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    It DOES move, by the way, the previous pilot engine is cowering in a siding Maybe I should digitise the Bavarian job? It runs well after twenty years in the box (you can tell that I've been tidying the under my boards! At least twenty "foreign" locos in boxes! MVI_1898.m4v
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    Back at Portadown (and its dodgy German turntable) ......... The shed foreman decided to get his new shunting engine out to rescue a damsel in distress Sorry, I meant a broken-down Single-ended Yankee. I hope that you've noted that this is a BLUE engine, in keeping with God's Northern Railway?
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    Purely to wind you up, JB, I have my forty year old Fleischmann turntable at Portadown - TOTALLY WRONG, of course, but, hey, it works! i thought ttc's Peco turntable looked nice.
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    Nice wagons on your train, Patrick - oh, sorry, I'm meant to be admiring the diesel ........ Just had an e-mail threatening delivery of a Silver job. You do know that we called these things BULLETS? i presume because of the colour .........
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    Sorry about the blank video - can someone tell me how to dispose of it? Having "fun" with my new iMac which needless to say has a mind of its own! After the Banana, we repaired to a nearby overbridge and just about viewed Clun Castle coming round the curve from the main line and heading North towards Oxford and Birmingham. For the diesel men, note the Brush 4 pristine in original 1960s livery on the rear. MVI_1891.MP4
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    When I discovered that the GWS's Flying Banana was going to be running (a rare occurrence), we popped down to see what this fore-runner of Ireland's AEC cars was like to travel in - a shakey experience, but great to have a ride in it for a mile or so! You're in control ..... MVI_1885.MP4 A pretty bumpy ride for the passengers and almost as smokey as an "A" Class! MVI_1890.MP4 To give you an idea of the exterior! MVI_1885.MP4
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    Hopefully, Wexford will offer you an opportunity to buy Provincial Wagons kits over the counter for the first time in two years - WITHOUT the obligatory weeks waiting while An Post decide how much to charge you. More later!
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    Thanks, Broithe, for this. After enjoying the SNOW (brilliant editing and soundtrack!), found that the next video was the wonderful film of The Elizabethan. Nearly 400 miles of steam haulage and superbly filmed - always a joy to watch.
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    By a remarkable coincidence, the same engine (131) was out today (Saturday) on crew assessment with the RPSI's Mark 2s. I received by e-mail several very nice shots in bright sunshine. No doubt the RPSI will post some on its e-mail service.
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    While you're waiting for someone to do a RTR of a wagon / carriage you want - have a go at building a kit! (Mine even!). WCR is talking about Ciaran Cooney's brilliant presentation of Leslie Hyland's Black and white images taken 1950 - 1965-ish. Briiliantly taken originally and full of detail modellers try to recreate. Mr Hyland was a master of his craft and Ciaran has done a very fine job of researching the details of what we saw - nearly every county in Ireland was covered. I might even get a green A Class ........
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    Kenny boy, I ain't gettin' rid of it - I'm still paying for it on the Never, Never yet!
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    Hi Mike If a lorry can burn gas, or indeed a bus (our local ones do) - why can't I use my Zero-emission NEW Gas boiler for the next thirty years? Yeah, I know that you're neither the Energy Minister, or the PM (a Classicist, who knows nothing about science), but WHY NOT? LM (Fellow sufferer in the Hades of BrexitLand)
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    Hear, hear, Ernie, JB et al. I record the stuff I might want to watch and then watch them when it suits me. Then, when an ad break comes up, 4/5 clicks of the "Forward Arrow" and I've missed them all - "Simples" - (oh, Lord, I've admitted that I've watched THAT one! Spud's right, though. Derry Girls fills half an hour on terrestial TV, yet is 22 minutes an episode on Netflix - now I wonder how that happens
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    Hi JB Commiserations on the Burma experience - not surprised on any front - I've never been keen on narrow gauge, so I wouldn't expect much. I think that running tours in distant lands must be a nightmare for the tour operator. You should have come on one of my trips into China with the Hong Kong Railway Society (1997 and 1998). The second was to a ng line carrying coal. I'll look for a photie and post it! (So long ago you printed the things! The only digital thing I had was my stopwatch! At least your off-spring can give you accommodation near the second best narrow gauge railway in the World! The Ffestiniog takes some beating, but the Rhaetian Railway pips it for the top place! Jim, sorry that your experience was spoilt by NRs attempts at running the tracks over here! At least you should have enjoyed some serious noise from the Jubilee?
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    Hi Noel Three steam tours this summer, no diesel on the back, lots of 75mph running. It depends on the Promoting Company to some extent - Steam Dreams have a diesel on the back 90% of the time - usually to do with the route and the need to go off in the other direction (eg out of Weymouth where there's nowhere to turn). Fire risk is the other bugbear for we 100% steam men - some operating companies put a diesel on the train to reduce the possibility of sparks causing damage to vegetation - yet most locos have effective spark arrestors. Have a look on YouTube to see Leander roaring up the South Devon banks without aid.
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    MAQ03850.m4v The 800s, are sometimes equated to a Royal Scot - Well, if it is true, this is what one looks like at speed, the diesel is there for the airconditioning in the Mark 2ds. Great Scot at Goring? .......
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    Sorry, but the photo must have been taken after 1956/7 when the "Bulleid-bodied" AEC railcars were put into service (IRRS Journal No.20, Page 243 refers to their entering service). The REC, being Farnborough-based, with Mr Bulleid's pacifics racing past their door every hour of the day and night possibly requested the set specifically! After Mr B's fine coaches on the Southern Railway - they must have been a bit of a culture-shock!
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    The late Jimmy (?) O'Dea wrote an extended and valuable article in the IRRS Journal, Vol. 11, pages 127 - 139 and part 2 in the same Volume pages 170 -178. The article shows a G Class diesel at Clara on the Banagher Goods and a Sulzer B Class at Banagher itself.
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    Sorry, JB, I don't think it's Ardnacrusha - see attached Lance King's photo of the IRRS tour to there in 1962. PS, I thought that it was here as well, but the architecture is different! The REC is based two miles from my home, these days - principally a modelling club now - but important enough to have a "proper"sign on the main road! The photo could have been taken in Hampshire this year, it looks wet enough!
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    I must say that The Lads are doing this in style. If the container goes through Mongolia, it joins the Trans Siberian route at Ulan Ude, then running to the South of Lake Baikal, where there just happens to be a STEAM Shed at Slyudyanka: So your A Classes can be steam-hauled for part of their journey, just like the real thing ..... Splendid customer service!
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    Midland Man said - Love the front cover. It looks amazing it keeps the style of the original book [Rails to Achill] which I like quite a lot. Wait until you see the back cover! For UK only (sorry) £16.95 from The Syndicate, post paid. If Jim D will tell me how to send money to The Maam Cross Project - profits to them! Leslie
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    If you can't wait until Jonathan's launch - you can buy a copy from The Syndicate (supporting Irish railway preservation) for £15.95 plus a token £1 towards post and packing - UK only - sorry, postage to "Europe" is rather expensive from Brexitland! Either e-mail at lesliemcallister@aol.com; or drop me a PM. Great book, all congratulations to JB and his publishers for very good reproduction of a great book, which completes the story of a fascinating line - oh, for a Time Machine. Where did you get all those illustrations from, JB? Leslie
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    Kevin makes a very good point above. the Black 'n Tan era is of greater interest for the reason that the locos ran on a railway little changed from steam days - semaphore signals, freight trains with brake vans, , seldom two wagons on a train the same; still lots of sundries and mail traffic, which meant that passenger trains did not just cart people ......... Talks on the era always attract a good audience for that reason and thank heavens quite a few guys took great pictures which have recorded the scene - JB's books (with Barry Carse) are a case in point.
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    WARLEY OFF This won't surprise anyone? Warley 2020 (like the Olympics and Euros) was running a year late, but is now going to be two years late. I've just received an e-mail to say Warley in November has been cancelled. Now, do I leave my deposit in place until 2022?
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    Dear Jonathan, Squire of Achill Thon whitemetal kits ye ha' are nah tae do wi' me. Thon's yer man Jeremy Suter's. 9 ton van on order, expected soon - what's the address in Wales?
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