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  1. jhb171achill
    Nurse! Nurse!
  2. jhb171achill
    That really looks the business. Perfect weathering too, and surrounding scenery.
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    Probably same as their lorries - mid-to-light (wagon) grey body, red & cream cab! Crest on cab side, “C D R” on “wagon” dropsides…. (Unless they decided that it qualified as a “red wagon”!)
  4. jhb171achill
    Do I detect the Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway edging in here?
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    I spotted one of those at Dugort Harbour in the 1960s….
  6. jhb171achill
    I mourn the passing of Hattons; with my last correspondence with their model developers they were looking favourably on GSR livery too! GSWR would have followed…..!
  7. jhb171achill
    So do we now know for a fact that Tralee Council are the actual outright legal owners of the locomotive?
  8. jhb171achill
    So three railcar sets! All 6-ICRs?
  9. jhb171achill
    Wasn’t aware of that! Nice!
  10. jhb171achill
    Looks like four train sets needed for that. Three DDs plus an ICR, presumably. Tempting, therefore, to assume that the railcar will do the 05:50 ex Dublin, and corresponding trips throughout the day, e.g. the 09:00 to Dublin, 11:50 north, and so on........
  11. jhb171achill
    There have already been road vehicles in garda markings, and buses in UTA & CDR liveries, and a double decker probably suitable for 0 scale, in CIE green. Lorries in CIE green and 1960s black cabs. Perhaps some of the following: 1. Postal vans - to be seen on platforms loading mail off trains - older dark green "P & T" livery, or Royal Mail red for the north 2. Buses from various eras in CIE, UTA & Ulsterbus liveries. 3. Lorries with CIE (various eras), UTA & Northern Ireland Carriers liveries. The latter suitable sitting alongside a RTR Jeep, whenever that comes out! 4. ESB vehicles.
  12. jhb171achill
    Probably sussing out different distributors. All delivery services are getting expensive now so it pays to shop around. I'm sending a small parcel tomorrow to Switzerland and it will cost €13.
  13. jhb171achill
    It says "signed by..... W H Mills". But he wasn't involved, as I understand it, until the formation of the GNR in 1876. That's 20 years later than the thing is described as dating from. Something doesn't add up there, but I suspect it's an incorrect description rather than an indication that the drawings are fake. It is also possible that Mills signed a copy of it at a later stage, but that the drawings are indeed dating back to 1856.
  14. jhb171achill
    Excellent book. Glad I got one at the time.
  15. jhb171achill
    Indeed. Probably its best hope after indirect vandalisation through neglect by Tralee / Kerry Council, or whatever half-wits were in charge of it, is static display somewhere. Tralee certainly doesn't deserve it. If it was up to me, I'd put it on display on Easter Island or in North Korea before I'd let them have it.
  16. jhb171achill
    The bottom one, dated 1917, is an Inchicore product all right - see "G S & W R" on it. However, the majority on that line were likely to be ex-GNR - thus cast in Dundalk Works. I think the top picture is a GNR one.
  17. jhb171achill
    Spot on!!!!!!
  18. jhb171achill
    So easy to model!
  19. jhb171achill
    Correct on all counts!!
  20. jhb171achill
    At the very end, the only points were at the waterford end, and there were (I think) just two! Tramore was a dead end. Waterford had the platform road and two sidings, one into the shed. Not even a run-round loop. the entire rolling stock was just three AEC railcars and two coaches, one fitted as a driving trailer. Had it survived, it's a reasonable assumption that today it would have but one set of points (at Waterford) and a pair of 2-car 26 class railcars!
  21. jhb171achill
    Indeed. Dromod is the only hope - for the loco - scrap for the rest.
  22. jhb171achill
    You mean a Manorhamilton branch line, or a Donegal extension? If the former, a J26 or G2 2.4.0 or a J18 0.6.0. If the latter, a J18, G2 or a "Woolwich" possibly.
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    A MGWR terminus in Donegal across the road from the CDRJC one!
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    It is difficult to see how the current station could ever have been made into a through station. I feel what would have been far more likely, had the line been extended northwards, would have been a completely new passenger station somewhere in the vicinity of Harbour Road; as others suggest, at a somewhat higher level. Had such a line been built, it is probable that trains today would have Bundoran as a terminus, or possibly even Donegal! Now, THAT would be useful. But would the SLNCR have been built? (Galteemore, please turn over the page now...) Probably not. But a MGWR branch to Manorhamilton? Now THERE's an idea!
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    A pretty unique terminus with virtually no facilities for goods. Some old photos show the likes of a single goods van shunted onto one of the two very short lines to the right of the turntable.
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