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Can't open the video clip on my desktop computer, though I can on my mobile - hope everyone else can see it (my computer is in its ditage at this stage).
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Light engine passing, plus a visiting UTA “WT” class. Very convincing model of one of those, in fact…
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This afternoon, including green double decker and grey bubbles, as I remember both in the 1960s….. IMG_9983.mov
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You're getting through this work at a serious rate!
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None of it's true, and I wasn't even there when I didn't do it...................
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GAHHHHHH!!!!!! Only seeing this NOW!
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MALAHIDE MODEL RAILWAY MUSEUM As of now, the museum will open five days per week; Wednesday to Sunday inclusive. On Mondays it’s closed for layout and model maintenance anyway, but Tuesdays have been very quiet since it first opened. This will be reviewed periodically in the future to see if Tuesday (or Monday afternoon) opening is warranted. ……and here’s a photo of Fry’s; Ballinamore, believed to be 1959 just before closure. Yes, modellers, it has a RED buffer beam!
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Maybe they'll have some narrow gauge "customer tubes" left over from HS2 to use on it............
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One ended its days on CIE apparently still in faded GSR maroon, albeit with the letters "C I E" where "G S R" had been. Another got CIE green. Maybe more than one did. The black'n'tan one above may well have been the green one repainted.
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"Clare"...... is this the new WRC Tuam-Galway commuter service?
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A shame...... plus, I won't be booking any of my tourists in there any time soon!
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And it shows Broadstone! Relative of mine was there with partner the other week. Excellent setting (though they were in the 1950s BR standard coach(!)), and excellent food. However, the service, both at the meal, and at breakfast the following day, was truly atrocious; kept waiting 2.5 hours for dinner, and over an hour for breakfast - and delayed from later appointments as a result. And that's in January - hardly high season! Management gave them a derisory 30 euro voucher!
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Indeed - that's actually the only way I recall them, a few mixed in with all sorts of other stuff.... so for a modeller who only has one or two, no need to keep 'em all in a single dedicated rake.
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For anyone who wanted to put together a very minimalistic small, sleepy branch terminus shunting layout, a thing like this and a loco and a few wagons is ideal. Services like the Clonakility line and Drimoleague to Baltimore in the late 1950s could often consist of simply one brake coach like this and a few wagons.
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Looks well weathered!
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This is correct - they did use black latterly! Plus, the green was in fact so dark that weathering and grime would have made it look black even if it was green. Bit like GNR blue domes, CDRJC red domes, and GSR / CIE grey livery - the all-enveloping smoke, coal dust, soot and oil patina that covered a hard-working steam engine almost made the actual livery invisible...
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Clogherhead - A GNR(I) Seaside Terminus
jhb171achill replied to Patrick Davey's topic in Irish Model Layouts
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When I saw this headline, I thought it was something to do with 12th July............
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Clogherhead - A GNR(I) Seaside Terminus
jhb171achill replied to Patrick Davey's topic in Irish Model Layouts
There needs to be a rusty supermarket trolly, some used nappies, cigarette ends, plastic bags, beer bottles and burger wrappers..... -
The MM 182 looks, to me, to be too deep a colour for any era. The other shades are more accurate.
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I wonder why some of those containers had a black band round the middle, and others maroon....anyone know? And - WHERE did they go to when they got to Larne?
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Saw that only just now! Would that motor bogie suyit the GSR one? What do the wheels look like close up - hard to make out from that photo?
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Wasn't even aware that any of them even ventured over there at ll..... but we can discount them pulling trains there! Youghal's the best bet, or as mayner says, very outside chance Galway - Tuam. Actually, Limerick - Sligo went all railcar prior to the 121s, so not on that service - but possibly a Tuam local?
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Busy oil traffic today…. IMG_9942.mov
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Simply the fact that they didn’t get round to repainting literally every single vehicle by the time the black’n’tan started to make its presence felt. The last dark green passenger-carrying vehicles in regular use, if we discount several narrow gauge vehicles, seem to have been several old relics in West Cork and at least one 6-wheeled brake third on the Valentia line.
