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Driver and guard have been fitted to Hunslet locomotive 102-a simple and easy process.

The Park Royal’s are settling in nicely on the outer suburban services on Tara junction.

Prototype power cars on test tonight on Ashburton grove.

Hunslet locomotive 102 on a successful gauge clearance test to the mill sidings this morning.

BR and Dutch GSVs to compliment the Park Royal’s and the Dutch EGVs for the Mk2 a/b coaches.

Hunslet locomotive 102 entered traffic last night working the Dundalk - Belfast Adelaide liner train consisting of laden bogie fertiliser,container and two axle bubble cement.

Hunslet 102 on trial runs at Tara junction earlier.

The superb IRM Hunslet 102 and Park Royal coaches in action on Tara Junction, Day and night action scenes Love the sound from 102.

208 works the Enterprise Mk2 set through Tara Junction.

226 shunts the stores oil tank into position for unloading while B188 and B125 tick over in the sidings.

After an enjoyable week playing with the real trains….it was back to the junction tonight…. NIR 208 works a Belfast-Dublin Connolly service, 017 works a Sligo-Dublin Connolly service 152+132 works the Northwall-Sligo liner/cement 2751 works a Dublin Connolly-Longford service.

Yes-I met them yesterday-Both looking great Highlight of the week so far….220 and 071 in Mallow

Playing with the real trains this week-will return to Tara junction over the weekend.

Tara junction. The evening shift crew are busy servicing and fuelling locomotives at the MPD, From the left we have spare locomotives-001,161+132,then 027,056 and 007 in the shed,084 and 123+122 outside the new fuelling point which has recently been fitted with LED lighting.

The only thing I’ll be doing with coaches is putting them behind an A class and fitting the appropriate era tail lamps to complete the train.