Flying Snail

Ah thats nothing, sure didn't they unearth a heap of Woolwich Moguls and Jintys only a couple of years ago

Marks Models have quite a few different CIE, IR and IE liveried MM 121's listed at the moment: https://www.marksmodels.com/?cid=51

The Loop Line in Dublin - Connolly (Amiens St) to Pearse (Westland Row) There's likely a lot more than you might think - especially when looking back at lines now long gone. The 'Central Ireland Railway' was the rather grand name given in the Act of Parliament that authorised it to the 7 mile branch line from Portlaoise (Maryboro') to Mountmellick

Those bridges (both of them) are really beautiful!

Got a delivery from Hattons this morning to Dublin via DHL Express. Had a few items in my trunk so the total value of goods was over £200 (the most expensive individual item was €125 ex VAT). Irish VAT was applied by Hattons and there were no additional customs charges etc. DHL option is more pricey than Royal Mail but I wanted peace of mind after the issues people have had. I placed the order to ship them on Wednesday evening, so that was a fast turn around too.

Ah, the Fordson Dexta: bomb proof! My grandfather's Dexta was still working away on the family farm in the Slieve Blooms until not too long ago (it's still there, just not sure if its retired yet)

Thats a very thorough response from Johnny B. Good with some great reference photos. I'll only add this for anyone interested in specific regions/localities, and specific elements of Irish life from times past. The National Library has an extensive collection of photographs from around the country dating from the 1840s on: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections/photographs Follow the link above and then click on their online catalogue to see digitised photos. You'll find plenty of carts and cattle in pictures of fair days (most towns had one), and indeed street scenes, buildings etc. There's also railways etc. The archive can be browsed by year, location, subject-matter, photographer etc. It really is an excellent resource for this type of project

Looking at the pictures of the real things in @Westcorkrailway's thread from '21, it would seem to me that Hornby R3896 with its large buffers and small rear windows is probably the closest of the current 4 Hornby variations to a CSE RH 88DS. Would that be correct?

Good to see its being used for something anyhow and not just rotting in a ditch. Not a million miles from me either, I must pop down sometime for a look

Which British 0.6.0 saddle tank are you thinking of @jhb171achill?

Great pics, thanks for sharing - great to see the odd little bit of mischief inserted into some of the displays

Accurascale are making a very big statement with this little loco! The sheer number of variations in the prototype in mind boggling, and this release (more than any of the others I reckon) shows there's nothing they won't take on! Bualadh bos boys!

Welcome Roger, About the 3F - perhaps it reminded your pal of the 101/J15 locomotives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS%26WR_Class_101. These were the most numerous class of steam locomotives in Ireland. OO Works are currently doing a RTR model of them. By the way, Hatton's Genesis coaches in the dark green CIÉ livery would be a reasonable approximation of the carriages making up the train in the Quiet Man ... and also hauled by the 101s too https://www.hattons.co.uk/stocklist/1484058/1000588/1000636/1000830/hattons_originals_oo_gauge_1_76_scale_coaches_republic_of_ireland/sceneprodlist

Its a wonderfully atmospheric video!

There's a real sense of authenticity from these - looks brilliant!

There's a picture of it in the new colour scheme on the RPSI site: https://www.steamtrainsireland.com/storage/rpsi-collection/720x540/3173.JPG

Well done @murphaph! Clearly the force is strong in you. Would 3D printing be an option for the wiper, or maybe resin casting a copy from one of the remaining wipers???

That makes for sad reading: I'm sure it sucks for both DJ and you right now. Having seen the attention to detail you have with your work on the 111s, I'm sure you'll be able to do something to get her back on the rails!

Yes - I knew 699 is its the GSWR number, and I reckoned it was probably too far away from 600 and 601 in the GSWR numbering scheme to be ex WCIR. None the less 699 is an interesting vehicle in its own right: I've attached a pic below and it looks to be a 4-wheeler .... could it have been converted from six down to four wheels at some point?

Thanks JHB. I've come across a 4-wheel brake third with separate luggage box numbered 699 built 1894. Thats 6 years before WCIR was incorporated and as the two WCIR saloons come before it in the GSWR numbering scheme (98 places before it) I was wondering if it might be of the same providence

This thread prompts a couple of questions for you on the GSWR/GSR numbering @jhb171achill. You mention above that all ex-WLWR stock was renumbered by the GSWR in the 900 to low 1000s series. Were there any particular rules for the other number series? For instance, did they number by carriage type/function? Where any series reserved for the other acquired railways pre 1901 - I ask because I came across two ex-WCIR third class saloons numbered 600 and 601 (thanks to a WCIR article that you provided on another thread ), so should I be looking out for other carriages in the 600 series if I was trying to track down other WCIR stock? (there was a brake third that also lasted a while under the GSWR)

I think Marks Models (https://www.marksmodels.com/) purchase second hand model railway collections. There's a few guys on here who might have leads to traders also.

Thanks, will definitely give it a go. I've a couple of Leslie's kits lined up to start me off and I recently picked up some Alphagraphix card kits which I think some others here have used as templates for scratch building

As Patrick said above - this is a very insightful how-to, particularly your techniques for the master versions. Providing the actual MJT part numbers too is very helpful to anyone wanting to build their own: especially those like me trying to figure out if we have what it takes to scratch-build

Congratulations!