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It has at least two in IE colours. One on each cab, of opposite sides for sure 100%.

An Asus Nexus 7. Great value for money and small enough to carry around. You can get the 32Gb WiFi version for about €240-250.

Is that a 59 you have painted up in the IC livery.

Here is 123 after the rails spread apart under the loco while it was pushing a Mk3 set back to Pearse from Drogheda. The undamaged Mk3s and DVT have already been hauled away while the rest of the train is recovered.

I'd love to know what 208 and 209 would have managed when they double headed a rail tour back in the mid '90s. They started in Belfast and 208 was removed in Lisburn while 209 carried on to Connolly. It was said that the couplings on some of the Cravens were found to be damaged after the tour was over. 6,400hp, don't think there was ever so much power hauling a train in Ireland before.

Was that not one of the A class. The loco was more or less hijacked. The driver was removed and a bomb was planted in the cab while the loco was let run unmanned on the Northern line till it exploded. Think it was 016. Or is that another story?

I've no back story to this event at all of how or what exactly happened.

They are just a few I have sitting on a hard drive. I one or two of an A class runaway accident in Cork freight yard and another of a 121 on a Mk3 PP working, derailed on the Northern Commuter line. Also a bad scanned picture of 225 after it's fatal level crossing accident 2 years ago, it's still not repaired and most likely never will be.

Funny enough 171 was the last baby GM in service. Spent it's last days shunting between Pearse, Connolly, North Wall and Heuston.

Back in the days when the wash road at Connolly yard was a good bit shorter than it is now.

Amazing the amount of people around the crash site with the cranes on scene. The days before health and safety.

Love the weathering effect on 077. Really interested to see that powdered effect used on an orange loco. It makes the detail stand out even more. Especially the bogies.

For what little difference it may make. Done.

077 is currently in the paint shop after it's body work overhaul. We'll see if it gets the new logo. It's been out of service for almost 2 years I think. 078 is up next to get done but it needs parts. 087 is in there too, all of them still in IE orange. It will be interesting to see how long 084 lasts before they call it in, it looks in a bad state but it worked alot of tara trains last year so it must still be a decent performer.

Yeah, we might have a better chance of seeing 8111 and 8113 this year than 209 or 230.

They were never planned. Only option is to get 112 resprayed and numbered. Or get one of older 071s without the LED marker lights resprayed for a more accurate model.

Cheers Dave:tumbsup:

Are 165 and 188 still for sale?

Wow, thanks for that. Another question, about the HEP sockets under the buffers. I know 201-205 and 210-214 can't work push pulls because of their buffers and can't be fitted with a drophead coupler. I know that 210 carried out static HEP tests with Mks 3. 201 and 210 from what I can see have different HEP sockets to all the other 201s. Was this another modification and was not applied to these locos. From what I have read not all 201s had their HEP equipment commissioned, even the ones that have no reason to use it and that currently in 209 and 234 it's not working at all. Also since the DD stock entered service all the push pull 201s seem to have been turned the same way. The No1 end is always facing Belfast or Cork. In 1994-1996 most of the 201s working the Mk3 PP sets had their No1 ends facing the coaching stock. From what I can tell the No1 end cab is bigger os it it just for driver comfort that the 201s were all turned this way seeing as it would be the No1 cab in use most of the time unless the loco is being swapped out?

Got a 201 question for anyone in the know. I was looking at the connections on the front of the loco, there is what appears to be an electrical socket with a flip cover like comando 3ph socket. I'm guessing this is the connection for multiple working (I know IE do not allow it for the 201s) as the two HEP sockets are under the buffers? Anyway looking back through old photos of the 201s, this socket used to be low down on the bodywork just before the underframe skirt started. Then from about 1997 modification work seems to have been done to move it just under the main headlights offset by the brake hose. All 201s seem to have had this modification except 201 and 204 from what I can see. Anyone know why and why 201 and 204 were left out? It's nothing to do with push pull 201s as 202-3,5-34 all had it done. __________________

Thanks for that gg. I forgot about the traverser. So, the loco pulls the train in, uncouples, goes on the traverser, the loco runs around and pushes the train in one wagon at a time. Then collects one wagon from the traverser one at a time and adds it to back on to the train as it pushes the loaded ones in. On the note of splitting freight trains. I believe the new terminal built for the IWT requires it to be split for loading and unloading. Again due to space reasons a the docks.

Always wanted to know the exact details of this myself. What I believe part of what happens is that the train is divided and two and unloaded in halfs. The loco runs around the set and pushes the wagons into the tipper and then hauls them out one by one. Sounds very time consuming to me. Don't know the exact track layout inside the gates of the unloading area but there seems to be a small head shunt for the loco to run around. Tried to view in on Google Earth but the resolution in not high enough to make out the embedded concrete rails.

It was my money Father, I just didn't want to fill out the forms.

Wow seven=D. Will there be a batch after that or is that it? 10 out of 21 is pretty good.

That's so it's easier to swap one out if it fails.