leslie10646

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!

You won't be giving me "Likes" after you read my next entry as to why a sound-fitted loco needs to be dismantled to set witches before it will move ........ Furious of Frimley

Accurascale had a "Wheel of Fortune" on their website last week. So, I spun it. 30% off, so I bought this ....... Don't they pack things well? And in the bottom was this ...... I'll give it a run tomorrow. By the way, thanks, lads, for the nice big box and packing material - it'll keep Provincial Wagons in packaging for a month!

I'm sure that the IRRS will forgive me giving outsiders a free view of this - a collection of gradient posts and mileposts off the Valencia line as taken by the late David Soggee. Copyright IRRS, David Soggee collection

Of course I condemn this appalling desecration of the NCC by a foreign loco, but of course there were thousands of Yanks in Northern Ireland training prior to Operation Torch in North Africa - did you know that they sailed direct from NI to Algeria? To be shot at and killed by the French! It's a wonder that they didn't regauge a few of these to run in Ireland, they'd have been useful! Your cameo would just about work for 1943, the period I am referring to. The first one was built in 1942. As for desecration, I have posted my Bavarian 0-8-8-0 Mallet tank shunting at Portadown Jct - at least it was BLUE and your S160 is a passable NCC red! Why not go the whole hog and letter it NCC and number it 111, or so?

Very commendable, Darius. You're obviously staying in out of the sun! How did you remove all those little boxes on each side of the bonnet - it looks like the sort of surgery I would run away from and just sloosh black paint over the standard 08 and apply a few transfers. Rather you than me! Compliments!

Yes, I thought that I'd never find myself supporting Spain. Now, the Play-off for Third was one of the best examples of attacking football I've ever enjoyed. When England were 4-0 up at half time, I thought that France had given us a four goal start - you can imagine how i felt when they quickly got two goals to make it 4-2! Mind you, England badly need a back line - a pity (for England) that Conor Bradley is Irish! To complete the 6-4 win involved Bellingham giving the ball to wee Saka (one of several Christians in this England team) to take the penalty, as he was on a hat trick - yet Bellingham if he'd scored would have become the highest scoring England World Cup player ever. Saka got his hat trick and minutes later, Bellingham scored a beauty and realised his goal (pun intended).. All part of the Great Eternal Plan - things work out! There is a God, no question about it. How many of you noticed the Christians on BOTH sides come together in prayer at the end of the match?

Are you certain that they are not all pseudonyms used by King Donald? ----------------------- My 4DD is no better than Brendan's, same bogie derails on the same point - I COULDN'T loosen the screw - mind you I was afraid of breaking something. Mine was bought for the Cabinet, so less of an issue and at least the SR green pones don't seem to have gone cheap. However, the Leader ....... Is going at half price in all liveries, so if you want a pseudo Turf Burner to sit in a siding - it's under a hundred quid. Mine was fine and pulls twenty of the Boys nice wagons with ease - I can only report what I found - I've never tried the lights .......... @Darius43 - is the sound worth having?

Commiserations, David, on what must have been a very trying few days. I hope that a solution comes up. You mentioned your 40 year old H&M Clipper. I still use my SIXTY year old H&M Powermaster with its sliding rheostat taped off (I think I simply lost the knob!) to run either G scale or Rosses Bay. DCC can be a pain, but generally it has worked quite well on Portadown Jct. I wish I could successfully work the Factory reset on my Digitrax! When things go haywire, I take the old-fashioned computer man's solution and switch everything off and on again! Good luck - you deserve it.

Yes, Paul, what a remarkable place to make a layout of - it would take up an impressive amount of space with its sweeping curves and dealing with THREE entrances / exits, more or less at right angles. A challenge for someone with a very large house? The late Norman Johnston and Charls Friel gave it ten pages in their brilliant book Fermanagh's Railways in Colour. COLOUR photographs of it should appear in a forthcoming book. A couple of years ago you could have bought the building for under £200,000. The former tea room would have been perfect for a layout! The sale included the entire area of the triangular junction! I couldn't persuade my other half to up sticks - too far from the ROH, Covent Garden! See: https://www.eadiemcfarland.co.uk/bundoran-junction-station-house-43-old-junction-road-kilskeery/580626/slideshow/photo-2

Gruesome watching tonight, but I will say it out loud that in sixty years of watching England, I have never seen a better England performance as that in Mexico. They deserve their semi-final place for that alone. Whatever Real Madrid paid for Bellingham, IT WASN'T ENOUGH! I look forward to the THIRD Battle of the Falklands ..... I bet @Galteemore is the only one who knows whhen the first one was? Good morning all - must get to bed - I'm on duty at church in the morning!

Having had a few of @Mayner's kits through my hands, I can testify to the excellence of his Chinese "printer".

Great stuff, Enda. Good luck with the new wagon. Leslie

No, not individual sales, but people populating my database. sales amount to 5,875 items and I have doubtless missed quite a few at shows etc. The 500th gent was ordering one of @Past-Avenue's nice CIE Brake Vans, as it happened. When I have time, I'll be adding Enda's new wagon to my website - another wagon based on one of my kits - and very nice it looks too! He'll be selling them at Bray, I think, this weekend? I forgot to be polite - THANK YOU to those of you who have bought all those wagons / containers etc etc Sorry, guys, not quite retired, even now, by the Grace of God, I'm eighty .......

Hhmmm, I'm not sure if I should admit to this..... My grandson for some reason couldn't get his infant mouth round Grandpa, so I became known in the family as "Kaka" - DON'T LOOK UP THE MEANING !!!!!!! So "Kaka" I am and I have a Brazilian football shirt with that gent's name on the back. I wore it one night when Brazil was playing on TV and the silly sod got sent off. No worries about England getting far, their defence is non-existent. Of course, they need Northern Ireland's captain to play for them. When Conor Bradley played for Liverpool against Real Madrid, Conor saw Mbappe off the pitch! They breed real men in Castlederg .....