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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.

I’m thinking a useful, common 0.6.0 maybe, but not the J15. Many possibilities.

Surely the 5 wheeled ones might be better?

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.

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.

In the 11 or 12 years I volunteered there I never saw anything remotely like that

Indeed! GNR 93 is actually the only other potential alternative. "Lough Erne" is a shell, and BCDR 30 in Cultra is little better.

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.....

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!

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.

That looks absolutely amazing. You can smell the sea air and chipper van….

Yes, those pics are indeed the junction. I didn’t explain well - I meant he got to Rathkenny…..

Yes

If EVER there was an ecumenical matter, that nails it….

Display purposes only?

The catering trolley will contain real chocolate model KitKats, for display purposes only.

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.

Hydrogen powered 071 Something MGWR Something NIR 131 Thats my guesses…..

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….

Best of luck with what looks like a great project!

Absolutely horrified to hear today of the sudden death of Fred Dean of Cork, who will be well known to some of us. More into bus models and IRRS matters than railways, he was nonetheless a familiar sight. Sympathies to his family. RIP.

Absolutely top notch, as always with Holman productions! I love the carriages. One newly painted maroon, another so shabby it's covered in brownish brake dust, the other in the absolutely atrocious state that one of the trio actually WAS in - bare wood showing, and what paint there was still visible was so faded, worn, weathered and dirty it could have been originally tartan and pink for all anybody might have known...... gawd knows what the interior was like! The SLNCR's traffic manager told jhbSenior that he would rather borrow GNR or CIE stock for non-railcar passenger operations, he was so embarrassed by the state of their few remaining operable coaches. One of the bogies, and the shabbiest of all, brake 3rd no. 4, at least got a decent new coat of maroon not that long before the line closed. But apart from that, the easiest job on the whole railway in those days must have been the SLNCR (or, for that matter, CDRJC!) painter!

Now THAT is a work of art!!! How did you do the criss-cross timberwork in the middle section?

Note the CIE open wagon. It would be interesting to know how far beyond Enniskillen CIE / GSR / erstwhile GSWR (WLWR) and MGWR stock penetrated into the GNR. Much to derry via Omagh, no doubt; but elsewhere? Certainly, flying snails were no stranger to Enniskillen - including on coaches. When the SLNCR had excursions they often borrowed a few MGWR six wheelers from Sligo.

I'm looking at this now. The info I have is that this is one of my grandfather's photos - that much is correct, but the implication is, of course, that this means that he took it. However, here lies a puzzle. The guy in the driver's position is almost certainly him, so either there was some sort of timer on the camera (which I very much doubt) or he set it up on a tripod to get someone else to press the shutter. He often accompanied locomotives that were just out of Inchicore on trial runs, especially when he had been involved in the design drawings for whatever amendment was being done. But that does not for one second explain the garb. There are other family pictures - quite a few - among his collection showing him attired like this, but after years of looking at that pic I only noticed the figures in the cab today. So what on earth was going on..... I have no idea. The young fella to his left could be one of a set of cousins from Co Offaly - jhbSenior was only born in 1918. I'll need to get this image looked at again and enlarged more. It's an old glass plate neg, which is why it's so clear.