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  1. Excellent attention to detail-keep the photos and videos coming Raymond
  2. The only Mk3s that were hauled by the newly branded livery was the Belmond when I had 226 on the inaugural run to Killarney back in August 2016 and 231 stepped in when 216 failed a few weeks later seen here in Galway
  3. I wouldn’t hang around……
  4. Volumes two and three of this particular project are ongoing with volume two expected in the next few months, As the author is not on this forum he wishes to thank everyone for their tremendous support for volume one.
  5. Here is to lots more fun in 2022
  6. jhb…they were removed a number of years ago… Here is a photo of an oil tank transfer I worked from Athlone to Ballina back in 2003 which was hauled by NIR locomotive 112. The locomotive ran around the wagon and propelled it to the storage facility shortly after the photo was taken.
  7. No better man to tackle an A class,
  8. Lovely work and nothing overdone,just right
  9. The two class 20s arrive into the loop at Ashburton grove with a tanker train to allow the class 37 hauled passenger & Mail train to overtake.
  10. Happy Christmas lads, Thank you for making my dreams come true during these hard times, Looking forward to more announcements in 2022
  11. Happy Christmas from all at the Tara junction bus garage.
  12. A through the years era this Christmas on Tara junction, From the 1970s Supertrain through to the 1990s, 001 hauling the Supertrain MK2ds pause at Tara junction to allow 080 hauling its 10 piece Mk2 a/b set, 087 has charge of the CIE Mk3 set as 048 disappears into the distance with a Cravens set.
  13. On the eve of Christmas….let me just wish all of my fellow modellers…
  14. The MM 071 chip sounds identical to the engine fitted to the real locomotive 076.
  15. The railtour was rerouted back via Claremorris to Athenry on that day of the derailment.
  16. The driver of the 08 has shunted some VDA vans to the factory siding for unloading.
  17. 007 is seen here shunting two axle cement bubbles at the Lakeview freight yard earlier today.
  18. 232 was the first 201 to work a passenger service in multiple with 078 when it worked an RPSI special to Cork and Kerry in October 2018, 216 was the first 201 class locomotive to work between Ennis and Athenry on the WRC hauling the Belmond grand Hibernian Mk3 set-second photo shows the train having passed through Ardrahan level crossing heading for Athenry and then Dundalk 220 was the first 201 to operate on the Ballina branch in November 1996 after the Moy bridge was rebuilt to take the heavier locomotives-it worked a Mk3 set to Ballina.
  19. 225 derailed on a set of facing points on arrival into Claremorris hauling the 12:45 Heuston-Westport service in the early 2000s and in 2010 was involved in a fatal accident with a tractor at an accommodation crossing between Castlerea and Roscommon,destroying the tractor in the process-the locomotive being out of traffic for 9 years before being rebuilt and returned to traffic two years ago.
  20. Cheers and thank you Rich for the kind comments-
  21. 37 261 has charge of a short TPO set.
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