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  1. jhb171achill
    What is WRONG with these eejits who wallop bridges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    True..... they could at least have put a bit of track in it....
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    It’s a one-off - no plans to restore the railway.
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    An addendum, on re-reading: the "C" wagons C1-C100 were not all gone by 1969. The Courtaulds traffic ended either 1968 or 1969, but many of the wagons survived on ballast work, as has been seen in other pics and other discussions. I last saw the last few of them in use about 1979 / 1980.
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    Good to see a Dublin bus and two CIE diesels making inroads into Brexitland!
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    Done. (I voted for the Republican Loyalist Shinner Brexit Arlene Party).
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    Yes, re-engined Cs & 121s in "supertrain" livery. No genny vans; the gennies were in one of the ex-AEC cars.
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    GNR and NCC and GSR / CIE - pretty much the same, and I think the same wheelbase. Any RTR would do.
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    "The Farranfore to Valentia Harbour Railway" by Patrick O'Sullivan, volumes 1 and 2, were excellent publications by Oakwood Press about ten years ago. Within are several drawings of the corrugated iron sheeted station buildings along that line. Given the branch line nature of these buildings, they are a good size for any layout and could easily be scratch-built to have cement-rendered walls.
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    Most NIR opens were, as you say, cut down wooden opens. They were fairly standard across the board. Most were NCC with a few GNR - same design basically. Get one of Leslie's and give it a lick of paint (or, indeed, brake dust and filth!). If you want to scratch build, I don't know where you'd get a drawing - though many here might - but a few kits or bought standard wooden opens from one of the British lines would probably do too, unless you'd be a "rivet counter"!
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    Did a little research. Of the four CBPR 2.4.2Ts that went to Leitrim, two had specially cast numberplates and two had painted numbers. No. 12L had cream painted numbers - never cast plates, and was grey to the end. As mentioned towards the end it was, like other C & L locomotives, in very rough condition.
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    Happy January!
  13. jhb171achill
    Happy New Year and best wishes to all here. Someone gimme a refill.
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    It was very dark grey, made darker very quickly by lack of care! As far as I can ascertain, one of the T & D locos on the C & L was the only narrow gauge engine to be painted black, and even that only in the last few years. Regarding 12L, I’ll delve. There was ONE of the Passage engines in the C & L which received a non-standard cast numberplate which it retained to the end, instead of a cream-painted number. It was very much smaller than the standard Inchicore plates as worn on West Clare or Dingle engines, and unusually the raised rim and number were picked out in red instead of cream.
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    Any of those things that I ever saw seemed very shabby, as mentioned above almost home-made bits added, and grubby.... I don’t think they lasted that long.
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    Heavily weathered grey will look amazing too - you could paint a locomotive as beautifully built as that, in purple with tartan spots and it would still look great!
  17. jhb171achill
    Absolute beauty! Will it be in lined CBPR livery?
  18. jhb171achill
    If it's been cashed, don't give up. if you want to privately PM me and give me your addesss, I know who (within the RPSI) deals with this. I will inform the relevant people.
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    I'd love to do Lisummon tunnel.....jhbSenior went part-way on the lifting train.... The line had been abandoned so long that saplings were growing between the rails, and many sleepers were rotten. As a result, a PW gang had to go out to repair the track so that the lifting train could get over it!
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    That is stunningly realistic and prototypically spot on. Absolutely superb work, and I agree with Mr Holman’s comments on small layout track detail - “Arigna Road” set a very high standard for this sort of thing a few years ago. On first seeing the pics above I was tempted to ask “where’s the photo of the model?”!
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    Interesting. I was unaware of them. Must have been extremely short lived.
  22. jhb171achill
    In the photo with B131, what are the yokes in between the 4w container wagons, anyone know?
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    Great selection!
  24. jhb171achill
    Great potential there!
  25. jhb171achill
    Good thoughts, DJ!
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