GSR 800

Senior was involved in track repair surveys in the Wellington Cutting near Dundalk some time around 1950. A PW gang refused to work there (despite good money on offer) because of the haunted horseman there. This had been seen - through GNR history - by PW and milesmen, as well as drivers and fireman. A man on a horse would ride silently through the rock cutting. On at least one occasion, a driver slammed on the brakes as he thought there was a real horse there.

 

On approaching the observer, the horseman and horse would just disappear. Nobody knows who he was / is, or when he was first seen.

 

I wonder if any modern drivers have ever reported seeing him?

certainly a strange one...

i wonder if there are any from the West..the folk being quite superstitious

Wrong franchise, JB.

This is appropriate for the situation...

Yes..... the GNR being virtually all steam and wooden carriages right up to its demise in 1958 always draws my interest.....

indeed...but its history is very interesting too.

As much as i love CIE steam, its not as attractive as the GNR with its graceful, yet powerful 4-4-0s with their blue livery..

although CIE green looks excellent, espiecally on the 800s

I've never seen a colour photo of the 400s or 500s in green though..

no mdf:tumbsup:

Good one:D

MF

+1

Senior had fascinating stories of travelling by narrow gauge to Bessbrook, Burtonport, Schull and Castlegregory....

Mmm..bit of a soft spot for the narrow gauge..and one for the GNR..the thought of the VS snorting and puffing by gets the modelling mojo running again!

Watched it through! No problems with length. Great video, Kieran!

+1

A great vid Kieran,Woolwich heaven!

thanks and sorry for delay in replying....i know there is some way to set up so that i get an email to tell me if someone has replied to my post, but i dont know how.

might be able to make it up on the monday, sure if i do i do thanks.

I think if you go to thread tools and click on subscribe, it will alert you of any replies

Not sure though...

Good luck on the new setup Dave

More space for more baseboard awesomeness:tumbsup:

I know this thread is old...but that is a great story

You should seriously make a book on those stories, if you haven't already John..

"warrenpoint? How can a warren be pointy?" Love it

It's hideously ugly really, but therein lies part of its trainy beauty. Might try a scratch build over the winter. It must've been difficult to drive- the vision dosen't look great.

Vision isn't great in a steamer anyway!

But,strangely it does have a weird attraction to it..

It's a mixture of nostalgia, uniqueness and the fact that it looks in a desperate state

Also that it would be really fun to build

Harry, I understood from Ron Pocklington that John was simply an enthusiastic photographer, rather than the official one.

 

That said, between John and Ron they recorded the progress of the locomotive from the day they arrived right through to the trials on the Cork Main Line.

 

I might add that John photographed Ron beside the boiler - the most significant part of the engine which existed when they turned up; the tanks had also been made - looked like progress, but wasn't - no work had been done on the actual ENGINE, which John and, more importantly Ron, set about designing and then building!

 

It's a remarkable story.

 

Leslie

A remarkable story indeed..

One or two of his pics of the turf burner ended up in Tom Ferris 'A Second Glance' including one of her

Fresh out of inchicore, in green (although it looks blue!)

The entire project is fascinating..although poor Aul 356 would probably think otherwise!

Poor thing..

I might have a H van and a beet Leslie...

Alright, I think it's time to clear the cobwebs from this"haunted" thread:p

As its approaching Halloween again, has anyone got some more creepy stories?

John Click was with Bulleid at Brighton. Later he was working at the Testing Centre at Rugby when Bulleid asked Roland Bond for the loan of a couple of guys to TEST the TB.

 

The full story has been told to me by Ron Pocklington who was the other guy sent to Ireland.

 

When he and John Click arrived in Dublin they found that they had been sent to test a non-existent loco! The pair of them first had to build the thing!

 

Full story was told by me in a talk entitled "The Third Man" (given to RPSI in Belfast and IRRS in London). - it's time I came to Dublin and gave the talk at Heuston?

 

Leslie

Wasn't he charged with being the photographer during the build? I don't know if it was Leader or CC1 though..

did the person thinking of doing a 3D printed turf burner get any where ?

 

I was thinking of doing the same, but stumbled across this post, no point in 2 people doing the same loco

The project was probably forgotten, or lost in the mists of time...

So..go for it if you want to.

It looks like I've been banished to the corridor (Stand W) - BUT I notice that you can't get in or out without passing my stand!

 

Do call by and see (buy!) my latest four kits - two are brand new and deliveries are filling up my local post office!

 

The prototypes of the next two will be on display. Guesses on a postcard, as the BBC used to say!

 

Next to me - come and admire my pal Richard's superb coach-building skills. He will have books of drawings from the IRRS Archive - now including GSR and MGWR prototypes

 

Leslie

Provincial Wagons

Well, I'll be "seeing" one or two kits Leslie...three if I'm lucky!

Prawn sandwiches were suggested by some of the committee but we dont want to go down that road

as long as they're not Egg....

Its our first venture supplying any type of catering for the public K,

We are using the stage from the hall so that if the tea is luke warm and the hang sanguishes are curly at least you will have a good view of all the exhibits

better to have an aul dry sambo than a soggy one...

i like my tea not too hot, a good bit of milk, and no sugar:p

is someone writing this down?

Many thanks, Patrick.

 

There's a third one in planning stage, Patrick, but so is a history of the Clifden line, so I'll just have to see what time I have. I'd like to get Clifden finished.

 

After the next "picture" book, I've a long term plan for a fourth. The next one will be a collection other than Barry's; while the last one will be a mix of photos from several contributors stretching from the 1920s to the 1990s. Now, none of this will happen overnight as being "retired", I'm exceptionally busy with all sorts of stuff....

From the 20s?

Keep talking...

This will be launched in the Flying Boat Museum, Foynes, on Saturday 26th November. And none of the pictures in it are upside down......!

 

All welcome. Probably about 2pm.

Excellent John!

I'll try to be there:tumbsup:

Best summed up by Urban Dictionary

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=meme

 

 

 

Used to give a bit of pseudo-academic gravitas to stupid viral stuff. A 'meme' doesn't have to be funny, provocative or even make sense.

 

Willy Wonka's Sarcastic Face in the inventing room scene has provided the background to a lot of them. Gotta love this one.

 

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Urban dictionary..damn

Anyway you got your "mainstream" memes..

The most notable being this guy..

A lot of him..

Then you got..ehh

And then a a vengeful baby..sorta a half meme? Dunno

I'm going to regret this post when I'm older..that's for future Harry to worry bout

Cause we have derailed off topic!

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Our H Van as it would have appeared in broken wheel days.

 

The body is a bit on the red side, but you will get the idea?

 

The kit comes with BOTH Snail and Wheel, plus correct numbers - as you can see here.

 

Leslie

Yum.

The rivet detail is fantastic, exactly like the old H van in one of our fields

(Well, except it has wheels, the paint hasn't faded off and it hasn't been riddled with shotgun shells..)

But I'm seriously impressed. 2016 has raised the bar for Irish stock.

I might be at Raheny ......

I have a weird sense there should be a meme in the post...hmmm

A pint for someone who gets a meme that suits it!

My plan is to build Hood, if she had survived the Bismarck engagement.

05:39 am

Hood begins the turn to bring her full broadside to bear on Bismarck,

As she does, she fires from her A and B turrets at Bismarck. The first she'll lands 60 feet from Bismarck, the second straddles her, But the third was the one that mattered.

The shell hit and skidded across the deck. That's when it hit something hard. the Ceaser*barbette. The shell exploded causing the Ceaser turret to jumped of its roller while the Dora turrets electrics were severed, and unusable.

Admiral Luztens realises he is in big trouble. Another shell from prince of Wales has crippled the fire control. Luztens orders the ships to turn back. Bismarck makes smoke, and retreats to towards Norway, however Prinz eugen, damaged by Hoods second salvo lags behind

And is sunk by the heavy cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk.

Hood and Pow* gave chase to Bismarck, but lost her in a snowstorm

The two ships return to Scapa flow

Hood has taken some serious damage, mainly to her deck, when an 8 inch HE* shell hit her deck,causing a large fire as the 4inch shells and UP*rockets began exploding in their ready to use lockers.

Hood is in bad shape anyway, as she hasn't received a major overhaul in over ten years.

The admiralty decide to finally give her a "Large Repair" this plan had been conceived in 1938, but had been delayed by WW2.

But resources were in short supply,so the plan was to repair the essentials( deck armour, boilers, armour reconfiguration, extra AA, and getting rid of the Up launchers.

So that is the general plan for my Hood, along with the story of how she survived.

It will require some scratchbuilding, but it will be a fun project overall

Something like this, but without the massive"castle style bridge"

*Bismarcks turrets were given the Names Anton, Bruno,Ceaser and Dora

*Prince of Wales

*the UP( unrotated projectile) launcher was an experimental Anti aircraft system used on Hood

They would fire rockets, which would then put out little parachutes, creating a minefield in the air, or at least that was the plan, they had a rather bad habit of drifting back to the ship, and exploding. Needless to say they were not very successful, and were abandoned in favour of the 40mm bofors.

*high explosive

I'm just imagining what was happening that morning in Ballybeg. 383 is being prepared for the morning goods train, while the 101 is trundling through light engine to Limerick Junction to pick up beet empties....

Nostalgia overload...