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  1. jhb171achill
    Unwieldy though these things looked, it often occurred to me that they'd be much easier to scratchbuild than a "conventional" AEC car, with all its subtle curvature.....
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    Nobody at Castletown West or down by Dugort Harbour is allowed to say "Up Donegal" tomorrow, under any circumstances.......
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    Superb stuff, Mol; an AEC set just has to be the next big thing - they were the ICRs of their day, and no 1950s / 60s layout is complete without one.
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    It was fine, and 228 left on time with the 1pm.
  5. jhb171achill
    I await with great interest a P. Davey west Kerry mini-layout!
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    Any post here with the name “Darius” within its text has my FULL attention! Looking forward to seeing this develop! Actually surprised nobody’s thought of this before….. Brings me back to a very hot summer’s day about 1976 when I first got off a train there from a very run-down York Road. It was only my second time in an MPD railcar. Noisy, graffiti on the seats, diesel fumes - but character! And the “railway” smell, now long-gone from the sterile modern railway - creosote from the sleepers (especially on a hot day)….
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    Likewise. By a very long way, the most comfortable trains in Ireland today, when they’re working. In their defence, they’re thirty years old! I’m in one right now… 10:50 north. It’s reached Portmarnock without incident!!
  8. jhb171achill
    Not just that - with a roof profile like that it's almost certainly ex-DSER, which makes it an exceptionally rare, if not unique beast. Plus, it could hardly be further away from home. The number of ex-DSER vehicles which went to Kells throughout its life could probably be numbered on the fingers of one hand.
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    This one has to be 1968 or 69 as the loco has an NIR emblem on it in place of the UTA one. That makes me wonder what it's doing there - almost certainly borrowed for an RPSI operation, as the society did not yet own No. 4. Last year of operation. Rear goods van still in pre-GSR Muskerry livery.
  10. jhb171achill
    Looking very realistic!
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    Indeed - they are perfect for such things. On the standard gauge, same concept - small engines are best. Downpatrick struck oil with the CSET shunters - they run all day for the same amount of coal that it would take just to light up a medium-sized RPSI looco. Must say I always liked Lord O'Neill's lioned green livery on the Shane's Castle Railway. Very elegant, and suited both locos well.
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    Is there absolutely no end to this. There’s scarcely a single week where everything goes to plan.
  13. jhb171achill
    Tis, boy, tis!
  14. jhb171achill
    That bit would probably be true… Good point!!
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    Almost all weathered by the master - Dempsey of this community.
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    I was in Gibney's this evening, assisting in the consumption of said liquids.
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    The Guinness system was by several zillion light years NOT Ireland's "largest industrial railway"; Bord na Mona had many hundreds of kilometres of lines all over the country; the several largest ones being individually bigger than the Guinness lines...... dunno how that book, interesting as it is, managed to acquire that title!
  18. jhb171achill
    “Did ye see Tommy?” ”What for? I paid him back a couple of weeks ago!” ”Well, Sarah in the paper shop says he’s lookin’ for ye, says ye still owe him four pound and ten shillings…”
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    By the mid-1960s, goods traffic on the Dugort Harbour branch had collapsed. Only on account of the fact that yer man was an influential TD, did the line survive another decade. Taken with a new-fangled telephoto lens from St Ciaran’s Hill, we see B165 depart with the Tralee goods one day in 1968. By the time it gets to Rock Street Yard, it will only have picked up four more vans, a wagon full of turf and an empty open wagon. I’ll get round to that! A couple of technical issues are currently restricting operations but easy to fix!
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    In the late 50s, steam still ruled at Dugort Harbour, especially on fair days, when three extra locos would be brought in. Here, our intrepid photographer captures a few scenes in July 1958….. From early days J15s were almost the staple motive power diet at Valentia, Kenmare, Castleisland - and Dugort Harbour. Here, an unusually clean 195 makes a brisk departure from Castletown West not long before the C class appeared, in summer 1958.
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    In summer 1960, C231 arrives in Dugort Harbour with the morning mixed. It is seen later on shunting wagons before departing again. Once it gets to Castletown, it has the long slog back to Tralee with the all-stations goods.
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    A23R leaves Dugort Harbour for Castletown West in June 1971….
  23. jhb171achill
    In 1963, most B121s were still grey, but getting pretty shabby. Here, an unidentified member of the class is seen on a rare visit to Dugort Harbour, shunting wagons.
  24. jhb171achill
    Good to see frames & wheels green; black alternatives were a British Rail 1950s thing! Superb job, congrats!
  25. jhb171achill
    Very possibly, yes.
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