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    Some good points being made here, a can of worms has certainly been opened.
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    A great photo indeed, the black and tan livery on the GM's, was always very striking. B161, only recently repainted by the look of it.
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    Incredible stuff altogether, the grey streaks on the black paint at the bonnet end are exactly the way they looked, when the paint started to fade. Some serious weathering skills there Chris, well done sir. Paul
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    Hi Robert, if this is any help, the inside of the MK 2 gen van was a fairly bleak affair. Roof to floor was panelled with galvinised steel panels and speckled two tone grey lino on the floor. Depending on how much you want to detail the inside? The only colour on the inside was, raw timber bits , eg, some door frames, any timber in the guards compartment, seat, writing table etc were painted signal grey, the folding gangway doors were painted signal red on the inside, and other stuff like fire extinguisher boxes and crowbar boxes were also painted signal red. Cheers Paul....
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    Hi guys, the reason for the different shades of paint, is that the Mk3 gen van, and the Mk 2 coach in the photo's, had not yet been painted in the new ICI delux 2 pack orange paint that Irish rail had started to use in the then newly refurbished ( 1999/ 2000) paint shop in Inchicore. The older everlac brand of paint , that Irish rail used was a completely different shade of orange than the ICI paint. Paul....
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    No I don't think so?, I'm sure that the entire Craven fleet were resprayed / hand painted,first in the old paint shop, and then in newly fitted out(1998/99) paint shop. If so, they would have had the 2 white bands applied.
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    It was actually the late 1970's that the "rebuild's" we're done. Paul.
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    C class would be great, ammonia tankers would be nice too.
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    For the life of me, I can't remember what the ULT maintenance abbreviation stenciled onto the side of the chassis means? ( It was stenciled onto both carriages and wagons).But what I can see from the photo, January 1975 was the last time the wagon got its "ULT maintenance"?
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    Yep, at the side of the running shed in Inchicore works.
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    Great photo, a big workshop too. I never knew that the Dundalk carriage shop was that big.
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    That's interesting, I didn't know single 121s worked on the Rosslare to Waterford service.
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    This is brilliant, I remember this well. This was a posed photo for An Nuacht (the quarterly C.I.E. newspaper). The lad in the white coat was holding the drawing upside down, I kid you not. I was working in the carriage shop at this time and there was only one mock up built, so it's the same mock up. The powers that be decided that the crappy green colour was a no no. Good decision imo.
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    That's interesting info Mayner. I remember those re engined c class locos were noisy buggers at full throttle, a lot more noisy than the re- engined A class ( which was noisy enough as it was). Wouldn't mind hearing one go by at full throttle now.
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    Hi, was the bus in the photo sold as an An 68? These buses were always known in the bus depot's and in the BMS in Inchicore works as D cars. The Spa Road built Van Hool buses built in the 70's were always called AN68's, not the one in this photo. Paul.
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    Inch flat moulding pulled away from the door frame, usually means rotting door pillar. Also door handle should be horizontal when closed. You would have got a slap on the back of the head, if you had have left a door handle looking like that.
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    Yeah, there was a workshop beside the ramps, where they used to overhaul the generators, I think that it was called the parlour. I'm open to correction, but I think that the Detroit diesels were more of a bus thing than railway. Paul.
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    Hi Sean, not 100% sure, but I think the generators in the vans were Cummins engines.
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    I'm old school, so I wish that it would be Park Royals, C class engines or Ammonia tankers. I have had enough of the red oxide stuff for now to be honest ( sorry guys). I have a rake of blue Tara's too, which are fantastic models, and look a lot better in the flesh so to speak, than on the website. An old 70's / 80's suburban push pull railcar would be nice. Ah well, may as well dream now as tonight in bed. Paul.
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    Thank you very much, 1145 is the coach that I was looking at. Working in the carriage shop, I don't recall many first full carriages being brought in for repair. I think I remember mk2 first full coaches. Also I have a vague memory of an older coach being fitted with mk2 first class seats, maybe it was an experiment? They seemed to do a lot of experiments with different coaches back then. A silk purse out of a sows ear basically. But thanks for that flange lubricator. Paul.
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    A great video, Tom Ryan is railway royality at this stage. Also, I am interested in the coach at 2.55, it's looks like a laminate rebuild, but there was never any first class rebuilds. Maybe it's a corridor carriage, but I remember the toilets (on the coaches that I remember working on) were always in centre of the coach. There wasn't many first class 'older'coaches back in 1980 either.
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    Well done Phillip, again, they look fantastic. You're a bit of a dark horse with the the oul weathering.
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    It sure is outstanding work Phillip, well done. Like all your work, these locos look the business. Especially loved your Vic Berry resprays, just like they rolled out of the paint shop in Inchicore. Again, well done. Paul.
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