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We could employ that Scottish consultant to design one, perhaps ….. and he might come up with a 29 class railcar with seven wheels….

There is no emoticon to depict "the ability to exist in a state of more or less endless annoyance at the world."

When the Malahide Model Railway Museum was in planning stage, Fingal Council had employed a Scottish "consultancy" company to do much of the design and layout work. It was left to me to liase with the representative from this company, who infomed me that he "didn't know the first thing about trains or railway museums". Yup, you heard it. With difficulty, I persuaded him NOT to use a logo for the museum which would have clearly shown an indian "YG" class 2.8.2............................ Yup, you heard that too. I despair.

Nice find, @Darren.d. They usually go around the €100 mark but I have also picked up a handful of UK variants over the past few months, all from eBay. I'm sure we'll see IRM run them one day - @BosKonay wouldn't have sold his IE ones otherwise!

Well worth a drool. Premium Classixxs Scania on the wish list. The O Gauge stuff can easily be overlooked but it's fabulous up close and in person.

I got 2 a few weeks ago on ebay for 50 sterling each.need repainting.i never see the irish stuff come up at all.

When it became compulsory for the local paper in Stafford to 'illustrate' every story with a picture, however unnecessary and futile it was, I used to keep a record of the more pointless ones. Two of the stories were about issues at the station - one was about problems with the taxi rank and the other was about a track failure at the northern end of the station and the associated disruption it caused. The articles were accompanied by a picture of a taxi rank and one of trackwork at the end of some station platforms. The taxi rank was clearly not Stafford, as it was indoor, and a bit of work established that it was a picture from Edinburgh Waverley. The trackwork was clearly Southern region, with its clearly visible third rail. The point about all this rambling is that their editorial office was on the first floor of a building overlooking both the taxi rank and the northern end of the platforms - for some reason, it must have seemed more like 'journalism' to use ludicrously inappropriate pictures. Or they had a very impressive telephoto lens... My favourite one, though, was a story about a bloke taking a court case over a claim for industrial deafness - illustrated by a generic picture of a random ear. At least it was a human ear.

Drooling has commenced.

It looks like the restaurant might need to add mutton to the menu...

One of the unexpected side effects of my advancing age is the ability to exist in a state of more or less endless annoyance at the world. One thing which fuels the fires of rage is the representation of railways in commercial artwork such as adverts etc. The designers seem determined to combine every kind of trope, gaucherie and stereotype to produce the most banal prototypes imaginable. A notable exception came under my gaze in the old Swindon works tonight - a carefully observed tribute to the GWR on a chicken restaurant. Not strictly prototypical but real observation has gone on here….

I quite like the Lima coaches, the only downside is the tension lock couplings. The Mk1's would benefit with replacing the tiny round buffers for some oval ones. I have recently got a few for a good price of eBay recently. Another advantage if you can get them cheap is they are good for practicing repainting with or doing conversions.

Sorting through my old Irish photos a couple of days ago, I actually found one of my own which shows the end of the traverser pit and that it was fed by just one external siding: The corner of the 1858 WLWR shed is on the left; the main wagon works building is on the right. I was almost certainly trespassing, but didn't dare go any further!

I'm looking for photos of the ex-GNR goods brake vans retained by NIR into the 1970s. There are two excellent images of C461 in Jonathan Allen's flickr albums, linked here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/152343870@N07/49497154092 https://www.flickr.com/photos/152343870@N07/49496930316 It should be noted that the van has been modified from its GNR condition, including roller bearings, steel plates over some of the bodywork, mesh over some of the windows, and removal of most of the footsteps. I'd like to model this van in exactly this condition, but ideally I'd like some photos of the other side/end. Can anyone help? The van doesn't have to be the main focus of the photo, it's fine if it's in the background somewhere. Note that this is not the van preserved at Whitehead as 'Ivan' although that is of the same type and I would also be interested to see photos of that in NIR days. This photo, also from Jonathan Allen, includes just a bit of one of the GNR vans on the left-hand side, as well as a nice view of an NCC van which does show what the 'livery' looked like in colour, with the rust showing through the thin grey paint: https://www.flickr.com/photos/152343870@N07/39299741684/ This is a nice view from Robert McConaghy of the NCC type in later years showing the typical weathering, but the kit I'm building is the GNR type: https://www.flickr.com/photos/robmac2013/11441044364/ Many thanks, Mol

Absolutely top class stuff. Hope to see it some day!

I like the Lima coaches. Unless you have code 100 rail you will need to replace the wheels. Flush glazing kits are available for many of the Lima coaches. They do have large tension lock couplers which you might want to change, or just keep them.

It's 20% of the value of your item plus shipping. But unless your shipping was £33 then the charge to you seems high.

Hornby GWR railcar bogie side frames fitted to Bachmann motor bogie assembly. Modified bogie assembly re-fitted and scratch built plasticard undergibbon parts fitted. Cheers Darius

Marklin My World remote control goods train set in good condition. Just requires batteries to operate. €55.00

Some more recent additions. Ford Sierra Sapphire Vauxhall Cavalier Renault 4 Ford Fiesta Mk1 Audi Quattro Land Rover Discovery Vauxhall Cavalier BMW M3 Coupe

Great, many thanks. That shows the red-brown livery in quite good condition, except on the side plates which contact the tippler. There doesn't appear to be a painted number - just the worksplate. Also there is extra reinforcing on the solebar compared to the previous picture - maybe this is one of the second batch of wagons and they were subtly different?

2001 limerick stored wagon

The photo of a zinc wagon in the 1979 and 1981 editions of Doyle&Hirsch shows 26550, one of the original batch of wagons, apparently freshly repainted in brown livery. The body colour is darker than the original, and the position and style of the numbering is different from the as-built wagons. The photo cannot be later than 1979 so it dates from the period when these wagons were still in service. However, the tubular frame sheet support has been removed.

This NLI photo dated 1971 shows a rake of empties at Limerick, and these aren't brand new. On the vertical plates on the sides, you can see horizontal marks, and I expect these occurred while the wagons were being tippled. It helps to explain the presence of these plates, a distinctive feature of the design. https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000307774 The NLI image of the tippler itself is very dark, so I've increased the brightness and contrast to show how the wagons sat in the tippler: https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000307509 This IRRS photo dated 1967 shows what must have been almost the whole fleet of zinc wagons at that time, brand new: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53509307274/ The IRRS archive contains several photos of the tippler, but the wagon being demonstrated is a 'dummy wagon' for tippler testing, rather than a zinc wagon: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53448459822/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53511477268/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53509153753/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53570455456/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53511311296/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53510446947/ It has been very difficult to find any photos of the zinc wagons actually in service! Most photos seem to be either brand new or well-rusted after decades out of use. Looking at the 1973 working timetable, on weekdays the booked timings for the 'Laden Mogul' and 'Empty Mogul' were as follows: Limerick dep 06:30, Foynes arr 07:38 Foynes dep 09:45, Silvermines arr 12:10 Silvermines dep 13:15, Foynes arr 15:40 Foynes dep 14:45, Silvermines arr 20:00 Silvermines dep 20:55, Limerick 22:05 By 1975 only the daytime service was a booked train and the other was just a path. Booked traction was a Ar / 001 class: Path 5404 Limerick dep 06:30, Foynes arr 07:38 Path 5405 Foynes dep 10:15, Silvermines arr 12:45 / Train 5405 Limerick dep 11:35, Silvermines arr 12:45 Train 5410 Silvermines dep 13:15, Foynes arr 15:45 Path 5411 Foynes dep 18:00, Silvermines arr 20:50 / Train 5411 Foynes dep 18:00, Limerick arr 19:22 Path 5418 Silvermines dep 21:05, Limerick 22:15 The 1978 WTT has basically the same pattern with some minor alterations to timings in places. As @Mayner notes above, the traffic ceased in 1982. My next WTT is 1985 and as one might expect there is no provision for Mogul paths. Has anyone got more photos of these wagons that they could share here?

I’ll take No. 6 an Achill bogie in 4mm and a J5 down the road. Thanks!

Well Dapol are doing a new batch of KQAs. Due the length issue despite and artwork being looked at it was not a good compromise when the bar is now much higher! Of course tooling an Irish CPW is not on the cards unless somebody stumped quite a bit of the money stuff all that can be done to go scale length is the cut and shut road..But I guess the the wagons would need to be kept loaded as the lower bracing would get out of kilter with adding extra portion. Potential for the old 3D print masters and IRM spare bogie item but that is the farside of beyond of my skill set. robert