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Many rural places like this could find a little yellow biscuit tin on wheels reposing at the end of an uncared-for siding. So Dugort Harbour ought to have one. Hence my first ever attempt at a brass kit this morning.
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A 3d printed 800 class for 00 (and a WLWR goods loco)
jhb171achill replied to Killian Keane's topic in Irish Models
Wondering about the 0.6.0 progress? -
The Hattons Genesis stock have gaps between them which must be about 8 scale feet.....
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Woohoo! My Time Machine is going to have to make one turn up in Dugort Harbour in 1962…..
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Pic 1: Claytons on W & T: old dark green with lining. Pic 2: same on 2nd, 3rd & 4th coaches; lighter on first one. Pic 3: hard to tell due to light, but very probably older livery, but as with some secondary stock, especially round Cork and on the West Clare, with no lining. Pic 4: sunlight!! Pic 5: Dark green unlined and lighter green. Pic 6: Lighter green Final pic: Railcar in lighter green, old coach in background unlined dark green.
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Two. These variations are all from lighting and varying survival of film emulsion.
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Worth pointing out, too, in general for those with Hattons 6ws in both greens - by the time BnT came in (1962) no passenger carrying vehicles still had the “old” lined dark green, and all of the six-wheelers still in use were by now the light green. There were still a handful of old vehicles hanging about in sidings, though, in dark green. Last dark green in actual use likely to be on the Clonakilty and Drimoleague-Baltimore branches.
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So, a BnT 6-wheel full brake has a quite different use to a green one. It is best matched with green or black & tan IRM Park Royals, and Bredins or laminates either in later green or BnT. An occasional Craven too in the midst of this, though an all-Craven train would stretch credibility. That’s the four, then! Slight possibility of one more though; I’d forgotten about 18.
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Only 2 or 3 became black & tan, and after the passenger-carrying ones were withdrawn. So no BnT 6-wheel van ever ran with other six-wheelers! Only six of these vans were still in use when the BnT livery came into use, and two of these were withdrawn within about 18 months, so probably remained green. Nos. 69, 79 and one more (11xx) were certainly BnT; not sure about the other one. Last two were in use on the Galway mail until circa 1968, and while not officially withdrawn until 1970, certainly looked well out of use by that time.
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I remember the donkeys too, often pulling turf trailers!
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Mine is 4 wheel drive and runs on renewable eco-friendly fuel. I remember the donkeys too, often pulling turf trailers!
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I think we’ll all be back on the backs of donkeys before all this gets sorted…..!
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The gentleman who designed this livery in real life (and several others) is a member on here - ye know who ye are! I have no doubt he will be HIGHLY impressed!
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Outstanding, simply outstanding.
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Very many thanks, Leslie, for your absolutely invaluable input into model Irish wagons. You have been instrumental in assisting many of us in turning train sets into model railways!
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Charles Friel, of the RPSI, has done several fascinating talks on this area, and may have images to help. Contact him via the RPSI, maybe?
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Next time it will be Mary Loo Healy Rae.
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I wonder would a Crossley rescue it - or would it be the other way round! Or - I have visions of an ageing SG3 hauling both in disgrace south past Howth Junction.....
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Railway on a farm in West Cork under construction
jhb171achill replied to Darrman's topic in Letting off Steam
Saw this on YouTube a good while ago - apparently he's been working on this for some years! Most ingenious. -
Now THAT would give him indigestion as well, not to mention a bad case of the Vapours, the Critical Collywobbles, Heeby-Jeebys and Multiple Conniptions....
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Had jhbSeniorx2 still been in the Drawing Office, I think he'd be weeping buckets into his porridge at that sight or thought of that thing......
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That brake van is really top class!
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That's by far the best way to approach the planning stage! If your terminus eventually resembles something like, say, Docklands, you'll have an island platform with two faces. You'd expect trains to leave on one line and arrive on the other, with access to both platforms fropm either.... often, in cases like this, there's an "arrivals" and "departures" side. the arrivals side would need a loop unless there's a shunting loco to release stock on incoming trains.
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Evidently Mr Bullied was not a man who took criticism well, and was not at all happy with the less positive comments following trial runs of that thing! And MOST of the comments were less than positive…..!
