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jhb171achill
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Doesnt count!
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And amend the question to what is there more than one loco preserved of, excluding industrials? DCDR sugar engines Donegal 2.6.4T DCDR O & K J15 Diesels…. A C G E 80 class …….?
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Never thought of those.... I was thinking "G" class. 611 - extant, DCDR / ITG 612 - scrapped 613 - extant, DCDR 614 - scrapped 615 - scrapped 616 - extant - ITG 617 - extant - DCDR / ITG
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100%! For ten bonus points, one more “majority preserved”? Hint; also locomotive.
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The answer is "yes, all of them".............. And I think that "rattling numbers" would be more appropriate than "running numbers"!!
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That surprises me! There were a total of 22 of these BR vans (of several different types) as far as I remember; that's almost half of them. Quiz question (winner gets to buy me a pint): What Irish rail-borne thing on wheels has the MAJORITY of its members preserved? (Not counting one-offs, lime CVR / CDR Railcar 10)
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Yes. You're seeing the central "third" of the wagon, and the right hand "third". The left hand side is obscured by the shed. It's a GNR standard, assembled in Dundalk from a Provincial Wagons kit..... What might be seen as interesting is that at this stage, long before UTA neglect, the GNR was neglecting the cosmetic appearance of its wagons to some extent..... -
Which, I suppose, amplifies my point......! Livery variants here were as follows: 1. In traffic, only black'n'tan. 2. Maintenance use, all yellow. 3. RPSI - first maroon, now pinky-purple. That's yer lot. The DCDR one remains in CIE black'n'tan.
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Never in my life did I see such publicity for a routine locomotive, a container on a wagon, and an old brake van….! Shows how standardised the whole railway is now and how little of interest there is. Fast forward to March 2051; the hedgerows of Stacumny Bridge are alive with gricers hoping to catch a glimpse of the only Class X* railcar with a squashed moth on its left-hand windscreen wiper! (The class X will replace every single type of train now in use, in 2044. Remember where you heard it first. Britain and mainland Europe have them too. Every single train is the same…..)
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Exactly; but that's another story! There's triple-ality involved; there's one at Downpatrick too!
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Do we need to call it a "they"?
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I raised this point with several closer to the RPSI action in the past, and have been told over the years that the reason it was maroon was in case it was ever needed with any heritage stock. But it isn't, and the likelihood that it ever will is almost nil. But this ghastly colour (sorry, DJ!!) isn't even maroon, or anything near it! Plain blue would possibly be best, though I do not want to open up a debate about what way to paint a vehicle whose entire life in its current guise was black'n'tan.....
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Very gaudy! Would look much better in its old maroon, or better still to match the blue on the Cravens. The lining is in an odd position too.
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Anyone seen the repaint on the RPSI genny van? It’s a strange purply magic-mushroom colour.
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Those are truly inspirational, and represnt a subject not given nearly enough attention by either modellers or railway historians in general - the UTA and early NIR era. All the kore so because it kept steam until 1970 and had a very unique Donegal-esque modus operandi with railcars hauling good trains and no diesel locomotives. Right down to the paint jobs those models are stunning.
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Hang onto one of the wheels, and put a pebble, a walnut shell, an N gauge steam loco chimney and a piece of plasticard into the mix too, for the craic.
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With all the brexit stuff now, we all have to get inoculations, passports and masks, and negotiate supply chain issues at the Ha'penny bridge...........
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Have you any IDEA how many Kingdom men you’ll end up letting in? Did yiz even THINK about that?
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That’s why there are mountains between Macroom and Glenflesk….. to keep themm’uns out!
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Then it's Boris's fault.
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It's because of the Good Friday agreement.
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I was on that train - all the carriages were still in NIR ownership and in traffic (and would be for about 4 more years). All were in the NIR maroon livery with grey stripe bar one, which was still in UTA green. I was in the coach behind the loco, which along with the third coach were the last two survivors of the "Atlantic Coast Express" coaches built in 1934 by the NCC for Belfast-Portrush expresses. Shared a compartment with the late Mac Arnold that day - an interesting man. And I'm somewhere in among that group of photographers.... 1970.
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My first BR Hornby Mk 1 coach cost eleven shillings (£0.55 / €0.60). Put THAT in yer pipes and smoke it, under-forties! Now, they're about £45-£75........
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£115 was a lot of money then. My dad's Ford Prefect (which I still have the receipt for) was just over £200 in 1951, but there had been a lot of inflation in sterling (probably driven by the war) between 1939 and 1951.
