Portadown Junction

[Mol_PMB]

36 minutes ago, airfixfan said:

New koco for the Fintona branch!

I think a real elephant would be more appropriate there!

[leslie10646]

2 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

I think a real elephant would be more appropriate there!

There's no way I am going to model the Bertram Mills Circus train!

Even though I have a Class UG to pull it - I believe that's what they used for motive power in the 1960s tour they did in Ireland?

4 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Looks fabulous Leslie. But would it fit on the Dundalk traverser?

I was going to say that it would be maintained, as a friendly gesture, at Inchicore.....

But she'd wreck herself going through the Phoenix Park tunnel?

2 hours ago, airfixfan said:

New koco for the Fintona branch!

Good idea, Jim, but she's only for TRUNK routes!

[Northroader]

Put “NCC” on the tender, and folks will be none the wiser.

[leslie10646]

3 hours ago, Northroader said:

Put “NCC” on the tender, and folks will be none the wiser.

Nice one, Bob!!!!!!

its would certainly storm up the Bleach Green bank with the 8.5pm Goods!

[Mol_PMB]

Did Ireland have any ten-coupled locos? I can think of only 5 eight-coupled ones, mostly on the narrow gauge but there's one suitable for Portadown. 

 

 

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Mol_PMB said:

Did Ireland have any ten-coupled locos? I can think of only 5 eight-coupled ones, mostly on the narrow gauge but there's one suitable for Portadown. 

 

 

The GSR No. 900 had eight coupled wheels too.

No ten-wheelers in Ireland.

[jhb171achill]

20 hours ago, Mol_PMB said:

I think a real elephant would be more appropriate there!

The REAL one had "G N R" tattoed on its side and was only used when goods traffic was heavy.

[StevieB]

19 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

The GSR No. 900 had eight coupled wheels too.

No ten-wheelers in Ireland.

Correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t there a second 4-8-0t, no 901, while 900 ran as a 4-6-2t for a while by disconnecting the back pair of driving wheels. Their primary role was banking heavy freight trains up the long bank from Kingsbridge, as it was then, to Inchicore.

Stephen

[leslie10646]

By way of a serious wind-up.

I've decided to electrify the Junction, and this is an Armagh Commuter train of the future, after the line is put back ......

Rather than wait for an 800 which which  may appear posthumously, I decided to invest the same sum in another creation of the Blessed Oliver:

This is the just-released "KR Models" model of the Bulleid Class "4DD" EMU, which you can see was an attempt to build a double-decker within the GB gauge. Only two sets were built, but they ran for 13-14 years.

The Jury is out on this one - it's derailing on my points and with my vast layout, that means creeping under rafters to rescue it - it hated by single slip at Richhill, derailled the whole train, while a point at the North End of Portadown has just taken it out for the second time. I'll be the Internet to see if others have found this an issue.

Unusually (?) it has motors in both motor coaches (which are invisible!), so it runs nicely when it likes the track. Lights internally and in the cabs, but unbelievably none on the Headcode Box, or a rear red panel. Unremarkable for detail - it wouldn't pass Paul Isles' attention to detail, but hey, no-one else will make a RTR model of one?

Really only bought for the glass cabinet, but I've hankered after a simple SR layout as i've 4/5 EMU sets.

 

Edited yesterday at 00:35 by leslie10646

[Paul 34F]

Leslie,

I would check the back to back dimension of each pair of wheels.  This may be the cause of multiple derailments.

Kind regards

Paul

[Mol_PMB]

Nice!

I believe the couplings between cars can be another source of derailment on these - either fouling on the body or the fixing screws a bit tight so they don’t swing freely. 

[leslie10646]

4 hours ago, Paul 34F said:

Leslie,

I would check the back to back dimension of each pair of wheels.  This may be the cause of multiple derailments.

Kind regards

Paul

Thanks, to both of you for these points (pun intended!) I'll have a look at both points when I'm next in a position in do so. At this moment, my eighty year old knee isn't working so to even get back into the loft will be painful.

[Flying Snail]

14 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

By way of a serious wind-up.

I've decided to electrify the Junction, and this is an Armagh Commuter train of the future, after the line is put back ......

Rather than wait for an 800 which which  may appear posthumously, I decided to invest the same sum in another creation of the Blessed Oliver:

I think someone else might have posted this already, but here's the newsreel announcing the train of the future, today! ... in 1949

https://youtu.be/1a2K0TP1lxM?si=6-WbupNl68qTeCif

[leslie10646]

Brilliant man, @Flying Snail, I'd wondered what it could be like to travel in one! Thanks for the link!

[Signal Post]

Dawn Quest mentioned some problems with this model (at least I think it's the one that you've got) during her youtube livestream last night (the relevant bit starts at 36min 45sec):

 

 

[leslie10646]

Thanks @Signal Post - based on the advice given, it's going back to Rails! I hope that you enjoyed its short history on the Armagh Line.

[jhb171achill]

4 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

Brilliant man, @Flying Snail, I'd wondered what it could be like to travel in one! Thanks for the link!

I travelled in some sort of thing like that in Switzerland many years ago. Unusually for Switzerland, it was filthy inside and full of litter - you can usually eat your dinner off any surface in a Swiss train! But, naturally, it was bang on TIME!

[leslie10646]

4 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

I travelled in some sort of thing like that in Switzerland many years ago. Unusually for Switzerland, it was filthy inside and full of litter - you can usually eat your dinner off any surface in a Swiss train! But, naturally, it was bang on TIME!

NO TRAIN LOKE THAT in modern Switzerland, but the upper floor of their double-deckers have curved-in windows just like the 4DD - but are very spacious in First (I've no idea what Second is like!) ...........

Aren't First Class Interrail passes wonderful?

25% off them sale on at the moment!

Edited 5 hours ago by leslie10646

[jhb171achill]

Yes, I've "interrailed" a good l;ot on the past - plus, when in Switzerland, where a kitkat costs the price of an average family car in southside Dublin, there's a Swiss pass you can get, only avilable to us "furriners"; my sister (and her family), as a resident of Switzerland for over 40 years, isn't eligible!

[jhb171achill]

22 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

.......................  - it's derailing on my points and with my vast layout, that means creeping under rafters to rescue it - it hated by single slip at Richhill, derailled the whole train, while a point at the North End of Portadown has just taken it out for the second time.

The reason is that it's 4 fut 8 1/2 gauge, and it's 5 fut 3 at Portydown.....