Well I don't "need" Taras for my planned region/era but of course I bought some of the blues anyway to run down to Limerick wagon works because I like the more interesting corrugated lid profile on them. The intention was always to heavily weather them such as they would have appeared in 1994 or thereabouts, so virtually no blue left visible. That Albert Bridge image is tantalising as you can make out some repair patches and they seem to have continued using the blue or a shade of blue on those patches, but I wonder how late they were using blue paint on patch up jobs. I wonder did they start using bauxite on the blue wagons when patching them up at some stage. It seems highly likely that they would have, once they made the decision to repaint the fleet in bauxite. Some more pics would be great but they seem hard to find. Most people were only interested in photographing the loco back then as film was not free.