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Early Saturday morning on Tara Jctn sees recently repainted NIR loco 209 work the 10:00 down Mk4 service passing sister loco 8208 on an up Mk2 service with an ICR on the local service,while 229 ticks over on shed after being replaced earlier by 209.

I was very impressed on a recent visit to Cultra to see the real 800 class Maedbh,it's sheer size etc, It must have been some sight on the mainline, Des-you have certainly captured the impressive look of the loco-and if I had the confidence to build one I would certainly have one, Well done-and best of luck with it.

The DFDS liner finished on Tuesday 10/07/12 with 079 hauling the final train from Waterford to Ballina.

Well done Frank-a nice era,love the cement depot.

Nice job there Kieran-look forward to more updates on your progress.

Great idea Anthony, Let me get the train rolling 071 class: 072 worked the 11:05 Ballina-Northwall IWT liner this morning, 081 worked the Waterford-Westport empty timber train arriving in Westport at 17:40 this evening, 201 class: The working of the year so far for me anyway when 8208 worked the 08:15 Ballina-Northwall IWT liner 17/18 LX wagons were loaded, It had replaced 088 which had failed near Sallins yesterday morning,the liner eventually arriving into Ballina freight yard at 16:40-photos over the next few days, 222 worked the Northwall-Ballina IWT CPW liner today,arriving in Ballina freight yard at 14:35.

Many thanks to Seamus Graham for his excellent weathering/paint job on 209-seen here on a trial run around Tara Jctn.

Cheers and thanks Eamonn-looking forward to the October bank holiday weekend.

Correct.

After a hard day at Tara Jctn it's nice to unwind with.....Cheers lads...!!

Anthony,all of that particular set of eight autoballasters had them fitted-I'm not sure about any other sets yet, I'm reliably told that IE had plans that e.g an eight piece set would have four wagons fitted with the extendable chutes and a six piece would have two wagons fitted, The photo was taken from the station platform at Roscommon station when the set was stabled there a few weeks ago, The set is now stabled on the former cement siding at Tullamore station minus a loco if anyone's interested.

As promised......

Thanks Anthony,yes I have lots of close ups of the prototype which I'll post for everyone over the weekend...

Thanks Anthony for the photos-I found it hard to find any photos of that type-I was just working from memory....

Thanks lads, I've added some extendable chutes to two of my wagons, Most of the real autoballasters have been fitted with these extendable chutes,they are used for side filling and reach out about five feet extra when extended, IE planned to have two or four wagons on a rake, They are secured in place by clips either side...

Evening lads, I've just finished this Vanhool Acron in CIE expressway livery as worn just before the transition to Bus Eireann circa 1986-reg no SI 3001-something different.....

Thanks Des,I'll check that out-your unit load transfers will come in handy also for this project.

A nice selection and line up of trucks there Anthony-are they all made my Oxford? I could do with adding a few of these to my layout in the future.

Got mine today-thanks Seamus.....the six piece set looks great behind 202-well done on the detail-the load gauge and the off/on for the handbrake wheel are spot on.

Nice photos josefstadt.....the area at Clara that has been cleared is to facilitate the building of a new longer set of points which when built will be installed under where loco 072 is passing over. The longer point will allow faster running through the station in the future.

I like the gates Eamonn-really look the part-well done.

They look excellent,well done to the gentlemen who took the time and trouble and money to commission these models,which are a welcome addition to the current Irish railway model scene.

There was an emergency telephone located in the old goods/Perway store at Foxford station in the event of an emergency with the Asahi liner and also there was special arrangements in place if the liner was overdue by 10 mins in a section, It would have been quicker to get to the location of a failed Asahi liner by road than it would by helicopter particularly during the hours of darkness down the west, There was also a telephone located at the 129 mpost near Bekan station between Ballyhaunis and Claremorris for that purpose also, That telephone was used and was connected to the ETS signalling system and was decommissioned when the mini CTC was introduced-the yellow box is still there today on the up side of the line.

:tumbsup:Are you sure you didn't"borrow"the real brake van that's been lying in Inchicore works for the last 30 years-That is certainly a top class job-well done again Anthony.