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  1. jhb171achill
    The best measure is for each attendee to purchase three antigen tests and four IRM locos…..
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    Another absolute gem from 1960 Lagan Valley!
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    No. 77!
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    And my lot were round the corner in Wellington Road…..
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    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.
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    Excellent info. Very true indeed.
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    As a rare one-off, actually not on this occasion!
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    That happened to me once on an summer excursion and I missed my footing climbing down and fell onto the ballast!
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    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.
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    Only seeing this now. I’m in for coaches, certainly.
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    2nd last pic is close to original condition.
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    They’ll end up making a mess of it’s external appearance if they do that……
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    And there's me wondering this very day what to write about next!
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    That is REALLY looking good now! (Must do a map to show where "Dugort Harbour" is supposed to be!)
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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!
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    You’re not a million miles off, really. Vans like the planked one above started appearing about 1915 - at that stage, though, they were the very latest thing! The KMCE wagons are the best for you, plus the ancient style Provincial Wagons guards van, and the Studio Scale Models “soft top”.
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    What’s your preferred period, Mark? In terms of variety, since the 1970s there has been less variety every year as things get standardised. Great for efficiency, not so much for enthusiasts. By far the greatest variety of locos and rolling stock in Irish railway history was the 1955-65 period, as modellers are (thankfully) increasingly embracing.
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    As John says, the "tin" ones were very few and far between; I suspect they didn't outlast the 1960s. I never saw one at all, anywhere. The planked ones were still to be seen in traffic just about past 1970, though I never saw one repainted brown. By 1973/4, my guess is that they were all gone. Beautiful models - recommended as essential for any 1940s / 50s / 60s layout.
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    Sadly, if it becomes a greenway, we can kiss goodbye to any C.Luas..... once the Lycra Taliban get their greenways, nothing will shift them. Re. Ballymartle & the Passage line in terms of closures - the Kinsale branch was the first line to be targetted by the GSR for economy - in 1930. The Cork, Blackrock & Passage line closed in 1932, the Crosshaven extension a few months before the rest of it. Even then, it was missed.
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    Wonder why the CDRJC trains always seemed to cross on the "wrong lines" at Castlefinn? A westbound railcar is to be seen on the right, with the eastbound goods on the left. The customs had a table on the westbound side, which is the only reason I can think of - but passenger trains used the other platform too.
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    Unfortunately it wasn’t even plugged into the internet!
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