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I’ve Youghal most years 1926-86 if you’re interested. Indeed, I’ve most lines over that period. Not so much GNR nowadays as I donated a good lot to various museums, mostly Enniskillen.

A few other gems from 1969. The first few are excerpts from the Tralee - Mallow timetable, just to show Castleisland (and its summer excursion train path) and the “if required” path to Fenit. Black’n’Tan heaven....

And finally, 1969. This shows the contrast between the one-use, one-type-of-wagon, one-customer (or maybe 2!) fitted liner trains and the much more varied (and interesting!) all-purpose goods trains, which will have everything from corrugated opens to H vans, palvans, four wheel flats with containers, etc etc. And what was IN them even more varied. Everything from soap powder to beet, engineering equipment, TV sets, sand, timber, parcels, newspapers, cans of mushy peas in cardboard boxes etc etc etc.

And this is 1986.

Given discussions of late on goods on the South Eastern, modern era fitted trains, and the fact that it has been a quiet day here in the Catacombs, herewith copies of the working timetable for May 1980 onwards. Included is some general bumph from the same eminent tome in relation to bogie fitted and also other wagons. It is worth pointing out that loose-coupled goods trains in normal service had ended by this stage, but remained in the timetable from s few years earlier. Such info is thus appropriate for the 1970s. Hopefully it’s all of interest. The last one might also assist modellers in picking appropriate numbers for models of the relevant wagons.

$199 is at this point €178. Good value, though it will inevitably climb, and gawd knows what the P & P might be! For anyone modelling the NCC or UTA in the 1960s, those carriages are spot on (though nothing remotely like them ever ran on CIE).

The types of GSWR six-wheeled coaches that travelled on that line can be had via Worsley Works “scratch-aid” kits.

Interesting indeed. West it may be, but look at the timber & other freight in Ballina! In the 1980s Guinness, cement and fertiliser traffic could have been in your scenario too. Stretch a point for beet too, and dolomogypsumite being exported a la Foynes. The Mk 3 could be a local service to Galway or Westport or somewhere, from your fictitious location. All very possible!

Just adding.... the middle one is a 1st class, or possibly 1st / 2nd class coach. The ones either end appear to be brake thirds of two different types.

The carriages are GSWR designs of the 1880-95 era, and the loco is a GSWR tank engine, exact type (there were several outwardly similar) uncertain.

What era or area are you depicting?

The random application is exactly what looks so good!

Pity one of those strange yokes didn't survive! More likely old NCC open wagons, as NIR retained a few for ballast. These wagons would have been seen between Dundalk and Belfast on unfitted goods trains up to the early 70s, and very occasionally on the "Derry Road" about 1960-5. NIR never acquired any. Possible a "crippled" one might have been briefly stranded at somewhere like Lisburn, Adelaide or Portadown in the 1960s the odd time....

Looks great, Tony!

It was almost always covered totally in cement dust!

If you email Tommy, he is always very attentive and will keep you posted on availability if something isn’t “off the shelf” at that time. I have had several dealings with Irish Freigjt Models, all very satisfactory.

So did I!

The NCC U2 class 4.4.0s were the “Scotch Engines” because they were built there. The IE 2600 class railcars were “Fanta Cans” when new due to being mostly orange. The NIR 80 class were only latterly called “thumpers” by young enthusiasts. They were never known as such by railway staff or when in most of their life in traffic. I remember in UTA days hearing of the AEC & BUT railcars, as opposed to anything and everything on the NCC, collectively as “Great Northern Railcars”....

I could do with one more 141, though I don't need it. If there comes a day when they're unloaded cheap (unlikely!), maybe. I'm just worried the 121s will sell out before those who want can buy, and then they'll be stupid prices on fleabay.

I absolutely thoroughly agree. Well done. I agree with this just as much! Tell us when you've the kettle on......

Just get a developer or builder to bribe him. Problem solved.

If you mean the bogies with the red containers, these were standard container flats (with open topped contaners, of course!). I think there was only the one rake.

Could be 121 or 127 - hard to make out...

He turns up at model exhibitions... In the picture it looks like B127? The Mail van is a MGWR relic dating from about 1880.