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  1. Absolute utter mess, presided over by the NTA - who, if murmerings from those in the know are to be believed, are as anti-rail as the 19450s UTA.

    UTA / NTA.

    One also hears that the car parking and provate bus lobby don't want any railways anywhere near any airport; an unfortunate relation to the idea of Dublin Port wanting all trains well away from the place.

    Can we EVER get ANYTHING right? In China, this would be built in a week, with CPOs slapped on every carpark in the way.

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  2. 9 hours ago, Noel said:

     …….Moving swiftly on, my goodness the amount of new models due to ship over the next 9 months is staggering. Will layout have to grow to stable all this new stock?

     

    When my attic was planned out, I deliberately included a fiddle yard which all my total stock would occupy an hour two thirds of.

    Now it holds about half of what I have…..! 

  3. 2 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

    Oh…..oh yes 

     

     

    Those photos were taken many years ago too ….

    Sad to see; and sad to say, THAT one WOULD be better put out of its misery.

    We can’t hang onto everything.

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  4. In all reality, that loco is a mess. Two have survived in better order - and, with a much better secure future. Both are owned by the ITG; one is operational at Downpatrock (in green livery) and another is in the later stages of restoration at the ITG's other case at Carrick-on-Suir. Any bogie swop with that yoke above will be for the benefit of one or other of those, which will both see good use on the DCDR.

    I'm afraid I would scrap the one above unless someone (yes, that famous "someone" again!) could be found to give it a lick of paint and stick it on a plinth somewhere.............(West Cork?)

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  5. 2 hours ago, Saint Johnstoun said:

    Now with some decals.  I still have to find suitable lining.

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    Very nice jobs indeed! The UTA roundels look to be the right size too - many iterations of these transfers in the past are clearly far too big. You mention the lining - this could be a challenge as some UTA models end up with what looks like yellow and red lining, or even white. I think this is because these are readily available, though I'm not sure.

    The correct UTA colour is a beige-straw-like colour and red, rather than yellow; the yellow and red lining was created in the 1990s specifically for RPSI Whitehead Mk 2s, with the deliberate aim of looking vaguely UTA-ish, but not actual UTA! (I know, myself and the then RPSI carriage officer had a hand in it!)

  6. 3 minutes ago, Metrovik said:

    Well, time for a small, Monthly progress report. 20240327_173036.thumb.jpg.b765cf7ff33ebde75f3d281eed238cc3.jpg

    Not surprisingly the station roof has hit a standstill, Anyone know if it would look prototypical for this to stay unpainted but weathered to hell and back.

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    Small bit of landscaping, not sure if it really fits in though, might scrap it.

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    The Station is finally more than just a roof. Albeit not much more, detail for this to follow.

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    Station still needs alot of work to look presentable, but I'm getting there.

    See you next month (all going well), MV

    This is looking like a very nice little set-up!

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  7. 13 minutes ago, airfixfan said:

    Great to see interior of railcar 12 plus confirmation of my belief that Drumboe needs a red not black dome in Donegal Town where I will be tomorrow!

    Not just a "belief"; it's fact! The CDR never painted domes black on red locomotives. Like many another livery faux-pas, this is a product of a lack of accurate research at Whitehead; we've TWO of these things with black domes now.....! Mind you, not just the domes, but often the tops of the water tanks, the cab front and rear, and most of the boiler ended up caked with so much soot and general gunk that it might as well have been painted black - same with bright blue GNR locos. I'd say if someone painted 171's or 85's dome black, there would be war...... Many CIE green or grey engines, similarly, ended their days so filthy that they could have been painted lime green, tartan and flourescent pink for all anyone could see.....

    Rant over; to Ernie's latest pictures - absolutely SUPERB stuff.

    6 hours ago, Paul 34F said:

    The rear bench seat of Railcar 20 has been upholstered with a different pattern moquette.

    Paul

    That's standard GNR 3rd class material of the day. The C&L coach 1L has what was then standard CIE 3rd / 2nd class.

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  8. 1 hour ago, minister_for_hardship said:

    Tacked on to production of the identical British based locos, just a different coat of paint and number plates. If it were a stand alone Irish obscure model, it may not have fared as well.

    True, indeed.

    Maybe we should be scanning what British chassis might suit something Irish...........

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  9. As 00 Works showed with their CBSCR 0.6.0ST, obscurity is quite possible! There can be few prototypes more obscure than these, but it sold out I believe. As for the first IRM one, and the foregoing being the case, it could be absolutely anything under the sun. Availability and suitability of the internal gubbins may have a big say in determining what it will be.

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  10. On 15/3/2024 at 1:23 PM, Patrick Davey said:

    A few clips from the view of the driver and the passenger!

    First the driver:

     

     

    Then the passenger:

     

     

    Now two trains:

     

     

    And now three:

     

     

     

    Great work by the IRRS in digitising this old early colour footage......

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  11. 30 minutes ago, Andy Cundick said:

    The bulkhead would be steel bear in mind the bodies were built by coachbuilders so the same as on a period bus or lorry. the main visual change is that the luggage rack was cut back on No8 and the exhausts were redirected up the cab front. Colourwise i have always thought that original red was the same as Precision CDR Geranium red but post war it seems to take on a lighter hue possibly more like signal red.As for lettering in 4mm i use LTSR  crests and no ones noticed yet (same as on the Castlederg).Andy.

    They did use a somewhat darker red initially - not a great deal darker, but a bit. A cherry red rather than British letter box red. The early railcars were a very dark purply-plum colour, later repainted red and cream, but this yoke was red and cream from new., as was its sister.

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  12. 47 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

    Oct 1960 I think……

    There's a pencilled date of that on the underneath, but I am unsure if Fry wrote that or not. Generall he put his dates as painted-on "makers plates", with something like "C L F 11.42" on them ("11.42" meaning, for example, November 1942). Naturally, these cars didn't have such plates, of course, so the above is not an exact science!

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  13. 5 hours ago, David Holman said:

    Thanks folks - useful to see how the pony truck connects to the front end, plus the lumps of lead there too. Square section fuel tank on the left, I see.

     There are anomalies in both the 0n16.5 drawings and the large scale set. The former has a much steeper ridge to the bonnet too (clearly not the case in photos), while the latter has the windscreen with a V profile.

     Fry's model looks like 'original' condition, with the big front overhang of the roof and no front coupler, or the sheeted/plated between body and bonnet front. What a stunning model though, especially for its day.

    I’ll actually have a look at the model today to check what year he made it, out of interest.

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