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201bhoy
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Put me off? Ehhhh, no. I loved it!
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My last day of work experience today was spent in the Paint shed! I've heard that the enterprise is due another repaint this year, if translink get the funds!
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It's funny you mention that! I was on Duncrue street yesterday and I saw some trackwork which I never knew about!
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That's brilliant Anto! I'll buy a rake of Gatwicks when they come around!
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Lovely EXPENSIVE DD options now! But yes, I think I might have to get a 5 car rake at some point in time, they're too gorgeous to leave out! I could extend the enterprise line, or have one or two trains a day departing Belfast Harbour for Dublin.
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If I was going to be doing an NIR layout, it would be Belfast port. I think it would make quite a nice fictitious layout, with the m2/m3 bridge making a scenic break to hide the fiddle yard! But now that I come to think of it, there isn't that much that I'd nee... most of if not all of the locos for the freight trains were provided by IE I think, although I may be wrong... so if I had 208 and 112, a rake of gatwicks, maybe in sometime a class 3000/4000 repaint as UP suggested, and NIR signs and buildings, then I think I could preserve an NIR feel to the layout!
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Great, thanks very much!
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I can't decide on whether to change to an NIR layout or stick with the IE! The track plan would be the exact same and if would involve a newly built fictitious line out to Belfast port and a new freight flow to Derry and Belfast from different locations down south. Not many people model the NIR scene so it would be something different, but the down side is that there isn't much NIR stock out there other than MM 208 and MM 112. I'd probably need at least one CAF set a rake of gatwicks would also be nice
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And mk3s would be good too actually!
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Just wondering if anyone knows if the 201s ever went as far as Rosslare Europort? I've never seen a photo of them there but I know they worked freight at least as far as Arklow. Photos would be great (If they ever did reach Rosslare!)
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Ehhhh... I don't think so! I think some mischievous person has concocted this very well constructed little story
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Wha'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hammersfan/Railway_Adjustment_and_Intervention_Bureau/Aer_Lingus_Trains
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Another great day! Out with my uncle today who's a civil engineer. Saw the ballast wagons in action and the last bit of track being relayed on the Derry line! Also saw the work progress on Antrim station which is being refurbished and restored at the moment.
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Or get one from Silverfox or DK models
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Yeah you're right, we were dealing with the bogey from that EGV today in York Road!
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The reason they have been assigned to the enterprise is because the 201s used to have to generate power for the whole train, which made them fail a lot more than they should have. Now the generator van generates power for them, and the 201s are a lot more efficient now.
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Murphy Models 071 - New, detailed pre-production photos added!
201bhoy replied to Admin's topic in Irish Models
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Same!!!! But I'd say if you asked nicely and phoned ahead you could get a bit of tour about the place
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I am very lucky! Mind you you could possibly get into Inchicore if you're lucky with a wee bit of help from someone, which is even more impressive!
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There either tomorrow afternoon or the whole of Friday. One of those two days I'm going to a construction site with my uncle who's a civil engineer, either Portadown station, Coleraine station or the Derry Line track relaying!
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Even better today! Got a guided tour of the depot and got to inside the cab of 112!
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Not lookin' like it, no Hopefully the situation will be a good bit better by the time I come out of uni!
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Jesus! Where was this?
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I've learned that from today!
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Just back from a great day at York Road depot getting work experience for civil and mechanical engineering. Brilliant experience, got to underneath the enterprise and CAF coaches into the inspection pit and maintenance the De Dietrich bogies! I never knew how big the site really was, or how big a scale they have to do things to! On the downside, I saw the Gatwick DVT still sitting in the yard, probably never to be used