jhb171achill

1 hour ago, Galteemore said:

Interesting - a professional model maker on the Big Island has discovered Irish railways. His output is top notch - will be interesting to follow: https://paxton-road.blogspot.com/2024/03/irish-vans.html?m=1

Fascinating stuff - reading it now!

I have an interest in this, through three friends being "on the spectrum", and the daughter of another friend of mine from years ago. While many might joke, it's a fact that this condition lends itself to an interest in all things mechanical; car enthusiast groups involving detailed restoration of old vehicles also attracts folks with this condition. It is a massively positive thing to see this group specifically encouraging people in this way - the railway enthusiast world in general might take note....

13 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

You're an Achill Bogie!

Guilty as charged.

30 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Brilliant idea!

Is the colour coding an indicator of the order things are likely to arrive in?

So Bulleids and IR Mk2B/C's next?

I'm thinking MGWR six-wheelers............ and an "Achill Bogie"!

206 on one set today, 231 sitting spare in Connolly.

I had heard of that but it's the first time I've ever seen a picture of it! Superb stuff appearing on the IRRS site these days - well worth joining the society for the photo archive alone.

19 minutes ago, Newtoncork said:

I can understand a local initiative like this causing a lot of pain for Kerry County Council. But you could argue that a national transport museum being a national and internationally important collection should be part of the National Museum of Ireland and funded centrally.

……and therein lies the problem. Such an argument is 100% right - but a large critical mass of people at all levels have no interest whatever, and couldn’t care less! Sad….

2 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

The buses have moved in to the new bus staging area outside Clogherhead station, leaving their tell tale signs on the ground….. in GNR days a fleet of buses would shuttle arriving holidaymakers to and from the beach, a service which was reduced later on after a walkway was opened linking the station directly to the beach.  CIE continued to provide the basic shuttle service after their 1958 takeover of the GNR.

Oooohhh!! Childhood memories of visiting my Great Aunt in Howth!

 

 

 

 

 

Very interested in this project! The very best of luck with it, Broadstone!

As an MGWR fan myself, I have calmed myself with double smelling salts for tonight. I think I'm psychologically now, with mug of cocoa in hand, even if i'll always be a bit scarred....

What GSWR stock do you already have?

Fingal Council is currently discussing ways of increasing the broad appeal of the museum to not just the public at large, but interest groups as well - in particular those interested in railway models.

I have been asked to seek suggestions from modellers and modellers’ groups.

I am thus interested in suggestions of any sort in terms of basic content, special events or on-site facilities.

Since this is the “go-to” place for those interested in Irish railway modelling, I would be pleased to hear any suggestions either by PM to be here, or to jhb171@gmail.com.

Out of my era but having seen them close up, the detail is amazing - they are certainly akin to the underparts of a canine........

18 minutes ago, David Holman said:

Stuff! The bandof our lives, JB - we all have way too much of it.

Be ruthless? Easier said than done.

Reorganize? As above

Dig down? Expand upwards or outwards? All down to money...

Don't envy you.

Gonna have to be a combination of (2) & (3) - nowhere to expand to!

9 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

How about moving Dugort to Malahide, merging it with the Casino railway, and renting out the Dugort room to OTHER suckers looking for storage?

If only you knew somebody involved enough...

Oh, wait...

There's barely enough room in the Malahide Casino for THEIR stuff; and they wouldn't take kindly to me rolling up with a bed, a settee, and boxes and boxes of books, cutlery and bedside lamps.......... an exercise bike, rocking chair and whatever else oul junk is up there festering away...........

Bit of an offbeat one here; my layout room has been invaded by half a house full of stuff - long story - unrelated to the railway.

I need to find a semi-long-term storage facility, dry & insulated, somewhere broadly near Malahide to put stuff in for maybe a year or two. Looking up websites, it is clear that storage facilities run a cartel. None publish their prices - you have to ring them, which as a separate issue means you get bombarded with junk email and endless marketing calls for weeks afterwards; plus the prices they all quote are several light years above ridiculous.

Anyone know of somewhere sensible in the area? Until or unless I can get a whole pile of stuff out of the house, there will be no more Dugort Harbour progress for a long time to come!!

On 28/2/2024 at 6:59 PM, Horsetan said:

Guinness saddle tank.

I'd be happy enough with the Guinness............

A dog barking

1 hour ago, Horsetan said:

They look similar to some of the engines built for railways in South Wales. 

The other 290+ drawings in that archive are fascinating. 

I’d say they are, yes!

Never knew there were equivalents in Wales!! Where and when?

45 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

You know it’s bad where even I would be reluctant to buy a model of a Cork-Bandon loco

Yes, they were very far from picturesque! One of the most ungainly looking steam locomotives I’ve ever seen….

On 25/2/2024 at 12:54 PM, Galteemore said:

If you’re going for the authentic SLNC look you’re almost there  

"Lough Erne" is arriving, along with Railcar B, on low loaders at the weekend...........

1 hour ago, irishrailways52 said:

you should sell those

Given the space (which I don't have), i would very certainly buy one like that!

17 minutes ago, Rob R said:

If anyone fancies a little scratchbuilding project:-

Brandon Baldwin erecting drawing

Apologies if it has been posted on here before (I did look first - honest guv)

 

Rob

A very interesting prototype!

Going back to the very original post on this, about the Dapol Sentinel. I note the model is black.

Since it was ordered by the GSR, it will certainly have been grey if THEY painted it, unless it was delivered by Sentinel in black and left that way for a while. However, there is another possibility.

Often, on other railways, contraptions like this copuld end up with a carriage livery, or something similar. At least one old picture of one of these quite new - or clean - appears to chow a shiny black chassis, but a slightly greyer colour above, though no lining.

I just wonder if it could have been the dark purple lake colour above (as on Downpatrick's coach 836)? Certainly, the number was applied in carriage-like shaded style.

Just checked up on a few details; A Clayton was trialled for a short period on the Macroom branch, and (probably the same one) on the Clonakilty branch - so dey did go down to Wisht Caark, boy!

25 minutes ago, airfixfan said:

Trailed in Cork and Tralee ended up by 1928 on the Limerick Market Branch

When they say "Cork", that triggers something in the back of my mind to the effect that it was not IN Cork, as such, that one of these things was tried out, but on the Fermoy - Mitchelstown branch in COUNTY Cork. Must check that.

6 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Oh that’s all…or even trialing it in Albert quay. Whatever the case, like the Clayton railcars on the west cork. A very short lived experiment! 

Never heard of a Clayton going onto the CBSCR - I wouln't have thought that it would be seen as remotely suitable.

3 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

They must have been south of the river lee at least once....

I think they did little in Cork, prob only shunting in Glanmire Road. But Albert Quay transfers are certainly a possibility, as might be shunting within the CBSCR terminus.

3 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

The batteries would have to be programmed to run out just short of the destination 

Then a team of Lycra cyclists would appear to push it……

10 hours ago, Mayner said:

IE replaced the 4w flat wagons used for carrying Hazardous Freight on the Asahi line with Bogie Wagons at some stage before the factory closed in 1997. The ending of Mail Trains and Sundries Traffic would have released bogie wagons for use on the Asah

Good point. I’d forgotten about that.