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Did the PR underframes end up under the Donelli gantry trains? An entry in the October 1993 Irish Railway News suggested they would do.

Good stuff. I would have almost been surpised if this hadn't been the case given CIE's propensity to mix n match stock! Thanks for the confirmation

Did they mix n match the suburban ones with mainline ones if they were stuck (in the late 80s, early 90s)?

You could also ask a friend or family member to reserve the items for you.

Did you reach out to them about it? That depends entirely on the era and location/service. When and where are you looking to model?

Cheers Noel, yeah I'm familiar with the 1984 Rabone images but any from 10 years later in that condition I wonder. I would have almost expected fewer PRs to get tippexed than the Cravens but I would like to know for sure.

Did any Park Royals make it to 1994 with a single 6" stripe like some of the Cravens did?

The mk1 BR vans and the Dundalk vans for sure. Probably also the "tin vans"? @jhb171achill ?

Cool. Still I am guessing the odd one would have been coupled up (locked out) to a rake of Cravens to be sent to Inchicore or wherever? If anyone has a pic of one in such a formation I would be much obliged!

Cheers Mark. Did they ever run in revenue service through Kildare as late as '94?

On what duties could Park Royals be found running in revenue service at withdrawal in 1994?

Quick comment/question. First of all, the new shop tabbed interface (maybe it's not that new but new to me) looks great and the exact years of service information is great too....which leads me to a question: Did the Park Royals have a twin IR style stripe in 1984 already or is that perhaps an error in the text on the pages of the ones with the twin "tippex" stripes? eg: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/park-royal-coaches/products/park-royal-d-176-suburban-no-1389tl I always thought the twin 3" stripes only came in 1987 but my knowledge of these particular coaches is about zero.

Really nice choice. Quintessentially Irish. I expect these to sell rather well.

Good job Noel! Looks great. I see IRM have set up camp next to the emergency exit in case they are run out of there with pitchforks for not announcing the "right" new tooling lol.

I must be confusing it with something else. Cheers!

Be amazed if they don't. Isn't the weedspray tank the same?

The long awaited €49 or "Deutschland Ticket" goes live on Monday. As expected it's a subscription model but it can be subscribed to and more importantly cancelled digitally from many of the numerous tariff area apps and websites. If you plan a couple of weeks in Germany then even as a tourist it makes sense to subscribe and cancel before the 10th of the month. I can see myself occasionally buying one if there's a series of trips planned in a month. The clear winners are medium and longer distance commuters though. A person in the next town out from here is no longer in the Berlin ABC zonal area and pays about 1400 a year for their ticket. That will now be a lot less. https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-new-49-monthly-travel-pass-explained/a-65421776

Much appreciated. It's a great pic but I really mean in revenue service Did they leave the works at all?

I have never seen pics of yellow bogies under any mainline Irish coaches before. Anyone got any pics?? Would be cool to model. I always assumed the bogies were just from a pool and there were a few extras so when a coach or wagon needs a new bogie it just gets a pool set and the old set are taken off and reconditioned to go back into the pool. I didn't realise specific bogies belonged to specific vehicles.

Wow that's cool. Where did the bogies come from I wonder?

Good question. I guess once the full amount has been paid off we should get the reward points but not with each installment as managing that would be a nightmare?

Ah those are nice!

I did not remove the axle cover plate as far as I remember. I was working the other way, putting a loco back together that had smashed to bits. If you want to remove the bogies from the chassis you need to unclip the lids where the drive shaft engages the worm gears and then the bogies should drop out but I was doing it in reverse so don't hold me to that. If you wand to inspect the axle gears then yeah that cover plate muct come off somehow. This is as far as I took them apart:

Technically it was a cat that removed them wasn't it ? IIRC the caps that snap over the worm gears should also be resonsible for holding the bogies in place. I would suggest taking a look at my workbench thread (not too far back) and see if the pics can help. I ended up needing to remove the PCB to gain access as there was no slack in the droppers to the bogies. It looks like there is just enough slack sometimes to ease the PCB out of the way (according to the IRM instructions for reaseating the popped out driveshafts). @DJ Dangerous maybe you could attach that file. I can't seem to find it now?

I think the seller is a business, no? Maybe they just bought a job lot from an estate. Sometimes people also just decide to leave the hobby or change scale/era whatever.