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  1. Horsetan
    Since you will be using BEMO HOm coaches, make sure you've got enough money to fund them. At about 40 quid each (or more), they're not exactly cheap. General rule of HO or HOm is that, if buying new, anything Swiss outline is going to be very expensive.
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    Now that's a real shame if the Irish 3' range has been lost forever. If you were modelling the CDRJC in particular, Backwoods kits were pretty much your only option. Pete always did say on the website that the kits were only produced to order, and he didn't normally keep stocks of them on the shelves. That's exactly what happened back in 2001 when I ordered a kit for the Class 5 to build "Drumboe" - it was a matter of waiting a couple of weeks whilst Pete got all the parts and wheels together. Think I might send Backwoods an e-mail to establish what the actual situation is.
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    There might still have been the problems of fuel supply during The Emergency. The ability of Big Four engines to run on pitch, duff, briquettes, turf, etc. is unknown! Dundalk would still have been building nothing bigger than 4-4-0s, but they'd be things like "Schools" or LMS 6'9" Compounds.
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    Not fifty?
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    Suppose we'd best order some copies, so.
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    aaarrgghh can't resist
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    BEMO HOm rolling stock is very expensive. May not be cost-effective.
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    Ah, that was just a bad film reference there...
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    Bridge over the river...why.
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    A bridge too far.
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    That's mighty impressive decoration there. Thought: now how about a model of a Christmas tree exhibition?
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    I suppose the water might affect the electrics on the layout, so.
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    Where can non-Irish residents buy these from?
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    Can I just say that I've never seen a topic expand this fast on the Forum before. Cement bubbles must be like the Holy Grail!
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    Excellent. Might have a go at that.
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    Those look like incredibly clean mouldings. I wonder if the model could be made to run using Faller-Car parts or similar?
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    The ZX81 was resolutely black-and-white, like its predecessor the ZX80. Its flat keyboard was unaffected by drinks spilled on it and it came with 1k RAM as standard. You could get a plug-in 16k RAM module that went in the back of it. It was no feckin' use at all. Colour didn't really come about properly until the ZX Spectrum, Commodore VIC-20 and C64. Also the ORIC-1, plus contemporary BBC Model B and Acorn Electron. There, I'm showin' me age now, so I am.
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    Seen those. There are probably enough photos to create a jigsaw of the track layout, and I'm sure I have a signalling diagram somewhere, albeit after the Ballinrobe branch was closed. ...or Mullingar.
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    I still have the album somewhere. I look back fondly upon those days, those rare oul times before Bono became holier-than-thou. I'm not sure we have sufficient working engines to maintain an Irish Plandampf, never mind the H&S . You'd need to build a few more WTs, J15s, K1/K1a, B1 and B2, plus V or VS, to run a worthwhile service.
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    It was far more interesting before the track was rationalised and resignalled for CTC
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    The Skoda Rapid coupé is supposedly the one to collect. It was the one that Autocar magazine actually liked.
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    Claremorris has so much potential as a layout, yet finding complete information for a particular time period is indeed difficult to find.
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    Excellent, thanks. Looks like 560 has acquired a solid handwheel on the smokebox door by 1961, as opposed to the "open" pattern wheel, or separate handles.
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    The J.P. O'Dea collection at NLI turned up this 1959 view of 560 at Cork: http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304698 Depicted out of service, with rods removed, and displaying the "garden shed" cab which itself is showing obvious signs of being attacked by the tin worm. Cast numberplates still retained. ....out of the many hundreds (thousands?) of Irish railway photos he took, it looks like only two involve J26s!
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    Were there any FGW-liveried HSTs? Or are they now too valuable to put on public display?
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