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233 was on IWT liners up till last week anyway. Itself and 231 have yet to be overhauled, it's only a matter of time. So far only 206, 8208 and 228 have worked the refurbed sets in service.

216 can't work Enterprise, it won't have the MMI screen and new jumper connections fitted. It will have TPWS and NIR radio however.

Just noticed 072 this evening with it. 3 liveries on one loco at the same time to boot.

They are the only two with it from what I can see and they were only fitted very recently. 076,077,078,085 and 088 do not have it yet as I have spotted all them over the past 3 weeks.

084 has been outside Connolly shed road 2 for 3 weeks now. I have noted that 084 and 071 have a new handbrake wheel fitted to them also. It much larger than the regular one.

In fairness the numbers and logos being applied lately leave alot to be desired. The new DART logos are fading and falling off, the new new 29k numbers are black on some sets and white on others, some of the numbers on the green sets are already falling off. The numbers being added to the grey 071s are all different fonts and different spacing depending on the loco. There is just no standard and they are not last like they did years ago. All this outsourcing at Inchicore is not good. To me the green on 216 looks exactly like the primer coasting on new aircraft as the leave the factory before painting, never seen it on a loco though.

Not with the way the sets were upgraded recently, no.

She is going to have to make it up to Belfast at some point to test out the TPWS systems and possibly collect the Mk3 stock while it's at it.

Hopefully she gets out to stretch her legs after 6 years of storage. A few IWT runs should do nicely.

Most of the time when there were 3 BGMs on a train it was a pair that had failed and a single was sent to rescue or the other way round. Surplus locos were never added to trains as stock movements and were relocated as light movements most of the time.

I see 071 has the new handbrake wheel fitted along with it's high vis numbers. 084 has the the same but it's been dumped outside the Connolly Shed for 2 weeks now. The new rend hand wheel is much larger, sticks out more from the main body works and has only three spokes.

Thanks for posting that, I saw it a few months ago and couldn't track it down again. Interesting to not the long Mk2 set sticking out beyond platform 5, if the track layout was like it is today the push pull set would not be able to access platform 4.

Bagged cement or beet wagons.

Not on the coaching stock, the NEMs are coach/body mounted not bogie. Only the locos are bogie mounted. I tried the kaydee on a 141 and a Mk2 and the heights of the kaydees were completely off, so I want back to the t locks.

I'd echo Rich's post completely. Yes an accurate Irish Mk3 up to the standard of a MM Cravens would be expensive but I'd be prepared to pay if if the quality was there. Even if the EGVs were €100+ then so be it.

I almost bought one at the Blackrock show, had a good look at a set in my hand while discussing it with Dave Bracken. I was very 50/50 on it, the DVT looks ok from some angles but off on others where even the duck test is pushing it. After a good 15mins examining it I could not justify the cost for the finished quality myself. Just comparing it to the likes of the D&M DD Enterprise stock quality and price wise the SF models are not close imo.

The Mk3 EGV is a unique Irish design. UK locos that haul coaches typically have ETH installed and it works much better than HEP on the 201s.

Exacty the same mechanically, just our have Irish gauge bogies. I'd be down for a full 9 coach set in IE and Supertain liveries. EGVs and correct Restaurants if at all possible. Also a 6 coach MK3 push pull set.

Only 3 DVTs are needed for daily service, one is always kept as a spare for months at a time along with a spare 1st class, bar coach, EGV and 2 standards. Things seem to be moving along recently as I saw 2 Enterprise 201s on standby at Connolly on Thursday night, it was too dark to see their numbers but one had not yet been fitted with the new connector. The whole project is a mess at this stage.

There will be another run if demand is there. Looking at things I'd say it's sure thing. I don't think they ever dreamed of selling out before production even started.

So.... when are you starting to take orders for the bubbles:-bd Have to say, that has to be some vote of confidence for a product to sell out that no one has actually laid eyes on the finished article. Although the latest CAD drawings do look great. I'd buy a few more sets myself but I'm waiting for the bank to issue a replacement credit card, hope it gets to me in time. Of all the times for it to go missing.

I thought it was steam powered, convinced I read that somewhere a few years ago.

It was a shuttle attached to a steam powered pully system under the track. It was used to move the wagons by the loading arm as they filled up. It reduced the need to have a loco slowly move the wagons as they were loaded up. It used to break down at times causing a loco to be stuck there all day just loading up wagons for others to haul. Don't think the drivers assigned to that duty were too happy when it happened.

If 231 is overhauled it will be repainted as part of it involves replacing body work panels as the 201s are starting to suffer from corrosion around the cab side windows and the no2 cooling end fan grills at the roof level. 232 already has two replacement panels there, they are easy to see as they are not painted. All the IC livery 201s are getting panels replaced as needed, and IE have put the job of fabricating new panels out to tender.

I think just the work of fitting the new MMI screens and the new external jumper connection on the no2 cab is done at York Road like you say.