Dugort Harbour

[StevieB]

Do I spy a derailment in the left hand background?

Stephen

[jhb171achill]

On 19/4/2024 at 11:06 AM, StevieB said:

Do I spy a derailment in the left hand background?

Stephen

That cattle wagon - yes! Only seeing that now myself.... sure the track down there hasn't been properly relaid since long before oul Johnny Mac retired,,,,

[jhb171achill]

The Dugort Harbour branch has had a set of four GSWR six-wheelers allocated to it lately. The all-1st, a compo and a third are in pretty good condition given their age, but the old 1888 brake third badly needs a rrr et paint and tidy up.

It’ll meet with its end once these new laminates are all built, but they’re due in summer 1959, so we’ve almost eighteen months of this thing…..

Received from Eoin Murray today; as always, truly outstanding master build of SSM kits.

Note the realistic canvas roof patches on the brake, faded paint and general weathering with brake dust.

[Mayner]

I was wondering who could possibly have commissioned such a scruffy coach when I read Eoin's thread 

You need a CIE publicity poster for the new diesel trains to wind up the unfortunate passengers that board the train at Dugort Harbour.  The poster worked at treat at Keadue and our few remaining passengers now drive or take the bus.

[Tullygrainey]

12 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

The Dugort Harbour branch has had a set of four GSWR six-wheelers allocated to it lately. The all-1st, a compo and a third are in pretty good condition given their age, but the old 1888 brake third badly needs a rrr et paint and tidy up.

It’ll meet with its end once these new laminates are all built, but they’re due in summer 1959, so we’ve almost eighteen months of this thing…..

Received from Eoin Murray today; as always, truly outstanding master build of SSM kits.

Note the realistic canvas roof patches on the brake, faded paint and general weathering with brake dust.

Wonderful models both and that weathering is totally convincing! 

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Tullygrainey said:

Wonderful models both and that weathering is totally convincing! 

Seems strange in our modern affluent age - if a carriage in that state turned up on the 15:35 to Tralee today, Joe Duffy’s phone lines would be jammed by the outraged in their BMWs in the station car park.

But such things were commonplace at one time. Look at any picture of, say, probably the worst examples - the Cavan & Leitrim in CIE days, or the SLNCR, or some UTA stock in the late 60s, and you’ll see carriages that look practically derelict - and, I can attest from my own memory, weren’t any better inside!

I’ve a set of 4 of these GSWR ones. I had suggested to Eoin to make the brake look a whole lot worse than the others, which appear well-kept and only slightly work-stained.

The idea here is prototypical; these old brake coaches often inhabited the same rural branch service for several years, with visits to Limerick or Inchicore for painting being less frequent than the “passenger” stock.

[Broithe]

45 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Seems strange in our modern affluent age - if a carriage in that state turned up on the 15:35 to Tralee today, Joe Duffy’s phone lines would be jammed by the outraged in their BMWs in the station car park.

But such things were commonplace at one time. Look at any picture of, say, probably the worst examples - the Cavan & Leitrim in CIE days, or the SLNCR, or some UTA stock in the late 60s, and you’ll see carriages that look practically derelict - and, I can attest from my own memory, weren’t any better inside!

I’ve a set of 4 of these GSWR ones. I had suggested to Eoin to make the brake look a whole lot worse than the others, which appear well-kept and only slightly work-stained.

The idea here is prototypical; these old brake coaches often inhabited the same rural branch service for several years, with visits to Limerick or Inchicore for painting being less frequent than the “passenger” stock.

At one of my many schools on the Big Island, there were some kids who came in by train. They taught me the technique of spotting an empty compartment, cleaning a patch on the outside of the window, then trying to get to that seat before somebody else did, and then wiping the fag smoke off from the inside, so that you could actually see outside.

I once saw a layout where the weathering included this feature on a few of the carriage windows.

[jhb171achill]

4 hours ago, Broithe said:

At one of my many schools on the Big Island, there were some kids who came in by train. They taught me the technique of spotting an empty compartment, cleaning a patch on the outside of the window, then trying to get to that seat before somebody else did, and then wiping the fag smoke off from the inside, so that you could actually see outside.

I once saw a layout where the weathering included this feature on a few of the carriage windows.

Did that myself, yes. I recall being in a venerable GNR bogie in CIE / UTA days, and the seat by the window was damp. The roof was leaking above it, and drip-dripping down, as it started raining into the journey. Myself and two others had to move. Also, I recall a strong damp musty smell, alive with the spores of damp rot, in a compartment in an ex-NCC "North Atlantic" coach in the late 1960s. The exterior was clean though, with paint almost still wet after being repainted from UTA green to the short-lived NIR "main line steam stock" all-over maroon.

[David Holman]

Wondered what Eoin had been up to lately. Superb!

[jhb171achill]

May 1957, and a summer Sunday excursion caught from the roadside between Castletown West and Dugort Harbour….

 

 

“Let’s get this loaded before the rain starts - and remember, absolutely everything has to be done EXACTLY by the book with that fella I was tellin’ ye about, ok? Never tell him anything that Gallagher tells ye, got that?”

Edited May 8 by jhb171achill

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Brilliant 

[jhb171achill]

A very well preserved colour slide from summer 1958 sees the afternoon local from Castletown West arriving at Dugort Harbour.

[Gabhal Luimnigh]

Purrrrfect.

[jhb171achill]

“Yes, I know it’s DEAD… Barney threw stones at it and it didn’t move. But where did it COME from?’

”It's that oul weedkiller, whatever they’ve put in it now, makin’ em all grow, or the myxomatosis or something….. ye think it bites?”

”I'm after tellin' ye it’s DEAD, ye thick. Any sign of the guards yet?”

Edited Friday at 21:38 by jhb171achill