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Never!

On the subject of “back in the day”; jhbSenior had a notoriously weak stomach for motion sickness. He dreaded the Holyhead ferry (yet his grandfather had captained it). You only had to show him a picture of a ship and he’d be seasick. The Schull & Skibbereen Railway had the same effect. He travelled on it in the early 1930s and ended up being sick over the end balcony of a four-wheeled coach, as it roughly rocked and rolled along at a mind-blowing speed of Warp 12 miles per hour…. (Maybe that’s why he became a PW engineer….)

Thanks, Tony. There’s been nothing much else happening in recent times as I’ve been busy elsewhere but I’m hoping for further progress soon.

Is it DCC fitted? Sound or not?

Ah, if it’s the 800 class you must buy seven, plus three of their 500 class and twelve of their NCC “Jeeps”. I thought that was a new nameplate. I was looking forward to seeing it on the wall of a Chicago bar in six months’ time……

Yes - this was commonplace in makers’ photographs, to provide contrast. While it was seen amongst a number of British liveries, it was very rare in Ireland for any type of wagon to have black ironwork unless the wagon was black itself, as many early GSWR, DSER & Donegal Railway ones were. The rule on Irish railways was almost always that ironwork was body colour. There were very few exceptions. Same with makers photos of locos with white connecting rods, or white rims on carriage wheels - they didn’t run like that. With no colour photography, black, white and numerous shades of grey were necessary on official works photos to show detail. Once photographed, the item concerned would be painted in its “proper” livery before delivery to its new owner.

The best measure is for each attendee to purchase three antigen tests and four IRM locos…..

Another absolute gem from 1960 Lagan Valley!

No. 77!

And my lot were round the corner in Wellington Road…..

By CIE days you’re looking at ex-MGWR 0.6.0s, 2.4.0s, AEC railcars and C class diesels. Had it survived into the 1960s/70s, it’s a diet of 141s.

Excellent info. Very true indeed.

As a rare one-off, actually not on this occasion!

That happened to me once on an summer excursion and I missed my footing climbing down and fell onto the ballast!

I’ve a couple of photos of Castlegregory somewhere - will delve over next few days. Senior went there in 1939, two weeks before it closed. It is an excellent model for a mini-terminus.

Only seeing this now. I’m in for coaches, certainly.

2nd last pic is close to original condition.

They’ll end up making a mess of it’s external appearance if they do that……

And there's me wondering this very day what to write about next!

That is REALLY looking good now! (Must do a map to show where "Dugort Harbour" is supposed to be!)

Quite possibly; at least they insisted (and still do) on strictly correct liveries on GNR locos and No. 4! The idea that 186 had a 400 or 500 class tender is an ancient Whitehead myth, not true. The type it actually has was used across a number of classes and was very common among J15s for several decades.

The cattle wagons of short wheelbase of Leslie’s SLNCR / GNR design aren’t strictly within period, but like the new JM Design goods van isn’t too far after. However, despite Board Of Trade rules, in 1905 many - if not most - cattle trucks remained roofless. The Provincial ones could be made up like that, at a pinch.

In traffic, in that condition, they were never anything other than plain grey, though a small few were plain black in the late 50s. No coloured anything. The RPSI used two liveries of their own; neither authentic. First their “own” livery of black with UTA-esque red rods and NCC-like red-backed numberplate, then the fictitious “South Eastern Railway” (of England) lined green for the 1978 film contract. Finally, following a poll of members, it ended up as it is now in its correct GSWR / GSR / CIE grey.

I asked exactly the same question one time in Loughrea, as the “C” class on the branch that week idled for hours in the station before the afternoon train. And yes, I got the same answer!