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At one stage the Chief Mechanical Engineers Office at Inchacore supplied locomotive and rolling stock drawings to enthusiasts (free of charge) upon request, but may no longer be responding to requests from enthusiasts and may no longer hold drawings of older stock such as the Laminates. I have diagrams of 64 and 70 seat Laminate coaches supplied by CMEs Office about 20 or so years ago, and will post in the Resources section when I find time, Pauls post also reminds me that I need to scan my collection of GN Wagon Diagrams!

Thanks very much @jhb171achill There awfully awkward to find online or even in books

Superb stuff - only noticed this now!

Cattle class, surely?

Not that I know of, Josh, but I’ll have a look. There were many different variants, and many were altered (sometimes more than once) during their lives…

Amazing selection u have presented @jhb171achill in curious if you have laminate coaches diagrams?

Looks first class!

Thanks Mike! It’s the GNR goods wagon diagram book WD002 I’m looking for. The IRRS list it as available for sale in digital formal on their website: https://irrs.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Digital-Drawings-List-22-UK.pdf But actually getting hold of it seems challenging!

Re. the locos, if anyone wants a proper paper scan of any of the drawings, let me know. I expect cost plus postage to be only a few euros. Or any further requests here - there's Q, SG3, D, P, PP, and all the rest, plus the crane tank and the BCDR 4.6.4T! They probably copied that when they were considering a six-coupled tank engine of some sort at one time.

Hi MOL_PMB if you are looking for the GNR Carriage Diagrams Part 5 Non Passenger Stock. this was produced around 2014 by Richard MacLaghlan. Contact Leslie McAlister (ProvincialWagons) who may be able to help. MikeO

The July gallery has been updated with new images after short stay in Co. Wexford which just happened to coincide with the annual visit of the weedspray train to the mothballed South Wexford railway. Tuesday 8th July 2025: Pictures from Wexford and Rosslare Strand. Highlights include seeing the morning Rosslare bound train passing the Irish National Heritage Park outside Wexford, MPV 790 at Wexford which had just arrived with the 1120 weedspray train from Greystones and later a visit to Rosslare Europort to see the massive changes ongoing at the port. Wednesday 9th July 2025: MPV 790 operated over the mothballed Rosslare Strand - Waterford railway on this day to weedspray to just beyond Dunbrody Abbey near Campile. The train couldn't proceed to Waterford as the Barrow Bridge is closed to rail traffic and pinned in the open position to allow shipping traffic through. Click https://thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/2025-Photos/July-2025/i-cskFmv3 to view all the images and videos.

Lovely work @derek

I'd tried Windows 11 and Safari on the phone with no luck. Glad Patrick has it sorted now, some great photos.

Yes, I can finally see a pic now. Couldn't see any of the downloadable ones above. Probably the windows I'm running (8) is the problem, more than anything on Patrick's @patrick side.

That was a former grand Hibernian sleeper coach back when it operated here in Ireland.

Spotted over on RMweb thanks to Big Jim: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/70783-jim’s-“out-and-about-with-gbrf”-thread/?do=findComment&comment=5882926

Thank you for the quick and helpful response.

Hi Paul The unfitted remain on schedule for August end and are in transit. The Park Royals will get a full update in the coming days as the Project Manager assesses the production samples.

That's better - I can see this pic. Looks superb!

Caught last night during a running session.

I’m afraid I’ve nothing on wagons….

With the society being a voulntary body, and currently chronically short of active volunteers in the archive, I'm hearing many queries are going unanaswered - hopefully things will improve in time. As far as diagrams are concenred, no, I don't think I've any GNR stuff but I will have a look. I know I don't have any carriage stuff.

Thanks JHB! I don't suppose you have the GNR wagon diagrams too? I've been trying to buy a copy of those from the IRRS but there's only an email address for contact and my emails have gone unanswered.

Thank you !

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