GSR 800

Woohoo Guru!. Was there only one "silver princess" in Ireland?

Well my point is now pointless..

I suppose some might say of trains (and airlines) that feeding people is not their business; any more than getting people from A to B is a restaurants business!

 

This is unarguable, but a pity nonetheless.

People these days would simply expect a food service of some sort on trains,ships and planes. They do make a profit(usually) from selling food so..

In silver, yes; red and cream would be awful!

Ah Janus isn't it awful isn't just awful, awful is the word no better word to describe it, do ye know what awful isn't the word at tall! Terrible terrible so the word, wouldn't it have been better if it had just been SCRAPPED( Twas quoting father ted(quite badly too!)

Imagine a bran new A class hauling a rake of them!

My best memories..... the 17:30 Cork - Kingsbridge with a DCDR-style dining car, a tray with dribbly teapot and a well done stem, potatoes and peas......

GSR, one of the RPSI's long standing members has "461" in his email address, and I have "171" in mine......

 

Pure coincidence, naturally.....

Pure brilliant JH! I'll have to number my house 800 so!

Thought this was free to a good home Pat?

The 362 Class 4-6-0s or Long Toms built in 1905 were an attempt to overcome the problem with excessive weight with the 355 Class 0-6-0s built two years earlier.

 

The Long Toms were considered to be a failure, the bogie tended to derail and they had a reputation of rough riding.

 

The GSWR settled on inside cylinder 2-6-0 wheel arrangement including the rebuilding of the 355 class as 2-6-0s until the building of the 500 Class outside cylinder 4-6-0s locos that were state of the art by the standards of the 1920s.

Wow,that's very interesting. Maybe that's why the GNR considered a 4-6-0 around the same time. Were they inchicorised? Belpaire firebox,snap head rivets or were the neglected? Also how many were built? Sorry bout all the questions but I'm very interested in this. And I had thought the 400s we're the first Irish 4-6-0s

I was looking on the RPSI website and it says the address has PO box 461! Coincidence or what? I have fond memories of no. 4 as it was the first steam loco I had ever seen. I remember when she had reached Enfield i asked one of the members where the loco was going(she was going to run round the train. When I saw her coming back tail first,I asked him why she was "the wrong way around"! of course of was only a young in then, not to long ago! Anyway he told me there was nowhere for her to be turned. I went home thinking this fella didn't know much, that there was one at Mullingar, I didn't think, at the time that Mullingar was about 30 miles away!

Anyway, the letters would have been upside-down.

=))

Haven't written one letter, GSR, and nor would I... as a former volunteer myself of many years! :-)

 

Volunteers in any such organisation have a lot to do and contend with (for no pay) and I know that had anyone directly criticised anything I did, the answer would have been very unprintable indeed!

 

In money-strapped days, the RPSI got a job lot of cheap maroon paint, and I meself applied it to carriages which (a) needed a repaint, and (b) were never painted that way in traffic!

 

My point in making posts here is quite simply to provide historical accuracy for modellers, as the actual colour of something is the first thing that anyone notices about it. Perpetration of an incorrect livery in preservation will in the long term be misleading to anyone who aspires to accuracy in appearance....

Ahh only joking John, But you! Painting coaches Innacuratly? Heresy! Ah no it's all good. The RPSI have been keeping steam in Ireland for half a century, some livery innacuracies can be accepted. As for Cultra...grrr:mad:

Hope it's not a serous problem. The RPSI have enough on their hands at the mo.. 171 and 131,and Johns multiple letters telling them that the shade of green on 461 isn't right. How many letters is that now JH?

Top man! Oh and don't forget my brake van fetish, particularly this ballast girl, who survived for 105 years...

 

hmm...interesting.. What I find more interesting however is the inside cylindered 4-6-0 if never heard of! What's goin on?

It actually does, Jawfin. WELL SPOTTED! I never noticed that before. Prevailing wisdom is that the preserved 1097 was built in 1924 (under GSWR) and entered traffic in very early 1925 (now as a GSR vehicle).

 

It's listed in the diagram book as 52ft. I don't think the RPSI / DCDR one is 52ft - I think it's 56 or 60ft.

 

This opens a can of worms! If the preserved one is longer, as I suspect, then it has taken the number of the 1911 built one - why? If the preserved one actually IS the one in the book, look at the different layout for one thing, and more importantly WHY is it generally taken as having been built in 1924???????

A mystery! To the Turf burner!

He has been quiet lately...

True, Mayner, I never heard of a J26 on a suburban train....

Think they worked summer excursions on the timoleague and courtmacsherry,but I could be mistaken. They worked the beet trains there anyway.

Great work so far!

Lovely, tidy little model.

Maybe a layout idea thread is in order?

well its settled then.build some new steamers for the autumn!

I love those little engines,from their waddle,to their noise, the " hiss ah"" hiss ah". One of the greats,the humble j26.

Seven plank wagons....convertibles.....GNR brake vans...must save up .....Tailte is my least favourite 800....SSM range has increased within the last ten years...life is pointless without Guinness.....Des has brainwashing powers...

Inchicore's a bit like a black hole for things like that.

There's a fairly good chance of finding parts of auld steamers lying around there!

I count the tippex livery as in the black n tan area. Some of the 141s at inchicore have been partially dismantled,rotting away in some sidings,deep inside inchicore