leslie10646

I've decided to double the price of these - they're TOO cheap ......

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266704807557?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=ba64198dfad24f039629ddd108086cb6&bu=43025934942&ut=RU&osub=-1~1&crd=20240306045845&segname=11021

An absolute bargain here for someone?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266704807557?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=ba64198dfad24f039629ddd108086cb6&bu=43025934942&ut=RU&osub=-1~1&crd=20240306045845&segname=11021

Obviously an investment to equal MM diesels?

Maybe I should have done a GN one as well?

If I survive to see October, I'm sure that I can help you out, but I hope to make a decent dent in the stock with Bangor attendees!

2 hours ago, David Holman said:

I much prefer the "original" Thomas series, as voiced by Ringo Starr. Main reason being they were actual films, which used (I think) Gauge One models and were based on the Awdrey books. Less sure about all the new stuff, which seems a bit twee and cartoon like. Nostalgia IS what it used to be! However, if it gets kids interested in railways, that's fine by me.

 Serious, 0 gauge modellers should note that the Connoisseur LNER Wisbech and  Upwell Tramway etched brass kit comes complete with a nice set of Toby nameplates. Built one years ago and bought the Awdrey book so I could draw a face on a piece of card for each end. Was initially worried what the purists might say, but it just made everyone smile and kids loved it.

Not at all, David. Johnny Morris reading the books on LPs was The Man.

Now, I'm showing my age!

Even the great Mac Arnold - not an easy man to please - said that Mr Awdry's books were pretty correct technically and he encouraged his grandchildren to read them.

Yes Mr B from Limerick or thereabouts - you're lucky - there were only three Dereks in my database: one very regrettably deceased, one is an eminent member of the N Down MRC so you must be yon ither yin.

I'll send you a suitably inflated bill.

Thanks

Leslie

Thanks, Derek. Bangor is the N Down MRC's exhibition on 23/24 March.

The grey job will be £18, the Brown 'un £17, or £34 the pair! Postage to RoI will have to be a little extra.

PM me with an address and we'll see what I might do. If you're in UK, you can have them earlier!

40 minutes ago, Georgeconna said:

When in Bangor Ideal to post these from NI to the lads down the other end of the country.....

 

Thanks, George, making work for me. Easier to get a pal to pick one up for you in Bangor and hand it over when you next see each other!

24 minutes ago, DB JOE said:

Like to get my hands on two of each if there is any left after Bangor

Same applies, Joe! There WILL be plenty left, for Bangor is the wrong end of the country to sell CIE wagons (?).

Just opened the boxes!

First, a near repeat: 1681N, ex GNR Bagged Cement van in grey with two tone "Broken Wheel".

and now for something complete;y different, 1069N, the same type of wagon but as they ran late in their lives. First the original:

and now the model.

Plenty of opportunity for the weathering experts here!

I think that @Galteemore has highlighted this gent already, but he's done paintings from all parts of the Irish railway network - something for everyone, even the road transport types!

See:

https://www.painters-online.co.uk/gallery/?Search=briggs

A further update on my new wagons.

I paid Dapol for them an hour ago! (Meaning that they've been made!).

So, I should have them with me at the Show in March.

Photographs when they arrive at "Pettigo Fair".

Leslie

3 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

Oops, I have either missed those or forgotten

Can’t find the post either, can you tag me or share again?

See:

https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/14415-next-provincial-wagon/page/4/#comments

Not that exciting!

1 hour ago, Patrick Davey said:

Any clues on the era or region, Leslie?  You have been very generous with us GNR folks recently, so I imagine it might be something to counterbalance that…..?

Sorry, Patrick, I DID announce the wagons already - read the "Next" posts again. CIE liveries. I thought of doing a GN one, but wasn't convinced that it'd sell!

And a certain Irish Wagon Maker, with two new RTR wagons .......

10 hours ago, WRENNEIRE said:

Finally the last of the locos
UTA ex NCC Class W Mogul "Earl of Ulster" #97
There were 15 in the class and were named after British Nobility and Northern rivers, with the last 4 having not been named.

Lovely model, Dave, but Wikipedia (or somewhere else) has led you astray.

No. 101 was named Lord Massereene in September 1949. "As Every Schoolboy Knows" Viscount Massereene and Ferrard cut the first sod on the Belfast and Ballymena Railway on 6 November 1845 at Whitehouse, Co Antrim - so an appropriate acknowledgment, albeit a century late!

No.103 was named Thomas Somerset in March 1943. Mr Somerset was Chairman of the NCC.

As you can clearly see! Limavady Junction 1948. Photo by Henry Casserley, copyright The Syndicate

The detail in these coaches, particularly the interiors, is very impressive. Congratulations!

A pity that they're not my "Zone of interest", but others will fall over themselves to get them!

Portadown had subways, but Robert's bridge looks very nice and is very tempting!

One of the questionable benefits of being a grumpy old 77 year old, is that by now, you've been there, bought the teeshirt and worn it out.

Jonathan is right, there isn't the money, nor the potential support for another railway museum.

I assume from his chosen name that Newtoncork in the Cork area and I'm sorry that the two existing museums are so far from him. Cultra has been widely praised by British pals who've visited and is at least free to enter thanks to MY generosity (as a UK tax payer). Support it.

It's a pity that there are relatively few "Southern" exhibits, but that was an issue of time-line. Most of the interesting Southern kit, like the lovely 4-4-0s, 2-4-0s had gone long before Cultra was open. The price of early dieslisation.

He does mention being "professional" and I must say that I had a bit of a search to find out just what is in Cultra - it's not on their website - that could be better.

Support what's there and don't dissipate scarce resources. 

1 hour ago, Metrovik said:

This may cause offence, but are those triang coaches being hauled by the GNR tank?

My dear Metro,

Patrick can be offended if he likes,

but the four wheel van is a Quality Produce, courtesy of yours truly (Patrick is a valued and revered customer of long standing)

STILL AVAILABLE FROM  PROVINCIAL WAGONS.

Every home (layout) should have one!!

This is one for JHB, or Mayner.

Anything remotely like this in Ireland?

With their name, I assume that they were for moving TANKS?

Not aware of any such vehicles finding their way here, even during the Emergency as you Southern guys delightfully refer to the apocalypse that was WW2. I wonder what the Irish word for Aramgeddon is .... (I bet Dave knows).

Back to the topic. Good luck with the Hatton lines, boys.

Dave

Your GNR locos look lovely. You've got a wee job to do renumbering your "U"  - the 1915 ones didn't have "County" names, so you're stuck with choosing your favourite "Lough" - No.199 was Lough Derg, went to CIE and was the last survivor there.

It may have been mentioned before, but the T Tanks were a "U" Class with tanks and a bunker! I always thought them rather nice little locos (hence three 4mm ones on my layout!

Hi Darius

Yes, they look nice, but how many?

Even an 071 could pull TWENTY -

OR DID YOU PHOTOGRAPH EACH SIDE ......

17 hours ago, David Holman said:

Terry and Adrian's kits were beautifully drawn and (because of the time) am assuming they were done by hand, not CAD. Either way, the etches are superb, with the parts fitting together as well as any locos I've made - and the list is approaching 100 in both 4 and 7mm scales. Terry enlarged his 101 etches to 7mm scale for Richard Chown in 1998, a kit he never built, but which I acquired in 2018. That too went together really well, with minimal filler required  - a true mark of a quality kit in my experience.

I can only report that Daniel Wu, my builder in Hong Kong, would have agreed 100% with David's views. He had built a lot of DJH kits but said that the TMD ones went together much better than them. I have much to thank Terry (and Daniel) for, as they got the Irish Ball rolling for me - two blue S Class and a black one, plus a SG during my time in HK. Now over a dozen GN locos! I've four of Adrian's locos as well, including one built by him.

"69" at Goring!

What's a "69"?

Started life as a BR-built Co-Co Class 56 around 1980. Not very successful, so re-engined as a cheaper alternative to a new loco. EMD/Caterpillar engine rated as 3,200hp. The trailing load is a brand new SWR Class 701 EMU - going to storage until they've trained enough drivers! Who says the UK is short of money? You couldn't make it up!

Having a blonde standing waving to the driver usually gets a "beep"

David

That coupling mechanism is a work of genius.

A pity that I have at least a hundred wagons, so while I'd love to use it, I just don't have time for such a conversion job!