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  1. jhb171achill
    Great work, coming on well!
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    Recalls teenage ideas I had about a layout based on an imaginary narrow gauge line on Achill Island…. That’s the thing about a fantasy layout - you can have the Flying Scotsman hauling Festiniog stock with a De Dietrich driving trailer on 7ft gauge track, and no-one can say it’s wrong….. but IF such an island had existed, and IF it had a railway, it’s reasonable to assume a branch off the West Clare….. Now, THAT would be nice, and very easy to operate; a single Walker railcar, for example…. and a loco and few wagons for the goods….
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    The Holy Stone thing I can see, but sure the airport at Knock would be a bit far-fetched…..
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    It’s the best I’ve seen. I’m aware if several good G scale models having been made using these. Always thought the Wisht Clare stock, from locos to carriages and wagons, was of very attractive / interesting designs.
  5. jhb171achill
    Stunningly good!!!
  6. jhb171achill
    In my case, mulled wine, then wine (my daughter ran out of mulls) and now multiple Guinnii.
  7. jhb171achill
    You too!
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    Indeed; apart from the well known pair of GSWR Plough Vans which lasted well into Irish Rail days, there was still a MGWR bogie flat in use in the mid 1970s. I saw it at North Wall one afternoon….
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    “So remember, write to me from Maynooth, and remember to give Gerry that parcel. I’ve it wrapped ‘an all in the bottom of your case” ”Its fine, don’t fuss!” ”And you’ve two cheese sandwiches in the bag, and a Kit Kat. Make sure you have the tea in the flask before you change in Mallow or it’ll have gone all cold” ”I’ll be fine, I’ll write you when I’ve settled in!” ”Have a good journey, son….ahh, it’ll be SUCH an honour to have a priest in the family!”
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    Arrival, Dugort Harbour, of the connection off the 08:00 from Cork, July 1969.
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    When trains ran on Christmas Day…. “So yer man has me on the Tralee passenger on Christmas Day - again. That’s three years. He’s at that on purpose, I’m tellin’ ya. He could’ve put Tony on it - sure he’d be glad of the overtime. But no, he puts me on it. An’ he puts Tony on the Cork railcar on 27th - two days off he gets. Wish they’d transfer yer man back to Kilkenny……” Happy Christmas to all here!
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    The day before the big autumn fair, 1965…. Cattle empties have been arriving since 04:12, and now B141 brings in the last three. It will take this loco, currently pilot engine in Castletown (C207 has broken down again), and A55 to get everything in place before B144 arrives with the morning mixed. A55 will return light to Castletown to take the up Tralee goods, while B141 remains, because with the run-round loop full of cattle trucks, it will have to back on to the incoming train to release B144.
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    The day before Dugort Cattle Mart, December 1957…. “It’s not just the coupling, the axle’s broke too - look underneath!” ”John will have to take the other van off the cattle empties….gonna be some fun tomorrow with this thing in the way an’ forty two cattle vans comin’ in….”
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    The orange surround, white letters, was also prototypically correct, but only on "H" vans and "PalVans". In fact, far more grey H's had tan and white ones than all-white, though I saw both. On open wagons, older timber-bodied vans, ex-GNR vans and (post 1970) everything brown (without exception) the rojundel was always all-white.
  15. jhb171achill
    You've thought that out WELL!
  16. jhb171achill
    All churches have a church mouse. I wonder what an 00 scale one would look like….. Plus, Fr. Hedclogher of the parish might need a cat to catch it with…..
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    Couldn't agree more!
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    That looks amazing!
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    Yes, useable up to about 1976. With a “broken wheel”, two possibilities - 1. Grey wagon with tan and white logo: 1963-70, with many still retaining that to the end, as they’d never been repainted; thus 1963-76. 2. Brown wagon with all-white logo: only after 1970, right to the end. The more “Provincial Wagons”, the better, as always!
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    Same to all here! Here's to a great modelling new year....
  21. jhb171achill
    CIE provided a lot for its employees back then. Even the GSWR was well ahead in some respects, though working hours and pay scales left too much to be desired before trade unions became properly developed. They ran things like savings schemes, and a library for workers at Inchicore. My grandfather had a small savings scheme with the railway for years - it transferred over from GSWR to GSR to CIE. I believe he cashed it in when he retired, two weeks into the CIE era.
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    Gawd be with the days when you’d lines of wagons, horse boxes, and the back platforms, and a few “A” class sitting with ferts or bubbles waiting to go somewhere……. and there was a Limerick - Rosslare passenger train with a 141 and up to five laminates and a tin van….
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    ….and, in a similar vein, when the GNR took over the day to day running of the DNGR in the 1930s, their stock started appearing on the DNGR, which displaced a lot of older DNGR stock. The NCC bought some carriages, and these were used primarily on the Larne line locals as far as I can gather. Senior recalled seeing a coach in DNGR livery on a Carrickfergus or Larne local, I would guess in the late 1930s.
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    Good thinking! jhbSenior took a photo of a long rake of DNGR 6-wheelers at Scarva in, I believe, 1944…
  25. jhb171achill
    The Lord will provide!
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