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Great job, Nelson (as always!) I am not sure whether this loco, in this livery had red connecting rods, though this became a UTA standard with their lined black livery, I'd need to check. But a superb job nonetheless! That's BCDR green. The green carried by 30 in Cultra is co9mpletely wrong - it should look this colour. I think the lining was cream or pale yellow. It's still in BCDR livery, but has a new UTA plate. It nis possible, or even loikely, that the UTA's experimental dark shade was something broadlky similar to this, though the picture here shows it looking more "olivey" than it was.

Also Mk 2a Fk 4113 ex BR 13469/19469 4114 ex BR 13471

As always, any additional info, corrections or feedback would be greatly appreciated. This is currently unfinished, so it may look untidy for now. Mark 2A Mark 2A Open Second (41xx) 4101-4102 = Both fitted with IC80 seats. 64 seats, 2 toilets. 4108 = Fitted with ex-Park Royal seats: 64 seats (previously 48 in BR ownership) and 2 lavatories. 4110 = Fitted with Park Royal seats: 64 seats, 2 lavatories. Mark 2B Mark 2B Open Second (41xx) 4109 = Formerly 19512 in BR ownership and was a Corridor Second as built, it was fitted with 42 seats and 2 lavatories. (no image unfortunately) Mark 2B Buffet Open Second (44xx) 4401-4402 = Formerly 19489 & 19497 in BR ownership, and were a Corridor Second as built; they were fitted with 36 seats and a single lavatory. Mark 2C Mark 2C Open Second (41xx) 4103-4107 = all fitted with 54 IC80 seats and 2 lavatories. 4111-4112 = 4111 (ex-19521) was never converted, damaged by fire, and was eventually scrapped in 1992. 4112 was 19553 in its BR days. The latter was fitted with 52 IC80 seats and 2 lavatories. Total: Mark 2A: 6 Mark 2B: 3 Mark 2C: 5 (Technically 6, but 4111 never entered service) 4108, 4110 and 4402 were moved to the West Clare Railway for preservation, although the first two were scrapped sometime in 2022. 4106 is also preserved, currently serving as a ticket office and gift shop at the Waterford & Suir Valley Railway.

Had me in a fit of giggles Don’t mind me asking but how did u make the video

Preferably not.

Thanks If I manage to find recent pics at their new home I’ll send them here

I think a Jeep modelled in the experimental green livery would be very interesting to see. This was my model done a few years ago, with U2 class number 80 “Dunseverick Castle”, in dark olive green.

So I bought this recently and have started putting things together. Right now I've just recreated Dublin as it is, though with the Northern quadrupled and a few loops everywhere else in presumably laughably unrealistic locations. A lot of time was spent in the books calculating rolling stock numbers and then dreaming about how many more services you could slip in if 2700s were built better and lasted more than ten years, among other such things. I haven't even gone past the Dart (Plus) and Heuston-Connolly on the Luas, there's a lot more to go. And yes, there are stubs towards Broadstone and Harcourt Street.

CAF worked 0800/1050 02.12.25

Well, you won't find it here.

After coming home this afternoon I got to work Problems leech onto me when it comes to setting up tracks no matter how big or small and thankfully it was only one Lima tracks didn’t connect to the power track and made wood seem more conductive So I replaced them with horny bread track cleaned the tracks and dog hair before placing them And for something so complicated yet so worth it, it runs smoother than butter IMG_4391.mov IMG_4393.mov IMG_4395.mov

I was supposed to do some electrical work under the layout but gave into temptation & did some scenery work instead. Here are a few photos of work done to the back wall & right hand end of the layout. Electrical work is definitely next on the list.

Great. Sometimes that’s all you can do - and it’s enough. It was eaves brackets for me tonight

Been struggling with motovation at the moment to do anything major, but have been doing the odd little thing here and there. Been building one of the wills platelayers hut. Seen here after a coat of paint

Excellent. It’s a real feature of the loco and sets it off nicely !

That would’ve been easier if I’d included them in the first place!

A little display of models at the IRRS Manchester Christmas meet: Mine in the background, Richard’s in the foreground. He’s got some lovely models!

Still showing: "Expected delivery date: Q4, 2025......" Will it be a vvvvery nice Christmas I wonder......

Whoops... missed those David! There's no mention of them in the written instructions but they appear in one of the diagrams- and in all the prototype photos of course so no excuses for not noticing Many thanks. I'll add those.

Fab work Alan. Is there also a vertical handrail to fit the cab cutouts ?

Following on from another thread about locos that CIÉ painted green, here’s one about locos that UTA painted green. Generally when the UTA repainted locos, they painted them black. There were some exceptions – apparently a Jeep, a W, and a U2 painted in experimental apple green, Brunswick green, and olive green This Jeep, No. 5, is apparently painted in “apple green”. You can clearly see that the lining is very bright and the tanks, cab, wheels, and boiler are much brighter than the black smokebox and chimbley This W, 98, is apparently painted a darker Brunswick green This BCDR loco, No. 21, is apparently pictured after overhaul in 1953 – it seems to be in kind of an olive green, and to me that doesn’t look like BCDR lining as it’s more white/green than yellow, especially compared to the yellow numbers. An experimental livery…?

The rest of the PPs kit has now succumbed to my tender mercies. It was a challenging build partly because there are lots of seam joins which are tricky to get at if the aim is to keep as much of the solder as possible out of sight on the inside. Few fingers remained unburned. The etch also had a number of small errors and the instructions were peppered with work-arounds to deal with these. The tender chassis was built with the rear axle in fixed bearings and the other two moving up and down about 1 mm in slots and sprung with 0.33mm brass wire. Brake rigging was put together using much the same approach as for the loco. This small sheet of foam plastic packaging is very useful for keeping things in line while the solder goes in. Not much more to do now - arranging a coupling between loco and tender and fitting pickups to the rear tender wheels. The loco is only picking up on the 4 drivers so a bit of extra help from the tender would be useful. Essential maybe. Alan

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An NIR 80 Class unit has an admirer at Whiterock Station. Cheers Darius

Loved watching “Model World” on TV in the ‘70s - still have the book with all the plans in the back somewhere. Cheers Darius