jhb171achill

Excellent! The symphony continues...... More than a few locos got the "set of points" logo, some front only replacing the CIE one, some sides as well, BEFORE they also got the "tippex" stripes. This applied to all extant classes of locos. The last "C"'s had been withdrawn a year or two earlier, so none of them ever got a "set of points" let alone tippex; I always thought that such a thing would have looked well.

When I saw it, and a black'n'tan 141 in the same place, I thought they had white-rimmed wheels. It was actually gypsum dust from the half-buried sidings at kingscourt!

Days before the old GVS was disconnected and trains redirected into the truly awful Botanic and the awfuller still Belfast Central, spring 1976.

About 1975/6? Undated. They had their trial trip, which I have silent colour cine of, a couple of days later. And yes, it's probably going to be upside down. Prepare to stand on your heads!

A very reasonable price indeed for such a thing. I think they were over 100 new....?

Some mighty stuff there, Wrenn! Love the GSWR 4.4.0!

It was very much on its last legs when I travelled on it. The loco boiler was leaking like a sieve.

I have to say I don't think there was much difference each side, but I could be wrong in details. Dunno about roof. If you can get to the NRM in York, check out the John Click photo collection which show blow-by-blow photos of construction details. Every rivet is covered. Click was one of Oliver Bullied's sidekicks. Bullied was apparently an odd, and not very likeable person. When Inchicore technicians, drivers and staff engaged in building it pointed out various design difficulties, Bullied didn't want to know. "Well, FIX it!" was his standard reply as he walked off......

That's a nice beast!!!

I saw the sole surviving engine in steam in Delhi Railway Museum nearly forty years ago, and it's still there, though not workable any more. There is a carriage too, and I had a ride in it round a circuit of track (rail!) they have there. It was indeed a MOST peculiar thing - naturally the ride was somewhat rough, and that was with a "road" which was smooth. Where it originally ran, the road was a dirt road, anything but smooth. It would have been an extremely uncomfortable, and very slow thing to travel in. I have colour pics of it somewhere, in fact I may have old cine film of it in operation...must look.... Having said that, I wonder if any other IRM folks have ever travelled in an 0.3.0 on a railway with no gauge? Anyone here ever travel behind it?

Excellent useful info, thanks - will come in handy for a future project of mine.

That's a very neat idea!

Anyone? The paper recycling thing is beside me..... the stockbooks cost about £5 each if you visit those railways and contain much of interest regarding the narrow gauge stuff in England....

Thanks, Divecontroller!

So they're short gauge rather than narrow gauge....

Are they narrow gauge? And being tank-equipped, but no driving wheels, they must be 0.0.0T type?

Would indeed, Dive. Must delve for more oddities! jhb171senior once spotted the Giant's Causeway Tramway repair tram at Bushmills. I have that somewhere. Started another book recently and some of the things in that - IF publishable (and some are extremely poor original photographs so they may not be) - are very definitely in the oddball camp, e.g. the entire stock of the Waterford and Tramore on one train, odd maintenance vehicles from back in the day... and a good few green diesels. Good bit of work yet to be done, though.

The Mk 2 design was inherently prone to rust, much more so than other "modern" coaches, though in our climate obviously none are exempt. When the RPSI acquired the ones they have, the condition varied but some were in absolutely dire condition due to internal rust and were as good as rebuilt at Whitehead. These need to be kept inside as they are need for traffic. Cravens are a much better design, thus more hard wearing, but as any preservationist knows, you ignore TLC at your peril, so they - as Dublin area breadwinners - have to have pride of place in the care stakes too. Mullingar shed is not really used much any more as it's falling to bits. Once the current coach in there leaves, it won't be used by the RPSI again.

By this stage in CIE "Supertrain" era orange. If this sounds odd for goods stock, CIE's containers were at that time painted orange too, as were the cement "bubbles". I think the chassis were brown as they were normal flat wagons. The chassis on the bubbles were grey. These wagons shown were detachable containers, as distinct from the "Ranks" vehicles shown elsewhere on IRM in the past.

Both, Noel. Unfortunately there isn't room for it all to be indoors. The most important vehicles are under cover in both places.

There was so much freight still about then, though go back another ten years and there's twenty times as much again!

The heritage stock is in both Whitehead and Inchicore - probably about half and half. There's info is he still in the shed at Mullingar (GSWR 813). The RPSI volunteers there used to use it as a "tarry". It was never restored, though the RPSI externally painted it in CIE green years ago.

Aha! But I managed to turn it right way up! :-)

122 brand newly repainted, with (I think) 132 still in CIE livery. All but one of the carriages were newly tippexed too