Glenderg

Mein Gott.....!

Crimson Lake, couple of gold lines, a few GSWR decals, nice to run behind 461?

G'day Phil. New Irish Lines Vol.2 No.4 - November 2000 - page 104 New Irish Lines Vol.3 No.2 - November 2002 - page 60 and best of all Irish Lines Issue 3 - Spring 1993. More peat based rail info than you can shake a turf spade at. You can thank Garfield for uploading the scans http://newirishlines.org/archive-2/ Richie.

From top of turntable at north to bridge at the south works out at a scale 6000mm in 00. R.

The Dublin Wicklow & Wexford had open sided four wheelers, glazed on the other side.?

From Brook Lodge and it's associated corn mill directly south of the bridge. The river was dammed further south, which came downhill and drove the millwheel. They must have routed the road over the river to protect their source of revenue. There are some complicated gradients going on! Mill is long gone unfortunately. As for the railway, I doubt the mill owners ponied up all the cash for the bridge and embankments. Would have bankrupted them! Was there ever a plan to bridge between Passage East and Ballyhack maybe? Would seem like an extravagent and unnecessary route, but the madness of the early railway is hard to fathom.

tom, fair play you always have a pot on the boil. looking forward to either egv or weedspray variety, though i fall into the heirflick school of yellow fever!

really interesting concept eoin looking forward to seeing it develop. what ave you got on the tower? a 6 pounder or a cannon? ;p R.

Askeaton, Co. Limerick?

I see what you did there, v. clever!

Limerick Check?

Shem, grab some brake fluid and coat the area in question with it. If you only want to remove decals, leave it on for only a few minutes, and a cocktail stick will encourage their removal. Leaving it on for longer will remove the paint beneath. T- cut only works for factory painted models.

There is a man i know whow has to be present at gate crossing three times a day. He doesn't have to find a cure for cancer, nor sort out the middle east's problems. He clears 692 eu a week after tax. That, gentlemen, is what is wrong with irish rail.

A dead man's whoopy cushion? Great questions Minister, btw.

Your wandering powers never cease to amaze me!

Liver, there was a great article in britiish railway modeller possibly august which did a nice job on weathering locos with weathering powders. I'm working up a photo package showing how to weather a Plasser Tamper with a paintbrush, some gouache, and a cotton bud, and more importantly, how to undo it if you screw it up. No airbrush required. Might even do it as a video! R

Minister, you might run an update on whats left, and throw in a few new ones? R

...and that would put you off Heathcliffe"? Baaaaad form kid, and seriously off topic. Anyway, as the rubberbandits say, "if ya don't like it, F**k off to Cork" Back on topic, Has no 2 got anything to do with the Manx railway by any chance?

01 - technically all junctions are named after women - Gabhal is the irish for both railway junction and also ladies front bottom. - edit Castlegregory Junction? T&DLR? 02 - RPSI? ;p 03 - Missed TPO pickup? 04 - Sambo - inchicore shunter? 05 - Baldoyle and Sutton was called Sutton, and Sutton and Baldoyle

Yes indeed the legendary figure was mr william keane, legendary apparently, for owning the little cottage that sat tween the various overlapping lines, and controlling the points for many routes, and essentially allowing trains to pass when it suited him, and holding up trains who's drivers he didn't like. Not even Acts of Parliment could shift him! The boat was called the dream and it was strapped to the carraige immediately behind the steam tender for the inagural boat race between ucc and trinity, like the oxbridge race in the uk. Somewhere outside mallow, the sparks from the chimney set it on fire and by the time it got to the junction there was mayhem. The race was called off and never held since! r

An easy one.... "At limerick junction the lowly, but now legendary Mr xxx who was in charge of the points leading from the W & LR main line into the station, and whose memory is perpetuared to this day by XXX, although many of higher rank are forgotten, came monetarily into the news. In october he boldly asked for 1 cwt of coal per week - no doubt to keep his isolated points box or cottage warm - but his request was refused." From 1865.... Who was the legendary individual, what was his first name, and why was he so legendary?

In 1864 a boat, which was strapped to the roof of a passenger carriage caught fire at limerick junction. The boat race it was destined for, or name of the boat will do...

No, because coconuts were traditionally never used in the lubrication side of railway maintenance, nor any facet of the railway. Even if they were, they'd have been particularly hard to procure, especially on SLNCR & smaller more western railways where cocunuts were not commonplace. Second, and more importantly your question is not trivia related. I'd suggest trying again tomorrow dave when you've reset yourself.

Superb stuff david, well done.

Peco Flexitrack in use in Ireland? Where though.....?