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  1. jhb171achill
    Seems par for the course from what I’ve heard…….
  2. jhb171achill
    Gotta be a Jeep
  3. jhb171achill
    By choice, I’d be with you. But I have twice been abducted by family members and made to go there. My therapy is gradually assisting in reversing my trauma, though seeing an 00 gauge model CIE steam loco with a white flying snail did, in fact, put me into reverse, with an extreme reaction of the Head Staggers, Screaming Fits, Night Vapours and Heeby Jeebies, like I got when “Ivan” got a zebra livery with cream balconies…….
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    I thought 8210 and 8310 were Darts……
  5. jhb171achill
    As the Carlsberg man might say, "probably"!
  6. jhb171achill
    I was thinking it's come over from Westland Row - yes, Clogherhead would definitely be GNR(B) until October 1958. The odd loco was still in silver into the 60s; albeit in exceptionally dirty looking condition. Some went straight from that to black, without a green phase. Dang. Watched it all and not a Railcar "B" in sight.............
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    Wow! Looking better each time! Great idea for a shed!
  8. jhb171achill
    Priceless stuff! Tis 1955 again….
  9. jhb171achill
    And this, of course, is prototypically correct. Until the modernisation programme of the late 1950s / early 60s, old pre-GSR wagons were to be seen mixed in with GSR ones and modern CIE equivalents. Thus, a train of flats could have CIE, GSR, GSWR or possibly MGWR or DSER examples in the mix. By 1965, very few of the older ones remained.
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    V E R Y nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well done IRM!
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    Indeed - thing is, though, with Belfast, one wonders where on earth they'd put it! Queens Quay, Maysfields, Grosvenor Road and York Road yards are all gone and built over. Heading out the bangor and Lisburn lines, there's just nowhere. So unless they could put some sort of facility in somewhere around Fortwilliam - then there's no chance of any freight terminal in Belfast (the second biggest city on this island, and a major port)....ever!
  12. jhb171achill
    Good news indeed. Just spent a good while browsing their "bargains" section......
  13. jhb171achill
    Ah! That was the night when Crossley A30 failed on the Dundalk goods, and had to be shunted down to Clogherhead to get out of the way of a late-running "Enterprise", an AEC railcar set with Lurgan and Porteedown people and communication cord issues...... and B125 appeared to tow it back to Amiens Street...........
  14. jhb171achill
    Sadly, I doubt it very much...... Which raises an issue; with Adelaide turned over to servicing 4k trams, where in the city COULD a goods terminal be built? Fortwilliam area?
  15. jhb171achill
    I think both have - at Dromod - but one is more or less a set of parts.
  16. jhb171achill
    My bribery of the judges worked..............! (Seriously - very well done, and very richly deserved!)
  17. jhb171achill
    Methinks an oul shpin up to GVS quite soon might be in order; few pints in the Crown, and home.
  18. jhb171achill
    Fantastic! This is obviously a different day in April 1971; A3 was re-engined in March of that year, and A15 in May, so it must be April! Looking at the weekly circulars, that's the day when the two "A"s arrived, A3R with a mystery train from Wexford, and A15 with an Easter Monday special from Connolly..... so that pins it down to 12th April 1971. (jhb nerd alert) B125 failed on the Dundalk goods on the previous Thursday and was shunted in there, remaining over easter, and being towed to Inchicore on the Tuesday.........
  19. jhb171achill
    One special in from Westland Row, another from Drogheda, and one from Dundalk?
  20. jhb171achill
    Fascinating stuff - reading it now!
  21. jhb171achill
    I have an interest in this, through three friends being "on the spectrum", and the daughter of another friend of mine from years ago. While many might joke, it's a fact that this condition lends itself to an interest in all things mechanical; car enthusiast groups involving detailed restoration of old vehicles also attracts folks with this condition. It is a massively positive thing to see this group specifically encouraging people in this way - the railway enthusiast world in general might take note....
  22. jhb171achill
    Guilty as charged.
  23. jhb171achill
    I'm thinking MGWR six-wheelers............ and an "Achill Bogie"!
  24. jhb171achill
    206 on one set today, 231 sitting spare in Connolly.
  25. jhb171achill
    I had heard of that but it's the first time I've ever seen a picture of it! Superb stuff appearing on the IRRS site these days - well worth joining the society for the photo archive alone.
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