leslie10646

The top photo is at one end of Old Mill Bay, I think it's the Magheramorne end with a loaded train.

If I've compared photos correctly, this is the rear engine and he's not exerting himself! The photographer seems to be standing on the East side of the line. The line was crossed by the electricity lines from Ballylumford Power Station. One of the giant pylons is clearly visible in your photo. Lance King took a lot of shots in this area (from the West side, which seems to have given him better light), but while he had the signal in the photo and the actual wires, he managed to keep the pylon out of the shot!

The builders could name 105 "King Charles III", but I suspect that might reduce "her" route availability?

Johnny, I'm pretty sure that the answer is give 'em 12 volts (just like HO) and watch 'em go!

Mind you I was thrown out of the Queens Electrical Engineering department (and never looked back.....)

Ref the lower photo above of No.85 after hauling HM, I'm told that the King Charles expressed an interest in a repeat!

As the man said, may she indeed, Rest in Peace. She's certainly earned it.

Look forward to meeting you.

Danish? Now that's different.

18 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

I'll see if The Syndicate still has a copy in stock.

Yes, we have! €18 to you (and anyone else who wants a copy, as we have a few)

Are you attending Raheny? I'll bring it over.

Look forward to seeing you, Ivan.

HHmmmm, maybe I ought to do a horsebox .......

For folk in South of England, don’t forget to visit Scaleforum, the annual showpiece of the Scale Four Society.

This year it is being held at the Cressex Community School, Holmers Lane, High Wycombe, HP12 4QA.

Saturday 24th (10.30 to 17.30) and

Sunday 25th September 2022 (10.00 to 16.30)

I’ll be helping Richard McLachlan to run a stand on behalf of the Irish Railway Record Society. The emphasis will be on Richard’s drawings archive, available as books and digitally.

However, if anyone attending needs any Provincial Wagons, I’ll make sure I have them with me!

Hopefully we’ll see a few of you!

Leslie (and Richard)

I'll see if The Syndicate still has a copy in stock.

Oh yes, I do like these old GWR railcars (grandparents of our own AEC jobs.

Great job, Darius!

PS Just noticed that you're another man who still has bits of Fleischmann track around! My turntable (see "Portadown Junction") is surrounded by this track (being Fleischmann itself.

Getting back to this year's exhibition calendar.

Richard McLachlan and I are looking forward to "Raheny" at the end of October. It'll be light relief after a three month Interrail ticket! (actually, Richard was only on a two month one).

Nothing new for you, but I'm building up stock in preparation for the event.

Now, I can try and second guess what folk will buy, but it makes sense to ASK in advance, then I can get "My Man" (who is just out of hospital!!!!) to make the kits people want.

So, if you want particular kits, I'll try and make sure I have enough.

Please either e-mail me at

lesliemcallister@aol.com

or PM me.

The list of wants is already growing .........

Thanks, Leslie

Likewise, my regrets that Provincial Wagons won't be present either. My "Agent" isn't available.

Thanks for the invitations guys and have a great show.

7 minutes ago, airfixfan said:

 

Photo of Richill was taken in a tour of Portadown to Monaghan line in May 2021

It was converted into a private house by a local builder for one of his family.

The massive goods shed had a mezannine floor added in the reconstruction.

2 hours ago, airfixfan said:

Richill .today

Not at all, it looks like this .......

I tried to reproduce the Drew shot, but my PP wouldn't touch a seventeen wagon plus brakevan train. On the other hand Roderick's wee UG just romps along with it!

I hope that Galteemore LIKES the SLNCR interlopers.

Wagons by - ah, I've forgotten (it's an age thing!).

LB

You're dead right about the singling beyond Richhill, after which part of the old "Up" road became a relief siding. There was a southern crossover before the singling, but I don't know how far out it was. So it would have been retained in any case, I assume wherever it had been located.

The cabin diagram (which is over the model of the station upstairs) gives no indication of how far away the crossover was - BUT it does show that there had been a siding there even in doubletrack days.

Vis King James: Why not?

While we're on "Might have beens" I'll include a Bulleid Pacific with the locos ........

Re the signalling, to quote Wrenneire of this parish - "I know a man ......."

Great stuff, Steve.

When you've got it laid, I'll bring up half a dozen locos and a few dozen coaches and we can re-enact "Sham Fight Day!

Yes, it is indeed!

Drew caught a lot of detail useful for attempting to model the place.

Looking at it again today as I posted it, I realised that there was an overbridge to the South of the station - a useful way of hiding the "Rest of the World" on the model?

I always knew about the bridge to the North - "Buntings Bridge" - still there - but the cutting has been filled in and  you'd be pushed to realise that there'd ever been a railway there.

During the coverage of King Charles's visit to The Province today, as the royal party was awaited at Hillsborough Castle, the commentator listed some of those attending the official declaration of sympathy on the passing of the Queen.

"Train driver Noel Playfair and fireman Anto Dargan".

Noel and Anto are the only Irishmen to have crewed a steam locomotive hauling a Royal Train - when the Queen travelled from Coleraine to Bellarena to open the new station there. The Royal Train engine was, of course, No.85 Merlin.

I couldn't see them in the room, but the camera position only covered about half the attendees.

A well-deserved honour.

10 hours ago, Lambeg man said:

While the GNR(B) ran the 'Enniskillen Shipper' on a daily basis up to the 1957 line closures, there is little photographic evidence of similar LENGTHY cattle specials in the succeeding years. By 1958 refrigeration was beginning to kick in, reducing the need for the mass movement of live beasts, Post 1957 the goodly cattle dealers operating in the West of Ireland would have consigned their cattle to Dublin rather than Belfast (if they used rail at all). I think I may be correct to say that no photographs of post 1958 cross-border goods trains show any cattle wagons in their consist. Neither do any 1960's photographers appear to have ever captured any lengthy cattle specials operating over UTA lines. I would be very pleased to be corrected on either statement!.

 

Mutter, mutter, what's wrong with my GNR Cattle wagons?

Like Mr LB, I can't think of too many photos of long cattle specials in the late 1950s / early 1960s. As I've previously commented on this forum, the CIE Weekly Notice used to have a couple of dozen PAGES of details of that week's arrangements for cattle specials. I think that the most I noted in the brilliant collection held by the IRRS was about FORTY pages. It usually went right down in detail to the name of the inspector attending the fair and how many drovers etc he would have with him.

Back to The Shipper.

This photo was given to me by the late Drew Donaldson when he searched for photos of the Centre of Universe for me. I believe that it shows a (short) Enniskillen Shipper drifting through Richhill behind GNR(I) P Class No.105. The wagons all appear to be standard GNR cattle wagons with a standard brake at the rear - all available from Provincial Wagons - you'll have to build your own Class P!

Richhill is having a moment in the spotlight, as the gates of Hillsborough Castle (all over TV today as King Charles visits The Province) were PINCHED in 1745 from Richhill Castle. There was much comment on this during the commentary on the royal visit.

Small world.

Looking forward to seeing those wagons in traffic.

Dane, if I didn't put in builder's plates for the 1953 vans, remind me, please. I have new transfers of them in production.

As they say, plenty more of these kits available from me .......

Hi Dange

Yes, there is

I'm

lesliemcallister@aol.com

Leslie

I’ll reply more fully when back from Delays in Deutschland - but I can’t resist asking “would the horse at Fintona have been replaced by a Parry People Mover?”

If DB and Eurostar get me home from Cologne tomorrow you’ll know soon enough!

Another thought on Galteemore’s post above - how much would a month’s Interrail Pass cost to cover that map! Should have had another Black Bush, then I could have dreamt about how I’d cover the network (by steam, of course!)?

Night, night

Ah, Colin - cattle specials!
 

i suspect anything from ten upwards?  JHB may have some ideas.

I have twenty GNR cattle wagons for the daily Enniskillen Shipper through Portadown Jct. And a few SLNCR ones.

Must set it up for a photo!

Hi Colin

see Jon’s reply with which I agree but my GNR brake would been seen to 1965. 

Also see North Wall’s post above which is accurate - I can supply these kits by return.

I’ll be back for week or two next Wednesday, then I hope to be back Interrailing in Europe - at least the €9 tickets will be finished and people can get on trains again! 

Greetings from Aalen, Baden Wurtemburg - TORRENTIAL rain here tonight - makes home look like a desert!

Pray that it stops, please. I hope to have my first run with a Class 23 for 45 years tomorrow - I traveled behind fifty of them in 1970s. Super little 2-6-2s, built 1950s.

Leslie

The Site has just raised my “status” to Veteran!
 

I should think so - at 76 I must be one of the ten oldest contributors!
 

Thanks.