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!

Accurascale 37.425 in action!  Drawn by a curious move from Didcot refuelling siding  to Reading Traingle sidings (they are where the former DMU depot was), we rolled over to Goring on a grey morning. As demanded by my assistant, I went for the relief platforms and was caught out by the loco being on the fast line - another one that got away? Well, all but this ten second snatch of this DRS loco "Concrete Bob" which is still in Cross Country li

Lads, I hope yours will include an automatic sound effect so that the loco horn sounds when a Co.Down Lass waves to it!

That was followed on the slow line within a minute by a track machine moving from Plymouth - Norwich! Iffy video - I'll spare you that and two 66 hauled freights from Southampton, chasing each other's tail, each working hard with 30 plus boxes each - a busy 20 minutes!

This one is specially for a revered member - one of his former parishioners making a noise in the sky, allowed an interesting double take with the Wentloog - Felixstowe freightliner. The long tail was in the hope that the empty car racks to Halewood would appear round the corner. Needless to say, it came a minute later! I must find out how to join videos together!

Of course, we were really here to see a Class 37, which appeared ten minutes later with two EMU sets (Class 315s?) en route from Ilford to Newport to be recycled as components for model Class 37s? The toot wasn't for me, but my blonde assistant who was waving to the driver. Neither of us could see the engine number and afterwards, she crossly insisted that next time we film it from the relief line platforms!

Likewise - like Ironroad, I take an interest in most things on the Irish Railway modelling tracks.

So, as I've already told John, yes to everything except the S Class (of which I have three built from Terry McDermott's wonderful kits !).

Good luck JM.

Leslie

Apologies if this has cropped up before. Yet another CIE container! Photographed at Portadown (it's about 1% of the whole picture I scanned) on 14 July 1964 by Lance King (IRRS).

44 minutes ago, Irishswissernie said:

I'm still trying to get a grip on the manoeuvres at Bundoran Junction. I've got some plasticine somewhere so am thinking I'm going to make little lumps marked for the different locos and stock and draw a diagram of the junction and move them

according to the writers notes. I think the bread containers according to the notes came from Enniskillen and are now being added to the Enniskillen bound train which doesn't make sense unless they were picked up at Ballinamallard  and it was easier 

to do this operationally. Or I could just take some paracetamol and have a kip!

Ah, Ernie, I know exactly what you mean! I'm cataloguing Lance King's slides and he came through the Junction in 1957 behind PP No. 50. Now she did a complicated shunt on the "Main Line" and I've still got to sort that one out!

At least Bundoran Jct was a fairly complicated place, but I'm having a nightmare with a series of shots at Portadown on 13 July 1963 - the Sham Fight Day at Scarva. Now ....... the sequence begins with the 5pm Derry arriving with the VS Class No.207, which isn't allowed up the Derry Road. She's relieved by S Class No.170, but in the middle of all of that a WT arrives with a train from Dublin and much shuffling goes on, so that there are not one shot on the Bann Bridge of No.170, but FOUR! By the time all this shuffling and dealing has finished  she eventually sets off for Derry.

I might add that Lance got off the Heysham boat that morning and by the time he retired to bed that evening, he had taken 51 memorable slides of a very busy day on the Great Northern.

He was up early next morning and off to Warrenpoint for yet more steam photography, finishing the day by catching the Cambria back to England that evening. So not to lose the attention of you youngsters who like Infernal combustion we have A33 in Green at the Pier.

Final, boring point, Mr G, that's TWO of my bread containers in Ernie's lovely BJ piccie. I have done both Stevenson and Brewsters bakery containers. Photos Copyright Irish Railway Record Society

First, must say I liked Arran's Tanktainers - when they appear on the liner trains in this neck of the woods (see Growlers at Goring) they make a nice break from the relative monotony of endless (colourful!) boxes.

Now, the Uniload 10ft container.....

MIR, back in the day< did a simple version of these and when I produced my 20ft flat, I thought of doing one with a bit more of Michael's careful detail. The late Anthony McDonald and I spent a happy morning measuring one up dumped at Heston .....

In the end, I chickened out of spending Michael's time on something which might not sell.

However, if people are interested on having some, get in touch and I'll have a look again. Mind you the transfers won't be easy round all those "corrugations"!

PM or e-mail me if any interest.

Leslie (Provincial Wagons)

PS Arran, can we buy your tanktainer?

(Had to break off to "have me tea" .....). Back to yesterday and the 37 which got away.

Two minutes later, the train of boxes swept by - at least that shows you why I was standing on the Fast Line platform ..... in hope.

Two minutes earlier and I would have freight on both lines!

Ever since the three 37 sightings at Goring, I've been asked (daily) when the next one will be by! They appear on stock movements, of course  with Rail Operations Group, Europhoenix etc. Invariably they are taking unwanted stock away (a lot of that in UK after a deluge of buying). They appear on Realtime Trains as paths for that day only and you don't always see what you expect. Recently, this turned up - giving a whole new meaning to Superpower - a 60 with ONE coach.

But yesterday, I spotted a move from Ilford EMU depot to "Newport Docks Simmsgroup". A bit more searching came up with the news that Simms are Scrap Merchants to the Gentry.

Other searches showed that a loco was leaving Leicester at about 5am, making its way to the West Coast main line, then via North London to Illford. There it picked up a four car Class 315 Electric set (superceded on the Great Eastern) and now rejected for further use. So, this sixty year old diesel loco was going to pull a forty year electric set off to meet it's Maker, so to speak!

Anyway, I expected it to be on the Relief Lines at Goring, so I went over to the Fast Line platforms to try and get a more side-on view of the cavalcade. However, it got checked in the Reading area and seemed destined to come through Goring either just before or just after a Freightliner, also heading West. So, I positioned myself and before I knew it, it was hurtling towards me ON THE FAST LINE! Sorry about the shake part way through (remember my injured arm ....).

Alas, Sean, my "usual suspects" haven't produced the same nuggets of information on your Dad. Being a Northerner (I was 17 years old when steam finished in the Republic) I'm afraid my experiences South of the Border were very limited before RPSI days.

No, I put the photo up to show you the sort of engine your grandfather was driving when he did 60mph in reverse - that is "tender first" - see my earlier post - such a speed was a rare exploit in steam days.

For a driver to die in service would be unusual and I would have thought it was reported in one of the railway journals of the day. I'm away from my IRRS Journals, but Irish Railfans News may have reported it - that's on line somewhere.

JHB has copies of Cuisle. Have a look Jon, please - 1965.