Dugort Harbour

[jhb171achill]

On 4/9/2026 at 11:48 AM, Georgeconna said:

That look like a fine job JHB. you must be well proud of that one. 

 

I’ve just to put the white-metal bits and pieces on the underneath of the chassis now and it’s ready for painting. 

[jhb171achill]

Ready for painting. As first attempts I’m happy enough, though many details don’t bear close inspection by any means. 

The small van is a Roxey LSWR model, but similar to vans the GSWR had many moons ago. The bogie is GSR van 2548. Glazing to go in once it’s painted.

Right now the roofs and chassis aren’t attached to the bodies, pending painting, which is why the bodies look high. 

 

 

[Tullygrainey]

Great jobs both. Proper model making!

[Dempsey]

Fantastic 

[jhb171achill]

25 minutes ago, Dempsey said:

Fantastic 

They’ll be consigned to your good self once painted, for weathering! 

[Patrick Davey]

Excellent JB - I admire you for tackling something I have filed under 'never' !!

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Patrick Davey said:

Excellent JB - I admire you for tackling something I have filed under 'never' !!

I was persuaded to give it a go by a friend who had been making “O” gauge brass kits for years. Likewise, I had filed brass and soldering under “ABSOLUTELY never”!

My biggest regret now is that I didn’t start years ago. Some of the SSM Bredin kits aren’t available any more. 

[west_clare_wanderer]

14 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Ready for painting. As first attempts I’m happy enough, though many details don’t bear close inspection by any means. 

The small van is a Roxey LSWR model, but similar to vans the GSWR had many moons ago. The bogie is GSR van 2548. Glazing to go in once it’s painted.

Right now the roofs and chassis aren’t attached to the bodies, pending painting, which is why the bodies look high. 

 

 

That's wonderful JB. I'm so impressed

[Dempsey]

On 23/9/2026 at 11:01 PM, jhb171achill said:

They’ll be consigned to your good self once painted, for weathering! 

I've fresh paints ready and waiting 

[jhb171achill]

“They came in on the goods. I dunno what they’re supposed to be. The doors don’t even open”…

“Jack says they’re somethin’ to do with “gettin’ the grandson interested” or whatever”

”Sure ye wouldn’t know what he’s on about…. where are we going to put them?”

Summer 1957, and stock awaits the Dugort Regatta Day specials in the fiddle yard…

Edited yesterday at 00:20 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

The goods one day in 1963 had a strange cargo, loaded by the most junior member of my family, as well as a number of grain vans for the mill…. Seen here crossing Carrowmore Bog… 

[jhb171achill]

A winter day in 1973 sees the up goods from Dugort Harbour scurry across Carrowmore Bog….

 

 

[jhb171achill]

Summer 1961; the afternoon local arrives and departs back to Castletown. An “A” off the down goods deputises for C221, which as often had failed that morning…..

And yes, I need to get a thin pale green waistline on that old GSWR-esque bogie…..!

[jhb171achill]

In a field adjacent to Dugort Harbour station, there’s an old cattle truck body….. all that’s inside it are some empty oil barrels, a broken wheelbarrow, and a pile of sodden turf in the corner. If the farmer wants to use it as a shed, he’d need to sheet over the gaps….

Edited yesterday at 01:54 by jhb171achill

[jhb171achill]

The connection for the Tralee goods leaves Dugort Harbour one sunny morning back in the day…

 

Edited 17 hours ago by jhb171achill

[derek]

17 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

A winter day in 1973 sees the up goods from Dugort Harbour scurry across Carrowmore Bog….

Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that post apocalyptic landscape. And calling it a bog doesn't cut it........

 

[jhb171achill]

3 hours ago, derek said:

 

It'll BE a bog - I promise! I've all the stuff top put on it, just haven't got around to it! meantime, it's the 08:40 Mars to Jupiter Central........!!

[GSR 800]

17 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

It'll BE a bog - I promise! I've all the stuff top put on it, just haven't got around to it! meantime, it's the 08:40 Mars to Jupiter Central........!!

Reminds me of the skit of the two cavan men claiming they walked to the moon, describing the surface as rocky, barren, cold, devoid of any atmosphere whatsoever, only for it to turn out they'd gone to Belturbet..

[GSR 800]

9 minutes ago, GSR 800 said:

Reminds me of the skit of the two cavan men claiming they walked to the moon, describing the surface as rocky, barren, cold, devoid of any atmosphere whatsoever, only for it to turn out they'd gone to Belturbet..