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    In all reality, one of these with a “snail” would be the rarest. They were only a few years old when the GNR ceased to be, and by the time most were due a repaint, the snail was history. So, the only ones to ever get snails would have to have been repainted by CIE between 1959 and early 1963. And for our kit-makers-up, yes, the GNR painted the chassis grey just as much as CIE!
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    jhb171achill replied to ofey's topic in Irish Models

    Won't open here either.........
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    Many thanks, Leslie and Noel, much appreciated. The GNR bagged cement wagons, I can attest, did indeed survive not only into "broken wheel" times, but also the latter-day (1970-6) brown livery with broken wheel. I saw several thus - one, I recall, at Templemore, another in Rock St goods yard in Tralee. Both brown - therefore, they would obviously have also been grey before that! So, you can have GNR grey, flying snail grey, broken wheel grey and broken wheel brown, if so inclined!
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    Yes, you can. Pick a day when you've a maximum timetable, get the first steam down and back, then the horse tram up to Derby Castle (electric railway terminus); tram to Laxey, then return from there up to Snaefell, and tram on to Ramsey. Depending on timetable, you might have to get a bus (or even taxi!) back to Douglas, but you would have covered it all in a day. Any time I've been there, though, I have usually just taken one day on one, another day on the other. What I did the first day I was there a month ago, was hop on a Douglas-bound steam train outside the airport, headed up to Douglas, and did a return to Ramsey on the electric line (in pouring rain!). Magical, superb.......... On a 1973 trip when jhb171Senior was alive, he observed that "this is just like the Donegal"....... which he had travelled on before railcars were much of a "thing" there..........
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    Yes, it sold out some time ago. And following this launch, "West" will probably do so too. Last I heard, the publisher had about a dozen.
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    Coincidentally, I got a delivery today too, mainly for the launch, including what I think are the very last 5 copies of "Rails Through the West". So, at the launch, I will have them, plus Wexfords and Tipperarys, and some Connemaras and Achills. Hope you enjoy it, Darius!
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    Tis a truly fascinating railway. I went over a month ago and spent the whole day going up and down on different trains......... happy to do it all over again any time!
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    Wow!! That was quick!
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    Correct, right, accurate and true.................... Looking forward to the "Provincial" version! Saw one in Rock St yard in Tralee in the mid 1970s and you could still make out the large "G" of the "G N" under the CIE grey paint.................
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    Many thanks, Bob229! Colourpoint are getting them into shops now, but they'll be at the launch too. Meantime you can get them from the publisher direct, or from me once I get more supplies.
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    Hypothetically, yes, though I don't think that any did.
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    Fantastic stuff, as always, many thanks! Photos like these are absolutely invaluable to modellers. Note the Youghal excursion, with carriages of all types and vintages, and both in the lighter and darker green liveries.
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    Very many thanks for posting this, Irishrailwayman. We never had a book launch for "Rails Through Tipperary" so we will have copies of that too.
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    Exactly! Tis a case of "And here we go"..................... Typical finnagayl.
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    Talk on Irish railways history in Malahide Model Railway Museum tomorrow, 6pm. See ye there!
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    Good stuff, Derek, looking forward to seeing it develop! Good luck!
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    I’m aware of one committed “timer” who wouldn’t let his companions time diesels in the 1950s - only steam - such was the contempt in which he held ALL diesel railway vehicles…. As recently as the 1980s, most enthusiasts believed that despite IRRS days out, actual diesel preservation would never catch on. Now there’s more diesel than steam action at Downpatrick…..
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    Many thanks, ttc! Should have the Loughrea one out by the end of the year......
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    I've an idea it was in the very late 1890s?
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    Saw an NIR yoke on it yesterday - plus, today, blue Belmond 216! I was unaware that loco could do the "Enterprise" - never saw it on it before, though one or other of the zebra / raccoon / badgers has been on it lately.
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    Very much so; and I will stake whatever's left of any reputation I ever had by saying that if 10% of this ever sees the light of day, that'll be a good result........!
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    Correct. Sorry, I’m just seeing I misread it. A handful - single individual vehicles - here were 4-wheeled in departmental use but I only ever saw evidence if z as single vehicle like that in traffic - and it was a completely non-standard design. 6 wheels was the rule here long before in Britain, so we never had the generic type of long wheelbase 4-wheelers like the Hattons ones or the Ration kits. While we got rid of our earlier generation 4-wheelers largely by 1890, we kept six wheelers in traffic until as late as 1963 with passenger-carrying ones, and 1968 with a couple of full brakes (which, though seemingly out of use) were actually still on the books as late as 1970.
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    A 30ft with four wheels?
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    Amazing as always, Noel! Just discovered a nice trick. Switch on several of the Tara Junction videos together, and just listen to the background noise! Absolutely amazing..........
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    Looking at the pic above, the platform to the right of the class 37 could be extended a little simply by moving the signal cabin to the left of the running line (in the field, immediately be4side the track. The branch platform in the background to the right of the train of 4-wheel coaches could also be extended at both ends by almost the length of another 4-wheeler at each end. That would make a difference without causing any major hassles?
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