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Riversuir226

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  1. Is that the one they had on eBay the other day? They claimed it would be the last one produced for over a year....

     

    Yep, had planned to get one for a while so thought what the heck :) . Pretty impressed with it so far just waiting on the bogies to arrive before i make a start on it.

  2. Thankfully the level crossing opened pretty quick, armed with visas and passports, a quick sprint through Co. Kilkenny & Co. Tipperary to catch her in Carrick on Suir. Despite heavy traffic and a traffic jam in Mooncoin i got there just in time.

    Exchanging tokens & the rake going through the station.

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  3. Yes, i ve seen both 208/209 with mark 3's over the years.

    The last time 8208 pulled mk 3's was on a scrap rake of mk3's been transferred for final scrapping.

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  4. There was oil traffic from Cork, Creedon mentioned it in his CBSC trilogy. It was brought to Albert qy by truck from the nearby esso depot and loaded in the yard, i'm pretty sure it was to do with the oil traffic to the Magnesite works in Ballincourty. As far as i remember it went via the city railway till it was transferred to another Cork depot (water street).

    Seen as your layout is West Waterford based a lot of fertiliser traffic from Albatross New Ross to Cork & fertiliser from Net at Marino point could also be justified, the last traffic on the Cork city railway was from Albatross New Ross. Jbh posted up pics of both types of fertiliser wagons in Cork kent yard a while back. Suppose it would also be possible for earlier types of ammonia traffic to go via Waterford even though in reality it was the mid/late 1970's when it started.

  5. The flakes of CIE green paint and with no signs of later CIE grey or IR blue would suggest that it hasn't seen railway use (or a paintbrush) in a VERY long time. Wonder where it came from?

     

    There was one in the ditch in Bilberry which went walkies shortly before this ad appeared the first time.

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