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Out of my era but having seen them close up, the detail is amazing - they are certainly akin to the underparts of a canine........

Gonna have to be a combination of (2) & (3) - nowhere to expand to! There's barely enough room in the Malahide Casino for THEIR stuff; and they wouldn't take kindly to me rolling up with a bed, a settee, and boxes and boxes of books, cutlery and bedside lamps.......... an exercise bike, rocking chair and whatever else oul junk is up there festering away...........

Bit of an offbeat one here; my layout room has been invaded by half a house full of stuff - long story - unrelated to the railway. I need to find a semi-long-term storage facility, dry & insulated, somewhere broadly near Malahide to put stuff in for maybe a year or two. Looking up websites, it is clear that storage facilities run a cartel. None publish their prices - you have to ring them, which as a separate issue means you get bombarded with junk email and endless marketing calls for weeks afterwards; plus the prices they all quote are several light years above ridiculous. Anyone know of somewhere sensible in the area? Until or unless I can get a whole pile of stuff out of the house, there will be no more Dugort Harbour progress for a long time to come!!

I'd be happy enough with the Guinness............

A dog barking

I’d say they are, yes! Never knew there were equivalents in Wales!! Where and when?

Yes, they were very far from picturesque! One of the most ungainly looking steam locomotives I’ve ever seen….

"Lough Erne" is arriving, along with Railcar B, on low loaders at the weekend........... Given the space (which I don't have), i would very certainly buy one like that!

A very interesting prototype!

Going back to the very original post on this, about the Dapol Sentinel. I note the model is black. Since it was ordered by the GSR, it will certainly have been grey if THEY painted it, unless it was delivered by Sentinel in black and left that way for a while. However, there is another possibility. Often, on other railways, contraptions like this copuld end up with a carriage livery, or something similar. At least one old picture of one of these quite new - or clean - appears to chow a shiny black chassis, but a slightly greyer colour above, though no lining. I just wonder if it could have been the dark purple lake colour above (as on Downpatrick's coach 836)? Certainly, the number was applied in carriage-like shaded style.

Just checked up on a few details; A Clayton was trialled for a short period on the Macroom branch, and (probably the same one) on the Clonakilty branch - so dey did go down to Wisht Caark, boy!

When they say "Cork", that triggers something in the back of my mind to the effect that it was not IN Cork, as such, that one of these things was tried out, but on the Fermoy - Mitchelstown branch in COUNTY Cork. Must check that. Never heard of a Clayton going onto the CBSCR - I wouln't have thought that it would be seen as remotely suitable.

I think they did little in Cork, prob only shunting in Glanmire Road. But Albert Quay transfers are certainly a possibility, as might be shunting within the CBSCR terminus.

Then a team of Lycra cyclists would appear to push it……

Good point. I’d forgotten about that.

A fleet of twenty Maedbs, replacing the 29s on Drogheda - Dublin locals, and a wholesale return to steam across the system…. But we’d build one new Drumm train for Eamonn Ryan to travel about in.

Yes, I’d say so!

With literally "all the money in the world", that could work - but perhaps also building a brand new railway line Whitehead to Cork would be easier..........

It WAS technically open until the last regular passenger service stopped, but as you say there wouldn’t have been much business. The several times I travelled on night mail trains (once as the only passenger) I don’t remember much activity at Moate….

These fellas are waaaay down in “de Kingdom”, boy! Wisht Kerry!

. Meanwhile our friends discuss tomorrow’s cattle fair alongside the empty cattle wagons which came in today….. ”Has anyone heard from the Dalys, how many beasts they’ll have?” ”Depends how many they sell! That dealer fella from Athlone was in O’Donoghues last night. He bought about twenty milch cows the last time he was here!”

On a pleasant spring morning in 1965, the goods ambles into Dugort Harbour…

I wonder did anyone ever actually get put in prison for smoking on a train...................... or, indeed, fined £400? Let alone both.......

OK, here we go. This is 13.1.1986 until further notice; turns out I don't have 1987, but it's likely exactly the same. Trains in BOLD run every day; others are just paths and may or may not run. Down trains: 00:25 Shelton - Abbey - Galway fertiliser PATH dep. Mullingar 05:50, arr. Athlone 06:46 Loco: 001 09:35 Shelton Abbey - Ballinasloe fertiliser PATH dep. Mullingar 15:30, arr. Athlone 16:41 (Stop scheduled moate 16:07-16:230; reason not apparent, probably to fit in with paths west of Athlone) Loco: 001 18:50 North Wall - Ballina Asahi Liner Pass Mullingar 20:43, arr. Athlone 21:36 Loco: 001 21:45 Connolly - Galway Mail Dep. Athlone 23:07, Moate 23:36-23:51 (Crosses up train), Athlone 00:16. Loco: 121 On Saturdays, this runs earlier, dep. Connolly 19:50, dep. Mullingar 21:14, arr. Athlone 22:15 Up trains: 22:35 Ballina - Shelton Abbey Empty Fertiliser PATH dep. Athlone 00:40, arr. Mullingar 01:30. leaves at 02:25. Loco: 001 02:25 Ballina - North Wall Asahi Liner (Tues - Sat) dep. Athlone 05:27, pass Mullingar 06:19. Loco: 001 22:00 Galway - Connolly Mail dep. Athlone 23:20, Moate 23:45-23:48 (crosses down train), arr. Mullingar 00:18 Loco: 141 SUNDAYS No regular trains, but three DOWN paths and two UP paths for Knock specials from PEARSE, motive power not specified for any of them. Note: Two down paths for ferts, butn only one up; the other obviously going via Portarlington when it runs. Also, the WTT shows a 121 for the down mail and a 141 for the up working. Of course, these could be interchangeable. These two mail trains, which crossed at Moate between 23:36 and 23:51, were the only trains on the line by then (and for quite a few years earlier), which carried passengers. Hope this helps. JB

A most interesting vehicle!