snapper

well the 2750s could run with 2700 or as a single car unit

I was rummaging around on the internet and found these, I am not sure what the normal retail price on these is but they seem to be a good price. Great Southern Railway: An Irish Pictorial €10.73 including postage http://www.bookdepository.com/Great-Southern-Railway-Murray/9780711031500 The Waterford, Limerick and Western Railway, Ernest Shepherd £5.41 + postage http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Waterford-Limerick-Western-Railway/dp/0711031479/ref=pd_sim_14_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0RY616C7F6VZ5ADXZGBH Railway Track Diagrams,6 Ireland: 6 €11.38 including postage http://www.bookdepository.com/Railway-Track-Diagrams-6-Ireland-6-John-Yonge/9781898319689 The Dublin and South Eastern Railway, Ernest Shepherd & Gerry Beesley £ 8.95 + Postage http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Dublin-South-Eastern-Railway/dp/1857800826/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=10HHA5RTDVT7SRMPT5Y4

Health and Safety is fine until you end up with a manager like this [video=youtube;d4n-amRJeyw]

That has already been done, as part of a previous EU railway package Irish Rail was split in two, The railway undertaking (RU) and The railway infrastructure manager (IM).

Well they recently got pass to run to Tralee, Connolly and Dundalk

I cant seem to find any tender for this, this is the only thing i can see for 201s

Ouch, that is one hell of a bang

A couple of years too late to sell at that price.

looking good

True, but at least it wasn't anything from the RPSI that failed

Update for Thursday 25th June RPSI 85 Light Engine Dublin Connolly: 12:15 Dundalk: 13:30 Portadown: 14:13 -14:20 Lisburn: 14:49 - 15:05 Belfast Central: 15:27 Whitehead: 16:12

The only lines that are in use and have 201 restrictions are Killonan to Ballybrophy and Limerick Junction to Waterford.

An update to the times above for Thursday 18th of June. RPSI Mk2s + NIR GM Whitehead: 06:00 Belfast Central: 06:35 Portadown: 07:34 Dundalk: 08:15 - 09:35 Dublin Connolly: 10:58 RPSI Mk2s + NIR GM Dublin Connolly: 11:20 Dundalk:12:35 Portadown: 13:10 Belfast Central: 13:47 York Road: 14:07 NIR GM Light Engine York Road: 17:50 Belfast Central: 18:15 Portadown:18:55 Dundalk: 19:30 Dublin Connolly: 20:30 RPSI Mk2 + 85 York Road: 18:05 Belfast Central: 18:17 - 19:05 Portadown: 19:40 Dundalk: 20:23 - 20:50 Dublin Connolly: 22:00 RPSI Mk2s + NIR GM Dublin Connolly: 22:20 Dundalk: 23:19 Portadown: 23:53 Belfast Central: 00:30 Whitehead: 00:55

As with everything take this as a rough guide as things can and do get changed. If there is anything I have not covered or any questions please feel free to ask. *********************** Thursday 18th June RPSI Mk2s + NIR GM Dublin Connolly: 11:20 Dundalk:12:35 Portadown: 13:10 Belfast Central: 13:47 RPSI Mk2 + 85 Belfast Central: 19:05 Dublin Connolly: (I am not sure of arrival time yet) ************ Friday 19th June RPSI 461 Light Engine Dublin Connolly: 07:45 Kildare: 08:58 Portarlington:09:14 RPSI 85 +Cravens Dublin Connolly: 08:40 Kildare: 09:37 Portarlington 09:51 At Portarlington there will be a loco change with 461 taking the Cravens on to Galway and 85 proceeding light engine to Limerick. RPSI 461 + Cravens Portarlington: 10:27 Tullamore: 10:52 - 11:02 Clara: 11:15 - 11:22 Athlone: 11:57 - 14:20 Ballinasloe: 14:46 - 15:09 Woodlawn: 15:33 - 15:38 Athenry: 16:01 Galway 16:26 RPSI 85 Light engine Portarlington: 10:10 Thurles: 11:04 - 11:42 Limerick Junction : 12:08 (I believe it will enter the station so it can turn) Limerick : 12:49   *************** Saturday 20th June There is no Steam operations on this day *************** Sunday 21st June RPSI 461 + Cravens Galway: 09:40 Athenry: 10:00 - 10:33 Gort: 10:59 - 11:11 Ennis: 11:36 Limerick 12:33 In Limerick a loco change will take place with 85 taking over for the journey to Killarney and 461 remains in Limerick RPSI 85 + Cravens Limerick: 14:30 Limerick Junction: 15:05 Mallow: 15:51 - 16:43 Banteer: 16:57 Millstreet: 17:08 Rathmore: 17:17 Killarney: 17:40 ***************** Monday 22nd June RPSI 85 + Cravens Killarney: 15:45 Farranfore: 16:12 Tralee: 16:30 - 18:20 Farranfore: 18:37 - 18:42 Killarney: 19:12 *************************   Tuesday 23rd June RPSI 461 Light Engine Limerick: 10:00 Limerick Junction:10:39 RPSI 85 + Cravens Killarney: 08:45 Banteer: 09:32 - 09:50 Mallow: 10:10 Charleville: 10:32 - 11:09 Limerick Junction: 11:43 At Limerick Junction a loco change will happen with 461 taking the Cravens on to Waterford via Tipperary and 85 will continue on to Kilkenny via Kildare light engine RPSI 461 + Cravens Limerick Junction: 10:04 Tipperary: 12:19 - 12:49 Clonmel: 13:26 - 13:56 Carrick on Suir: 14:27 Waterford: 15:00 RPSI 85 Light Engine Limerick Junction: 11:59 Thurles: 12:28 - 12:58 Portarlington: 13:53 - 14:20 Kildare: 14:36 - 14:47 Athy: 15:11 - 15:38 Carlow: 15:56 - 16:20 Muine Bheag: 16:37 Kilkenny: 17:01 *********************   Wednesday 24th June RPSI 461 + Cravens Waterford: 11:25 Ballyhale: 11:49 - 12:04 Thomastown: 12:13 Kilkenny: 12:34 At Kilkenny a loco change will take place with 461 proceeding light engine back to Dublin Connolly followed by 85 with the Cravens RPSI 461 Light engine Kilkenny: 13:47 Muine Bheag: 14:22 - 14:27 Carlow: 14:42 Athy: 14:58 - 15:18 Kildare: 15:41 Dublin Connolly: 16:36 RPSI 85 + Cravens Kilkenny: 15:50 Muine Bheag: 16:13 - 16:21 Carlow: 16:35 Athy: 16:48 - 17:36 Kildare: 18:00 Dublin Connolly: 19:07

It is not in the appendix to the wtt, what you would need is a copy of the signaling rules and regulations

As long as people keep buying it more will keep appearing, I remember back when the lima 201s were at their peak on ebay you saw all sorts of crap with "Irish Railways" in the title trying to get people interested.

Not me, not in my spam either. I will just sign up again and see if that fixes it.

Now that you mention it, I used to get update emails from marks models but I don't seem to get them any more. Did they stop or is it just me?

pm sent

The ones I am talking about are the CIE signaling regulations for double and single lines. They do appear often on ebay

The rule books pop up on ebay every now and then for about a tenner.

It looks like the shunt disk and limit of shunt at the Dublin end of Claremorris were removed at some stage, I would guess at the same time that they took out the main junction to Athenry, I can see it in the video of the 141/121 running around in 1997 but not in the video of the 071 un 2003. Also given that the 121 has two tail lamps fitted I would think it was heading back towards Athenry for some other duty rather than just running around or shunting.

another new picture from today for you

Kind of reminds me a bit of this guy who has a class 50 cab in his garden. When I was younger I always wanted one of these for playing train simulator, wonder if it could be made to work with a 141

The problem for me with looking at old photos is I get grand ideas for layouts that I have no space to build