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Paul, Don't feel guilty about your lack of progress, your normal modelling and research work rate put the rest of us to shame! Remember it's only a hobby/leisure interest and there are times when family needs and work commitments are pressing, so relax, the AEC's etc can wait....! Kindest regards, Damien

This level of anticipation would’ve killed somone in the days of waiting for the A class to come out    I remeber folks on here trying to track the ship they were coming in! 

No 800s for me, they're the wrong gauge, but I'll have at least four (C)201s if that makes the maths work. If I had to buy an 800 I'd like this one please. It can even legitimately haul Park Royals: Thanks to Ernie for the photo.

Hi folks, Is this an Annett's key for a point lever? It has the letter B on it,very faint. 

My life is very busy at present with no time for modelling and limited time for research, CAD drawings etc. I have a massive backlog of half-finished projects and people nagging me for progress on other things. Work is also extremely busy at present and family matters are quite overwhelming. There are some things I can do on the laptop when travelling etc., but for most things I need time at home when I'm in the right frame of mind and not too tired, and those occasions have been hard to find recently. Sorry! In an attempt to convince you that I am making some progress, here's the current state of my photo reference list. Photo_list_draft.xlsx The trouble is, I keep adding more columns to catalogue the subtle variants (as I spot them), and it's extremely time-consuming to go back through the whole lot and populate the new columns. I will do this eventually... There are well over 600 photos here and I'm finding more all the time.  In late October I will be visiting the IRRS Archives again and I hope to find some more original material - and I am led to believe there are some AEC railcar drawings that I haven't yet seen. So I'm reluctant to really get stuck into the drawings until I have that information in front of me. Please be patient with me - we will get there eventually.  In the meantime I'd like to remind you of my IRRS Manchester talk on the subject on 19th November: https://irrs.ie/events/cie-aec-railcars-by-paul-molineux/ I'd always intended this as a 75th anniversary talk, but by a remarkable coincidence it is EXACTLY 75 years from the date when the first of the CIE AEC railcars arrived in Ireland - craned off the ship at North Wall on 19th November 1951. I didn't find the exact date until yesterday, well after the date of the talk was fixed.