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Yes, tis a pity!

And now here’s one for yiz. GNR No. 203, not known to have hauled the Enterprise, Bundoran Express, or Foyle Road goods…. It was owned by contractor Robert Worthington & Co, who bought it for building the Castleblayney, Keady & Armagh Railway. The GNR acquired it - though the purpose remains unknown - once that line was finished. It seemingly was little used and had been disposed of by 1930. It was by some way the smallest loco the GNR ever possessed. Its official number was probably never carried - though years later a different loco took on No. 203, of course.

RT class 0.6.4T

Superb model, and one Mr. Bird will be proud to call home!

I'm in the car till further notice, by the looks of it!

Doubtless an antidote to the "twalf"!

No idea.

I had never heard of this place! Fascinating - thanks for enlightening us!

Complete with a framed photo of a GNR engine! Wonder how that got there......Interesting to see it all re-panelled - obviously being looked after well.

Latest info I have, and of only a couple of months ago, is that having failed to sell them, they would still open to an offer, but as mentioned elsewhere they want silly money. They won't get it unless they find a wealthy 3ft gauge in England; a species unknown to exist (don't say "what about Southwold"; it is responsibly run and even if they HAD silly money (which they don't) they would not yield to an "offer" like that). Meantime, they intend to store them, oiled and protected, until or unless someone with a bigger wallet than brain happens along; they will thankfully not allow them to deteriorate. Both would be relatively easy to put back into traffic, mshould they or another buyer want to do so.

Superb stuff - only noticed this now!

Cattle class, surely?

Not that I know of, Josh, but I’ll have a look. There were many different variants, and many were altered (sometimes more than once) during their lives…

Re. the locos, if anyone wants a proper paper scan of any of the drawings, let me know. I expect cost plus postage to be only a few euros. Or any further requests here - there's Q, SG3, D, P, PP, and all the rest, plus the crane tank and the BCDR 4.6.4T! They probably copied that when they were considering a six-coupled tank engine of some sort at one time.

I’m afraid I’ve nothing on wagons….

With the society being a voulntary body, and currently chronically short of active volunteers in the archive, I'm hearing many queries are going unanaswered - hopefully things will improve in time. As far as diagrams are concenred, no, I don't think I've any GNR stuff but I will have a look. I know I don't have any carriage stuff.

Your wish is my command….

First few:

Had a look at the website of the line it’s going to - quite interesting. Limited clearance ex-industrial line, and a decent length. Not a line I was aware of…..

I thought there was a section on here for posting plans, drawings and diagrams of prototypes. If so, perhaps admins might shift this entire post there. Otherwise I will continue to post here. In recent times, we’ve seen a fair amount of interest in GNR scratchbuilds, so I thought I’d post some GA drawings here, which will be useful to check overall dimensions. I have the 1958 Dundalk Works book of loco drawings. This contains details of every class then technically on the books, whether actually operational or not. There are dozens of them. If I post them all (more than happy to do so) the site will be bombarded with them for days. Possibly better if I put a few up selectively; thus, any requests? Im out’n’about right now - will post a few samples when I’m home.

With the wide open spaces, and nice balance of weeds and ballast, there's almost a South American look to this too - very nice indeed!

I’m going by car this time.

The first one shows an interesting selection of coaches. A late GSWR / early GSR (circa 1925 +/-) high capacity suburban brake, of a type used on lines like Cobh and Youghal, and several Park Royals. Probably a tin van at the en The one at Thurles, apparently with several engines in steam, is almost certainly during the beet season, when steam was used on beet specials in that area, and especially between Thurles, Clonmel and Waterford.

How many DD sets will be active this coming week?

Crossley, Metropolitan-Vickers, General Motors, Inchicore Works, Cravens of Sheffield, Dundalk Works….