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On 29/4/2023 at 9:13 AM, murphaph said:

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

 

 

Hi Murph. As I made my way through Germany on my First Class Innterrail Pass, the trains didn't seem too full, but in places DB simply don't provide enough stock. A single unit in the Black Forest area had about double the number of passengers to seats and trains by Lake Constanz were also jammed. Meanwhile, the Uk has been cutting up perfectly good EMUS!

Enjoy Hungary - how's your Hungarian - a unique langauge!

An especially good post of photos, Ernie.

The Inchicore shot is well-known to we oldies, but interesting to see the D17 on the old WL&WR. I'm pretty sure I have never seen a photo of a Woolwich crossing the Shannon - something they did every day throughout the early Fifties, but seems to have been little captured. Shots showing anything of the roundhouse at Broadstone are pretty rare.

Thanks for capturing these and letting us see them.

An amazing first post, Stuart and very nice renditions of my wagons.

I look forward to seeing more!

But less seats!

Congratulation on the nice double beet set - hopefully it'll encourage others to have a go - must get more made for Blackrock!

The 4 VEG is a very fine piece of work. As 4 VEPs, I travelled in one every morning to work from Farnborough and how I remember the blue moquette which you have done so well.

Good luck with the move and the new job, David. I'll be sorry not to have you nearby so that you can just drop in!

Now, the cab of No.157.

We thought that the driver was a dead ringer for "Pearse" played by Sean Connery in the Film - although he didn't appear on the loco, too busy getting himself an ASBO for walking on carriage roofs!

Again, my apologies to Bob fro not opening his treasure trove more quickly. Holidays have got in the way, but the arrival of 00 Works' No.186 demanded that I open the box called "GSWR Goods 1900". This is what was inside!

When I extracted the brake van, I thought: "That looks familiar". Of course it does, I do a kit of it in 4mm!

Close-ups of No.157.

I'll photograph the individual wagons later. Another lovely model, Bob. Thanks.

By the way, if you double-click in either image you'll get a BIG version of the image and can enjoy Bob's handiwork the more. You probably all knew that anyway?

Watching this T Tank update with interest, Patrick.

Of all my brass kit-built locos they probably gave me least trouble, apart from the trucks shorting against the frames on my curves.

I purchased a THIRD one which had had clever surgery done to the kit and runs brilliantly, so I  planned to update the others, but your method might be worth trying, if you continue .......

Time to let another genie out of the box! Masterpieces from Rob and Rod? Obviously Bob's J15 No.157 in GSWR green, just extracted from its box and Roderick's version with the Z Boiler, which being 4mm scale is dwarfed by it!

Ah, thanks, Flange! I sent other samples to Dapol to use, so they'll do their best with "their orange"!!!!

The evidence of the wagon with the dual colour wheel is gratifying though. Thanks - At least I can't be accused of "making it up"!

2 hours ago, Flying Snail said:

Great to see that they're happy with the level of interest they're getting in the J15 - they've done a few Irish locos to date and hopefully will do more in future. I've put an order in for 186

Guess what the Postie has just delivered?

Now my No.184 has her sister in the shed!

I feel a visit to Kernow in Guildford coming on  - to get her chipped, then I'll give her a few laps of the railway and see if she can pull a Fairs Special!

Thanks, Ernie, but your Archive did produce a few clues, for which thanks.

Leslie

Flange Lubricator said:   A very difficult picture to find however if you look through the wonderful IRRS flickr site and look in the Tom Davitt collection there is a picture at Liffey Junction of a GNR 1795 Bogie wagon and in the background is a ex GNR covered van with pressed steel ends and a  white CIE roundell .

Thanks, Mark, that's a useful reminder. The photo before is a brown / bauxite example with the plain white "Wheel". So, that's that sorted! I had photos of the plain white / grey combination, it's the Orange (tan?) / white wheel with grey that I really sought. The "orange" would make a dull wagon a little more interesting?

I'd been through the "Wagon" album on Ciaran's brilliant site (for the rest of you - access to it is a good reason to be a IRRS member!). without seeing it! Now, I'll trawl the other "Photographer" albums - a lot of evidence is hidden behind other things, as Mark has spotted here. Thanks for the reminder!

Father Tom took some very interesting photographs and I remember him from his days in London when he put up with my youthful enthusiasm when we both sat on the IRRS London Area committee.

JB said:  The GNR bagged cement wagons, I can attest, did indeed survive not only into "broken wheel" times, but also the latter-day (1970-6) brown livery with broken wheel. I saw several thus - one, I recall, at Templemore, another in Rock St goods yard in Tralee. Both brown - therefore, they would obviously have also been grey before that! So, you can have GNR grey, flying snail grey, broken wheel grey and broken wheel brown, if so inclined!

That's what I'm doing, JB. After going through every book I own, several photo collections and Ernie's wonderful archive, I still can't find an example of the middle one (Grey plus Wheel). But, as I said on the other thread, enough  to be pretty sure of what they looked like. So that's today's job, putting the instruction to Dapol together.

12 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Yes, it sold out some time ago. And following this launch, "West" will probably do so too. Last I heard, the publisher had about a dozen.

JB  (and Barry) I'm sure that Wexford will sell out too. The books are useful, as others have mentioned, to modellers, but in all the series I can't find a photo of a GN Bagged Cement with a "Broken Wheel". Lots of good circumstantial evidence, which I will convert into my next wagon! Indeed, a good series.

Mark did Cattle, two different cover vans and a five plank I believe. All CIE.

I am guilty of doing the cattle as well - as a SLNCR one. In reality, as John M says, they aren't close to Irish for the reasons he mentions.

The Dapol Banana Van is an exception to the rule, which is why I produced three runs of it and have three more planned.

Not mine, Mark's, I think. 

JB will give us chapter and verse, but I think the only Irish vans to have corrugated ends were the GNR 1954 cement vans (the one I'm doing) and some of the PAL vans?

On 27/10/2022 at 8:04 AM, Galteemore said:

Model Rail did indeed do a limited edition GSR one https://www.hattons.co.uk/stocklistdatabase/176961/dapol_mr_005a_class_y1_sentinel_4wvbt_0_4_0_281_in_great_southern_railways_livery_special_edi/stockdetail

Thanks for reminding me, David. I have one in a box somewhere in the loft!

Now that I am back home beside my railway, I have dug out my previous Flying Snail Bagged Cement wagon:

I have requested a repeat of this, with a new number 2211.

Now, the Broken Wheel version will take a little more research. I have photographic evidence of a Orange / White "Wheel" on this type of wagon, so I'm looking into that (costs more, by the way for the extra colour!). If I do that, I'll drop the "Return to Drogheda", which my evidence suggests had been obliterated by the time they got wheels.

I supplied about twenty of this wagon to Mark Cuffe - did any of you buy one from his famous shop? Maybe he's still got them squirreled away!

Just a holding reply, as I'm doing this distantly from home, where I have samples of the earlier wagons!

Noel, they ARE RTR, with NEM pockets / Dapol couplings.

Dave, I'm 99% sure that the body can be removed from the chassis by undoing a screw. I'm editting this to say that a screw does allow the body to be removed from the chassis.

Also, Dave, if they sell out, I'll simply do another run with a different number. And I'll thank you for provoking me to do another run. There are 350 out there already in different guises!

Careful, lads, I'll have to start a spreadsheet to keep a count!

Thank you for the support. I'll stick to the hundred, though, as it allows me a rerun with a different number!

Much appreciated.

Hhmmm, very laudable, but at £80 day return from Reading .......

Mind you, you do get 400 miles of interesting travels - I was even offered the trip via NEWPORT!

Rottweil is home of Eisenbahn Freunde Zollernbahn (aka EFZ). They have a big depot opposite the main platforms, not that you could see much as there were fifty-plus hopper wagons, dumped out of use in a loop, blocking the view. We were supposed to be travelling to the Bodensee (Lake Constance) behind a 2-10-0, but what appeared from behind the hoppers - 

was NOT the promised 2-10-0 (an engine I'd a few runs with already), but their former East German Deutsche Reichbahn Class 01.5 Pacific. Much better, as quite a bit of the line offered a chance to run at speed, I wasn't complaining. Just four coaches including a diner and not full, either. At €44 for 200kms, it was quite a bargain. She ran chimney first to Villingen, then tender-first South on the Schwartzwaldbahn main line to Singen and its final destination of Oberlingen.

This meant that we had a chimney-first run back up the long climb from Singen to near Immendingen, when we enjoyed twenty minutes of noisy effort climbing some 600 feet in 10 miles or so. Descending in the high fifties (mph), we just touched 60mph. Villingen, where the train reversed to return to Rottweil has a fine array of semaphore signals, to accompany your photos of the locomotive.

It had been nice to travel over some new "Steam track" during the day, but I first travelled over the line between Rottweil and Villingen in 1970 behind a little Prussian T18 (DB 78) 4-6-4 tank. Good memories.