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Lovely work George. I am pretty sure those Viessmann 4500 signals are German, not Austrian. But they also do the ÖBB ones: https://viessmann-modell.com/sortiment/spur-h0/signale/formsignale/

Are there any pics of the RPSI tool van one? If one was to model it, which pack would be the best choice?

When was the last palvan scrapped? I don't suppose any were knocking about in Inchicore into the 90's?

Can't wait to see these in the flesh. Love those massive buffers!

Quick question about the green ones....would these have been seen passing through Kildare or were they confined to the Dublin suburban network around 1960?

I'm blown away by your herculean efforts Paul. That is an amazing resource. We owe you a debt of gratitude

Same. The flats and the containers are my favourites.

How many of those green H vans were there? Looks the part!

Oh yeah, my two invoices apply the rake discount differently. In the invoice for the fitted ones it seems to have been "taken at source" from the unit price, so the rake discount appears nowhere on the invoice at all. That's why they appear 16% cheaper than this current run, where the rake discount is only applied after the subtotal line. I get it now.

Are you sure? I paid €87.02 ex VAT for the fitted ones and €101.59 ex VAT for these ones. I make that a 16.7% increase ex VAT.

I would politely ask you to at least get your facts right about the project before criticising it. It will interchange with DART at Tara and also not at Drumcondra but at a brand new station at Glasnevin Junction. This station will become akin to the Irish "Partick" for anyone familiar with the Glasgow system. DART+ West and DART+ South West will enable Irish Rail to (theoretically at least) let Intercity services stop at say Parkwest and Cherryorchard to allow airport bound customers from the provinces to wait for a (frequent) DART to Glasnevin Junction and from there take the metro to the airport. Sligo line inctercity customers can expect to interchange directly with metrolink at Glasnevin. The metro if built will IMHO be extended to Donabate to interchange with DART and Intercity services there some day. Rome wasn't built in a day and all that but metrolink will very definitely serve passengers from all over the country. Notwithstanding that, Dublin is the capital and principal generator of revenue in the country. It needs infrastructure to compete with other similarly sized European capitals to continue to attract investment and jobs. Starving it of that investment is folly.

I'm quietly confident they are really serious this time. If ML goes ahead, DART Underground will eventually follow as it's such a no-brainer.

There seems to be an increasing realisation even among the traditionally neutral nations of Europe that ultimately we are all in it together and our prosperity is based on the peace and security of the whole continent. The Swiss military recently deployed to Austria with Bundeswehr troops also involved in Exercise "Trias": https://militaeraktuell.at/en/8-questions-and-answers-on-the-swiss-armed-forces-trias-exercise/ Sweden and Finland have obviously gone much further and fully joined NATO itself. It's good to practice together in any case so our IDF members can benefit from NATO best practice and I am sure we can teach them a thing or two as well.

Not my content but interesting nevertheless. Irish Defence Forces kit on a Bundeswehr train with a 60 year old Bundeswehr shunter on duty:

Fran usually creates two versions of these blog posts, one in EUR and the other in GBP. The GBP one gets posted on the AS website and places like RM Web and presumably in the mail shots where the customer is known to be UK based. It's probably a simple oversight that the EUR version wasn't posted here this one time.