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Hunslet 102
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Nice video and good job with the ballast plough vans Where did you get the ballast wagons from??
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Not sure if this will be of any help Nelson,but Sunrise transfers do bus transfers (waterslide) for some GNR stuff. Noticed their website was last updated 2012,so best to check to see if they are still trading
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Lovely piece of scratch building,very impressive
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Lovely work again Nelson,well done.Best wishes with your exams,if your commitment to them is as good as your modelling then you will have nothing to worry about.
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Very impressive line-up Noel,always great to see the operations happening on Tara Junction.
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There were 6 Bullied designed railcars,compared with 60 AEC type railcars built for CIE,hence why they would not have been seen much.The straighter ends and raised roof did give them a strange look. From a modellers point of view,there is a photo of the Bullied type in Irish Railways in colour by Tom Ferris showing the toilet side of the railcar,while Irish Railways,40 years of change by Colin Boocock shows the opposite side of the railcar with a good front profile view.
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Thanks for the comments guys and thanks for the detailed reply John re the AEC. Maybe one day I will see it in the flesh again,unlike many people,I have a real passion for the early generation railcars,they are as much a part of our Irish railway heritage as steam and the early diesels.
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They certainly were Nelson and were even around in steam days.Depending on how each economy was doing,shoppers would go either way for bargains,although my memories from the 70s and 80s are from shoppers from the south coming north for bargains. In the early 80s, I had work friends from Balbriggan and Dublin who would come north in the train,get their bargains for their kids from places like Argos,drop them of at my house,go home in the train with nothing to declare and I would bring their goods down in the car a couple of weeks later!
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A busy Saturday at Belfast Great Victoria Street has been captured with the arrival in platform 4 of B165 in charge of the shoppers special from Dublin. Late afternoon and B165 is ready to return to Dublin with the shoppers and their bargain goodies from the North,here's hoping the customs officers are steaming after the rugby! An 80 class railcar driving trailer is ready to depart behind the shoppers special with a train for Portadown. The final view has caught a glimpse of A20 in platform 2 with the MK2 Enterprise set just recently arrived.
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Great video,great layout,well done Kieran
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Superb workmanship as always Nelson,your eye for detail and dedication is always rewarded and reflected in your models,well done
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Park Royals look great on the layout and another class video as usual. Keep up the good work and keep the posts coming,never tire of seeing snippets of your layout.
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R None of these coaches were inherited by NIR,so withdrawal would have been between 1964 and 1967,bar your exceptions
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Great work again Kieran,your production line never ceases.
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Congratulations to you and your family
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All being well will be there on Saturday,looking forward to seeing the Irish layouts and maybe meeting some forum members
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Great work with the U2 and coal wagon Nelson,well done
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Nice job with the plough van,like those ballast hoppers as well
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Fair play trying to turn a class 33 into a C class,with a good start having already been made.Look forward to your progress with this project.
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Thanks Kieran and John. John,tell me more,are you going to have a fully refurbished operating AEC railcar at Downpatrick??
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Another scene from the 70s.Here we have two of the early GNR inspired railcars approaching the station in the twilight of their careers.BUT railcar No135 in NIR maroon/grey livery approaches platform 2,while AEC railcar No111 in the UTA inspired blue/cream livery approaches platform 1.Note the different window profiles between the 2 railcars. In the street scene behind,a joint army/police checkpoint has been set up,with an NIR Rail Express Parcels van making its way through the checkpoint.These vans were used to transport parcels traffic between York Road and Great Victoria Street. aerial view
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Great scenes again Noel and the new layout sounds an interesting project,look forward to seeing it develop in March
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Great video Kieran,particularly liked the shot of the liner through the top of the trees,top drawer stuff.Glad the second test was more successful,don't think you will have any problems with your ammonia rake and barriers.
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Something's always going on at Tara Junction,keep the updates coming
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Great video of Kirley Junction again Kieran.With regards the wheel slip,too much weight on the back end will cause extra drag.Have you tried the same rake with a barrier wagon front and back? Your quoted weight for your ammonia train with a barrier front and back should be fine,I would think you are close to that weight with the rake in the video??
