Flying Snail

There's also some models, diagrams etc on the NMI website. This is a rear view of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway locomotive Alexandra: https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/object-166396/?return=%2Fcollections%2Fcollection%2F%3Fterm%3Drailways%26limit%3D100 images of side and front views can be found there too. Here's a front view: https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/object-159643/?return=%2Fcollections%2Fcollection%2F%3Fpage%3D2%26term%3Drailway%26media%3Dyes%26adv_sub%5B%5D%3DHistorical%2BCollection and here's a side view: https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/object-166397/?return=%2Fcollections%2Fcollection%2F%3Fpage%3D3%26term%3Drailway%26media%3Dyes%26adv_sub%5B%5D%3DHistorical%2BCollection

@cheesy_peas found an interesting railway collection on the National Museum of Ireland page (thread here) , and its thrown up some interesting images, like this one dated 1942 of GSWR 1st class carriage 282 https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/object-166391/?return=%2Fcollections%2Fcollection%2F%3Fterm%3DGreat%20Southern%20and%20Western%20Railway%26media%3Dyes%26adv_sub%5B%5D%3DHistorical%20Collection

Looks like it .... the third image in that sequence has 'Pat' written on it too I've been having a play with this site and there's more images there than I originally thought - the original link cheesy_peas posted was for 54 items filtered for items associated with the GNR. If you knock off the filters, a search for "railway" then returns just over 250 items with a wider range of railways and subjects: https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/?term=railway&media=yes&adv_sub[]=Historical+Collection

They look great - crying out to be modelled indeed!

... and here's something for the bus aficionados: a tin plate bus repainted in yellow with 'CIE Cavan' added https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/object-11020696/?return=%2Fcollections%2Fcollection%2F%3Fterm%3DC%C3%B3ras%20Iompair%20%C3%89ireann%26media%3Dyes crude but quaint ... it must have many given many hours of pleasure to some Cavan child fadó

Thanks for sharing - there's some lovely photos there, whatever about the dates. I ran another search for the keyword 'train' and it threw up some interesting items https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/?term=train&media=yes ... including this lovely model 0-4-2 'Bray': https://www.museum.ie/collections/collection/object-30320/?return=%2Fcollections%2Fcollection%2F%3Fterm%3Dtrain%26media%3Dyes

I'd get on board that train. 071 hauled Mk3s = peak nostalgia for me. I'd probably end up buying a few 071s if they're re-released. I have only one 071, and its not in one of my preferred IR/IE tippex liveries but I got it for a good(ish) price before the second hand prices went completely mad. However, given that there's still plenty of the new batch of 141/181s available I wonder if the market for re-runs of Irish locos is a bit soft at the moment?

Roger! Sorry about that commerlad, I don't know how I mixed you two up ... maybe it was the fish I had for dinner?

thats some nice looking benchwork and cabinets!

Good views of it in Dublin. Brought back memories of '99 when when I squinted at it from a mark 2 set on my way down to Rosslare Europort

Never heard of them either, but from that middle video you can clearly see they operate Spain's high speed fleet .. with a few 37s thrown in for good measure WH Davis vid was very interesting though, I look forward to Leslie's photos!

crikey .... that was a holiday to remember. Thanks very much for sharing, and I hope the treatment continues to go well.

According to this there were a couple of specials out of Westport (one had a connection from Ballina), another special from Sligo, and .........<checks notes>.... Dundalk. https://www.dublinpublictransport.ie/blog/irish-rail-adds-extra-trains-for-all-ireland-football-final

Didn't realise tractors had graduated to top link services but hey ... Massey is classy but if she ain't blue, she won't do!

I have the first edition of Iain Rice's Cameo Layouts book, are there many changes in the new expanded version?