Metrovik

Magnificent, love these old multiple units

19 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

LOVE that thread title! Someone will be doing a thesis on it in 20 years' time....

OK, here's one for you.

Setting aside all the stuff that gets trotted out as "fact" in terms of closed railways being dropped on the Germans, etc etc etc, a new one: what is a closure date?

Is it (a) the date of the day on which the last official public train ran?

Is it (b) the day after that, namely the first date without public trains?

Or, is it (c) something else? For example, imagine this. A line is to close on 31st December 1950, let's say. That day is a Monday, but that line never had a Sunday service, so the last trains run on Saturday 29th. Is that the closure date, or is Monday 31st?

First correct answer can buy me a pint.

Id say that the lines closure date comes with the train used to pull it up, and take it away. Can't get much more closed than that.

Finished roofing the station today.(Finally!) Needs to be weathered to hell and back though. Far too shiny.

Quite happy with how the galvanised sheeting turned out.

However the joins along the top will need disguising on this side. As I said, it needs serious weathering, not only because it's Cie and this is far to clean but because I don't like going blind whenever it catches the light!

Good place to "try before you buy" then

Are these new additions to the malahide fleet Permanent?

No obvious names standing out, but there is there were a few numbers and letters stamped on the side, I searched them on Google and found a similar lamp for sale in Japan. However the seller also had no idea where it was from, he also guessed india. 

A picture of the cleaner lamps stamp

@jhb171achill Any info on its origins? 

Also thanks very much.....

Too big for one post apparently....

It has to glass sliders, one for green one for red. The red picture is annoyingly blurry but I'm not going back out into the cold tonight...

It was like the worst birthday ever, trying to blow this out.... And that's not to mention the fumes 

Picked up one or two things myself a while ago, One of which is this Lantern. Nice little piece if do say so myself. I'm highly doubtful that it's Irish though. I've a funny hunch that it's Indian, maybe some of you more knowledgeable people might shed some light on it.  

Enjoy the photos of my Kitchen too!

Now for the potentially controversial part, I actually use this lamp, I get things should be preserved safely but I feel that since I've paid for it, I might as well use it. Plus it looks fair nice in the dark.

I've only just realised how rusty it looks in that light. I can assure you it's not that bad.

39 minutes ago, LNERW1 said:

That’s a good point, some food for thought there. I actually think I can give a good example- Abbeyleix station, serving a newer, posher estate town, was as close as possible to the town- the line actually ran directly behind the St Michael and All Angels church and the rectory. However, the next obvious station on the Mountrath-Kilkenny line (it did actually begin in Mountrath, not Portlaoise), would be Durrow, but to my knowledge it had a higher percentage of Roman Catholics, who would have been perceived as being more likely to cause insurgency, and so Durrow did not have a station, the line instead running through Attanagh, a mile or so east. That’s just one example that came to mind because, as I write this, I am sitting about 200m away from Abbeyleix station, but I’m sure there are other examples. Obviously, the railway bypassing Durrow may have been simply a matter of convenience- reaching Durrow would have made the line longer and therefore more difficult to build- but it’s possible the company may have pushed a little harder to reach Durrow otherwise. 
Note: @Broithe and @Metrovik  may be able to clarify if I’m wrong about the distance between Durrow and Attanagh.

Not sure about the distance between Durrow and Attanagh but Mountrath station is actually known as Kilbricken and is situated a few kilometres outside the town, as for the line to Kilkenny starting there rather than Portlaoise , I'll have to disagree with you as I've checked the old O.S. maps which show the track going from MaryBorough (Portlaoise) and when overlaid with modern satellite maps it's possible to trace the trackbed right to Abbeyleix. 

The reasoning about Abbeyleix being a posh town so that's why the station's there is interesting. It fits in with a similar story that I've heard being that the De Vesci estate gifted the land for the line to the railway company for free, in exchange for it building its station there.

Interesting about Durrow though, never heard that one before.

I can see that the wagon bodies are made from either plastic or mount board but how may I ask, did you get the chassis together for them to sit on?

This may cause offence, but are those triang coaches being hauled by the GNR tank?

5 minutes ago, StevieB said:

What beautiful models. Lucky chap.

Stephen

You can say that again!

https://www.cie.ie/CIECorporate/media/HistoricAnnualReports/1971-1990/CIE_1972-1973.pdf

This has probably been discovered before but it makes for a very interesting look back in time.

Having just learned about the 30th anniversary of the 2600 railcars, it begs the question, will these receive a similar retro livery treatment?

5 hours ago, irishrailways52 said:

Reminds me of when I googled how Dick van dyke was doing, some luder claimed he'd had memory loss and took a dive into an empty swimming pool. Needless to say he's alive and well.

I'm not on insta but I'll try and see it somehow...

Sigh, it's threads like these that make me crave a big running session with members of this Forum....

5 hours ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

Oh and it's going to be grey in colour 

Prototypically accurate I hope? 

It's going for how much now!?!? You could get a professional model maker to make any loco you want for that price....

Looks like he........met his match with this

I for one am not losing interest in this project, especially not one so close to home.

It's projects like these that make me feel like I should model something a bit more........orange.

Beautiful work on that distillery, May I ask how you made the roof slates?

Oh how I envy you, you got to grow up with 121s, A class, loose coupled trains and getting a rides the guards vans whereas the year I was born the first ICR made it's arrival. Fabulous story. I look forward to seeing this layout becoming reality.