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Arigna Town - this week's scenery
jhb171achill replied to David Holman's topic in Irish Model Layouts
There are three types of cattle in Ireland. The brown ones are for beef and dairy herds, the black and white ones for Guinness, and the cream ones for Bailey's Cream. That's what I tell tourists, anyway. -
Next stop in realism; cow poo in the field!! :-) Excellent work as always
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I suggest tartan. And I require €134,887.09 for my idea, to be paid by IE in the morning to my special account in Bertie's bank. OK?
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Is it the lighting that day or is she a slightly lighter grey?
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All it needs now is a fella wrapped in a dirty sleeping bag " ehhhh can yeh gimme a euro for de hostel bud....."
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So where for a pint? It won't bother me, I'll be in Germany Thursday to Tuesday!
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I'll volunteer to drown everybody's sorrows. Provided you're buying. See yeh in Coppers.
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Green could be a modern thing. In childhood / adolescent hood, I was in signal boxes in Lisburn, Portadown, Kildare, Athy, Bagenalstown, Waterford (need a head for heights!), Kilmacthomas, Enniscorthy, Limerick Jct., Westport, Portrush, Ardee, Foynes, Moate.....etc etc.... and I don't recall ever seeing a green lever anywhere.....
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The Society is facing having a record number of main line engines in traffic. 4, 461, 131, 171 and 85. The "Guinness" is progressing and in theory only very minimal work would have 186 in traffic too.
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My recollections were (mainly) from former GNR cabins. Is it possible they had yellow for distants? Or maybe the UTA did?
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I'm afraid I'd be lost in the signalman's world..... the one thing I remember from many an hour in many a mechanical signalbox is that the levers were colour coded - yellow for a distant, red, for a home, white for a spare, black for a set of points. I can't remember what blue was, and I'm pretty sure the aforementioned were the only colours. I've a dim recollection of seeing a lever somewhere which was white with a red band round it, but I couldn't be sure. Maybe these colour codings had some relevance to colours on a track plan. I don't know....
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"I got us a little ornament for the garden, dear"..... BANG!!!!
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I wonder if there's any trace of it inside the Guinness complex? There's an "outing" for the IRRS - a walk round remaining railway installations inside Guinness. I love the medieval terms the IRRS has - "outings".... and the best, a talk is called "giving a paper"!
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Like yourself, Richrua, I always sit up and take notice when "Nelson's Workbench" pops up among new threads. "What's he up to this time?".... Naturally, same as usual. Just plain old top class innovative, artistic, and technically brilliant modelling.
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Excellent idea..... you could always put a ballast "load" on top of the weights, too.....
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Excellent, Chevron - the outdoor light gives it a great boost of added realism.
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That is unspeakably good! Got to be one of the very best scratchbuilt models of anything I have ever seen. Absolutely superb work in every detail.
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Riversuir, do you have any more details on the one which lasted to 1987?
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I didn't know one was still about in 1987? Presumably it had long ago been converted to an ordinary coach (and more than likely mistaken for a laminate of some sort?)
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Bullied designed a few bodies, but the bulk were standard AEC Park Royal. The few Bullied ones were odd-looking - they had straighter sides and ends and in fact were ugly things. I've yet to see one modelled, though in truth there's not much to go on. You didn't see them that much.
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That looks very good! Neat work...
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The 1980s survivors were actually ex-CIE; all former GNR stuff had gone. But they were the same as the GNR ones, some of which wen to CIE to join their own, other to UTA / later NIR. The last of the GNR ones on NIR ended their days as railcars after the 80 class were introduced in 1974. A few were temporarily converted to loco hauled parcels vans but following the withdrawal of mail from NIR not long after, they were withdrawn.
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Very well done, sir, most interesting.
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I can also confirm that Richard is an extremely helpful gentleman. He has been of great assistance to me in my own researches.
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That ought to be bookmarked; snapshots in time of formations and liveries are invaluable to historians and modellers alike. While I have to confess to having had too many birthdays to be a fan of "modern" stuff like 80's, I am greatly impressed by the great efforts put in by several modellers on this site into reproducing so well, what isn't the easiest model in the world to replicate. Excellent stuff!