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Comment on Scratch Building a CIE Cement Bubble by clicky

clicky — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:16:54 +0000

Extremely simple to read post.

Comment on Scratch Building a CIE Cement Bubble by yellow freight

yellow freight — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:32:39 +0000

Thanks for the answer–would UPS or FedEx be considered a certified carrier as well?

Comment on “Nearly Irish” by Elektrische Zahnbuerste

Elektrische Zahnbuerste — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:45:51 +0000

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Comment on News & Views by New Irish Lines

New Irish Lines — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:11:38 +0000

Dear Peter:

Sorry for the delay in replying: I have just found out about this mail account! The contact details I have are:

FW Shuttleworth Christmas Cottage 12B Foldgate View Ludlow SY8 1NB Tel:01584 875 368

Sorry, no e-mail for him.

Rgds Alan

Comment on News & Views by Pete Kirkham

Pete Kirkham — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:32:43 +0000

I am in the process of creating a layout of some bits of 1930s Stafford, and one of the books I’ve got ( Mike Hitches, Steam around Stafford ) has a photo of a Stafford Corporation Gas wagon I would like to model a rake of, but the lettering is too small in the printing to make out the small print above the ‘Gas’ . The photo is from the F.W.Shuttleworth collection so I was I did a quick Google, and wondered how I might get in touch with F.W.Shuttleworth, either to just find out what it says or to otherwise find a better reproduction of it.

Many thanks. Pete

Comment on Converting the Murphy-Bachmann 141 Class Diesel to 21mm Gauge by John McGahern

John McGahern — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:00:04 +0000

Hi again Denis,
what is the purpose in applying the brass sleeves? I have done the coversion with everything except the sleeves and I am getting a little bit of inconsistant movement along the track….could this be my problem because the wheels are not held laterally in place and could be grabbing the rails from time to time?

Comment on UTA MED Three-Car Diesel Train by jeremy fletcher

jeremy fletcher — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:54:14 +0000

Frederick,
I built up the MED since I have a ‘soft spot’ for that and other old railcars. I had Alan Doherty of WW make the etchings for it.
Jeremy.

Comment on Building a Worsley Works CIE G Class by jeremy fletcher

jeremy fletcher — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:51:59 +0000

Patrick,
I rarely go on to this site.
Certainly I can send a few photos of some previous drive arrangements I made for other vehicles. They are all very similar in that they use the same type of gears. I made the drives because I could not find anything suitable commercially available.
The drivesare mostly hidden inside the vehicles but I can show the undersides with some comments on how I did them.
My SL&NCR railcar is in the latest NIL issue although the photos there did not reproduce well.
I am currently building a J15 (SSM) which will have one of my own ‘drives’ rather than a commercial gearbox. The J15 will have its axles fully equalised.
Jeremy.

Comment on GNR Hopper Wagons and Plough Vans by John Shanahan

John Shanahan — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:41:58 +0000

I want to say thanks for putting this together. My dad spent many a long hour in those brakevans, and i feel closer to him when I read about them.
One thing that strikes me is that 100 years or from the design described, irish rail’s ballest technology has not moved-on all that much. Living as I do on the Dublin Cork line I have noticed new rolling stock in the last week!

Comment on Some Irish Conversions by Mike Jenner-Jones

Mike Jenner-Jones — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:22:58 +0000

I remember atempting the GSR B1a with a Hornby Royal Scot I had lying around. I am also gonna attempt an N Scale version of preserved No. 800 Queen Maeve, using a Graham Farish Jubilee (the BR Late Green type.

The NCC Y Class 0-6-0T is easy to do, just by using a Jinty model, repainting it and adding the NCC lettering and number plates (be it 18 or 19) and that’s that. I thought I’d choose an easy one.

The DSER K2 Class 2-6-0 would have to be Hornby’s James the Red Engine from the Thomas the Tank Engine range, only without the face and a different tender shell (more challenges to do, really, but still a fun project).

As for the B1a I mentioned earlier, I am gonna do that and also recreate an Irish steam preservation scene that coulod have been.

In addition, I was inspired by my mother and grandfather who both come from Ireland, and after research of Irish steam locomotives, to create a classic children’s series entitled Engines of the Emerald Isle. It’s in the tradition of Ivor the Engine and other 1950s children’s programmes.

Still, if I’m trying to recreate Irish steam in both scales, then my all-time fave Irish locomotive is definitely the GSR B1a!