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    I'd be up for one of those.
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    Saw these at a friend's house today in the flesh. They are absolutely superb.
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    Ah! My mistake. I thought we were talking about one of the smaller railcars (railbuses)!
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    Superb!
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    No, I think Henry Forbes just used the body. The old engine from the DBST thing was fit for scrap, so the whole chassis probably went for scrap.
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    Like everything else on the SLNCR, their horse boxes were different…..
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    My father took a picture of 293 at Loughrea in 1938. It appears to be the earliest photo in the station; Lawrence, Clements, Fry, Welch, Mahon and even Casserley and Perkins seem to have ignored the place!
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    Beautiful model, and well painted! The GSWR took over the WLWR, though, a couple of years after they replaced their WLWR maroon with GSWR (pre-grey!) lined black, so no ex-WLWR loco would have ever carried GSWR green. However, as the model shows, GSWR green would have suited them well. 291 & 293 of that class, somewhat bizarrely, were regulars on the Loughrea branch from the 1930s to early 50s….
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    Fantastic build! Love the worn look too, these things were never pristine, and often so weathered that for all anyone knew, they could have been originally painted silver, pink and gold the last time they saw a paintbrush (in 1567)….. Hint, though; being a MGWR design, 19M rather than 19 (19 would have been ex-GSWR and they were different). Beautiful model! Wish I had that skill……
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    Superb - as always!
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    “Susie, ‘er name was, she’s one o’them out the Carrowmore road. Her da was a signalman in Macroom a few years ago….”
  12. jhb171achil
    “….Ten to one. I stuck two shillings on it. It’s bound to win. If it wins I’ll win a POUND!…..” ”Jayyysus. Let’s get these damn things loaded in the van……”
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    West Clare, Moyasta. Then Cavan & Leitrim (Dromod), Donegal Railway Heritage Centre, Finntown, Co Donegal, Foyle Valley Museum (Derry), Giant's Causeway Railway.
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    The midday down mixed passes a couple of fellas collecting turf in 1960.
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    472 lasted late hidden away at the end of this sprawling and little-visited West Kerry branch. Just before withdrawal, it is seen here shunting at Dugort Harbour in spring 1962. An elderly van filled with empty fish boxes and three cans of paraffin looks on….
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    On a quiet afternoon in 1957, A42 has the Castletown local. The train consists of a brand new, but already filthy “tin van” (it was on the Valentia line for the last ten days behind a J15!); an old DSER six-wheel third, and an elderly GSWR bogie brake composite of 1915 vintage. Some years earlier, the last ex-CBSCR 472 class 0.6.0ST leaves Dugort Harbour with the morning up goods.
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    … In 1965 now, and B165 shunts the goods yard while B141 prepares to leave with the through Tralee passenger train at Castletown West.
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    It isn’t often you’ll see an “A” class on the Harbour branch, but even less two; on a dull day in 1964, A12 has been commandeered from an empty cattle wagon train to rescue A55, which has dumped a load of diesel onto the track courtesy of a cracked pipe.
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    A few scenes on the Dugort Harbour extension railway from Castletown West in 1955-1960…..
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    “It’s far too heavy. We’d need six fellas to even move it. Whose idea was it to give the crane man the morning off, that’s what I’d like to know…..“ ”It says on the forms that it’s a machine part of some sort!” “Jaysus, no wonder. Away up the town and see if we can find Barney to give us a lift with his tractor hoist thing…..”
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    A none too taxing load today for the “K” class as it crosses Carrowmore Bog with the morning goods from Dugort Harbour to Tralee.
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    Could that have been Jack Gibneys in Malahide on Monday nights?
  23. jhb171achil
    A few - but only a few - of these stories are based on real-life ones I heard over the years!
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    It's "Felthouse" rather than "Fleethouse".... yes, there will be a pic of it - or what's left (its site) - in "Rails Through Wexford", due for publication this spring. As an actual WORKING junction, it seems that no photograph exists. None has come to light in some 50 years of my own research, anyway. What we DO know is that it was a simple set of points with no station ever being there. It was only in use for about six years. However, today, its path may be seen.
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    Yes, it is indeed an old coach chassis. Probably ex-GNR.
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