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Worth remembering too that the length will have changed over the years, so the length you want depends on the era you’re modelling.
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I wonder how many of us got a train set for Christmas!..........
jhb171achill replied to LARNE CABIN's topic in General Chat
Ah! “Thomas”-style stuff….. looks interesting! -
I wonder how many of us got a train set for Christmas!..........
jhb171achill replied to LARNE CABIN's topic in General Chat
A 9F in maroon? That would look quite interesting........... -
American visitors to Tara Junction.
jhb171achill replied to ttc0169's topic in US / Canadian Railway Modelling
You'd need the entire fleet of 21 x 071s (yes, including the NIR ones!) to haul some USA goods (sorry, "freight") trains! -
“Off with ‘is head! Off with ‘is head!”
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There needs to be a model priest with confessional “customer” with a soundtrack. ”Father, forgive me, for I have sinned”. ”Yeah…. I saw it on Facebook……”
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Even ordinary local services could have them occasionally, maybe one mixed in with other bogie stock, until the very early 60s. They were in general use in Ireland for decades after Britain got rid of them; right until closure in 1950, the entire BCDR system had little more than about a dozen bogies - six-wheelers were absolutely standard. CIE used them on branches, main line locals anc excursions - and for extra short-notice accommodation on main lines, until the very start of 1963. In suburban use, the Harcourt St line and the Cork-Cobh line had them until the end, while you’d get one occasionally tagged onto the back of a modern AEC railcar set on the Cork - Tralee and Cork - Bantry services, and even Dublin - Rosslare, into the early 60s.
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N Scale Ballywillan, Co Longford.
jhb171achill replied to Kevin Sweeney's topic in Irish Model Layouts
“Cultivate patience”…… wow. That plus your other stuff is absolutely outstanding. By far the best “N” scale stuff I’ve ever seen anywhere. Makes you think, too - that was a very substantial station for a place the size of Belturbet, even allowing for the C & L connection. -
Me too - I had a holiday job on the FR in the summer when I was 17…. almost fifty years ago….happy days.
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No, there were no wagons with any advertising as such, nor coaches. However, the GNR reserved a small number of wagons, both the bogie grain wagons and some four-wheelers, for this traffic, and wrote “GUINNESS” on the sides, alongside the “G N” and wagon number. The MGWR had “GUINNESS” written on a small number of 4-wheel vans in the early 20th century.
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Ah - kits….. ok. I mis-read it, thinking they’re RTR. Interesting, all the same - anything new is to be welcomed.
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Very interesting stuff - particularly the Pullman. With only a few of them, only on two routes, and never more than one in a train, it’s a surprising but interesting choice. Will it be in GSR maroon or CIE green?
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I wonder how many of us got a train set for Christmas!..........
jhb171achill replied to LARNE CABIN's topic in General Chat
Genuinely, the amount of creative play time I had with that stuff as a nipper was unbelievable. One of the best inventions ever as a children’s toy - or hobby. -
I wonder how many of us got a train set for Christmas!..........
jhb171achill replied to LARNE CABIN's topic in General Chat
……Kerry? -
I wonder how many of us got a train set for Christmas!..........
jhb171achill replied to LARNE CABIN's topic in General Chat
Ah, well THAT is quite another story! -
I wonder how many of us got a train set for Christmas!..........
jhb171achill replied to LARNE CABIN's topic in General Chat
Whaaaat!!! No four-part series of some gricer in England walking round a table prattling on about stuff, while we wonder which episode (usually about 27 hours into it), we will stop having to listen to the bore, and SEE the thing running round a layout at something over a scale 4 mph! You know what really irritates me? People talking about "walking round" an item you could put in your pocket, as if it's a (real) 55 seater bus in a showroom...... take the damn thing out of its box and put it on the track. Switch on power. 4 second video. -
Superb! They look excellent. And - those GNR tanks did operate on the DNGR once the GNR took on day to day running of it!
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When I go to certain late evening premises and look at certain members of staff and raise one finger, they bring me a pint of Guinness and ask me for money................
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I wonder how many of us got a train set for Christmas!..........
jhb171achill replied to LARNE CABIN's topic in General Chat
That stuff is in remarkably good condition! -
I wonder how many of us got a train set for Christmas!..........
jhb171achill replied to LARNE CABIN's topic in General Chat
I got a circle of 0 gauge track, a crude push-along wooden locomotive, a cattle wagon, open wagon and guards van…… -
Flying Snail Logo on Brown Goods Vans?
jhb171achill replied to Auto-Train Original's topic in Irish Models
Curiously, those things were technically "silver" (= unpainted) until, double-stacked for beet in the 1990s, when like everything else by then, they became brown. As built, they had standard grey chassis, like any grey wagon. Earliest examples also had a tiny stencilled flying snail on the chassis. As life went on, both the grey chassis and unpainted corrugated body became a homogenous dirt colour. Only in the last few years before they were double-stacked, the chassis (only) of a small number of them was crudely painted brown, sometimes just a patch behind a painted number. While single height, none of the bodies were ever painted any colour. -
Flying Snail Logo on Brown Goods Vans?
jhb171achill replied to Auto-Train Original's topic in Irish Models
In some respects, Stevie. It's fine for roughly pre-1960. They started painting them a slightly lighter shade about 1960-ish. The H vans and PalVans were lighter, and any older vans painted in the first few years of the 60s, likewise. But in all reality, the weathering and brake dust tended to overshadow the difference. -
20.12.1959 “Did ye ever think we’d see nineteen sixty…. eleven days an’ it’s new year, new decade…..” ”Well, I never thought they’d send brand new diesels down HERE….an’ my oul steed, 138, away for scrap and nothing wrong with her but that oul right-hand injector!” ”Seems like no time from me startin’ as a boy porter in Kanturk in 1923….” ”I’m a bit ahead of ye….. I’ll have forty five years service in three years time….” ”Where did you start?” ”Cleaner, Kenmare, 1914. Drivin’ Tralee to Cork since I done me leg in last two summers ago”. ”Do ye need a goose for the Christmas dinner? PJ’s slaughtered two fresh yesterday….” Happy Christmas to all here from Dugort Harbour, 20th December 1959…
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Flying Snail Logo on Brown Goods Vans?
jhb171achill replied to Auto-Train Original's topic in Irish Models
Me too, and the Hattons six-wheelers will be a game-changer, perfectly complemented by the likes of Provincial Wagons and the others I mentioned above. We DID get a good long run, though, out of the “snail”; 1946-63 I’d eighteen years, plus there were examples of the snail “flying” around (see what I did?) well into the 1970s.