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1930 GSR Working Timetable, Sligo area, in response to @Angus’s request. This includes the SLNCR movements, actually showing greater detail than the SLNCR records do. I don’t know if they’ll all upload in the right order but if you copy them, enlarge them and print them out, you’ll have the whole three routes into Sligo. The line from Dublin and Mullingar at this particular stage was monopolised by ex-Midland engines, mainly 0.6.0s and 2.4.0s, but the brand-new Woolwiches were appearing too, before the GSR moved many of them south. According to the late Billy Lohan who regularly drove on the WLWR line, by 1930 most trains on that line north of Tuam were J15s.

I have a set going back to 1926, plus a handful before that. For 1930, I will dig out the GSR ones. The ones Ernie posted above are, as he says, 1957. From Midland days, though, all through GSR times and into CIE days, the services were much the same. Tomorrow I'll dig out summer 1930 and post it. In addition to what's shown would be the SLNCR services. I don't think I've a 1930 SLNCR table but again, over the years it was more or less the same four workings per day from Sligo to Enniskillen. There were some 14 workings in each direction between Sligo and Collooney comprising the GSR's Limerick and Mullingar workings, and the SLNCR.

Looks great. What did you do to put the inevitable gunk and gravel in the pit? Looks very much the part, and prompts me to think of posting a pic of a pristine grey loco tomorrow, just out of the paint shop at Inchicore.......must have a look!

Wow! A GSWR plough van as well! Superb stuff!

New one to me too!

Off to the DSER today. 1. A typically deserted Murrough Station, Wicklow, 1939. 2. DSER suburban, 1939. Where? Killiney? Leading coach still brown & cream, the rest maroon.

I too have seen that picture, Old Blarney, though I can't just place where! Yes, it would have been C & D - the others, I think, were long gone.

I doubt it, Old Blarney - he had an aversion to public events of any sort! Had he been invited (and he could well have been) he would more than likely have turned it down.... I had, indeed, searched the faces in those photos before, and there's no sign of that moustache.....!

The above now have a new home.

Quite possibly.... The Drumms did end up as hauled coaches in CIE green, yes. being the older (darker) green, this came with two (normal!) "snails" on each side, spaced as usual on carriages, about a third and two thirds along the sides.

Yes, actually many early diesels had single wipers, and there was actually a plan investigated to put whistles off scrapped steam engines onto new "A" classes, believe it or not!

I’ve two spare copies of this. If anyone wants them, send me privately your name and postal address. Warning: by no means all of it is of railway interest - it was aimed at the general public. UPDATE: These now have a new home.

Now THERE'S a layout idea. Buy one of those Swiss things, or something broadly similar, and paint it green...................!

Yes, it's an artist's impression - those bogies would be better suited to the Schull & Skib! I am intrigued as to why the "flying snails" are the wrong way round...........

No, it's an artist's impression - they were never built. I'll try to fix this. Very possibly! OK, the pic of this thing seems to have disappeared; here it is.

Looks superb! However the black livery would have been replaced by dark grey by about 1915, so your dark grey is more appropriate. Also, in CIE days, if any lettering was showing, it would say “G S” more likely.... I have one if these vans and can attest to their superbness, thus I strongly recommend it if anyone out there is considering it!

I had the same dilemma regarding the forthcoming “A”s and 121s..... They’re all good! Personally, what would decide it for me would be a comparison with what else was on my layout - whichever livery fitted best to suit what I already had....

Recent mention of the proposed Sligo Leitrim Garrett and the NIR push/pull coach at Downpatrick (which never turned a wheel in actual traffic) prompted me to seek this out. This is from a 1948 issue of CIE’s “Cuisle” magazine, showing a proposed diesel-electric locomotive; family resemblances to what would become the B113 class (all two of them) are obvious. Strangely, the “flying snails” are back to front!

Today we’re back on the NCC in the early 1940s, exact date unknown, but pre-1944. Ballymoney station looking towards Coleraine / Derry, With the main line on the left and the narrow gauge Ballycastle line on the right.

Wow, that is absolutely priceless!

15mm scale model, Gavin? Do tell more!

On the subject of the NCC narrow gauge, would’nt it be amazing to see these run again!

Yes, it was my father who took it, and it is on a bridge. The area is unrecognisable today due to redevelopment.

Van 5310 in in the Malahide Fry collection (once the place reopens!).

Yes, that’s it - you can see what had been the platform.