armagh) and nothing happened. So, I took the lid off: at which point I found that the fan unit does not "just come off". I did the obvious thing and PM'd @Darius43, who has a shed-full of these things. ""It should work out of the box". "please don’t remove any parts.". Thanks, Darius, you were RIGHT! I didn't go any further but tried it again this morning, after checking that other locos on "03" worked. It moved imperceptibly - no wonder I really thought the thing needed adjustment! It's just factory-set ultra low speed! So, I've admitted to being an eejit. WHY, I ask Accurascale, does a factory-fitted loco have this stupid notice put in the box? I've run it round for twenty minutes, ANY of my steam locos would out-run it, including the smallest 0-6-0, so when I have time, onto the Programming Track it will go, and the speed controls will be drastically reset - I run trains, not a shunting layout! I had a run behind the real thing when it was weeks out of the box - its time to Lisburn was five minutes faster than anything I'd had with steam, so they COULD run. Why set an express loco up for a shunting yard ....... Yours Slightly-less Furious of Frimley

Ivor, you have lost none of your skills since you built my AEC and BUT sets while I was in Hong Kong in the late 1990s. While I was there, Daniel Wu, an interior decorator who liked building kits, built my No.171 and 172 from SSM kits. I'll post them here when I find where they are! To date, they've cost me over £500 each and I challenge anyone to decide which of us got the better bargain? Delighted to see you posting here again. Keep it up!