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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?

I've ordered the plainer looking one. I am going to push rule 1 to the limit and plonk it beside Kildare station some day.

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!

No need, you can just buy fat H0 ones.

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.

Much higher if this recent grey is anything to go by: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/155474183409

Just for comparison, the German post/customs messes this stuff up with alarming regularity too. My two most recent cases, both from this year: 1) Gift parcel from outside the EU VAT area but declared under €45 value stopped and VAT + €6 handling charge applied anyway. Appeal in progress. 2) Printed book from UK assigned the HS code for foolscap and taxed at 19% VAT. Books are subject to 7% VAT. €6 handling charge also applied of course. This appeal has been won and because the VAT collected should have been below €5, the entire amount will be refunded as VAT amounts below €5 are not collected. The refund will issue in a few weeks for some reason. I think it's because DHL hasn't actually forwarded the VAT to customs yet. This means the €6 handling charge can also be reclaimed and DHL has already accepted that and will issue a refund shortly. These aren't the first gifts or books to be taxed incorrectly. It's an ongoing problem.

This was all before my time around here. Did these two chaps just vanish into thin air? I mean the modelling community in Ireland is small. Are they never seen at shows or anything? I'm not suggesting a lynch mob before anyone gets any ideas!

So we'd be a few years into the black n' tan era before any of these would have been repainted most probably or is there any evidence that any of these were repainted soon after the livery change?

I think that's the only one I don't have on pre-order as it's too late for my "alternate" era. I am collecting a few odds n' ends from the grey n' green now but drew the line there or else "era creep" sets in and before I know it I will be looking for original livery B141s!