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  1. jhb171achill
    That is just stunning!
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    I don't think it was original GSWR - more like 1960s CIE rebuild...?
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    Ghastly news. Commiserations - hope things get sorted out as well as they can, as soon as.
  4. jhb171achill
    Not Dugort, but a steamy scene st a friend’s layout today. It’s 1959, and a UTA Jeep is visiting Dublin, seen here among three “Woolwich” types…
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    There’s worse disruption to services nowadays than the very worst periods of the Troubles!
  6. jhb171achill
    "Installation of a locomotive"? Looks like recovery of a wreck!
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    No worse than a J15, but with limited distance ability due to smaller coal space, useless for long RPSI journeys, unfortunately.
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    I’m thinking a useful, common 0.6.0 maybe, but not the J15. Many possibilities.
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    Surely the 5 wheeled ones might be better?
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    She’s probably be too heavy on coal to make her economic to run there. It’s just 2 miles or so to Inch Abbey but to just light up a loco like that is £100+ of coal. If a typical loading was five packed bogies you’d recoup that but not with normal passenger numbers.
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    And only (likely to be) operational branch loco! The GNR one would require, I am told by reliable sources, a rebuild of such massive proportions that it would be (like 90!) virtually a replica engine - and thus holessly uneconomic fo9r an outfit like the DCDR to contemplate. All three surviving GSWR locos which would suit preservation - 90, 184 & 186 - were substantially altered over the course of their careers. 186 for one, and also 90, lost most of their original components in the 1910s - probably 184 too.
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    In the 11 or 12 years I volunteered there I never saw anything remotely like that
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    Indeed! GNR 93 is actually the only other potential alternative. "Lough Erne" is a shell, and BCDR 30 in Cultra is little better.
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    Excellent news; a point of order, though, if I may: the GNR 2.4.2T in Cultra is another surviving br4anch line loco...it and its type worked on the Belturbet branch regularly.....
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    Few of them had snails - only the first lot…. I can produce a suitable photo from Fry’s stuff - will try to find it. Most spent most of their lives with no logos, so your kits are 100% fine!
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    Correct. No Bullied wagon ever carried any logo on the side. Some of the first had a small snail stencil on the (grey) CHASSIS, but that didn’t last long.
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    That looks absolutely amazing. You can smell the sea air and chipper van….
  18. jhb171achill
    Yes, those pics are indeed the junction. I didn’t explain well - I meant he got to Rathkenny…..
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    Yes
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    If EVER there was an ecumenical matter, that nails it….
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    Display purposes only?
  22. jhb171achill
    The catering trolley will contain real chocolate model KitKats, for display purposes only.
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    At that stage and for a good twenty years earlier, almost nothing but the odd cattle or GAA special had gone in there. It remained through the 1950s as one of those sleepy railway backwaters like Dingle, Mountmellick, Castlecomer, Cashel, Athboy or Clara-Streamstown.
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    Hydrogen powered 071 Something MGWR Something NIR 131 Thats my guesses…..
  25. jhb171achill
    Absolutely outstanding stuff. Love the WTT. Once Dugort is finished, if I can ever retrieve it from an attic now filled with luggage, it will operate to the Albert Quay - Bantry WTT on some days, and an adapted version of the the Kenmare one on others….
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