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Evening lads, After getting 233 off Mr Graham before Christmas,I tried a little weathering of my own this evening, Here is 233 getting used to Enterprise duties earlier,passing 8208,209 and 112 on shed-it could even be York road depot from this angle 233 works the Enterprise. A busy scene at Central station with 083 on a set of Cravens, 077 on the empty timber train, 221 on a Mk2 set,and 233 pushing the Enterprise with DVT 9001 leading.

Happy birthday Patrick,hope you have a great week....

:tumbsup:Happy new year lads

Easy enough-check out either Graham's ,Marks or Belfast model shops website for details.

Top class Anthony,when your finished with the low loader you might send him back to me as I have more work for him...

Nice work there gm171-look forward to the finished wagon.

Definatly agree -more pics please...

Simply the best-a 1970s scene from Heuston station sidings,well done Anthony.

Happy birthday Fran.

Cheers and thanks lads, Welcome back Anthony.

I have never seen the Intercity logo on the side of a Craven coach but I do remember-(as Killucan said) a couple with the IR loco near the doors,particularly around the 1988/89 era, I've recreated this on one of my Cravens with a few spare IR logos I had.

More action from this mornings operations on Tara Junction.

Great find there Robert,thanks for sharing.

Very nice Vincent,the stack of containers look well also.

Happy Christmas lads.

Happy Christmas to all fellow modellers,thanks for your comments about Tara Junction.

No harm Stephen as his glass case was full of some very very tempting models.

Thanks Vincent, It's nice to know that the real 8208 is back on Enterprise duties along with the gen van, It's also great to be able to recreate in model form an identical Enterprise train thanks to Paddy Murphy and David and Mark. Thanks Stephen for reposting the link.

62 and counting....still more kits to be built.

A video of the Enterprise being pushed by 8208.

Sunday morning on Tara Junction sees the recently introduced Enterprise liveried loco 233 on a trial run 233 was painted by Seamus Graham, However while on trial 8208 failed with the down Enterprise so it was left to 233 to couple to the failed train and haul it to the maintenance depot for attention. 233 eases up to control car 9001. 233 hauls the failed Enterprise to the depot.

Current type tail lamps being used on liner/Perway trains on IE.

So sorry to hear about your loss Anthony,I know what your going though having been there myself only a few months ago.

Afternoon Robert, After the inquiry into the Cherryville Jctn accident, which recommended the introduction of a high intensity tail lamp to be on the rear of all trains, Irish rail decided to introduce two tail lamps for all trains during 1990-1991, The first type were of a French design and were yellow in colour,they were activated by being placed on the lamp iron-but could be switched off with a carriage key where necessary, The second type were white in colour and were identical to some BR ones that were being used at that time in the UK-(some of the irish ones even having the BR double arrow on them) They could be switched on or off with a black switch to the right hand side of the red light, When the battery ran out a little red indicator went out and the lamp had to be sent back to Inchicore for replacement, These lamps lasted most of the late 1990s until about 2002 when a new lightweight type of lamp was introduced which had LEDs as the red light and are very effective-they are switched on/off by turning a switch at the back of the lamp-and an LED indicator light is located in the side and when this goes out the batteries can be replaced, Both white types of lamps can still be seen nowadays on liner/Perway trains-but it's the LED type lamp that is the preferred type. As regards the rule on the use of the lamps,if one or both failed en route then the train could continue to the next station where there was a stock of spare lamps available.

Thanks Stephen, Yes it's fresh ballast from the autoballasters and given a good packing by tamper 751....