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  1. Horsetan
    Pointwork will be the challenge
  2. Horsetan
    I wonder if he's tried a Jidenco Class 50....?
  3. Horsetan
    Hoarding's such a terrible disease.
  4. Horsetan
    Some reprieve there.
  5. Horsetan
    ...and yet that's basically how antisocial media works.
  6. Horsetan
    Seems that the only tapered boilers that the GSR/CIE ever dealt with were those on the Woolwich Moguls. Everything else was strictly parallel.
  7. Horsetan
    If the 400s hadn't been quite so flawed, there might not have been the need to build the three 800s. The 500s were appreciably better than the 400s, but there weren't enough of them.
  8. Horsetan
    The Caprottis were probably the best of a bad job in the context of the 400 class, but there were only the two that were converted.
  9. Horsetan
    That's not just any oul 400 class, but one of the two Caprotti valve gear ones - it looks like no.406 with the straight footplate. This one lasted until 1957 - the photo suggests it had been out of use for a while, as corrosion is clearly visible on the reversing rod and the upper slidebar. The other Caprotti 400, no.401, kept going until 1961 and may have used spares cannibalised from 406.
  10. Horsetan
    IRM B4 bogies have arrived....let's get that Snack Car out...
  11. Horsetan
    I think I need another sight test anyway, but there's definitely something going on with the two cab fronts; they look different to each other.
  12. Horsetan
    Deleting history (and people) is fashionable
  13. Horsetan
    This reminds me of the type of colour scheme that might once have been found in India. Or possibly Bulgaria.
  14. Horsetan
    I've no complaints about the general design of the kit, and although slightly unconventional in parts (the bogie assembly, for example), it seems to allow you to modify to a degree.
  15. Horsetan
    Nothing a bit of good oul-fashioned smuggling couldn't solve....
  16. Horsetan
    What were the dimensions of the real thing? It might be worth widening the model.
  17. Horsetan
    As built, no.6's cab is very LNWR in style
  18. Horsetan
    Hmm...
  19. Horsetan
    As has been said elsewhere on this Forum, it seems to be a very Irish thing to support all these things....so long as someone else is paying for it! The viaduct at Newport is what would make any model of the place - without it, a Newport layout might well become nondescript.
  20. Horsetan
    I'll have to read the book again to be sure, but I think the original premise was: - to bring tourism to Achill; - to develop Achill Sound as a port - especially for cross-Atlantic traffic; and - encourage expansion of fishing, with the daily catch going onwards by rail. Highly ambitious in those early days of hope (and not a little fantasy, as things turned out)
  21. Horsetan
    Difficult choice of locations, though: Westport: most operationally interesting with a junction to the Quay Line plus the "main" route over Altamont Street bridge Newport: fairly cramped site, plus the challenge of the Seven Arches viaduct and two small connecting bridges either side, and St. Patrick's above the station. Mulrany: high up on the hillside, with the possible need to replicate the Great Southern Hotel on the adjacent site below Achill Sound: needs space for the sea around it, I'd have thought....
  22. Horsetan
    Any news?
  23. Horsetan
    Any movement since September?
  24. Horsetan
    Aha. In that case, I'll refrain from signing up for one of Leslie's re-run.
  25. Horsetan
    Did any of these spoil wagons make it into preservation?
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