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Winner! I’m hoping to get an order off him! I’m sure he’s flat out in work, gives more time to save to be able to get more goodies!!

Second pic is Killiney rather than Sandycove, a rare mistake @Irishswissernie!

The London branch of IRRS are doing a Zoom meeting this Friday at 6pm on the SLNCR, real & modelled

An 80 Class unit rounds Whiterock Head en route to Belfast in the late 1970s. Cheers Darius

Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway today. I still have another 70 + SLNCR negs awaiting upload. SLNC 1954-09-25 Manorhamilton 'Lissadell'+ 'Lough Gill' Mck004. SLNCR 1957-06-08 Belcoo LN1112. SLNCR 1957-06-08 Enniskillen 'Enniskillen' LN1125. SLNCR 1957-06-08 Enniskillen Railcar B LN1124. SLNCR 1957-06-08 Enniskillen Railbus 2A LN1107.

Model Rail has an article on building and weathering Irish vans

Hi Guys, Just to update you, SSM still going dezsullivan@gmail.com Be patient...

The post was intended to advise the group of potential problems running NCE decoders on DC track power. The really startling thing was the NCE help desk advising: " you might be better off removing the decoder and making it DC only' If I wanted to run the loco on 5V DC or less! NCE advised that: A DCC decoder circuit board requires 5V DC in both modes to function correctly. DC performance below 5V can be sketchy due to the decoder's instability. While catering primary to the American outline market NCE also produce decoders with Europen NEM interface and have a reputation of producing a quality project. I originally purchased the decoder (only suitable decoder available locally) to convert a LGB (G gauge) loco to DCC. Although the decoder instructions recommends first testing the loco on regular DC, the instructions table of Factory default values CV values indicate that the decoder was supplied with analogue mode disabled. At this stage the decoder could be a moot point to potential buyers, the majority of local G gauge tends to run on DC or on-board battery power. The loco is more likely to considered in the good-fair rather than the mint boxed condition by potential buyers.

MSC brown box tonight: m

I've booked the 12:50. Fingers crossed it isn't a 2-car 26 class towing a tara wagon.

Eh?

I've to go to Belfast by train tomorrow. Are any of them guaranteed to be DDs? Second choice an ICR. Maybe the 12:50?

Yes, but I meant another pic I've seen....... (I think!)

0800-1050-1400-1650 6x3000 Thursday

Old and less old at Whiterock. Cheers Darius

I think they might be battery boxes you’re looking at .

There’s one with tanks….. maybe one was? I’ll see what pics Barry has.

The picture your referring to is one of a de frocked 4W TPO's running as an ordinary van for a period in the late 1970s they were never fitted with generators as far as I'm aware.

A bit unusual, but there is a wintery photo of loco 439 with the gas cans at Inchicore in the JANUARY 2026 edition of BRILL

copied from the net and scaled to fit printer

On page 78 of "Rails Through North Kerry" (self + Barry Carse) we have a photo clearly showing one of the pair of "tin post office vans" that were converted to gennies in later days. You can see the (added) fuel tanks underneath. If you don't have the book, ebay would need to be your friend; to Barry's and my delight, it sold out in no time. Neither of us have any spare copies left ourselves. (As an aside; I have a few spare copies of "Rails Through Wexford" and "Rails Through Tipperary" here, normal price about €22-€25 / £20-£22; I will do either for €20 including postage anywhere in Ireland if anyone's interested).....

Yes. There were only 4 of the "post office" types. All four were converted later. two as gennys and two as the PW things, one of which is now at Downpatrick. They were instantly noticeable by the fact they had three full sixed "carriage" wondows on one side and no windows on the other, as this side had full-height postal sorting pigeon-hole racks inside. So those vehicles are extremely niche indeed, and I would expect that if anyone did any production run of ANY of these late-era four-wheeled vans, the luggage vans and genny vans would be the way to go. Liveries - silver, (later light) green with waistband, black'n'tan. When CIE were turning out new coaches, tin vans and the like in silver, some had the normal pale green numerals, and some had them in RED. I have yet to establish whether the difference related to different colours on different types of vehicle, or different eras (e.g. they try one, then don't like it, so from the Xth of Septober 195X they use the other colour), or was it just random! I suspect the date idea.

Side-lifting trailers are incredibly common here. The Cul de Sac where they’re unloading would be a little tricky for access, so they probably have to reverse down from the main road. I must try get down there during the day some time.

Where can you get Roadstone Decals, 1/76 scale?

Most likely, they are being delivered using a side lifting trailer(which most trailers that lift the container off are), would mean parallel parking is a non-issue..The driver would just need spare either side of the container to drop his out-riggers, and a ladder to hop on top and attach the chains.. At a guess, I would say there is possibly some construction work going on nearby or else a flooring shop using this option to make up for a lack of warehouse space.. Most of the containers were shipped from Klaipeda in Lithuania, with an odd ball from Indonesia, so wooden flooring would be my guess at the load..