GSR 800

"Bollocks, wrong platform!"

All I did this time was buy them and advise all to be silver! Great work from Tommy, quick postage too! Funnily enough, while I agree, I'm also interested in what CIE had in mind with the American streamliner inspiration. What they got was about the furthest thing from the 20th century Limited or the Hiawatha!

They did indeed, I'm considering adding it! Interestingly I came across a photo of staff at Mullingar unloading the down Galway Mail down at the 6 foot rather than onto the Galway platform, presumably to make transfer onto the Sligo quicker! No such thing would be allowed today, anyone between the platforms would be a full meltdown!

Maedbh makes a spirited departure with the Day Mail Latest addition to the train, one of the two IFM bogie TPOs Really wonderful models from Tommy, very impressed!

Looks like I'll need to be painting a few roofs green!

I use both Mid Brunswick and Racing Green, both of which I've found quite suitable and very similar. It often seemed to fade lighter on the locos, and its unlikely any got a repaint of green other than Maedbh after 1955, albeit without the snails (described as 'spruced up' but in poor mechanical condition during the period after dieselisation) It's interesting, it 'seems' like the dark green got purged rapidly from rolling stock from 1955, with very few colour images of them or photos of them with the lighter green coaches, bar the example shown above. This may simply be down to many of those coaches being retired in large numbers as the newer PRs, laminates, Bredin mk2s, came online.

2008, then Raspberry Ripple. Really dislike the original livery, especially on the 201s.

4 pin holes could mark the 16.5 and 21mm buffers

If she was in O gauge it'd be some laugh

And yet I've seen footage of single 121s absolutely flooring it on trains in the early 60s, including the Enterprise.

Going to get two for myself! An essential part of a layout like Mullingar from the 50s until the end of mail by rail.

Nearly 700 euro! Absolutely bonkers money

Looking fantastic Killian, truly A class job!