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  1. Doubtless this is correct. I’m pretty certain none had aluminium plates in real life.
  2. What about lining & numerals? Does it need a flying snail (for lunch)?
  3. Historically spot on, livery-wise, provided the lining is as it looks to be - red and straw colour, not yellow as sometime mes seen on UTA models. Nice looking beast overall.
  4. Good to see you’ve got all your ducks in a row.
  5. Is this CD or CCD?
  6. Well done again!
  7. If indeed it was a joyrider, we might gently place the culprit astride the live wires above.....
  8. Fantastic work in such a short space of time - very well done!
  9. Ah! Never heard that one. Fits the bill!
  10. It needs to be in authentic livery….
  11. Unbelievable... Is there no way of reporting or preventing this type of false sale? Next - a genuine Bandon, Mallow & Western Rly. station laptop from 1886?
  12. As in a Castle Class or an MED; or a 2-car 2600……?
  13. That’s actually Galtee Halt….. in 12” to the foot scale.
  14. jhbSenior was involved with lifting the Markethill line. The track was so knackered that they actually had to partially re-sleeper and relay a few short stretches of it, just to get the lifting train (very possibly the same one above) to the end of it, in order to turn round and lift it up as it returned........... A modelling project for a 1955-65 era layout - a lifting train! Arguably more interesting than today's yellow machines, or do I dare say that?
  15. As a child, I was often taken to places where the lifting train was either about to arrive, or had just left; this was the 1960s, the "golden age" of branch line closures, and many miles of as-yet unadulterated formations of recently abandoned lines.... Seen here, the dreaded lifting train somewhere between Richill and Armagh, approx. 1960. (H C A Beaumont)
  16. It's a Z scale model of boris johnston's ego.
  17. This is the sort of “human” story which is so often overlooked, yet brings home the sheer horror and tragedy of an incident like this.
  18. That I didn't know.........
  19. Could be wrong here, but I suspect it went up via the NCC rather than the GNR branch.
  20. Similar can be seen in use at Inch Abbey and Downpatrick
  21. Very nicely done indeed!
  22. Yes, likely stolen property!
  23. No idea if they were regular, but I’d say they were definitely to be seen at some stage.
  24. The McMahon / Clements “Green Bible” contains a large amount of info about tenders….
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