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Beats my S Class on 11 bogies!

19 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Funnily enough Paul is our office is pushing exactly for that lol. 

Don't do it - you'd get four customers - I can probably name them ......

Someone in the Stock Market understands that too, with Hornby shares losing a third of their value this year.

49 minutes ago, james1994 said:

my question is how do i measure the height of things to scale. so if i want to make harcourt street station for example how do i measure in scale. like how high should a building be compared to the road and so on. also im finding it hard to know how much space i would need in terms of width. 

Hi James and welcome.

Harcourt Street station building is still there, so you can pop along and measure it?

The line was elevated indeed. But how high?

There is a photo of a loco which went through the end wall and finished almost in the street. It was a little loco, so maybe 20 feet long?

Work out the angle it's at and do the sums?  I never was any good at maths ........

Best wishes to Wexford MRC this weekend - I hope the exhibition is a brilliant success.

Apologies for our non-appearance - my Sales Person is in New York!

Looking forward to reports from those who can attend!

Steven, thanks for the heads up. That's the highest buyer's premium I have ever seen!

On 19/4/2023 at 2:14 PM, Irishswissernie said:

Scanned this slide recently , Aghadavoyle area with a WT heading north with a dead VS probably 207 in the train followed by (I think) one of the ex GNRI bogie grain wagons ca August 1964.  If it was 207, CIE sold the loco to the UTA in June 1963 so probably not it being delivered to them but maybe after having failed in the Republic.

 

If the photo was taken in 1964, then I can't help with this, but Jim's surmise above (that No.207 had failed at Dundalk) is probably correct.

Why? Well on 15 July 1965 I was on the 0925 excursion with No.207, hauling 10 bogies. She ran to Dundlak, non-stop in 83 minues (Schedule 81) and was declared a failure with a Hot Box (which one I didn't record!). She was replaced by A19 which struggled up Castlebellingham in the forties (the VS would have been around a mile a minute here) and then failed at Drogheda. A27 took over and struggled to get into even the low fifties - mind you they were still with their original engines then!

For the return journey, WT No.56 had a reduced laod of eight coaches and ran like the wind throughout - with a full 75mph inn the Knockarney Dip.

Hear @jhb171achill on his favourite subject!

LIVE & ZOOM : 18.00 – 20.45 Fri 21 April 2023 

“Rails through Connemara” by Jon Beaumont

Please note the 18.00 start time

Lifetime enthusiast, preservationist and author, Jon Beaumont, draws from his recent book about the life and times of the shortlived Galway-Clifden line, open from 1895-1935, setting it in the economic and social circumstances of the time. The line was opened to support (abortive) plans for a major fishing industry and a transatlantic shipping terminal at Clifden. Compounded by the burning down of the railway hotel at Recess in the ‘Troubles’, the line struggled to an early demise, even though it had stimulated early development of a local tourist industry. Jon will show many rare photos.

Live Meeting

This meeting will be held live in our excellent new venue, The Gallery at Alan Baxter 77 Cowcross Street Farringdon (through the gates, across the courtyard and down the steps!).

Do come along in person if you can.

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14 minutes ago, Patrick Davey said:

The Armagh-Castleblayney line must have cost a fortune to build with at least three huge viaducts required, at Milford, Tassagh and Keady, thankfully all still standing (haven't actually seen the Milford one so open to correction!)

Unsurprisingly there aren't too many photos of the Keady-Castleblayney section in operation.....if there are any at all in fact.

But a fascinating stretch of railway all the same.

Patrick, it is some years since I explored the line with the late Des Fitzgerald, but i think that you are right that three remain. My memory is that one at least was invisible until you had gone down a minor road which ran under it!

Driving South yesterday, I of course saw the Dromore viaduct beside the A1 near Dromore - another remarkable survivor!

Hadren has answered your query pretty completely.

The IRRS has digitised the drawings for the U, UG, T Tank, VS and V to name a few. Most are available as rather fine A5 books which would allow you to build a 12" to foot one! Also available as digital files. For a price, of course, years of work has gone into the project!

PM me and I'll give you a link to the custodian, Richard McLachlan.

Leslie

Well spotted, David.

The line resulted in several remarkable viaducts which still stand today and are fairly easy to photograph.

On my return journey yesterday to Dublin and then Holyhead, Richard McLachlan kindly ran me down to Greenore (after a meeting in Dundalk with DN&GR expert John Martin).

It's brilliant to see 2/3 overbridges beautifully maintained along the old route. Greenore itself was a revelation - we were too late to visit the famous LNWR Co-Op with its tearoom and model railway, but the sight of the original terraces of houses and the water towers of the station made the trip worthwhile - oh and the lovely scenery along the Cooley Pennisula.

What a lovely place to have a railway!

As stated earlier, I was too late to complete the journey to Holyhead by the original LNWR steamers!

@Patrick Davey, thanks for the photos of the exhibition and for calling by!

Thanks to all who made the long trip so worthwhile, my best sales for the NDMRC exhibition (in well over ten visits)! The six and four plank limited edition sold out!

Thanks especially to the team at NDMRC, led by the estimable Exhibition Manager, Ellen, who did a terrific job all around.

Having driven through the night from Holyhead with Richard McLachlan, I slept right through the day! Absolutely knackered!

Good to see a few regular contributors from here at Bangor today.

Thanks to those of you who made it a very worthwhile day - it might cover our ferry fares! Mind you, there's no price on seeing old friends!

Good craic and i hope for more tomorrow!

Thanks again to those who came by.

Leslie

Folks

If I may be so bold, if any of you want me to reserve stock for you to pick up at Bangor, please say so.

I've just finished rooting out every kit I have for some of the lines,  and while I have decent stocks of some wagons which are sold singly (like brake vans) in the case of some others, my stock is in single figures. I will have stock of almost every kit I have produced.

Just let me know, please

Pay when you pick them up, of course - sterling or Euros.

Looking forward to seeing some of you there.

7 minutes ago, Noel said:

Collectors and hoarders? You'd like to think they'll be played with and run on layouts, but at those prices will they ever be run?

Of course they will be run, Noel. I run my €500 (steam) locos!

Just to get everyone wound up again on this subject ...........

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

(Sorry fell asleep, it's hard to keep your concentration with these long-running sagas)

It's obvious it ain't anything Northern, or they wouldn't be doin' it in Wexford.

Where's Wexford, by the way? ......

Happy Easter, everyone and Thank the Lord for Bertie, (Tony - did I really say that?), Bill and the remarkable Senator Mitchell who managed to get our "politicians" to Give Peace a Chance.

Christos Anesti

Mayflower  in the Meadows near Goring today! En route to Worcester. After she had gone by, I found the line is accessible on the other (sunny) side! TURN THE SOUND UP!

Yes, Ken, definitely a "Wow"!

Good luck with it - especially as my own efforts to progress to doing a horesbox have taken a big step backwards.

Best wishes and prayers, as ever, for success with the treatment.

After JB's relocation, I looked myself up and I'm shown in Surrey, but about thirty miles from my official residence. I note a nearby area is called The Scrubs - and maybe that's where I should be? (Slang warning here - you need to know the colloquial name for one of HIS Majesty's homes for dodgy characters).

Great stuff, Ballinacraig. Thanks for sharing it.

Hi John, sorry I didn't see this.

I have no idea, but one certainly should have being the reason that No.4 was still around when we had money to buy her!

Galteemore might now?

Back to my website for a moment - imagine my amazement when I put in "provincial(space)wagons and got my site at the top of the list - maybe Wordpress is better than I thought!!!!

Okay, guys - April Fool jokes end at MIDDAY!

Leyney, I would have thought that a C Class was a really major exercise for The Boys, as only the cab was the same and it was just as useless as the A Class until GM re-engined them - mind you the British electrical bits seem to have been fine and lasted for ages. Like it or lump it, the Yanks knew how to build diesels. Even the Germans run Yankee ones today (mind you they started over here in UK).

JB, as the Customer always knows best, you can have a three wheel beet wagon from me any time - I'll snip through the second axle of the next kit I sell you and provide one and a half axles worth. Always keen to oblige!

GSR800's idea for a boxed set is very prototypical.

Ron Pocklington told me that sometimes it took three A Class to take a Cork express. One would break down half way down The Gullet, the second would fail on the train and the third would work the train .....  So having an 800 around would be useful?

Little details like these carts really make a scene in a rural area, like a little grey Fordson tractor (who remembers them?)

Me, now that you ask. When I was fourteen or so. My cousin sold it to a collector, so it may still appear at "events".

Wot, no West Highland Terrier? (Glasgow Eastfield's symbol).

I'll save my money to create more unusual wagons ......

Yes, Ernie, you did well getting this collection. It was obviously taken by one of the LCGB party led by Lance King in June 1957, for HIS shots are of the same trains.

His shot of "Armagh" is in the BACKGROUND of a shot of SLNCR Railbus 2A - he missed a fine opportunity to catch No.203. Instead the IRRS collection has two shots at the shed with BLACK engines!

Thanks for sharing them!