Bleach Green at Bangor

[colmflanagan]

Hello All,

 

We plan to take Bleach Green to the Ist Bangor Model Railway exhibition in Bangor on 23rd May (7 -9.30pm) and 24th 10-17.00. The venue is the usual one, the church halls in Main Street just a few moments walk from bus or train.

 

 

 

NCC Group

[Dunluce Castle]

Looking forward to seeing it again.

[Blaine]

Baile Cois Farraige will also be at this show, so 2 of the best Irish outline layouts on the exhibition circuit at this show

[Blaine]

This weekend -Friday 23rd. May 2014 7pm. - 9.30pm / Saturday 24th. May 2014 10am. - 5pm.

[Kirley]

1st Bangor 25th Anniversary Show was held yesterday and today. Some photographs of the Exhibits which was held across 4 Halls.

 

 

 

Z scale in a suitcase

 

 

 

Swiss Village N scale

 

 

 

 

Our own Nelson with his fathers Co Durham layout

 

 

 

 

Ballyrichmond - MRSI

 

 

 

So much to see with lots of non railway working features

 

 

And so to Bleach Green which was my favourite.

 

 

 

 

MPD's of different shapes and hues

 

 

The original 70 class 6 Car Set with two power cars.

 

 

 

MED coming on the Larne line

 

 

Another MPD, No 46 with a Driving trailer.

 

A good crowd on Friday night, hope today went as well

Edited May 24, 2014 by Kirley

[Dunluce Castle]

Fantastic pictures, the exhibition really was fantastic and today went just as well.

Edited May 25, 2014 by Dunluce Castle

[steventrain]

Lots of pictures from Club facebook

[Blaine]

Bleach Green Junction needs a serious attack of the weathering kind, the scenery, the track and the stock. All too squeaky clean for my liking. Even road dirt would suffice. I know trains were kept cleaner back then but they still got dirty. Baile Cois Farraige was the only layout there with weathered stock...

[Dunluce Castle]

Baile Cois Farraige was the only layout there with weathered stock...

I don't think so, take a look at the above pics, at least 2 more layouts had weathered stock,

[73.River.Roe.]

Bleachgreen was by all accounts was kept tidy by the UTA and NIR (in the early days) Grass cutting and hedge cutting took place quite often, but the viaduct would need weathering a bit as did get dirty by the time NIR took over in 1968..

[UP6936]

Never knew there where blue MPDs, a strange shade too! How long where these about for?

[Kirley]

Never knew there where blue MPDs, a strange shade too! How long where these about for?

 

The colour is known as Eau de Nil/'Catherwood Blue' and similar to that used on some of UTA Road Fleet. It was as short lived livery.

[73.River.Roe.]

I think Duck Egg Blue is a close shade of the Catherwood blue that was used on some of the UTA railcars.....

[UP6936]

The colour is known as Eau de Nil/'Catherwood Blue' and similar to that used on some of UTA Road Fleet. It was as short lived livery.

 

I like the livery better than other UTA era ones, but I imagine it would have got dirty fairly quickly?

[73.River.Roe.]

Yeah it would have got dirty very quickly, which is why it didn't last long and the UTA went in favour of the Brunswick Green....

[colmflanagan]

Yeah it would have got dirty very quickly, which is why it didn't last long and the UTA went in favour of the Brunswick Green....

 

The UTA had a number of diesel liveries during its time - originally what was called "dark Brunswick" green with varying lines of pale green/white/cream/, MPDs were unlined green, then the shortish lived eau-de-nil already mentioned ( buses and trains weren't necessarily the same shade either!), then in 1961/2 the trains went back to a slightly lighter shade of Brunswick green unlined. (when new anyway!) In 1965 trains went multi hued with different liveries for the ex GNR sections (white/blue), BCDR (green/cream) - and NCC - red/white/light grey. Each had two versions. They looked well but of course inevitably you had trains made of different ones plus the remaining green, but all disappeared when NIR took over and maroon/grey became the order of the day. Steam hauled stock remained green lined yellow/red throughout until NIR painted some of the remaining carriages maroon with a broad white line at window level.

 

As regards weathering, well, Ken likes his stuff weathered (though hasn't got round to it yet). I did some weathering some time ago but decided against it., I just prefer my models clean.

 

We all decided on a compromise of the viaduct colour. It varied from clean bright concrete through pretty grotty weathered, then brilliant white in 2002, gradually fading now. If only someone could produce an instantly changeable finish everyone could be satisfied. Maybe.

 

Colm