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Easier to paint those on, to be fair. A coat of arms is way more intricate.

58M at Kingsbridge, one spoked wheelset, one disc!  https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53509203665/in/photolist-2pwqE1Z-2pwphLQ-2pwqDUX-2pwpiNK-2pwiUt7-2qEvdvs-2pwqDXX-2pBQBck-2pwiU75-2pwphPf-2pBQBry-2pwiUa6-2pwncSt-2qEvdsS-2qEvduf-2pwf1xG-2qE5gXG-2qUMPG2-2pBSRdw-2pvHn98-2qEb7c4-2qEptXL-2pwxwPC-2pwq57W-2pwDCzX-2pwx5h4-2pwDaMX-2pwvVkt-2pwnd7B-2pwiTxE-2pBSgsz-2qEvdua-2pwiT3b-2pwiU2k-2pBLdEv-2psQmkk-2qEvdty-2qEvgfg-2qUUe8B-2pwosFV-2pwBDfg-2py3sZq-2pBLdFs-2pvwMcf-2pwot7e-2pwpjic-2pw8S54-2pwphVN-2qE5gB1-2pBQBag  

Not my preferred era but I had to sit down when I saw these photos 😳

Attached is the list of 6-wheel passenger coaches which survived as 'secondary stock' in the 1961 CIE carriage listing. By this time, thirds were classified as seconds. A total of 39 coaches of which 36 were former MGWR. When managing lists of fleet numbers, the MGWR is frustrating because they had separate number series for each carriage type, and all the GSR and CIE did was to add an M suffix. And when carriages were modified/downgraded, they were renumbered into the appropriate series. So even in the late survivors, there were duplicated numbers, such as 3M, 9M and 39M. I started adding photo links to the right-hand margin of this listing and then got confused with duplicate numbers, and haven't fully corrected them all yet.  Now, the list of etched MGWR coach kits is as follows: MGWR Atock 6-wheel Brake/Third coach                                              £60 MGWR Atock 6-wheel Third class coach                                                £60 MGWR Atock 6-wheel Lavatory Composite coach                                £60 MGWR Cusack 6-wheel First class coach                                              £60 MGWR 4-wheel Parcels Van "The Hearse"                                               £50 Only the brake third and the hearse are illustrated on the website, but I found this lurking in the forum: The card kits seem to include other types such as a brake compo and a coupe compo.   Brake third 9M and 21M survived until 1961. The IRRS has a photo of 21M at Tralee in 1957 which confirms it matches the kit. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/54253243113 Also here from Ernie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/50659862117 9M had the same dimensions and was built around the same time so was probably the same.   Third The kit is for the common 5-compartment Atock type. The following vehicles of this type were listed in 1961: 3M, 9M, 13M, 30M, 36M, 39M, 45M, 49M, 53M, 56M, 57M, 62M, 84M, 85M Some late era photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53510409677 https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53570708148 https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/uploads/monthly_2025_09/IMG_3253.thumb.jpeg.bde10bbfca61c1a5bfd7d12af89df34b.jpeg https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53510270832 https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53511483419 https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53511331153 https://www.flickr.com/photos/110691393@N07/32105983135 Other types of MGWR third also survived.   Lavatory Composite 187M and 190M were rebuilt from full firsts and like the kit they had four full compartments with a lavatory in the middle, like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/54252115962 20M and 21M were a bit shorter and had a different seating arrangement but I haven't found a photo of them yet. But the Alphagraphix card kit for a composite has a half-compartment at one end; 182M of this type was withdrawn in 1960 so isn't in the 1961 register.   Cusack First This is the type illustrated on page 93 of Ernie Shepherd's book on the MGWR, dating from 1906. I can't see any of this type among the list of first class survivors in 1961. However, many firsts were demoted to thirds or composites and renumbered, making them harder to trace. I think this compo 189M is former first 11M of this type, seen in use in 1958 but withdrawn before 1961: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53508849579   Hearse I believe there were only two built: 56M and 58M. Here is 56M at Tramore: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53509093944 Here is 58M at Dun Laoghaire in the 1950s. It has spoked wheels whereas 56M on the W&T had disc wheels. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53505927307   Note: many photo links are to the IRRS Flickr Archive. If you can't see them, you need to join the IRRS!   Based on those findings, I think I could justify a third and a brake third if there's to be a run of these kits, and at a push one of each type except the hearse.. 6-wheel_coaches.xlsx

Would anyone happen to have blueprints of PW/Engineering trains on IE? Looking for EM50, 721/22/23 and maybe MPV 790. Thanks in advance.