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1 hour ago, airfixfan said:

Fintona Tram?

Horse sold separately.

On 28/1/2022 at 7:39 PM, GSR 800 said:

To each their own and all that like...

This x 1000.

There are models that do not interest me personally but I dont go out of my way to dump all over them. If someone is able to produce and sell them whether it's a 22k or a J15 fair play to them. If you dont like them dont buy them. Others will be glad to have them on their layouts.

5 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

An 0 gauge loco hauling 009 stock................?

A strange looking Temperance banner.

2 hours ago, johnfromoz said:

While we are talking lamps,  can someone advise when the rule or practice of using twin tail lamps came into being? 
 

John

I think it may have been in the aftermath of the 1983 Cherryville collision?

In the catacombs of Cark public museum. 

9 minutes ago, Phil3150 said:

 

It's not in the Rules, it's in the Appendix to the Working Timetable.

On 23/1/2022 at 12:47 AM, jhb171achill said:

…..and I had a conversation once with a fairly well known preservationist, whose technical knowledge and expertise and skills are very rightly widely respected, and he said the 800s were “awkward” looking!!!

I always disliked that linkage of "agricultural" appearance running along the boiler. Spoils the look for me.

Looks a bit on the big side.

All North British Loco of Glasgow products.

Scarva, class QG of 1903, passed to CIE, scrapped 1962.

Mars, class QL of 1907, scrapped 1957.

Culloville, class LQG of 1906, passed to UTA, scrapped 1958.

It's lined "photographic grey", they were intended to be GNRI green but green appears black or nearly black in b and w photos and doesnt show detail very well so they were painted grey for their works photos.

On 6/1/2022 at 12:49 AM, jhb171achill said:

They are, yes, agreed - though I'm afraid it's more than the odd error! He got to many places that other enthusiasts didn't and seems to have a special interest in the innards of signal cabins and their staff. That alone is gold dust - not many others thought of that.

He was a very nice man to talk to.

Amazingly sharp photos too for the time. You can zoom in and read the signal cabin clockmaker's names on the dials in some of them.

Some nice photos of staff at rest and work too. I find the standard 3/4 front view of locos and trains without any humans in sight to be rather boring and lifeless. You could be forgiven for thinking that trains ran themselves without any human intervention in some photo collections.

Absolutely ridiculous two decades into the 21st century we have to put up with this. Packages being inspected returned to sender, disappearing into Limbo, receiving ransom notes from Revenue and An Post. Bloody 19th century Pony Express would have been more reliable, efficient, and cheaper! It's all very well to say buy local or buy EU but when the most popular scale most on here model in is by and large a uk thing.

https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Irish-Travel-Posters

May be useful for those who want to print off miniature versions for their layout.

Investment loco buyers, it's worse than the property market.

1 minute ago, Galteemore said:

It must have been one of the earliest examples of a railway company preserving one of its locos - few Victorian companies showed such sentimentality. I understand that it is largely held together by string and bits of wood inside! It is one of the few Irish locos to be publicly exhibited on the big island, making an appearance at the A and D centenary in 1925. Ironically, it was after this that it seems to have been most at risk, as photos at Inchicore show it looking very shabby and unloved in the open air. Arguably it would be best shown at Cultra beside 800, to give a nice comparison of the development of Irish steam.

 

Well yes and no. Preserved steam on public display some might say is, unfairly, concentrated at Cultra and precious little elsewhere. There are probably zero(?) standard gauge steam locos on display in the whole of Munster and Leinster bar 36.

On 6/1/2022 at 8:59 PM, jhb171achill said:

Something a little bit different - my own photos of the Ardara BnM system, back in the day; I believe this was about 1995.

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No. 36:

It's there now, and it was there back in the early 1960s when this was taken! The green it's in here is probably more accurate for pre-1875 GSWR green than what it's in nowadays.

And a FIVE INCH gauge version of it.

Any guesses? It was made in the 1940s, and it was not made by Cyril Fry!

Shame that 36's tender didn't make it but still very lucky that it survived at all. Came within a whisker of scrapping I'll bet.

Who had the 5" model?

Some faded lettering can be made out on the doors, Road Merchandise(?) Services.

It must not have been in service very long having never been repainted.

The station site is on the opposite side of the road, beyond the old road bridge. The goods store is surrounded by the derelict remains of some sort of factory and the station building sited beyond these. The station house seemed to be unoccupied last time I stopped off there to look.

On 30/11/2021 at 1:43 PM, DartStation said:

his eircom.net email changed to gmail.com- that's why 

Tried gmail address. No reply either.

On 24/11/2021 at 7:23 AM, David Holman said:

Fascinating! Had not come across that, but given the number of sink holes we now hear about, not surprised. There was also the urban myth of dozens of Stanier 8Fs being walled up in disused tunnels after the end of steam, in case of some doomsday scenario. These days, resurrecting them might be considered pretty terrible too...

Like some urban legends theres a grain of truth to them.

https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/398/sweden-disbands-final-strategic-steam-reserve-locos/

Even looking at old maps of the alleged area, the land doesnt appear overly boggy, a quicksand that would swallow a whole loco, just flattish with shallow embankments and cuttings. The value of metal alone meant that if a loco could not be recovered whole it would be cut up where it lay and carted off piecemeal.

17 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Sounds odd importing sleepers here from Russia……as does the imperial coat of arms depicted - on a sleeper! 
 

Is this an urban legend or is there evidence of it?

Something non railway that DOES have the Imperial Russian crest is indeed in Cork. A number of old cannons by the Marina.

As for the sleepers, unless a pic or an example surfaces colour me unconvinced.

I don't know about the veracity of the Macroom story, all but one of the CMDR locos bar one are listed as scrapped in the late 20's/mid 30's which looks very much like a thinning out of small and obsolete locos by the GSR. The odd man out is an early disposal of CMDR No 1 in 1905 and mentioned as 'scrapped' in Colm Creedon's CMDR book.

Anything later would likely be noted by either Walter McGrath or Creedon as an unusual event of a bogged down loco was bound to attract their attention, a mention in 'de Paper' and at least a photo. I've heard the story before but no actual proof it's anything other than just a story.

A similar tale is told about a West Clare loco that went off the rails and a photo purportedly showing it before it sank beneath the bog, but its subsequent career and date with the scrapman years later is well documented.

1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:

An engineering beauty; albeit completely the wrong livery..... nothing remotely close to the colour it had in real life.

 

(I just had to add that, didn't I!)

The original green was a lot darker, was it?