GSR 800

Details added to the TPO, corridors, axle boxes and springs, roof lights, battery boxes, buffers. Then it was off for a bit of a cleaning to remove any residue! Placed next to a 3d printed (IFM?) TPO. Few more details to add yet, but I think I'll paint her in silver when I get around to it.

Getting there with the TPO. Went with a rigid chassis, have the roof in place with two straps of brass soldered to it acting as springs. Next up will be battery boxes, then buffers, springs, axle boxes, the works!

Many thanks John, very useful indeed!

Many thanks for this JB, greatly appreciated. Regarding the down Sligo Day Mail, is there a Galway/Westport-bound PAS service leaving Mullingar around the same time? I wonder if the Sligo Mail was ever left overnight at Mullingar, awaiting a Galway bound train before heading for Sligo as the Day Mail?

Very much unfortunately for me modelling Mullingar, I was not around for any of the interesting junction operations!

Interesting, I wonder if this went back into the steam era. Many thanks, JB. I also presume that, given the Jail Siding was almost always full of coaches in every photo I've seen of it (admittedly, later on it was RPSI stock), that trains that were split at Mullingar would've been strengthened with extra coaches.

Many thanks Mol

Work done tonight, sides soldered on, doorways soldered in also. And now a question. I was reading through one of the Irish railway rover books, which had a photo of a Night Up Galway mail train at Mullingar. The book mentioned that it was waiting for the Up Sligo mail, which in turn would then wait for the Down Mail before returning to Sligo. Am I right then in thinking that the Sligo Mail was pretty much a Shuttle from Mullingar to Sligo, first going up to Mullingar, meeting the Up Galway there and having its Mail transferred to that train, then waiting for the Down Galway Mail, having mail transferred to it, then heading back to Sligo. OR was it the case that the trains were simply split and joined as per other trains at Mullingar? There's a photo of a Cattle Engine shunting a TPO tin van at Mullingar somewhere..

Not unlike the old wisdom not to model anything that won't be seen!

Wonderful work!

Only Fish and Horses? Viewed from the Signal Box at Mullingar, 664 shunts the Meat and Fish Van and Horsebox onto the 11.00 am to Westland Row. Sorting the Mail And so on it goes! Work started on the Tin Van TPO. Folded up the ends and sides. Dry fitting to whet the appetite? I think I'll call it a night!

MGWR Meat and Fish Van continued. Good bit done so far today. The underbelly looking less neat! Wheels up Brake rigging, springs, axleboxes to add, along with the roof of course!

Maedbh is as good as it gets for CIE green. I was looking at her lining when I was up in Cultra, the white definitely has a yellow/cream tinge to it, rather than being brilliant.

Work started on the Meat Van. As she comes. First thing was some rivetting. Some of these had been half etched on both sides. The result Folded up Ends added and soldered.

Many thanks Andy, will do!