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59 minutes ago, Patrick Davey said:

Love the BCDR tank!  Love it all!!!!  Can't believe you have been keeping all this from us Alan 

 

Have to agree with Patrick - the little tank looks splendid. Can we have a tutorial on how you did i?
 

The diesel from Judith’s kit looks good. I own a kit of it as well and must beat up someone who promised to build it.

a superb piece of modelling from end tend.

Trying to keep calm until tomorrow’, so I’ve taken myself to Thuringen to forget about IRM announcements! I’ll be behind a 2-8-2 when the Balloon goes up!
Hope they announce everything on the suggestions listed in  the previous 7 pages of this thread.

Greetings from Meiningen.

Leslie

First, David, simply terrific stuff. You're carrying on RC's enthusiasm for the unusual - keep it up!

You can understand Richard C's enthusiasm for the WL&WR - Robinson was a locomotive artist.

When Bachmann do a model of his Great Central Atlantic it may prove impossible to resist.

Dave and Co - First, drive safely. Good luck with the layout among them other Celts, I hope it behaves and that you enjoy the weekend. Have you resurrected the J15s?

Don't forget to let us know what The Boys have on their Stand / announce!

53 minutes ago, Broithe said:

I'm presuming that we might be subject to an announcement at https://modelrail-scotland.co.uk/ on the 24/5/6th, with Accurascale being a 'show supporter'.

 

Well done Broithe, probably the most sensible post on this thread.

I hope to be abroad, so can someone text me and tell me which kits to delete from my offerings?

Thanks

Leslie

Thanks, I'm breaking the Tenth Commandment again - and on a Sunday!

2 hours ago, Colin R said:

rats missed that one, hope someone on here got it. 

No problem, Colin. I have the containers plus six different bakery transfers.

At 0820 this morning (so awful light, made worse by being handheld by a panting man!).

But, hey, it's steam! Good start to the day! Enjoy,

Leslie

JB is quite right.

They were built for me by Richard Eliis-Hobbs and used the corrugated ends from the famous Dapol banana vans. I believe that the body is Plasticard.

I don't know if any of you watched Ciaran Conney's brilliant talk to the IRRS London tonight, but in the background of one of the photos was Cement Van No.21 taken in 1957 when it had just been built!!!

This was the second run, I haven't got a pic of No.21 to hand! I originally ordered 100, but when the orders poured in the night i put my website up (2007), I went back to Dapol next morning and asked for the order to be increased to 200. They all went, then came 150 of this one and a hundred in CIE guise.

Most unusually, a British van was just right for Ireland!

As The Boys seem so reluctant to announce whatever is coming, I've been buying new toys.

First, all the way from NZ is one of John's Rank Wagons (had to have one as I watched the late Drew Donaldson build one in his workshop - my vocabulary was extended by some of his exclamations). The brake van was simply to make it worth the postage. DPD charge a fortune, but the wagons were with me in under a week.

Seen here on the cattle wagon test train - I'm ironing out issues with my rather long train of GN cattle wagons).

Or in close-up.

When I ordered my CIE six wheelers from Hattons, I added one of their GNR six wheel full brakes, as I can't resist a good "tailvan". That arrived today and is here seen beside a Hornby LNER sixwheeler - the Hattons one is closer to the GN as we know it? The brake has lights as you can see.

And a close-up to give you a better look!

Absolutely ten out of ten - even though it's a diesel.

Even the late "Mac" Arnold stated that for the price paid (£4,000), its 436,000 miles in service show that it was far from being useless - an accolade from that source!

PS the layout is even better than 10/10. Congrats.

Thanks, Mr Gm for that dose of nostalgia.

I actually did a runabout ticket up to Christmas 1964 to get some extra Derry Road steam mileage - I seem to have ignored the fact that the line survived until February - must look up my 1965 diary!

Has anyone got a good photo of those white CIE containers seen being shunted at Strabane?

a) John M - are you trying to put me out of business?

b)  Jon B - As I have said many times, I have two AEC sets and don't need any more ......

It won't be b) anyway, as they're doing these Rotten (did I spell that right?) things .....

Ian Sinclair presented a remarkable story of a UTA project to develop either the Queens Bridge station, or build a new station alongside Great Victoria Street as a possible terminus for the remaining BCDR trains (Bangor and possibly Comber lines). The services were planned to be run by the then new MED diesel units.

It was the GNR's staggering volume goods traffic (in early 1950s) over the Belfast Central Railway which largely killed the project, as the passenger movements left no room for the thousands of cattle and large traffic in sand, oil, coal etc.

Ian concluded by showing the work going on today to build Belfast's "Grand Central Station" (due to open in the next couple of years) on virtually the site planned in the early 1950s!

A brilliant piece of research and my heartiest congratulation to Ian..

3 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Are you Chinese?

No, but I've travelled in more Chinese provinces than any Chinese person I've ever met.

Something to do with having travelled behind over 80 QJ Class 2-10-2s.

I still carry my Hong Kong ID Card!

I like that word SOON!

If you are Chinese that could mean in the next century or two.

"May you live in interesting times" .............

I bought BRM to get the account of Andy's "Castlederg" (TEN pages of delightful nostalgia - it even has the RUC station where my Dad served!!!) and it had a review of the Lad's Class 92. Congrats to them - BRM were lost for words of praise to use! However, it's the Mark Fives that blew me away - amazing detail. Very, very well done.

As the Frogs say "Chapeau"!!!

7 hours ago, Dun Aucht said:

The attack on the train at Adavolye in 1921. My great Uncle, my maternal grandmother's youngest brother,  was on the train that was attacked. He was in the 10th Hussars and been providing the Sovereign's escort to King George V for the state opening of parliament in the north. My great Uncle was injured and later died some months later of pneumonia.

Horse traffic on the NCC. The NCC certainly did have horseboxes for the conveyance of horse traffic. There were point to point races held at Lisnalinchy in the 1920s on the Ballyclare Branch.

I have attached a couple of photographs, one by Des Coakham of the NCC V9 Horsebox. Bill Bedford did a brass kit of this wagon around 30 years ago. The Second photograph is by Henry Casserley of E1 0-6-0 No.53 at Ballymena in August 1930 with a couple of horseboxes on the drawbar. I believe they are GNR(I) examples.

 

Hi Dun

The GNR certainly did have horseboxes.

May I ask if you OWN the negative of the Casserley NCC photo?

Thanks.

6 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

What became of Fr. John's models? I wonder is he still with us? He used to be a regular on the RPSI May Tour - very nice guy.

John is still the Parish Priest of Chipping Camden and he still delights in his models.

I called to see him for ten minutes on New Year's Day 2020 and was there over an hour later. Always excellent company. It appears that the True Church doesn't let you retire!

I met Tony M a few times. Once, of all places, at Chippenham where the local society decided to have an Irish-themed exhibition. The Syndicate was there raising funds for the RPSI, but to enter into the spirit of the thing, we had an exhibit of Father John Brennan's O Gauge Irish locos. Adavoyle was right next door to us, so when we weren't selling books, we watched trains and Tony regaled us with endless hilarious tales of railways and the Navy.

The immortal Drew was a great friend both as a modeller and when we were both trying to fill RPSI tours in the troubled years of the 1970s. Galteemore's estimable  Dad was doing his magic (and a lot of very hard work) to keep the Society financially afloat.

About twenty-odd years ago, I had the effrontery to give a talk to the London Area of the IRRS on Irish railway modelling. Who should turn up but Richard Chown who completely eclipsed anything I was showing with what he produced from his case! A remarkable man.

No, they were ALL remarkable men!

On 1/2/2023 at 11:55 PM, jhb171achill said:

Fivemiletown, perhaps? Certainly not Augher.

 

Apologies, it is at AUGHNACLOY. I've corrected the original post.

I catalogued so many of these Casserleys over the last three days that I'm getting cross-eyed going from scan to his notebooks and back identifying the scans! Henry took about two dozen photos on the CVR on this visit. He'd come from the SL&NCR (a call at Enniskillen only) where he took less than a dozen shots.

Congratulations Mr Galteemore on the lovely model of these (not so little?) engines!). They are giants beside the Fest locos!

Of course, those of us "in weeping exile" can see Andy's CDR delights for under a tenner, if we live in the right part of the Big Island.

See Bruckless thread.

Have you built one of these yet, Andy?  Pretty little loco?                                    Aughnacloy 25/6/37 Casserley 14204, Copyright The Syndicate

Ah, Ned O'Hara!

Gave me a footplate ride on "207" from "The Wood" to "Pordydown" one Sunday evening in 1964.

Never to be forgotten.

As will Noel be.

9 minutes ago, connollystn said:

Would there be much of a market for Irish narrow gauge in OO?

No, but if there is, it's probably abroad (ie Big Island and beyond).

Let's see how quickly the Festiniog locos and stock sell out.

I was very tempted to buy one of each for my sons who spent endless holidays going up and down the Fest. They're lovely models, but they're SO small. The 15mm guy above showed how to do it.

I know why you say that! One ran on the SLNCR?