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  1. airfixfan
    Remember the steam engines at Courtalds shunting near Mount.
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    Yes indeed but was lifted by about 1947.
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    Thanks LM thought I had sent you a PM. Have that Backtrack article.
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    Thanks but it is that article that I am still looking for hopefully?
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    You cannot get that channel in NI.
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    Thanks this was in a magazine with excellent colour photos of CC1 on trial which has got lost in the mists of time.
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    Great photo. Pity one of these Crewe built locos was not preserved.
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    Thanks have that but remember this article but no longer have the article due to house moves etc.
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    Difficult to leave the Island at present. Looking for that article so I can buy a copy.
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    Is 6 the one that is missing in that photo. They were able to save a DNGR coach and there is a story that loco 1 the only one to go North was scrapped in error
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    There was an article on the trials etc of this loco with good colour photos by John Click in Steam World in the 1990s. Trying to track this article down and can anyone help with relevant details? Thanks
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    Both ex GNR locos were T2 tank engined
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    IRRS Journal 11 records that 2,3,4 and 6 were hauled dead from Dundalk to Sutton on April 15th 1952. So why only 3 locos in that photo? Same issue notes that number 1 moved from Newry to Adelaide light engine. This backs up the story that attempts were made to preserve this DNGR locomotive.
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    Drumm railcars C and D were converted in 1953 to run as trailers with the new AEC CIE railcars sets. There is a reference to this in IRRS Journal 12.
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    That photo is in the book Lost Railways of Co Derry. The photo in the book is undated but does look like the 1930s.
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    Definitely Ballyclare with that distinctive building on the Main Street in the background. Would be the same train as the goods left for Ballyclare in the morning and returned in the afternoon.
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    Well worth buying at that price!
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    Author is JIC Boyd published by Oakwood Press. There is a lot on the Ballycastle branch, the Swilly and the County Donegal as well. Try Abebooks?
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    There are 4 photos and descriptions of Ballyboley Junction in March 1950 in Saga by Rail Ireland. Galteemore is certainly correct about the role of the Andrew's family whose mill provided substantial goods traffic until the end. Also the fact that the UTA ordered more MED sets than they needed for the Bangor line is revealing.
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    Thanks line still open at Ballyboley in 1949. The NCC NG stock not disposed until 1954vin case there were legal challenges to the closures. Same thinking about the BCDR and recent documents discovered confirm that the UT expected the line to Comber and Donaghadee to reopen. They even ordered extra MED sets for this service!
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    In his defence he took many detailed and unusual photos pre 1950 which are very useful. In terms of the NG stuff photo on bottom of 214 says it is 42 in March 1050 at Ballymoney 42 on Larne line at this time and photo os clearly 41 in just applied UT livery. This supports jhb171s point that the Ballycastle line closure was not inevitable in 1950 unlike the goods only Ballyclare branch whose sole customer closed the paper mill in May 1950.
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    Have some NCC WT. Send me a PM so we can discuss more freely?
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    Boyd is very reliable and his book Saga on rail Ireland with many great photos and details is well worth tracking down. He was there and on the Ballycastle line in March 1950. Wonder who has his photo archive? Do you have the book on the Coey/Cowie brothers? It has photos by Jim Jarvis who visited the NCC lines including the BRCB in 1935 and 1939.
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    Must track that issue down. There are photos of 113 on the goods train at Ballyclare in the summer of 1945 by Des Coakham. Who has his photo archive? According to Scott's book 110 was scrapped by mid 1946. Yet in JIC Boyd's book he visited the line in March 1950 and describes finding a compound tank being scrapped. Was this 110? Books also contain errors one shows 42 at Ballycastle in 1950 but it is actually 41! Another photographer has 42 on the Ballycastle line and at Larne both in May 1950!
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    Thanks that's one I have not seen before. From what I can gather the last goods train ran when the Paper Mill closed in May 1950. Was kept in Larne with 113 of which photos are scarce after 1945?
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