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  1. jhb171achill
    I'll definitely take ten, maybe more.
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    Correct!
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    Would you believe, NIR, in the past ladders and even more so, gantries, were not considered completely necessary! When I started volunteering at Whitehead in the mid 70s, I used them to climb into roofs to repair leaks (by painting tar sealant over them) or paint them. The health & safety police would have kittens today, followed by nausea, fits of the collywobbles, multiple conniptions, and advanced heebie-jeebies.... Water (toilet) tanks had to be attended to as well.
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    Any idea exactly when, or how long they lasted, ttc?
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    Pretty rough now. In places an inspection car could probably get along, but in others doubtful. More stuff in the media, I see, about reopening it between Athenry and Tuam at least, and possibly Claremorris. Limerick - Galway has been a success by any standard. A service from Galway - Westport (or Ballina) would be the next stage. Yes, sadly. After 25 years heavily involved in the RPSI and DCDR, and having acted as consultant to several other proposed schemes, NONE of which generated anything like the interest necessary, this has always been depressingly obvious to me. Better, I suppose, to concentrate on consolidating the successes of the DCDR and the several narrow gauge concerns like the C & L, Moyasta and Finntown....
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    The Cravens with logos were indeed an experimental idea. I don’t know how many had them - possibly only one - and it was short-lived.
  7. jhb171achill
    This coming Sunday is 9th??
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    By basing it pre-1915 you can avoid grey entirely, as GSWR locos are lined black. Midland engines had been green for yonks, but as you know a few became lined royal blue 1905/10. From about 1918, most Midland loco repaints were lined black, while the carriage brown gave way to a very deep maroon. So, round 1915-18, you could have a Midland loco in black, one blue and one green, alongside a black GSWR one, and possibly a WLWR one still (just about) carrying lines maroon..... Colourful!
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    Aaaargh! £30 is dear enough.....
  10. jhb171achill
    I'd like a copy of that, but according to the publisher's website, it's sold out.
  11. jhb171achill
    I never knew that. Will ensure I visit next time I'm chasing narrow gauge over there.....
  12. jhb171achill
    "Closing time" is far too early in most parts of Brexitland!
  13. jhb171achill
    And then there's the Cavan man who takes his glasses off when he's not looking at anything.....
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    Alan was also the author of one of the two books on the North Kerry Railway, and a truly excellent job he did with it too.
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    The Bala Lake Railway is on my to-do list....
  16. jhb171achill
    Things of beauty; that was a very attractive livery.
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    They were all scrapped, other than the few preserved and one or two in Inchicore earmarked for the RPSI.
  18. jhb171achill
    I took pictures up signal posts, on tracks in front of (very slowly!) moving trains, either side of whatever very few notices or barriers there were, and wandered around Connolly and Heuston stations among the tracks, and so on. Unacceptable nowadays, but very much the norm back in the day. We drunk and drove routinely then too, and smoked in restaurants and on buses and trains. I survived!
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    Paid a visit to Dave and Kevin this afternoon to discuss final scenic details. Fantastic looking job, and great credit to both. About time that I got the station building and goods shed started.... A few photos pre-scenery:
  20. jhb171achill
    That's just crazy. Like others, I'd be keeping my wallet shut.
  21. jhb171achill
    Sorry, my post was badly worded. I meant he did the last weedspray - that's one statement - and the IRRS another. As you say, the IRRS couldn't have gone there. (I wonder did it do Carrickmacross?).
  22. jhb171achill
    Correct - like most of us here, he had his own regrets about places he hadn’t covered, but could have done! And Carn was one of them....
  23. jhb171achill
    The IRRS might be able to help in Dublin if you contact them.They have all sorts of drawings.
  24. jhb171achill
    If it’s of any help, by arrangement you can get up close and personal with the standard NCC style cabin from Kingsbog Junction, which is now at Downpatrick. While I can’t say its exact, it’s much the same as the ones at Larne - the NCC had a standard design.
  25. jhb171achill
    The Black and Tan tin van is a heating van, and the (filthy) silver one is a luggage van. The coach is a GSWR vehicle as suggested above - wooden bodied, and of 1925-20 period.
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