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    Hi John Yes, probably No.207 on the Thursday tourist train if you saw it in summertime. Happy days.
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    Never mind, David - personally, I thought England played better than all season. Putting these trains together took me back to the excitement of a "VS" hauled special to Dublin in the very early 1960s, or, indeed with one of the NCC Moguls. Usually ten coaches on each train and only the "All-in" with dining facilities. It always had a kitchen car (rebuild from a M2 full brake, I believe - I could have sneaked one into the train. On one Rugby Saturday, even a very run-down S Class, which had a tough day. Needless to say, we didn't go to the match - there were J15s on specials to Lansdowne Road, or once TWO S Class working Howth locals and finally, Q Class No.132 on a local to Greystones - they were more important - Ireland would be winning Rugby matches for decades afterwards! The railway is in "relay" mode, so you'll have to wait for Down going to Croke Park for the GAA Final to get a ten coach load behind these locos.
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    As promised "cine film" of the returning Rugby specials after last Saturday's Grand Slam. The delay was caused by having to get them "developed" - those over the age of thirty can explain that to those under....... First the train for the hoi poloi hauled by ex-NCC Mogul No.97 Earl of Ulster. IMG_1307.MOV Then the big train of the day - the "All-in" excursion usually hauled by a Class VS - No.207 Boyne on this occasion - just six coaches of well-heeled Belfast folk - note the two dining cars! Seen here traversing the just re-opened Main Line round the back of the roundhouse. IMG_1317.MOV
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    Looks good ....... but where's The Boss going to put her whirlygig clothes line now? Maybe you bought her a tumbler dryer as an early Mother's Day present.
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    Ernie So you have (some of?) John Dewing's slides? Wonderful! A lovely man who used to regale us with all manner of stories after IRRS London meetings. In the colour picture, you can see his bike leaning against the signal cabin. He was an inveterate cyclist (like the immortal Drew Donaldson) and was still riding his bike to London meetings in his eighties!
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    No, but it's nice to get The Triple Crown.
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    Not the day to be away from the layout, or I could post No.207 coming through the Junction on the returning "All-in" full of delighted rugby supporters! For once, do we whisper "Com'on England!" ?
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    That shed on right at Castledawson looks like the pavilion that used to at Whitehead Excursion! Obviously a NCC "Job Lot"! (I'm sure they were carefully designed - mustn't upset the architects among us!). Remarkable shots of the stations, Ernie - well done for acquiring them!
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    Thanks, Patrick. The most satisfactory thing about these videos over my recently-laid track is that I managed to run TWENTY four-wheel goods wagons, plus a brake van. The layout was intended to allow for that, all the loops being for such a train - but this was the first time I had run one. Like Noel, I like Kadees, but I have further work to do to ensure that they don't foul various track deliights - like the Richhill level crossing!
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    I've just "tuned in" to this thread - my apologies for not looking sooner! How did I miss that superb tutorial of you building the Provincial Wagons CIE cattle wagons - excellent! I loved the teabag weathering! I'm saving up the rest (which at a quick look is brilliant) for a night when there's nothing on TV! Very well done Mr Billy.
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    IMG_1294.MOV This is a SSM kit-built GNR(I) Class PP. If this 4-4-0 will go over my dodgy tracklaying, most things - no need to test the diesels, they run over anything! IMG_1293.MOV Sorry about blank video - how do I delete it from here?
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    Then, for variety, No.193 from same "stable" - just 40/50 years younger but happy with a couple of dozen wagons! When you get to the end of this video, note the train on the left hand loop, for it's up next! IMG_1292.m4v
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    Next job was testing the new curve to see if my rolling stock "liked it". Sorry about the mess - the results of a dirty weekend (sorry week!). oo Works Class UG with wagons by a well-known wagon company, bar the Oxford six plank at the rear. IMG_1289 5.MOV
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    To try and overcome an issue with a diamond crossing on my layout, I have been ripping it out and replacing it with points. So much removal of track, replacement of the underlay first. Then - inserted a crossover on the "loops" section (and straighten the mainline. Loops next. Since this photo, point motors attached. I have motorised the points at the other end of the loops (which will take a twenty wagon goods train) and connected them up to a Digitrax DS64 point controller - that has changed my life, for they are 30 feet from the main control position!
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    Just to be clear, John, NOT all the same mould - that's been renewed from the original master several times.
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    I'm just sending another eight double beet kits to a customer in Co Cork - that means I have sold THREE HUNDRED of the flat which they sit on - not bad for a kit? That's 216 beets and 84 sold as pure 20ft flats for containers (which I also sell!). Another little milestone - not quite the 350 plus Bulleid corrugated opens - see Meathdane's fine building of those on his workbench!
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    Yes, that looks the ticket, all right. Probably cheaper than buying a house with a big enough loft - especially as modern ones have so many struts - Ouch!, that's anther time I've bashed my head motorising points on Portadown Junction - I'm black and blue!
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    They're here ready when you are ....... A pleasure to help a master builder!
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    Change of plan with Provincial Wagons. Lorna McDonald will be there with my kits - we've still got some stock in the Republic! Go along and support her please! Leslie
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    Hi Dane Looking very good. Excellent for a first go and nicely weathered. Leslie (PS the money's in a brown envelope - thanks for the plug - I think they're a great wagon and worth the effort)
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    Galteemore said, ref the Valentia line: These are spectacular photos - having cycled that route I know that it’s the equal of the Scottish west coast routes for scenery, and these show that. Just wish he’d visited Ireland ten years earlier! My visits to the line were as a Tour Manager (I bet JHB has done it loads of times for the same reason!) - as you begin The Ring of Kerry you follow the railway for miles. I even noted that the famous sheep farmer who demonstrates his dogs at work had the line high on the hillside behind his farm. Then, of course, as you enter the town, a quick right turn down to the old station and a view of the viaduct at Cahirciveen. What a tourist run it would have been if it had survived! Thank you "Ernie" for this unending flow of delights.
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    I remember that my Dad told me he was saving up for a Ford Eight to replace his Austin Seven when war broke out - he was, by the way a RUC Constable in Garrison at the time. I don't know what happened to the original Austin Seven, but when he could afford a car again (after getting married and starting to raise a family) it was a secondhand Austin Seven. I see Oxford do one in 4mm, so I must get one to stick on a road near Richhill.
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    Darius, as Galteemore says, your output is remark - not just quantity, but QUALITY! Apologies for not commenting earlier. Loved the green Brown Van, as Jim says a rarely photographed van - the one photo of one I have in my "background" files belongs to someone else, so I can't reproduce it here. I'll look in other files. You can one "in the flesh" at the Whitehead Museum in the maroon form. Still got a good supply of the kits upstairs! Darius - I may have missed them, but how did you get on with your rake of Spoil Wagons?
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    Wow - Think of the model railway you could have on the third floor after spending €10 - 20 Million rebuilding it! Anyone know an Oligarch?
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    Thanks, John, for reminding me about these! When I returned to Irish model railways (while I was still in Hong Kong, where Daniel Wu did a seriously good job building four locos from SSM kits for me), I bought quite a few of these whitemetal and brass kits. The SSM brass kit of a GNR brake van remains a Class Act if you can build brass! The whitemetal kits are fine if you want to run short trains (for they weight quite a lot). I ended up giving mine away - which in the case of the six plank opens might be a bit of an own-goal as no-one (me included) has done another in lighter material. Now maybe that's what I should try instead - for the GNR had four and six plank opens by the score! PS John - the vans look very good indeed!
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