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Many thanks lads for your comments, As requested by Boskonay-a short video of 071 and 082 working the autoballaster set and empty timber train-enjoy....

Lovely neat paint job on the Mk3s,an excellent choice of livery well done.

Will do Boskonay,will be tomorrow as I feel a thirst coming on.... The coal fire and Guinness at the local is very tempting....

After running in the 071/112,it was time to put them into service, I've waited a long time to have a decent 071 model to haul my liner passenger trains,thank you Paddy Murphy, 082 hauls the empty timber slowly out of the yard under the watchful eye of the yard supervisor,as 071 refuels at the depot,it will later work the autoballaster train and be followed by Tamper 751 on the down slow line. 082 with the empty timber on the up fast line.

I called in to Seamus Graham's last Monday and he has a nice selection of resprayed enterprise 201s on display,206,207 and 230 were in the cabinet along with 8208.

Hi Anthony' date=' I remember some of the expressway versions had maroon/red coloured seats,so I've done mine with red seats and cream head rests, Other versions of the M class had a brown type seat,a bit of a mixture throughout the fleet, A second coat of red/orange livery was applied earlier,and a few passengers added...

Correct,sometime during 1975 was when the expressway brand and livery was introduced, The livery always looked well on the M class.

Layout is coming along nicely Bos,your track looks very realistic. That weathering pen is great,although I've also found the nib didn't last long either..

I'll second that-with some glazing and a bit more detail,I'd have no problem buying one either,but not in its present condition,best of luck with your venture.

Top class work on all three locos there Anthony, I really like how you have picked out the brake blocks and bogie detail on 071-superb.......

Expressway livery applied.

Evening lads, I've been working on some M class buses over the past few days, I bought the kits of Jim Poots,-(thanks Jim) Here are a few photos of the early stages of construction-and of course I'll post more as I go along, The kits are simple to construct, The kit-"out of the box" Models undercoated and interior being painted, These two will be finished in the Red/Orange expressway livery-my favourite.

Hi Stephen, Those depot walkways are a kit from Knightwing-I bought them off Gareth/Modelshop Belfast at the Wexford exhibition last Easter,They would look great on Amiens street loco depot.....

Likewise lads-it was great to meet up,looking forward to meeting up again soon I hope.

Great photos there Eamonn and Fran, I picked up my three today-(Thanks Seamus),they have MM chips fitted,everything except the headlights worked fine,when I pressed F2 to operate the headlight on all three locos on both ends the lights wouldn't stay on....

Thanks Lads,it was great to meet up with some of you at the exhibition, I picked up my locos today and have been busy all evening running them in, Here are a selection of photos of 071,082 and 112 on the Cravens passenger and IWT liner trains,and also being prepared for service at the running shed, 082 on shed 071 on the autoballaster set,112 works the Bank holiday Tralee-Heuston Cravens special on the up fast line and 082 is working the up IWT liner. 112 and 071 tick over near the running shed. 071 gets its brake blocks adjusted before going on a trial run.

Thanks Lads-Yes I hope we can meet up tomorrow Rich, Here is a video of Tamper 751 working

Hi Lads, Due to a recent sudden family bereavement I've been off this forum for just over a month, It's great to see that the board had maintained its high standard throughout this time I intend to be at the exhibition on Saturday and hopefully put some names to faces etc, In the meantime I received the Viessmann working tamper today from Gareth in the Model shop in Belfast-(thanks Gareth), It certainly is a fantastic model,with correct start up/shutdown engine noise,excellent lighting and true to life working tamping equipment at a very slow speed, The horn sound is identical to a DART unit, Here are a selection of photos of the IE Tamper-(751) on the layout earlier-with a video to follow 751 tamping the up fast line earlier.

Wow Eamonn-excellent work,signals looking well,looking forward to seeing the finished layout Well done.

R.I.P to an absolute gentleman Joe.

Very very nice-an excellent representation of the first built 30001 series bogie wagons complete with the ride master type bogies and round buffers-a rake of those would look great behind any class of Irish loco-well done.

Very impressive-well done guys.

Evening lads, With thanks to the Wanderer,Gordon71 and Chris Playfair for the excellent photos and videos of the recently introduced Mk3 Enterprise van to service trains,I was able to recreate the set up on Tara Junction, As I don't have the Enterprise De Dietrich coaches yet....they are still under construction...I coupled my Mk3 van to my Mk4 coaches and allocated 209 loco to push the trial train around the layout....something different... Here are a few photos taken earlier...with a few videos up later... 209 and 89605. The trial train passes the autoballaster train and Supertrain Mk2s-with the IWT liner waiting for the road. 209 pushing the Enterprise van and Mk4 set past the carriage valeting plant which sees B141 on carriage washing duties and 192 as carriage pilot loco-with 160+156 on the fourth road with the night mail train.