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After a quick squirt of primer. I am starting a new thread "Irish Railways 3d printing" so we don't clutter up this thread with other stuff. 7 ton van on hold until the file gains some buffer holes. -
By Tullygrainey · Posted
Some more pics of progress on ThreePee (Patrick's PP). Alan -
Meanwhile I had been trying to identify the carriages by their roof details... Also note the rail-mounted mess 'caravan' next to the baby GM, successor to the 6-wheel sleeping car. I'm not into cars but I think I see a Randy Lover and a Renault 4. The buses aren't any CIE livery that I recognise, but I'm not into buses either! The nearer ship has an unusual colour scheme too - buff on funnel and masts was common but a buff hull wasn't. -
The view over Waterford is interesting for me, as that gives a distant view of the road traffic signal arrangement at the junction with the bridge. This being the late 1970s, the signal equipment would have been relatively new, and Siemens got the gig here as it did all over Ireland in this period, notably in Cork and especially so in Dublin, where brand new signals regulated the complex O'Connell Street / O'Connell Bridge intersections for the first time ever, finally displacing Gardaí officers from hand-signalled traffic control. Unfortunately, signal maintenance in the decades following wasn't a strong point and in 1988 I regularly observed Siemens signals with missing hoods, lenses or simply non-operational. I've had a go at trying to identify a few of the cars waiting at the lights: the yellow one is a Fiat 128, whilst the aquamarine blue at the back of the queue is a Fiat 127. The big brown hatchback is a mystery: I thought it might be a Rover SD1 but the tail lights are the wrong shape. The only other big cars that adopted the hatchback/fastback shape at this time were the Lancia Gamma and the Citroën CX. It's definitely not a CX as the tail light and concave rear windscreen would be easily spotted even at this distance.
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