Jump to content

jhb171achill

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    15,582

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    384

 Content Type 

Everything posted by jhb171achill

  1. jhb171achill
    The parallel world of Dugort…. ”..........So, he throws the newspaper out of the cab window as he goes over the river, but the KEY was INSIDE it in an envelope to “keep it safe”! WHY the hell would ANYONE do that?” ”It was yesterday’s paper…..” ”Me foot’s getting stuck in the mud….” "We NEED to find that key.....!"
  2. jhb171achill
    An absolute delight to meet the Past-Avenue team in Donegal last week - many congratulations on finding a home for this inspirational layout, and no more appropriate place. Well done.
  3. jhb171achill
    Remember to seat the timers on the left hand side on day 1, and the right on day 2, the drinkers in coach C next the bar, and the weirdos and oddballs in seats 43 to the end......... Seats 1-8 to be set aside for IE crew, 9-12 for RPSI crew, and one seat in the first seating bay in each coach for the marshal for that coach. Seats 50-60 in coach A for the shop section and two seats in the diner marked "crew" for when they're having their break.
  4. jhb171achill
    So we can now get both RPSI liveries - the Craven blue & cream and the Whitehead green!
  5. jhb171achill
    Very distinctive sound - I remember them brand new and they had a sort of high-pitched "whistling" sound - very different indeed to the hoarse sore-throat sound of an AEC or MED railcar which surrounded them on local services.........
  6. jhb171achill
    Certainly looks like it, yes.
  7. jhb171achill
    Off topic, I know, but Cyril Fry built a serious amount of LNWR stuff himself (obviously, NOTHING suitable RTR back then!) It has to remain in storage due to space constraints, but I am agitating for extra display space for it....
  8. jhb171achill
    Get well soon, Ernie.
  9. jhb171achill
    ".....who, "Hot Box" O'Driscoll? They're pensioning him off on Tuesday fortnight. He started in Kenmare in 1915, so he's fifty years done. Last o'the oul stock....in fact, he's the last one of us who was there that day...."
  10. jhb171achill
    A pristine B168 shunts two "tin vans" at Dugort Harbour in summer 1966. There's a storm brewing out there, but the driver has a flask of hot stewed tea....
  11. jhb171achill
    "......Look at that, just three vans. We'll be done by lunchtime. Lot easier since yer man bought a lorry for the animal feed....who's driving today?....." . Dugort Harbour lost its passenger service in 1967. Between then and closure in 1975 there was but one goods train a day, and here it is one day in 1968....
  12. jhb171achill
    A much more sensible thing! As one who also had this ridiculous medieval claptrap rammed down my throat in school, I saw it at the time as light years beyond crass, and utterly useless; in some cases, a 12-year-old me guessed, just clung onto by some schools to try to prove something very outdated. Throughout adult life, I tended not to alter that thinking - till now! A discussion on Latin produces a very nice image of a steam loco……and a nice GNR one at that! RESULT!
  13. jhb171achill
    Extremely nicely done - VERY neat!
  14. jhb171achill
    A bowl of labor diaboli is quite nice in some Italian places but if it's not cooked properly it can give you a very nasty dose of pax vobiscum. I hear it causes nasty side-effects and unpleasant secretions.
  15. jhb171achill

    Intro

    jhb171achill replied to KMCE's topic in KMCE Models

    I'd say so. If I find any info I'll post here......
  16. jhb171achill

    Intro

    jhb171achill replied to KMCE's topic in KMCE Models

    I’m not sure, Ken, but I’d be surprised if it was much different from your DWWR ones. It’s the only image I have of that one.
  17. jhb171achill
  18. jhb171achill
    No. 4, yes.
  19. jhb171achill

    Intro

    jhb171achill replied to KMCE's topic in KMCE Models

    Here is a typical cattle wagon of an earlier generation (1880s - 1920s). The shorter wheelbase was the norm on all railways back then, not just the DSER. This wagon is obviously of GSWR origin. Examples of many varieties of older wagons of this length were still in use in a few cases just about into the "black'n'tan" era - certainly in 1960/1. The massive wagon building programme of the 1955-65 period in Inchicore put paid to all old designs very quickly, though.
  20. jhb171achill
    In later years at least one had the roof lookout removed….
  21. jhb171achill
    On pages 124 and 126 of Taylor's book there are drawings of two of their standard designs of 30ft long six-wheelers. Those vans were built to the same overall external dimensions, so that's a start. They started life in ordinary wagon grey, but in later years got a darker grey shade (with the GSR) and a few - not all - of them ended their days in plain CIE green, of the later (lighter) shade. None were ever in the darker green.
  22. jhb171achill
    If you’re a blues man, I’m sure you know my old friend Dermot Rooney from Belfast….
  23. jhb171achill
    Last silver anything (locos or coaches) mid 60s. Last green 1967. Almost certainly no green loco ever hauled bubbles*, and very definitely no silver one did. No brown wagons till 1970, so nothing brown behind a silver or green anything…. (* and if it did, for maybe one day!)
  24. jhb171achill
    Brown only post-1970…..
  25. jhb171achill
    The spare van. . Arrival….
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use

  I accept