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@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!

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!!!!

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!

Moxy, you're correct about the 1964 Joint Tour.

But I have Lance King's shots of the 1962 IRRS St Pat's Day tour to Youghal when six wheel van No.18 in BnT was pulled along behind No.207 Boyne at no less than 78mph (in the Goold's Cross dip).

Brilliant North Africa diorama, Darius. A lot cheaper than King and Country!

6 hours ago, Darius43 said:

For a second I thought you were at Goring-by-Sea, which is two stations down from me.  It’s electrified as well but using a different method…

Cheers

Darius

Ah yes, Darius, I have to differentiate between the two of them when I'm searching Realtimetrains to see what's happening and if it's worth the £4.40 car parking to go and see. That said, the platforms are safer to walk on than our local ploughed up pavements

At last I have made a little progress with my Wordpress Site.

Nothing to get too excited about - FOUR pages with two pictures of wagons, but at least it now answers to -

provincialwagons.com

and the contacts bit gives my e-mail address.

More pages up next week after I've finished dog-sitting!

For the Canarian Container Man  -

On man driving thirty plus artics and even has time to beep us! Very windy day - sorry!

ACCURASCALE wagons seen at Goring!

The things people will do for publicity?

Hauled by 59.309 from Crewe to Arlington works at Eastleigh!

15 hours ago, Galteemore said:

You have the skills Patrick - just haven’t tried them! Talking of PPs, here is a painting of one pre-WW1 on the Greenore boat train. In those days the fastest way to reach London from Belfast. The original was commissioned by Sir John Harcourt, Lord Mayor of Belfast, c1957, and hung in the BR boardroom at Euston for many years. Sir John had used the train many times and had great affection for it: the border sadly killed it off. The painting was by Raymond Piper, more famous for orchid paintings. Piper travelled extensively around the network to track down every vehicle used on the train and sketch it. The PP - by 1957 black with a riveted smokebox - was captured at Newry shed, and the sketch survives.

A bit like this?

It is a PP and the examples of these LNWR coaches were bought by the GNR.

Round objects.

Produce the evidence!

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

The "delivery grey" was an utterly impractical livery - bear in mind when they went into traffic they were surrounded by black smoke belching A & C class Crossleyfailures and still quite a few steam engines! Both of which added to their cosmetic woes.......

 

Rhubarb, JB!

Take a look at this sister after a couple of years. March 1963. Almost like new!                                      Lance King 23 March 1963 Copyright IRRS

Ah yes, there are two or three books "above my head" as I sit here -  on the book shelves - which came from there. Certainly my original GNR book and Ahrons. However, very few Irish books had been published by February 1967 when I went into weeping exile.

And now for another meeting!

READING Berks on Wednesday, 22nd.

For any Irish railway enthusiasts who live in the Thames Valley within travelling distance of Reading, IRRS London Area committee member Leslie McAllister is repeating his talk “With Lance King in Ulster – The Great Northern” to the Reading Transport Group on Wednesday 22 March at 1945. The meeting will be held on the first floor of Church House, Church Street, Caversham next to Waitrose. Walking distance of Reading station.

For Satnavs the address is Church House, 59 Church Street, Caversham, Reading RG4 8AX.

In my, not humble opinion, the best of Lance's work with all those lovely Blue engines, mahogany coaches ......

It would be great to see any of you there.

Leslie

Three of my wagons on sale on eBay. Reasonable starting price.

I was even tempted by the UTA wagon myself, as I think I left myself with just one!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=234933796924&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562&_ssn=wagonmaniac

While I'm posting, I noted that the 00 Works GNR U Class went for double what it cost the original buyer. I knew I should have bought ten UGs!

Thanks for letting us all see what goes on at this exhibition (which I've never attended - it's the other side of London, for goodness sake!) - but remarkable layouts.

I had half an excuse this time - a talk on Friday and watching Ireland yesterday!

Glad that you met the two Davids!