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airfixfan

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  1. All these lorry drivers who cannot see large bridges across the road ahead! It is safer by rail indeed
  2. Have a rough plan from Derry Central Liibrary of the 1847 station at Gallows Strand
  3. The Swilly used btake 3rds usually
  4. Put together by a non Irish expert!
  5. Can supply you with a copy!
  6. Collected a copy today and have emailed the BRILL editor
  7. Article onTranslink in current Rail magazine
  8. Yes indeed passengers could use the passenger brake coach espevially enthusiasts in the last decade. The Swilly did the same thing
  9. Or if the Council has their way to make it yet another Greenway for the lycra mafia!
  10. Track does not belong to the Council but they do own the trackbed. Meenglas restoterd 5 years ago in poor conditiin and a magnet for local vandals 2
  11. Remember driving railcars 12 and 18 before we were shafted by the local Council who saidl they could not afford our annual grant of 6k£ and they could run it better. Closed 6 weeks later in July 2000
  12. BUT was cab of 132
  13. Great model of one of the first 2 diesel railcars in the British Isles
  14. airfixfan

    CDRJC No3

    Yes but Railcar 18 not owned by the Council but property of thr railway society
  15. airfixfan

    CDRJC No3

    No 6 last used in service early 1960 Wrong Railcar 12 was never uded after closure in July 2000
  16. airfixfan

    CDRJC No3

    Was involved in the Foyle Valley and we were closed down by Derry City Council in July 2000 Nothing ran in public after that date and we moved Railcar 18 to Fintown in 2003. Railcar 12 was not moved as it belonged to Derry City Council.
  17. airfixfan

    CDRJC No3

    Trailer 3 blame poor NIR track
  18. airfixfan

    CDRJC No3

    FVR last ran in 2000. Use of former CDR railcar trailer No 4 was short lived but at a max of 10mph it did ride well!
  19. Hunslets rarely seen on the Larne Line in the 1970s except for Cloghan Point spoil trains
  20. Best wishes with your visit to the NHS this week. The CDR wagons and vans were about two thirds the size of main line stock
  21. NCC were of LMS width
  22. 3017 om 9.00 ex GC to Porrtadown only
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