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I'd guess that didn't actually happen. I've never heard of a DD set south or west of Dublin.....

Ffs.

I have been shown a note of a DD set operating from Dundalk to Cobh in 1998 during the HARP 100 Celebration. Does anyone know if this happened or is there any photos of this if if did?

I’ve had to resort to doing some modelling instead of keyboard bashing!

Even the Notification drop-down list is taking an age....

Fab, shows some of F6 variations too. I don’t especially like the cut down tanks on 36!

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With a Murphy 141 on the bench in front of me, I note that the buffers look too close together, and too small. I have a set of Appleby Model Engineering 141 buffers in my stash which are a bit longer and have a bigger face. They look a better match to the prototype. However, they're solid cast metal rather than sprung. Has anyone on the forum tried swapping the buffers and resetting them at the correct spacing? How did you get on? Or is it just me with this level of OCD? Probably! Cheers, Mol (photos from Jonathan Allen and Ernie on Flickr)

Some more CB&SCR today from RM Casserley 1955. CB&SC 1955-04-13 Aughaville. RMC26051 RMC83231. CB&SC 1955-04-13 Cork, Albert Quay 41 , 12.15 to Bantry. RMC26048 RMC83227. CB&SC 1955-04-13 Cork, Albert Quay, 557, RMC26064 RMC 83217. CB&SC 1955-04-12Ballinascarthy 36. , RMC26058 RMC 83218.

That’s not allowed to be posted here. i know stuff….Shtuff. Yer man who knows Thomas. Say nathin, ok?

Yes Mol.

Yep, same here. Taking forever to load.

Slowing down again here....

You do realise you won't be ale to find anything now! John Bruce.

Definitely around 2000 there was al regular Sunday turn on the Enterprise

Yescandvhey we're all using child ickets bought from the ticket machine!

Presumably this was before rolling stock needed different signalling/comms equipment to travel cross-border?

Correct-circa 1995.

I have spent most of the afternoon having a grand tidy-up and clearing the decks for some holiday projects. As well as more work on the layout I will be working on some rolling stock, as a have quite a stash of things to work through. A little progress on the layout this evening has seen the lighting extended to the fiddle yard, focused on the sector plate areas where I'll need to align the tracks: I have been transplanting a few trees to get the best look. They all slot into holes in the board, so at they stage they can be moved, but once the groundcover is done then they'll be stuck in. Here's a general view of the layout. The end pieces of the fascia have been made and are shown just clamped in place. I still need to do the top and bottom sections: One of the jobs on the list for this week is to regauge the Murphy 141. I'll also fit a decoder and kadee couplers, and renumber it to 156 which is a personal favourite of mine and was also one of the first to receive the supertrain livery. It will be suitable motive power for a bitumen train. And a bitumen tank is another project for this week. Watch this space. This length of train will fit on the sector plate and the loco can also run round it in the loop. It's short but not unrealistically short for this branch, and feels like it's in 'scale' with the layout. If there are already some wagons in the sidings when the train arrives then the shunting could be quite involved. Anything much longer doesn't fit. As an alternative to the 3 wagons, I could also have 2 30' coaches, or 1 bogie coach. When I start thinking about visiting railtours (to add operational variety) then the one real example was a bogie coach and a tin van. Another nice (but fictional) rake to model would be two old 6-wheel coaches and a tin van. To handle those, it would be possible for me to extend the sector plate by 6" or so, overhanging the end of the board. But now I'm thinking too far ahead - I'll leave that to the future if it seems necessary.

Two IR trains in Lisburn and a loco on its own, probably running round its train suggests the line was blocked between Lisburn and Belfast by a bomb scare or similar.

Did they stay on it the whole way to Belfast?

Did a Dundalk 2600 set not work a Sunday relief PORTADOWN - CONNOLLY [ about 1800 ] for a while ? I can't put a date on it - maybe in late 1990's.

Lovely modelling! Maybe they’re all trying to work out a story to explain the missing crate of beer?