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  1. Plus several livery variations - MGWR lined green, MGWR lined black, MGWR unlined black, GSR grey, CIE grey (painted number instead of cast numberplate). From Clements / O'Neills notes, it seems none were black in later days, though final photos of 560 do LOOK black - maybe it was belatedly painted black at the end. I posessed one of its numberplates at on e time, and when cleaned it was very definitely dark grey with faded pale yellow numerals. Like many an apparently-black loco in the last few years, oily rags could have been the culprit; but no matter - five variations of a livery is presumably plenty!
  2. Reading all these posts, a few comments. Yes, 00 scale is a compromise in many ways. Even for its intended scale gauge of 4' 8 1/2" the track isn't right. For scale irish standard gauge, it's positively narrow gauge in scale terms. A stout 9 inch square gatepost in scale is just 3mm wide. A farm-style wooden post that you'd make a post-and-wire fence out of might be under one millimetre in thickness if to scale. Thus, the smaller the scale you're dealing with, the "coarser", and thicker, and thus less to scale, are the smaller pieces you're making. With my extremely belated forays into what galteemore of this forum describes as the "burnt fingers club", i.e. brass modelling, this certainly seems the finest and most durable so far, for extremely small fiddy things. Mind you, one's manual dexterity and eyesight might make such things hard to assemble, but that's another issue. Early 3D stuff was so crude and rough it was instantly dismissable to any modeller, not just those who wanted accurate fine detail. But 3D seems to be advancing in absolute leaps and bounds. I am lucky enough to have several of the late Ken McElhinney's wagons and one of his (sadly, never to be developed) six-wheel DSER coaches. These were made with what was state of the art 3D printing at the time of his unfortunate passing. So 3D, as many wiser than me will suggest, seems to be definitely the way we are going. To anyone making anything, the finer you can get from day one, the better. A fairly crude, perhaps slightly overscale model will satisfy those who aren't concerned about accuracy or detail, and just want something which is fairly representative, but it won't satisfy people who want something more realistic. But if it's as realistic as it can be from day one, it will satisfy both those groups and all in between. Personally I would take a couple of pairs of gates, especially as I hope to be shortly in a position to get going with more scenic work. There are many types. the MGWR, for example, had a unique design of their own, used on the Clifden, Achill, Killala, Kingscourt and several other branches. I know they used other types too, though - the "starburst" (or a variant of it) amongst them. Similarly the GSWR, and I saw a picture of a "starburst" on the Castlegregory branch somewhere too. So, thumbs up from me, anyway!
  3. If you wear incontinence pants when volunteering, you won’t foul anything….
  4. Keith Richards….. now THERES an oul wan who knows how to live! 6,406 years old and still rocking’!
  5. Not as outlandish an idea as it might seem to some, by any means - 00 Works sold out their (admittedly, probably very small run of) the West Cork 472 class saddle tanks, about as obsure as you could get. And they made it vaiable as with a few detail alterations, it "became" several british prototypes too.
  6. I've no clue as to what "discord" is; presumably a modern variant of tiktokgram, instamusk or bookface - but - THIN LIZZY! Yes. That famous gig at Dalymount Park in 1976 (or was it 77) was probably the single best outdoor gig I've ever been to.
  7. There was a young fella in Castletown West, but he didn’t get on with Yer Man in the loco shed, and he went off to England, where he was last seen as a passed fireman on 9Fs in 1961…..
  8. Looking at the bottom picture, Dugort is on the left. When designed, quite a few years ago now, the track was to go straight to a fiddle yard. Now, the gap in the middle is about to be bridged, and trains will continue to the right, and along the bogland section, still to have scenery added. The middle picture shows (where my hand is) the place where the connection will be made.
  9. Up to now, for a number of reasons, Dugort terminus, originally designed just as a shunting layout, has been separate from the main line layout (Castletown West). Now, they will finally be properly connected. Yesterday, thanks to the good offices of Peter, Steve and Mark, we got the original but raised to the correct height, and preparations made to join them. This will give an idea - more to follow.
  10. The work of the master of this trade, Kevan McIntosh!
  11. Yes! That would make perfect sense - anything, even in steam days, could turn up on that. Way, way, way less likely is a B101 appearing from the GNR or Midland… Personally, while every photo tells a story, I’ve yet to hear of, let alone see either in real life or photographic form, any evidence of a 101 working a service train on either.
  12. —— Back in 1944, the branch engine is 472, recently transferred in from Albert Quay. Here, on a similar duty, it is seen leaving Castletown West for the harbour. —- Finally, in 1958, the very same “A” as previously seen heads light towards Dugort to collect empty wagons…
  13. Old colour slides from 1956…. and black white prints from 1944…..…. Dugort Harbour didn’t have a Sunday service, so the place latterly was deserted on Sundays - unless there was a GAA special. But not this day in summer 1956. Smell the turf smoke and sea air? —— The following Saturday, a light engine breaks the silence with its Crossley growl, as it heads down to the harbour station to collect a solitary fish van.
  14. An exceptionally rare foray, if that's where it was coming from! They were always known on the railway as "southern engines".
  15. until

    Looking forward to this!
  16. That colour is 100% authentic. Even Cyril Fry's model in Malahide (unusually, but not uniquely) has a shade which is way, way too light. An OUTSTANDINGLY excellent model in all respects.
  17. £115 sterling for a Hattons six-wheeled passenger brake - thus about €150 maybe, plus brexit / customs / postal charges..... and these things were about £40-odd new. I know there's some validity (perhaps less than many think) in the idea that if someone's prepared to pay a certain price for something, in a free world, why not. Go for it, and if you don't want to, toddle off. But there is also the wise old adage that "fools and their money are easily parted". Despite missing the black and tan one, due to a mistake by Hattons in my order originally, I will not be answering that ad. Aha! The elusive 217 class. Must confess the introduction of such a class passed unnoticed by me, as did a "yellow livery"............ But £46 is a much better price than the stuff mentioned above.
  18. The IOM one isn’t the Donegal one, unless they got a 2nd one which they never used. The St John’s one in the IOM was there from about 1905 I think.
  19. This is scheduled as an NIR railcar. What happened? (Or do we even want to know!)
  20. On the entire Isle of Man Railway there was only ever a single turntable, at St. Johns. From 1873 when the first stretch of the railway opened, to the present, the IOMR does not turn locomotives. With the exception of a very small number of occasions, they always worked chimney first out of Douglas and bunker first towards Douglas. The turntable was installed for one reason only - turning carriages periodically to ensure even weathering of the paintwork on both sides, particularly on the very exposed coastal section of the Manx Northern line mid-way between St Johns and Ramsey. Since 1968, only the Port Erin line operates, so both the northern line, St Johns station and that turntable have all gone.
  21. The carriages above - yes, a perfect illustration of weathering. the forst one is in the 1955 green, and the other three are in the older 1945-55 green, but in the "local" Cork version of simpler or absent loining.
  22. Given the standard of your work it will look amazing!
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