Happy Birthday, Dave.

I hope that you got lots of nice pressies of collectable models!

To help the waverers on this book - the full contents. Note the misprint page number, but Co Antrim seems to get a good slice?

Great stuff, Patrick, the vans look super in the fictional livery.

BUT, the real treats are the buildings - I'm very envious of your stationmaster's house - just terrific. Richhill needs one for Mr McDonald and his family. The very clever gent who built my goods shed, cabin and station building was supposed to do the house as well - then he got caught up in modelling modern wagons 'n things ...........

Looking forward to seeing it progress.

Leslie

1 hour ago, Galteemore said:

Yes - would be keen to hear from the connoisseurs re just how much fresh material is in here. Ballydehob viaduct is lovely but it’s a photo that has appeared fairly widely. 

I suspect that there will be a lot of stuff seen before, I'll be able to tell when I see the book - due on 26 November, by the way.

The two views on the publisher's website are one old, one new - to me at least! 

The big difference will be in the way they are printed. Lightmoor are right at the top of today's publishers for quality - the dull prints of yesteryear are a thing of the past - these will delight, if I'm any judge.

On 10/11/2020 at 3:15 PM, Patrick Davey said:

Hi Leslie - any County Antrim NG in the book?

Hope you have fully recovered from your recent mishap!

Patrick

There is a chapter entitled Narrow Gauge Compounds so we can assume the Ballycastle; and The Boat Train - Ballymena and Larne.

Hope that makes the content clearer?

Leslie

On 9/11/2020 at 9:09 PM, joe123 said:

Hi lads, I have 20ft and 40ft containers 00 gauge. And I am looking for suitable flat wagons to accommodate same. Would anyone have any ideas what I could use? Thanks for your help regards.

OR, for your 20ft flats I'll sell my CIE 20ft container flat kit  (easiest kit in my range) - see 

http://www.provincialwagons.com/cie-wagons/

send me a PM if you want more info.

Yes, I have to agree that their spelling of Carndonagh was entertaining - made more amusing today as I have a young man who went to school in Buncrana fitting my new heating boiler!

The perils of modern spell-checkers are probably to blame, I suspect.

AOL regularly changes PETTIGO FAIR (house name, remember) to Pettifog Fair

Patrick

The description only mentions the GCT - I'll provide a lot more info when the book lands here. (from darkest Gloucestershire).

Leslie

Ah, David, I had no idea that you were one of The Brethern - I'd have given you a much better deal on wagons ......

Now, to quote Dave, I know a man ........   (who has some of these under the layout somewhere!).

And yes, you're right - I am a lot more than upset over Brexit - had to change my nationality .......

This new book has 224 pages. 275x215mm. Printed on gloss art paper, casebound with printed board covers. Unlike his previous two narrow gauge albums which covered the whole of the British Isles, this is solely IRISH NARROW GAUGE and of black and white photographs.

So you can sit back and in the company of Michael Whitehouse, who has once again delved deep into the family archive established by his late father P.B. ‘Pat’ Whitehouse, which includes the work of many other well-known names such as W. ‘Cam’ Camwell, Henry Casserley, A.W. Croughton and Ron Jarvis, revel in the joys of a visit spanning the fifty year period from circa 1910 to around 1960 and mostly to the remoter parts of the country.

The Syndicate will be selling this book by post, profits to Irish Preservation, as always (No.171's new tubes in particular).

£25    UK only  plus a token £1.50 for post and packing

I'm sorry that I can't supply to the Republic, as the postage is almost as much as the book! I'm seeking a way round this impasse!

I'll put up a sample page or two when they arrive.

PM me, or e-mail me if interested.

Leslie (Provincial Wagons and The Syndicate)

Just a thought, if you're buying a pile of kits from me, I can put everything in the same box and save on the criminal postage!

Yes, I wish I hadn't sold mine - it would pay for more steam locos!

Robert

Yes, their works are indeed a work of art.

When I first saw No.22 on their stand at Scaleforum North in Wakefield he had a completed model of North Eastern Railway 2-Co-2 No.13 built for the NER York - Newcastle electrification.

We'll have to get Mike to produce an electric as designed by HENRY EOGHAN O'BRIEN for the LNWR?

Leslie

Robert

I showed the prototype, in brass, at Bangor in 2019. My description used then follows -

Mike and Judith Edge are noted for their etched brass kits of unusual diesel and electric locos and one of their latest is this little locomotive built by Harland & Wolff for the LMS in 1934.

After working as No.7057 in the Chester and Heysham areas, she was returned to Belfast in 1944. Re-engined with a larger 225hp engine, she became NCC No.22 and continued to shunt at York Road until the early 1960s. She was scrapped in 1965.

The kit requires wheels, buffers, a gearbox and motor. See the built loco on my stand and a sample kit, which should be fairly easy to construct.

If you give me your e-mail address, I will send it to Judith who can then deal with your order.

From Robert's comment above, it didn't evoke many sales, although I know two - I'm waiting for Richard McLachlan to build mine (alongside his own).

Leslie

Airfixman,

You won't be seeing a Vol 2, I'm afraid, as this was pretty well the lot. As GMore says, he probably took several views of the same thing. Certainly Henry Casserley did, which explains why he took over 500 photos in the same week.

However, patience, patience - you never know what will turn up .......

No, NOT about Riley cars, but DICK RILEY a famous English photographer whose photographs have adorned many books in the past.

In this new volume, Michael has selected about 80 photographs (published one per page) taken by Dick Riley during a single, busy, week-long visit to Ireland in May 1950. It was the only visit Riley made to Ireland and he made very good use of his time.

The photographs are from the Transport Library collection and are  well reproduced in this small hardback landscape book. Riley journied from Belfast (BCDR, NCC and GNR) through Dundalk, touching the DN&GR, the three main sheds in Dublin, Bray, the Cavan and Leitrim, Clones, Enniskillen, Sligo, Strabane, Co Donegal, the Swilly, the NCC lines from Derry and finished in Ballycastle with a couple of nice photos taken six months before the end of that narrow gauge line.

Michael has provided an informative, readable caption for every photograph, full of technical, historical detail with a fair sprinkling of anecdotes.

Only available directly from the publisher -

On 20/10/2020 at 3:29 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

Here's a link to the MRSI Virtual Show happening this weekend:

https://www.facebook.com/MRSIExpo/

Very sorry not to be at Raheny this weekend both to sell kits and drawings, but also to meet our customers face to face.

As you go into Lockdown, we wish you all well. Stay at home and show me up with your modelling efforts!

Most of all - Keep well.

Regards

Leslie (Provincial Wagons) and Richard (IRRS Drawings)

PS Thanks to the wonders of technology, I WAS in Dublin tonight, courtesy of IRRS to see Ciaran present Joe St Ledger's films. Well done Ciaran, Shane and team.

Hi all

OPEN FOR BUSINESS AGAIN - ORDER NOW

Now that my arm has got most of its functions back - well enough  to drive my Smart Car again - it's time to get to work.

I have quite a backlog of orders for kits and so I am visiting my home, after three months away,  to collect things I need to fulfil the existing orders.

I'll be in Frimley until Saturday, so if you want anything, NOW is the time to shout!

Thanks to several of you for your patience!

Regards

Leslie

PS, I assume the the Post office is still delivery at home?

Ah, my faux pas has resulted in your super piccie of this delightful Ivatt (?) creation.

Could a C Class really have replaced such a splendid loco? They certainly didn't give as many miles / years of useful service!

7 hours ago, Galteemore said:

It never stays quiet for long....

 

yeah, great film "Cross of Iron". No wonder it's OK for DJ, Oz is barred to outsiders!

David, I'm glad that you enjoyed our largest ever public meeting (we had the full 100 logged in for most of the talk). The committee will be discussing whether we need a bigger Zoom licence, I have no doubt.

Yes, I liked the photo of your MGWR 2-4-0 at Bray in 1959. Fancy commuting that way! And possibly in a fairly modern coach hauled by a sixty plus year old loco. Did you notice the 121 Class in action literally days after it "got off the boat"?

For the rest of you, it's time to join, then you can enjoy IRRS talks every fortnight or so, via the Internet.

Ken Fox next month!

Galteemore, I'm don't think that the photographic evidence bears out the memory of your revered father. Surely the six wheelers had finished by then. I can't remember ever seeing them in use and I was reasonably awake to things railway by 1963.

If you look at the photo above, you can see the bogies AND the coaches have eight compartments. Lance King has a photo of this train returning with 57 bunk first, with an elliptically roofed bogie, followed by a very low-roofed bogie coach - I think you can just make this out at the rear of the train at Scarva.

On 9/10/2020 at 7:55 AM, Galteemore said:

Thinking about a cow being subjected to 60mph in one of those cattle vans is enough to make you turn vegan.... I was three months old when that photo was taken - wish I’d been paying more attention in those days! 

 

The cow as well off compared with modern passengers in the South East of England, who sit on BOARDS.

We refer to the 800 Class IETs as "Ironing Board Seat" trains - some epithet for Britains "World-beating" trains?

It was probably more comfortable in the Stockton & Darlington Thirds 200 years ago - apart from the smuts!

For the Class 57 fans: 

Sure, JB, Stannah Lifts are great!