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Suspect that will less staff the smaller companies like the County Down were content to give Beyer Peacock a free hand in design details. Of course the Baltic tanks were alleged to have been ruined by alterations demanded by staff in Belfast not Manchester!

That is a 4 4 2T not a Baltic tank.

You can visit LMS NCC coach 58 at the Donegal Railway Heritage Centre when it reopens after the lockdown?

The first 2 main line diesels were ordered in 1946 and indeed 1001 was out shopped in January 1950 during the time of this draft design This suggests that this draft design was for the 2 Express passenger diesel locos planned in 1946. By the time the Milne report of Dec 1948 cancelled this order firv6 mixed traffic diesels the diesel engines had been ordered but CIE could not cancel the contract due to penalty clauses. The engines were shipped to Inchicore before being returned to England years later for the 12 Sulzer locos built by BRCW in 1956/57 Shows the danger of using some secondary sources that refer to each other. This is how mistakes become so called facts it took me finding an article on the Sulzers in IRRS Journal 86 to realise my mistake. Should have known Garfield was correct!

Looking for something else today and came across IRRS Journal 51 with an 18 page article with photos on MGWR wagons only!

Would this has something to do with the 6 pairs of Sulzer engines ordered by 1948. The engines were for new Diesel locos cancelled by the Milne report. However with contracts signed they ended up stored at Inchicore before being used for the B101 class a few years later

No but would be interested in a copy of that series which has subtitled myself as well.

The Auxiliries were a separate division of the RIC who were recruited from ex British Army officers a out 1500 men by 1920 The Black and Tans were like Military Policeman about 9,000 strong who were mainly ex British soldiers and Sailors of a different social class than the Auxiliries. They are often confused.

Yes indeed remember being interviewed for that series.

There are photos of Cloghan Point trains in books by Roy Carlisle.

Gavin in regards to Boyd book photos of the other type and was just trying to be helpful. After 1940 the NCC NG had 2 different types of Brake van thought photo on.page 216 Boyd and DVD images of your van might help?

Remember the series it was on TG4 a few years ago. Have you searched YouTube?

Published by Colourpoint books in 2006 called the UTA in Colour. There is a good photo of the other type of brake van on page 216 in J Boyd's book Saga by Rail Ireland This book is highly recommended with details and many photos of the NCc NG lines in particular

Update there is a good colour photo of a Ballycastle Railway van on page 23 of the Young book on the UTA. See volume 5 of the Irish Railways DVD series which shows Ballycastle line and one of the brake Van's in B&W.

There were 2 different types of Brake Van on the NCC 3ft lines. Class 23 as modelled were ex B&L and there is a photo of one on page 113 and details of this in the revised Ballycastle Railway book. The other type was Class 24 and one of these remained on the Ballyclare branch till closure in 1950. See page 119 of the revised edition of Mid Anrtim NG book for a photo.

The industrial loco at Cultra is LPHC No 1 built in 1891 by Robert Stephenson.

North Wall yard?

There is a photo of DH2 on these 2nd spoil trains in JM Àllens 35 years of NIR book page 99 They did not last long and were underpowered and after a few weeks were replaced by the Hunslets until the summer of 1975.

If is 1940 then cannot be 238/241 looks similar to 358 preserved by the RPSI. Stand corrected but still think it's the Larne line.

Yes they look similar to coaches 238 and 241 preserved by the RPSI. 50 years since the end of the spoil trains today even though one book said May 3rd!

80 built at York Road in 1925. Looks like the Larne line from what little detail we have.

Check IRRS Journal 55 and 56 for a detailed article on MGWR coaches.

Graham Farish do both a Fairburn tank and a BR Standard 2-6-4T that is close to a Jeep. They also do LNER Teak coaches as well. Check their website?

There were no Orange parades from 1940 to 1943. There were some in 1944 see Barton Belfast Blitz book. So that photo could be July 13 indeed. By summer 1944 the main action was in France post D Day! In the wrong road because coaches are being pushed into long siding other side of bridge once loco runs round?

Back to Scarva there were no Orange parades 1940 to 1943 but some in 1944. So is this a special from Portadown in old DNGR stock and is the engine running round to shunt special into the siding beyond the bridge till after all activities are over? Finally on the bridge head left and you are in the Scarva village itself. By July 1944 effects of WW2 were starting to recede in NI.