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In the second post. 2800s have not been mentioned though.

For the EMUs you have the 8100 class LHB DARTs delivered in 1983. There were 40 2 cars sets, each set had one 8100 power car coupled to an 8300 trailer car. Sets were numbered 8101/8301-8140/8340. Sets 10 and 37 were destroyed by fire in Fairview Depot in 2000. Alstom DART units were bought to replace them and increase capacity in 1999. There were just 5 2 cars sets. 8200 power car and 8400 trailer car in each set. They very not operationally compatible with the older 8100 class but could haul them for maintenance. They generally worked in multiple with the 8500 and 8510 class delivered later on to form mixed 6 car sets as platforms were not long enough for 8 car formations of 8500 units at the time.

The 2600s were delivered with IR logos but entered service after testing with IE logos. They never carried IR logos into revenue service.

Nice shot, I've only ever saw one photo from a 201s driver's point of view and it was in Inchicore with 073 right in front of it. No little blue TPWS box that cab anyway.

Love the RPSI Mk2 set. Could you do a guide on how you made ex547, and what Mk2D did you used for the respray of 303?

I don't recall ever seeing Freightliner containers over here. When did they run, around the mid '90s?

Someone, somewhere, please start making a few Mk3 DVTs while there is still time.

Where is that O scale 121 in your keep safe Dave. Built like a tank.

If you look on their site there are a few listed as less than 10 left and no more stock after that. I'd be amazed if they sold out of them so quickly all considering. They were the only Mk2s discounted in the sale too. The IE and Galways remained the same price. A good few went on ebay last night for €40 sold yet they are €56 in shops, they are shifting but well below RRP.

Yeah and the UK exchange rate is not in our favour at all right now. I got a pair for brand new 141s for €95 each last week, even the hard to find 156 so I'm willing to hold out for a more reasonable price. I don't intend in paying more than Irish RRP for 141A.

I was only looking at that on their site over the past few days and thoughts were racing like little tiny trains. One can only hope for the best all going forward.

They're the very ones Dave. You wouldn't happen to have some resting somewhere?

As in the title. Looking for the Bachmann commissioned IR and IE Mk2As and the MM 141 in preserved RPSI livery condition.

The RPSI are really doing well this year. They have 4, 85, 131 and 461 all in steam. Just a new tender for 131 is all that needed and stopping them from having 4 operational kettles by the years end.

Ah yes. I can see how that design works. Basically by turning the buffer head 90 degrees all tension is disengaged and it can be pushed back by hand and locked in place.

Ok, I'm just wondering how a person can push a buffer back by hand and it stays back when I see locos getting pushed/bounced back from wagon buffers when they release the brakes. If they have the force to push a 100 ton loco back how can a person fully compress one by hand?

So there is no resistive force on the buffer at all until the saddle is fitted? Effectively the saddle provides all the resistive force to force the buffer to push back out.

Something that always played on my mind is how to the buffers retract when not needed and they can be be pulled out when standard coupling is used. Is it the case of a hydraulic piston is drained/ tapped off somewhere so the buffer can be pushed back when not needed and then the hydraulic piston is re pressurised when in normal use. Is it the same for rolling stock Mk2/3s and for the push pull 201s.

Yeah, The Wanderer posted up a shot of the EGV in dark blue and some body work changes being plated over a number of weeks ago. That's why I was questioning this green livery at the start of this thread.

Must have been some left over paint from the horrible 29k livery. That's what this looks like to me so far head on. I was hoping and expecting a blue livery like the NIR 201s first had.

The Mk3s being refurbed over in Scotland are in blue for photos I've seen. well the EGV is anyway. What's happening here with the green? TTC, you should post that photo up on the Boards 201 thread too. If not can I drop it over there at some stage?

Reading that is says it's a bad idea to use water for an ammonia leak unless there is a 100 fold amount of water in excess of ammonia to be washed away otherwise you are just spreading the problem. And there was Irish rail with a barrier wagon filled with water at each end of the train. It would do more harm than good in any sort of serious accident. Any minor leak of either liquid or gas will just evapourate away on it on and it's not really flamable at all

Great shots Hurricane, 8208 looks very well. I notice it's got it's EVN numbers and 209 even with the full livery now applied still has the old numbers. Also did you notice the mods to 8101 I was on about a while back. You can just about see the water run off system installed in your photos.

I'll offer the asking price for the lot.

The reason the corridor connections were modeled short of the BR Mk1s was because the prototypes were fitted with the modern pullman style connections and knuckle couplers that only became common from the Mk2s onwards. For Irish Rail they had the older suspension style as that was what all Irish stock at the time had and screw couplers.