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A "Woolwich" can be made up from one of the Southern Railway "N" class 2.6.0s - just remove the "blinkers" and drop it into a bucket of dark grey paint! (Or lined green after 1946). As far as a Dean Goods is concerned, if it is to fit into a Sligo scenario it has to be a loco of MGWR origin ideally, though obviously WLWR & GSWR types came in off the "Burma Road". The cab of a Dean goods is unlike most that the GSWR or MGWR had, but is not at all unlike WLWR cabs. A simple repaint will turn it into a very generic WLWR 0.6.0; it could, for the sake of argument, given a round-topped firebox and alterations to the front splashers, be turned into one of the two 235 class - but they were scrapped in 1927 & 1951. Alter its cab to a more GSWR-ish style - a simple job with plasticard - and it's good enough as a generic loco off the Burma Road - one of the many iterations of the J15 class. I have seen a picture of a MGWR J17 with a cab a bit like that. This would work, and would be arguably more suitable, as these would have been more typical in that area. The only "must" would be the removal of the brass GWR dome and to put the safety valves in the normal place instead of on top of the cab. All 0.6.0s would be plain grey up to the mid-1950s, some with flying snails, others not. Towards the last few years of steam, a small number of 0.6.0s were repainted plain black - again, some would acquire flying snails while others didn't.

If they make the Caark ones red and white, boy, thye'll need to make the Dub's ones two-tone blue!

It’s 1992 and an (abridged!) Enterprise passes through Malahide. IMG_0985.mov

With the new timetables coming in, Midleton 26’s are now extended to Donabate, and a Mk 4 set is on the Rosslare….. IMG_0986.mov IMG_0984.mov An Executive special passes through Mallow today, conveying politicians to Cork to announce the reopening of something as it’s election time….. en route, they decide over a pint what they’ll announce, and make a note of it for when Claire Byrne grills them…. IMG_0988.mov

Nurse! Nurse!

That really looks the business. Perfect weathering too, and surrounding scenery.

Probably same as their lorries - mid-to-light (wagon) grey body, red & cream cab! Crest on cab side, “C D R” on “wagon” dropsides…. (Unless they decided that it qualified as a “red wagon”!)

Do I detect the Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway edging in here?

I spotted one of those at Dugort Harbour in the 1960s….

I mourn the passing of Hattons; with my last correspondence with their model developers they were looking favourably on GSR livery too! GSWR would have followed…..!

So do we now know for a fact that Tralee Council are the actual outright legal owners of the locomotive?

So three railcar sets! All 6-ICRs?

Wasn’t aware of that! Nice!

Looks like four train sets needed for that. Three DDs plus an ICR, presumably. Tempting, therefore, to assume that the railcar will do the 05:50 ex Dublin, and corresponding trips throughout the day, e.g. the 09:00 to Dublin, 11:50 north, and so on........

There have already been road vehicles in garda markings, and buses in UTA & CDR liveries, and a double decker probably suitable for 0 scale, in CIE green. Lorries in CIE green and 1960s black cabs. Perhaps some of the following: 1. Postal vans - to be seen on platforms loading mail off trains - older dark green "P & T" livery, or Royal Mail red for the north 2. Buses from various eras in CIE, UTA & Ulsterbus liveries. 3. Lorries with CIE (various eras), UTA & Northern Ireland Carriers liveries. The latter suitable sitting alongside a RTR Jeep, whenever that comes out! 4. ESB vehicles.

Probably sussing out different distributors. All delivery services are getting expensive now so it pays to shop around. I'm sending a small parcel tomorrow to Switzerland and it will cost €13.

It says "signed by..... W H Mills". But he wasn't involved, as I understand it, until the formation of the GNR in 1876. That's 20 years later than the thing is described as dating from. Something doesn't add up there, but I suspect it's an incorrect description rather than an indication that the drawings are fake. It is also possible that Mills signed a copy of it at a later stage, but that the drawings are indeed dating back to 1856.

Excellent book. Glad I got one at the time.

Indeed. Probably its best hope after indirect vandalisation through neglect by Tralee / Kerry Council, or whatever half-wits were in charge of it, is static display somewhere. Tralee certainly doesn't deserve it. If it was up to me, I'd put it on display on Easter Island or in North Korea before I'd let them have it.

The bottom one, dated 1917, is an Inchicore product all right - see "G S & W R" on it. However, the majority on that line were likely to be ex-GNR - thus cast in Dundalk Works. I think the top picture is a GNR one.

Spot on!!!!!!

So easy to model!

Correct on all counts!!

At the very end, the only points were at the waterford end, and there were (I think) just two! Tramore was a dead end. Waterford had the platform road and two sidings, one into the shed. Not even a run-round loop. the entire rolling stock was just three AEC railcars and two coaches, one fitted as a driving trailer. Had it survived, it's a reasonable assumption that today it would have but one set of points (at Waterford) and a pair of 2-car 26 class railcars!

Indeed. Dromod is the only hope - for the loco - scrap for the rest.