Bargain

[David Holman]

A friend at the model club found this in a charity shop recently. Cost him two quid, as he thought I might like it.

 Is the Pope a Catholic???

[jhb171achill]

That’s an excellent book indeed: good value for many times that - well done!

[Galteemore]

Great value - and a nice companion to the GSR loco book! 

[David Holman]

Nearly finished reading the book and can only say what a tour de force it is. The amount of research it required must have been incredible!

Another thought is that while the S class 4-4-0s deserve their place at the top of the handsome loco lists, alongside the SECR D class, some of the earlier 4-4-0s with their flush rivetted smokeboxes, one piece handrails and twin smokebox handles, as opposed to the wheel and handle, really are very pretty too.

 Doubt they will make it on to my wishlist though.

[Galteemore]

Agreed! This is a painting of a PP in pre-1920 livery that hangs on my office wall...and beside it is a drawing of one in its later less glamorous form

 

 

Edited March 10, 2020 by Galteemore

[DiveController]

Very Cool @Galteemore

Wish we had more reference to earlier in the Irish railway scene on the forum

Edited March 11, 2020 by DiveController

[Galteemore]

@DiveController - your wish is my command! The pencil sketch is a detail work by the artist Raymond Piper who was commissioned in the 50s to paint the pre-war Belfast- Greenore boat train as it was c1914, for presentation to BR. It hung at Euston - now at NRM York. Piper found the original vehicles of the train still hanging about the GNR system in the 50s, and produced this composite painting. He managed to backdate the PP very nicely (Pic courtesy of York museum).

Edited March 11, 2020 by Galteemore