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JB, you're slacking - taking five years to answer a query!

Sorry, Patrick, I thought that it was you! It MAY have been Colm F - the only other person modelling the BCDR back then.

To add to @jhb171achill's comment - I understand that the LSWR "Road Van" as sold by Kernow is a good approximation of a BCDR brake van. See: https://www.kernowmodelrailcentre.com/p/43665/SB003G-LSWR-10-Ton-Goods-Brake-Van-number-S54466 Patrick Davey got the Smallbrook kit of one and altered it. @Patrick Davey - please advise? Thanks

Colin Alas, the BCDR was history before they were built! Leslie

Right, about those big parcels, which I showed elsewhere on this forum .... This is what was inside: which, in case it looks familiar - IT SHOULD! It's a repeat of my very first wagon (2008 vintage, on left) with an early repeat (No. 2229 on right). For newcomers, it's one of 134 vans built by the GNR at Dundalk (1954 - 56) for bagged cement traffic from the factory by the river at Drogheda (hence the "Return to ...." which was removed later when they reverted to normal van status. If you want to have as in early CIE days (the whole class went to CIE on the dissolution of the GNR), just slosh a bit of grey paint over the "GN" (which is what the new owners did) and apply a Flying Snail - I'll even give you a pair! Also, for those modelling later Irish railway history: A further run of my ex GNR(I) Bagged Cement Van as it ran in its final years when they were used as simple "Vans". Seen all over the place, so, I hope useful to some of you? £19 or €23 each The Sterling price includes postage to UK addresses.

Aaarrgghhhhh! The Works of the Devil - or at least his associates - money-grabbing Victorian capitalists - aka Thieves and Murderers......... I take hope from the fact that Stuart was on a "Standard Gauge" coach when photographed. Good luck, young man.

Talking of "my vans" - leave me alone, I've got to deal with this lot .. . This his how DPD deliver things. Thousands of pounds worth, left on doorstep and courier removed himself (?) before the 85 year old in residence could get to door and ask he, she or it to bring it inside. Yeah, yeah, Accurascale, it ain't a 20 foot container!

Yes, @Mol_PMB, but the eagle-eyed will note the Meat Van - a variation I didn't do - but an easy conversion from the 10 ton van, by just adding louvres. There's a nice example on "Ballyconnel Road". Mike, who built it gave me an on-the-spot tutorial on making louvres. This archive gives "The Golden Horde" a whole new meaning! A good cryptic message for you crossword-doers!

Thanks for the Heads-up @Mol_PMB, endless photos of Class VS No.207 courtesy of the late Norman McAdam, who, fine chap that he was, was a real devotee of the Great Northern. We owe Norman a significant debt of gratitude that he was a prolific photographer and left his collection to the Society which he served so well for decades. PS lots of AECs on the mainline for the diesel men!

At the risk of boring you all silly by repeating myself, Ciaran's Flickr pages are enough in themselves to warrant IRRS Membership. However, also repeating an earlier warning - you'll lose hours and hours of your God-given lives pouring over the piccies, which are just wonderful. Thanks, Ciaran!

No, David, but I'd buy three Erne, Lagan and Boyne! If the did BOTH, then they'd get FIVE sales - They could use a lot of the same bits? I think ......

Of course, the Compound will only appear when a certain company does the obvious thing ..... As I said before - I'll buy two, the moment they're announced - the two I've travelled behind

No way! Don't take it too hard. Possibly 1964? Lots of nice A Class, single-ended Yankees ...... AND S Class, a Compound on the Thursday trains, No.207 on the Tourist Train, ........

Give me time! If I'm spared, the idea is to drive you all crazy by showing every train which ran through {Portadown (or the Junction) during a weekday in 1956 or so. With the right loco! I THINK I can do that!

Hi Colin (Rainsbury?) Thanks. I presume that you mean a conflat with furniture and a Milligen? I think that any EDSS I have, I'll want to keep, but let me know if that's on the list!

Right, after much more xxxxing about, re-cutting re-sticking and stuffing, this is what 28 canopy kits (each is just 4 inches, 3D printed) looks like. Ever tried to line up quite so many? - don't look for a straight line! They're in groups of 3,4,4,3 so that each platform (6ft or so) has fourteen! Of course they have to be "planted" with a bit of ballast and a barrow walk at this end. The "aerial" view looks quite nice? Since I took this, I've re-painted the surface in a darker grey (Hobbycraft "Light Grey" seemed quite realistic). Also, I'll swap the sloping ends over - the one at the other end hasn't got that broken bit! If you look at earlier photos on the thread you will see that the station is barely visible and Platform 1 - to the right - can't have a canopy, as the slope of the roof precludes even a tiny bit! The platform is part built. Next job is to build the larger water tanks and place them on either side of the building. Next week .......

Not to be missed! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/297151093415?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m164380.l178264&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=009bbfe0705b47f1ab6f767910dced09&bu=43025934942&ut=RU&exe=0&ext=0&osub=-1~1&crd=20250326044726&segname=11021&recoId=297151093415&recoPos=1 A lovely wagon from a well-known producer! Just twice what I charged for them (17 years ago). I'm looking at a short re-run rather cheaper than this. OR: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285295734748?_skw=irish+railway+models&itmmeta=01JQAEPB7RJ55WD779DJHCHS70&hash=item426cf36fdc:g:An0AAOSwnm5kalQN&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1fapxH5NJxkJMYPMtalU66hoHlA%2F36oxhAYMpc8vK8aTnfN7b%2FbfwxBfIVDLmmzMH3K4XXbL%2FHvTYQpMesp7fPuPh9fkDEb87V3115MRF2xvbXThhKv1FS5pNOt3zg6Zj2YtKrrRl5xfPiRW0vSYZ1vLjsVlnRYDsmF0HxBfg7fz4E3dAoCNyaPi8eUVREUMPXgjeyRFj5wQ4xtOcoBmYImg%2BV49popQX5HBF4b9tW%2FZzHyWURrl5LhoVsAm52jZK0kS9eKcJ1QRgakZjPV5dBhuQrjfbUHSwPIGjqhW2%2BAFA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR4a02c66ZQ If you want this - forget £40 - I can do you one for £15 plus postage. Or maybe this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275863233638?_skw=irish+railway+models&itmmeta=01JQAEY3Q9CRH9B2CACBNDTQ48&hash=item403abae466:g:eAEAAOSwmfZkalNr&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eDzAdGUtuqmMCBM1U3xfl8tIylRVInZ2ro%2F08i9VRPI0VC87HlCI2JXj0FV5oSwVycW5rL8Ql3%2FdiL8Y7hejW7GHETBf76tnEaj5exRCj1jqK%2BWl5IHIqnjGEafI7g67pzGo2wmwqbqLdICYBsfKecp%2FjKpugNFhIDHgtlJnV57wk9q9SokB5dWBvnF8LA82Z%2BkgNgeO%2F7hJyPPT%2Boi2GcJOGzjrAWuVA3iRjkJZv6dsREno2SdeXom8aZdoBJ9zxhnfjDp0uiDnqqDiqugbd9%2FUU3W8zPy4suPr8J6pRwcw%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-y7-M66ZQ Not even a BCDR Freak like Patrick would be mad enough to pay £50 for this?

Time that you employed a local lad as a cleaner! Coming on well, Jonathan.

Very sorry to hear of your setback, John, but pleased to hear that you have come through it with your usual fortitude. Well done the 15 year old! Thoughts and prayers that you all pull out of this with flying colours . Leslie

This, to be precise...... which was turned into: I'll footer about with it and see if I can get away with it. I think that it's too wide to use as Platform 1, which is under the eaves of the house!

To provide some St Patrick's Day Cheer for those of you assiduously off the Good (Distilled) Water for Lent, today was a "Platform Day". Meaning that I am labouring with my Island Platform for Portadown station. I wondered if I had got the length right so that it matched with Platform 4 - being Irish I did No.4 first! Yes, EXACTLY the right length BUT PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL...... I had broken Holman's First Law of Railway Modelling - "Measure Twice - Cut Once"! I ran a train through and it clobbered the thing - too (blank) wide! How do you knock a couple of millimetres off the width of an almost completed platform (6 feet long!) which has a frame of light softwood...... Maybe I'll use the "Saints Day Rule", take a good draught of Bushmills and try again .......

The original for me. Just get the kit made - I'll find a friend who likes building things!

Really excellent advice from Colin. How many years of practise went into @Galteemore, @David Holman @Tullygrainey @Patrick Davey's efforts, to name a few? Patrick especially soldiered on after "not quite right efforts" (I know because I sold him two of one of my kits, after he "practised" on the first one - now look at what he's doing!!!! Not for nothing do we old people say "Practise makes Perfect"!!!!

You won't believe that I'm saying this - it's a diesel after all - , but I have to agree with @Galteemore that really has a Wow Factor. It catches the essential "E Class" perfectly. A great piece of work. They were ubquitous around Dublin in the 1960s when I first visited as an enthusiast. Will you build me one, please?

Yes, that's the brake van which I do. Your name IS on two 10 ton vans! My stock is rather low pre Bangor - I WAS planning retirement - instead I'll fulfil various needs with nnew stock in the late Spring / early Summer. The orders are in. I should explain that the guy who took over Michael's business ("My Modeller") had some issues which slowed up delivery, but things look more hopeful and I may put off the evil day, if I'm spared. I've spent the last couple of days laying out proposals for two new wagons (one a short re-run) but the other quite new; plus a possible new container. Watch this space.