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I've booked the 12:50. Fingers crossed it isn't a 2-car 26 class towing a tara wagon.

Eh?

I've to go to Belfast by train tomorrow. Are any of them guaranteed to be DDs? Second choice an ICR. Maybe the 12:50?

Yes, but I meant another pic I've seen....... (I think!)

0800-1050-1400-1650 6x3000 Thursday

Old and less old at Whiterock. Cheers Darius

I think they might be battery boxes you’re looking at .

There’s one with tanks….. maybe one was? I’ll see what pics Barry has.

The picture your referring to is one of a de frocked 4W TPO's running as an ordinary van for a period in the late 1970s they were never fitted with generators as far as I'm aware.

A bit unusual, but there is a wintery photo of loco 439 with the gas cans at Inchicore in the JANUARY 2026 edition of BRILL

copied from the net and scaled to fit printer

On page 78 of "Rails Through North Kerry" (self + Barry Carse) we have a photo clearly showing one of the pair of "tin post office vans" that were converted to gennies in later days. You can see the (added) fuel tanks underneath. If you don't have the book, ebay would need to be your friend; to Barry's and my delight, it sold out in no time. Neither of us have any spare copies left ourselves. (As an aside; I have a few spare copies of "Rails Through Wexford" and "Rails Through Tipperary" here, normal price about €22-€25 / £20-£22; I will do either for €20 including postage anywhere in Ireland if anyone's interested).....

Yes. There were only 4 of the "post office" types. All four were converted later. two as gennys and two as the PW things, one of which is now at Downpatrick. They were instantly noticeable by the fact they had three full sixed "carriage" wondows on one side and no windows on the other, as this side had full-height postal sorting pigeon-hole racks inside. So those vehicles are extremely niche indeed, and I would expect that if anyone did any production run of ANY of these late-era four-wheeled vans, the luggage vans and genny vans would be the way to go. Liveries - silver, (later light) green with waistband, black'n'tan. When CIE were turning out new coaches, tin vans and the like in silver, some had the normal pale green numerals, and some had them in RED. I have yet to establish whether the difference related to different colours on different types of vehicle, or different eras (e.g. they try one, then don't like it, so from the Xth of Septober 195X they use the other colour), or was it just random! I suspect the date idea.

Side-lifting trailers are incredibly common here. The Cul de Sac where they’re unloading would be a little tricky for access, so they probably have to reverse down from the main road. I must try get down there during the day some time.

Where can you get Roadstone Decals, 1/76 scale?

Most likely, they are being delivered using a side lifting trailer(which most trailers that lift the container off are), would mean parallel parking is a non-issue..The driver would just need spare either side of the container to drop his out-riggers, and a ladder to hop on top and attach the chains.. At a guess, I would say there is possibly some construction work going on nearby or else a flooring shop using this option to make up for a lack of warehouse space.. Most of the containers were shipped from Klaipeda in Lithuania, with an odd ball from Indonesia, so wooden flooring would be my guess at the load..

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Jim is too young to know, but the MEDs were all over the NCC, at least as far as Cullybackey and even occasionally Portrush. This one is by the Late Lance King, so copyright IRRS. The shot on each side on the film was a Spoil Train! On one wonderful day in 1966, there was a rash of MED failures and I managed 19 steam runs on the Larne line - and that after not setting my alarm for the 0647 and its return Boat Train, which would have got me over twenty! So keen was I to try and "time" everything moving, the shortest run was 2.35pm Greenisland to Jordanstown with No.9 pulling TWO bogie caoches. George Houston got No.9 up to 37 mph on the 2min 58 second run. I'm glad that I did it, for No.9 was to be one of my lowest mileage "Tanks". Of course, No.4 is my highest today, but at the End of Steam, it was No.6 which was in the lead, but as she went to the Great Steam Heaven, she was quickly overtaken.

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Good luck with the rerun @Warbonnet, they look very well and with no inflation deserve success.

UTA U2 No.74 “Dunluce Castle” exits Whiterock Tunnel on a Belfast to Larne boat train. Cheers Darius

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Roadstone Cement Truck 1/76 Scale Code 3 Ideal for Cement layout 50 Euro plus post

That’s a fantastic book and has been a great inspiration for this layout. Cheers Darius