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All of these will crop up now and again on Fleabay and other 2nd hand places. You can expect to pay €35 for the McMahon & Clements GSR "Bible". I may be able to find one for you. What's the GWR book you refer to? Shepherd's MGWR book - like the GSR one, 2nd hand the odd time. I expect you'd be looking at about €15-€25 there. I have a couple of contacts - I will ask if you like?
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Yes, folks, I was referring to the Wrenn 2.6.4T. Apologies for any confusion....
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I dunno but I have an original box in my shed. Pretty big, it is....... used to park the car in it..........
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Neither book has any drawings, Midland Man. Just a basic map of where it went in each.
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That’s an excellent little book. As far as I’m aware there are only that one plus the one published by Templeogue library about ten years ago - they’re the only ones I have anyway, or have ever heard of.
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Wow! They do more engineering work there than the Nenagh branch - difference - IE don't seem to run many trains in between! Seriously, excellent as always; your layout always inhabits this higher plane somewhere between a model railway and living, breathing reality!
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Looking great - must start on mine! Must check also if mine have tadpoles on the underneath.........................!
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Now THAT is a beauty! Happy birthday! Senior had several old GNR ones years ago, which he always intended to fully restore. I only recall white and red glass in them, as one might expect. I never heard of any having blue lights. The original glass lenses tended to be big thick chunky types of glass..... I am note sure if they sealed them with putty; I don't see why not. Putty was used for many things back then. JB
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What I found was that you had to run them bunker first. Chimney first meant the trailing bogie lifted and derailed. I thought it was just mine, in teenage innocence, but a school friend (who contacted me via Facebook two weeks ago, completely out of the blue, hadn’t seen or heard of him in 46 years!) had the same problem with the same engine. I tried putting a small weight on it, but with limited space it didn’t make much difference. Did anyone else have issues with these locos? Apart from that I found it ok to operate.
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Me too! Still have a copy, and it's falling to bits.............. -
That NCC 2.6.0 is a masterpiece! What gauge is it, do you know?
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That is a really interesting thread - many thanks - and it's looking great already. A much-ignored but essential piece of our railway history, and crying out for a RTR version. I'll take three........
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I don't want to throw the thread off-topic too much, but I often wondered what Mk 2s and Mk 3s (and even Mk 4s!) would have looked like in 1960/70s black'n'tan!
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I have a German V100 bo-bo which I got dirt cheap somewhere. Was considering putting it in CIE green as something they inherited from the GNR, as one of the designs the GNR actually WERE looking at, was outwardly similar.
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I’d be hanging onto my beans on that one!
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I’m a big believer in the idea that we’re all entitled to our opinions on what is good or bad value, whether we are prepared to pay more locally than online, or whatever. For what it’s worth, for me - I’m a very strong believer in supporting local shops and businesses, especially in these times when a combination of the Covid and brexit are putting more pressure than ever on local businesses. I’ve bought stuff on eBay and from Hattons, but only when it’s something that Mark’s Models, IRM, Murphy or sellers are the shows don’t have. I do the same with household shopping. Let’s support our own people first.
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Probably 29th June.
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I don’t know, Hexagon - I suspect it’s to do with the kitchen. I think I’ve a floor plan at home.
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See below: That’s the first lot. What follows is one more model in the same livery, but the blue he used isn’t quite right - it’s a shade on the light side. Also, an MGWR coach in CIE 1955 green, and one of Fry’s two MGWR coaches which he painted in their 1928-25 lined maroon.
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Presumably the model will have the "pencil sharpeners" attached to the buffer beam!
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Interesting. When I cleared out the papers of the late Marcus Bailie-Gage some years ago, there was much in the way of (sadly, damp-destroyed and rat-chewed) brochures from GM and also other diesel loco manufacturers in the 1950s, all relating to their proposed sales to the GNR in Dundalk, where MBG was the Works Manager. I didn't see one exactly like this, but I did see others not dissimilar. MBG told Senior at one stage that had the Northern government seen fit to cough up, they proposed ordering diesels to trial on Belfast - Cavan and Enniskillen. Imagine one of those things above with a string of old wooden GNR coaches - a bizarre thought......
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Tony, if you mean those carriages as shown, no - they are standard British Rail Mk 1s in an approximate CIE livery.
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Interesting - I was unaware of those.... "N" gauge is the "next big thing" for RTR Irish stuff......hopefully! Given availability of even a few basics, it is a route I would have chosen, simply to get more into less space. I looked at the Shapeways stuff in that scale, but it's far, far too crude - or was when I looked at it, anyway.
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And the furry dice! IRM folks - when you do A39 as it is now, I take it you're aware that on the DCDR there has been a tradition for a long time that all locos have furry dice in them! It's true.........goes back to the days of the "E" class being the main power........
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You'll need 00 scale models of the Wanderer, the IRRS programme organiser, and certain other Kodak-clad people! And headboards saying "ITG" and "IRRS"....
