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The Official Irish 'Might Have Beens' Thread
jhb171achill replied to minister_for_hardship's topic in General Chat
Ah, Garfield! Now I've got it. It was you who stole the original line! -
The Official Irish 'Might Have Beens' Thread
jhb171achill replied to minister_for_hardship's topic in General Chat
Here's a very obscure one for ye. The erstwhile Parsonstown & Portumna Railway,which diverged from the terminus of the Birr branch might have end up going to Loughrea! Had this happened, an interesting through backwater route would have opened up. This would have run from Attymon Junction to Roscrea, and on to Ballybrophy, albeit with a Newcastle West style reversal at Birr (Parsonstown). Joint Midland / GSWR operation, possibly. -
The Enterprise returns to service
jhb171achill replied to thewanderer's topic in What's happening on the network?
That is a serious improvement. Guess I'll have to try it! -
Ah! I misread it, Harry, apologies....
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No Enterprise ever to Limerick.......! Thanks for comments re the model - truly a masterpiece of David's!
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Limerick? That would have been a special train of some sort, maybe a GAA or pilgrimage train...
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Ah! Sorry, can't help!
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Any particular livery you're looking for? I've a couple in black'n'tan, though I haven't made up my mind to sell at this stage....
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Brilliant progress so far. The factory could be at the end of a Tegral-type spur.....
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The shade of green for CIE locos was standard, and the thirty nine other shades were on plants and women's clothes! Often, as in GNR blue, lack of information leads to rumours that there was no standard. For CIE standard green, there are several accurately paint preserved buses, plus 800 in Cultra, and the mounted "flying snail" in Headhunters railway museum in Enniskillen. The latter two are actually painted with "real" paint Inchicore. I can't comment, though, on reference numbers or the like. If the above real examples can be matched, that's the correct way to go.
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They are indeed pricey, however - - - Ireland, and Irish railway enthusiasts are an extremely small market. R & D costs become ever higher when the "print run" is lower. If the producer was knocking out 10,000 of these a week they'd be €6 each, but in our hobby, our numbers of people, specifically Irish things are always going to be dear. While agreeing they're dear, I would still encourage and congratulate the producer.
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".....JB, instead of being the whole GNR set worked through to Cork, am I right in saying it was a single coach worked across to Heuston and attached to a CIE rake?....." I had always thought it was the whole set, UP. I've certainly seen a picture of what appears to be a full GNR set in Cork. There was a diner on it - though to be fair that could have been a CIE one. You're making me think; I'd need to check! Assumptions can be dangerous.....!
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My next door neighbour and his wife are French, and he's from Paris. They've been away since it happened - I think they may be visiting home. I'll express my sympathy whenever I see them....
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That's exactly what they did, Harry. Short lived though.
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A message of support for our French neighbours tonight, particularly in Paris. May the victims rest in peace, and the vile, evil perpetrators and all who are involved, however peripherally, be brought to justice as soon as possible.
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If you mean the original green (and cream), junctionmad, this dated from GSR days, and therefore was first seen about 1925/6. This was the absolute standard not just on the GSR, but the GSWR before it for a whole, and the NCC and UTA also had green paint schemes. The last CIE green stations would have been repainted grey in the late 1960s. If you mean the more recent green, similar DART shade, I'm not certain as I've been a bit lax recording dates of some of the most recent livery developments. If you mean the more recent DARK green, again I'm not totally certain! Early 2000s I'd think.
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During the late 60s, 70s, and into the 80s CIE had shades of grey, black and white almost universally. Mostly grey! Early 90s was a garish blue, often with red, which looked ghastly on traditional architecture.
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G track? 15mm gauge?
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Where be that?
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Wow!! What gauge is it? Didnt realise it was that big....
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The green on mine is the GSR variety, Leslie. Drew painted almost all of his models in the (darker) CIE green, as on the real 800 in Cultra. Drew had a great liking for CIE green and painted everything that way, bar a MGWR loco which he rid in MGWR green. With ten GNR coaches it would look like the 1950s Cork "Enterprise"!
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Folks For someone who belongs to the age of steam, grey hair and the Rolling Stones, and whose IT knowledge is limited to the fact that Apple are in Cork, a blackberry is a "device", and if you eat too many blackberries you'll get Bluetooth..... What is the best idiot-proof (and free!) app to download with which to design layouts? It needs to be pitched at a level that a mentally-challenged woodlouse can understand. That's me.
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Happy Christmas to me, Weshty! Yes, Dave certainly excelled himself. There's no way I could have begun to tackle a job like that myself. Well worth getting it done properly.
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To provide contrast, and motive power for a possible future small shunting layout, it'll be followed up by a very weathered, work-stained looking J15.
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Thanks for the comments, gents. It has pride of place for the moment. I'll get it running soon! It is indeed an absolute beauty. It was my retirement present to myself a few years ago! Thanks again to David for a phenomenal build job.