Interesting pictures...

[Galteemore]

17 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:

Its an attractive thing esp in regional colours, I don't mind it at all in Britain and in its proper context, it just seems to be a go-to, copy/paste design element now.

It doesn't matter so much in a cafe or pub but in an historical or museum setting it gives me the ick.

Irish railways had all their own distinctive heraldic coats of arms, modern era logos, advertising, typefaces...GSR & CIE Gaelic fonts. There's a deep well to draw on already.

 

17 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:

Its an attractive thing esp in regional colours, I don't mind it at all in Britain and in its proper context, it just seems to be a go-to, copy/paste design element now.

It doesn't matter so much in a cafe or pub but in an historical or museum setting it gives me the ick.

Irish railways had all their own distinctive heraldic coats of arms, modern era logos, advertising, typefaces...GSR & CIE Gaelic fonts. There's a deep well to draw on already.

Quite agree as it happens. My early working life was spent immersed in archives and historical documents so I am rather concerned to get things right. It’s easier than ever to do that given the resources at the web’s command. Totems are fun but for my own layout fascia I avoided them and copied the actual sign…..

Edited December 20, 2024 by Galteemore

[Broithe]

Harcourt Street line running through Shankill.

1952.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/956594948451100/posts/1752391405538113/

[Galteemore]

Nespresso order arrived today with a new flavour. Hadn’t realised they had a link with Belmond. Interesting bogie design….

Edited December 22, 2024 by Galteemore

[LNERW1]

If the two centre bogies could move laterally it could work, in fairness. Otherwise it doesn’t look awful in comparison to some things I've seen on this thread.

[Mol_PMB]

1 hour ago, LNERW1 said:

If the two centre bogies could move laterally it could work, in fairness. Otherwise it doesn’t look awful in comparison to some things I've seen on this thread.

London Underground had some locos with 4 bogies. ESL 107 is preserved at Acton, but there used to be several of them. They were used for de-icing the conductor rails in winter. 
 

3 bogies is much more common, there are plenty of Bo-Bo-Bos in the Alps but they can also be found in the Channel Tunnel. 

[Mol_PMB]

Of course the other wheel arrangement similar to the carriage shown is the Western Australian Metro-Vick, the A Class’s elder brothers. They were 2-Do-2.
From personal experience, the ride through pointwork was quite alarming, and the interior of the Crossley engine room was almost entirely covered in black oil. 

[minister_for_hardship]

The hazards of painting murals from photos.

[Galteemore]

That’s pretty good for the genre. At least it doesn’t have a cowcatcher and a Flying Scotsman nameplate 

[minister_for_hardship]

7 hours ago, Galteemore said:

That’s pretty good for the genre. At least it doesn’t have a cowcatcher and a Flying Scotsman nameplate 

To be fair it's quite a good representation, pity the artist hadn't copped there's two buffers.

Railway Magazine did a short series a while back on bad railway pub signs, one of the better ones was a pretty good image of a loco and train but with a massive tension lock coupling up front.

[Broithe]

Interesting video, full of yellow things.

https://x.com/IrishRail/status/1880249830574027075

[Galteemore]

One of those tat things. But look at the GNRI crest on the wall. I grew up looking at just such a one every day! The artist has actually done a fair render of the Hornby Dublo look

[Broithe]

Post-Éowyn scenery for those who are doing modern-image Scottish layouts.

[Broithe]

On 30/11/2024 at 7:36 PM, Broithe said:

When it became compulsory for the local paper in Stafford to 'illustrate' every story with a picture, however unnecessary and futile it was, I used to keep a record of the more pointless ones.

Two of the stories  were about issues at the station - one was about problems with the taxi rank and the other was about a track failure at the northern end of the station and the associated disruption it caused.

The articles were accompanied by a picture of a taxi rank and one of trackwork at the end of some station platforms.

The taxi rank was clearly not Stafford, as it was indoor, and a bit of work established that it was a picture from Edinburgh Waverley.

The trackwork was clearly Southern region, with its clearly visible third rail.

The point about all this rambling is that their editorial office was on the first floor of a building overlooking both the taxi rank and the northern end of the platforms - for some reason, it must have seemed more like 'journalism' to use ludicrously inappropriate pictures. Or they had a very impressive telephoto lens...
 

My favourite one, though, was a story about a bloke taking a court case over a claim for industrial deafness - illustrated by a generic picture of a random ear.

At least it was a human ear.

There's not much point me complaining like that, if the railway companies are going to do this sort of thing themselves.

https://www.facebook.com/LondonNorthwesternRailway/posts/pfbid031NgmhT2whtNc79Jjha3ELBufnsWDgiBSFBprRjRDoEf92x8fsLQvZYbzU4mJbuGvl

 

[Broithe]

This group might entertain the weathering gurus. People have started 'distressing' full-size vehicles.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2169392473338447

When I had a real job, our products had earth straps made from copper strip, about 25 x 5mm, sometimes 5+ metres long. If exported to certain parts of the world, this copper would often be gone in a few days. We used to leave a sheet of steel outside and scrape the rust off it every few days, collecting it in pepper shakers 'liberated' from the canteen. When we had enough, the copper would be varnished and the powdered rust shaken over it. It was surprisingly realistic, making it look like a virtually worthless rusty steel strap.

[Broithe]

https://www.facebook.com/LoughBooraPark/posts/pfbid02EqmYs2nkpyvF9xCg7CjCaCQB5DtPLvVqjFebSMCQjZyitETvgDTEVfAM3V81n3Rel

Lough Boora Discovery Park - "We are delighted to unveil our first Velo rail bike prototype that we received for testing this week.

We hope to be finished construction and up and running in the coming months."

 

 

 

IRM will find it hard to motorise the model...

Edited February 14 by Broithe

[commerlad]

Why did I immediately think of Patrick McGoohan

Ah that was it.

 

[Broithe]

13 minutes ago, commerlad said:

Why did I immediately think of Patrick McGoohan

Ah that was it.

 

The left-hand rear seat at Lough Boora appears to be for Number One...

[Mol_PMB]

No new ideas on the livery for tourist trains on the bog then...

 

[LNERW1]

In fairness I’m sure there’s a good few enthusiasts at Boora so more than likely the similarity isn’t a coincidence!

[jhb171achill]

Weren't there two of those coaches? Where are they now?

[Mol_PMB]

42 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Weren't there two of those coaches? Where are they now?

I took both of those photos on the same occasion, I travelled on the train with the Wagonmaster but the Ruston and the other carriage were there as well.

I don't know where the coaches are now. The green and yellow locos ended up in the same scrap lines as all the brown ones.

[Mol_PMB]

A sad lineup of Wagonmasters in May 2023, including a yellow and green one:

Though a few of the species were still alive, if somewhat modified, like this one:

Going back a few decades, these were much more interesting:

 

[LNERW1]

On 15/2/2025 at 7:24 PM, Mol_PMB said:

A sad lineup of Wagonmasters in May 2023, including a yellow and green one:

Though a few of the species were still alive, if somewhat modified, like this one:

Going back a few decades, these were much more interesting:

 

Im fairly sure at least one unmodified Wagonmaster survived until the end on the smaller Coolnamona line (south/southwest of Portlaoise). Visiting in December 23 yielded one, if not two. Unfortunately I didn’t have my phone on me at the time so I have no pictures, but I believe my dad did take a photo of every loco present.

Edited February 16 by LNERW1

[Broithe]

https://www.facebook.com/NorthYorkshireWeatherUpdates/posts/pfbid0GG7otBWtoicem31Qwatkpz8sTfRkfjfBs1XSTSqu4HQ3i2jbqzZfS8QnNZieuBjZl

WCML at Beattock yesterday.

[Mayner]

On 16/2/2025 at 7:24 AM, Mol_PMB said:

 

 

The 'coach' in the 1st photo looks like the passenger portion of an ex-West Clare Walker Railcar

the second coach some form of railcar conversion with open end balconies.

One of the ex-West Clare conversions was used as the Coach on the Bellacorick bog train hauled by a Ruston diesel modified with a hydraulic transmission similar to the second generation Hunslet Wagonmaster.

Does anyone know whether the two Clonmacnoise & West Offaly coaches or the ex-West Clare railcar conversions have survived?

The biggest challenge of modelling the BNM Peat Energy Division was the sheer scale of the operation on most systems and lack of operating interest basically 15 wagon Merry Go Round trains between the loading points and power stations. The older sod peat systems like Allenwood and Portarlington were a bit more interesting on a smaller scaleand actual shunting taking place at the Power Stations and BNM locos doing the 'main line work" with ESB locos shunting the power stations where individual wagons were unloaded by lifting from their bodies to the top of the power station bunker using overhead gantries. 

Some of the Horticultural peat systems were more modellable in nature and smaller in scale with wagons (sometimes 4w) unloaded by an end tipper or rotary tipple.