Flying Snail

Not a photo, but a video of a 1979 train journey from Dublin to Cork. Plenty of shots around Heuston including the main concourse 3 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocnE95oVDW8

The drawing you posted was instantly recognisable as Connolly Shed. It'll look well on the layout!

Looking forward to seeing this one. There'll be a lot of people on here very interested in how it turns out!

You can filter the list to use show members only - much more useful. When I'm on the main landing page, the 'Who online' box at the bottom right of the screen shows online members. I access the forum using a laptop though, may be different on a phone with the reduced screen size etc.

This is another great resource that you've pulled together @Mol_PMB - incredibly thorough. I don't know where you find the time for all the research, but I'm glad you do!

No wonder it only lasted three years if they had to haul it between Passage and Dublin stations

Looking forward to seeing how these turn out! Are there any notable differences in the quality of print that your two printers put out?

I didn't mean to suggest otherwise - there's lots of different genetic conditions that impact how we perceive the world around us: and not just sight, but taste and the other senses too

I like your scientific approach! Its also good point that we may all perceive colour a little differently but I'm not sure you really need to coerce any female friends here (and I'm definitely not going to step on to the male vs female colour perception landmine, save to say I learned years ago not to have a strong opinion on what colour 'we' choose to paint the walls at home ). For me, I think you have a reasonable reference point with A42 (the lads will have done a fair bit of homework on the colour matching) - so once you have a colour that matches it to your eyes then I think you're done. Taking into account the sheen off plastic surfaces, your eyes should be pretty consistent in how they view the greens when comparing shades to A42. I'd try to get to a colour that matches A42 reasonably well and then use that as my base colour - lightening it before application a little for a more sun bleached look, or applying it as-is before going to town with dark washes if wanted to lather on a bit of grime. That approach should result in a nice bit of variation within the spectrum of CIE green

I'd be happy to add my name to the list for one each of the following carriages: MGWR Atock 6-wheel Brake/Third coach MGWR Atock 6-wheel Third class coach

A little more detail emerging this morning than what was in the original RTE article above. It appears that residents who took a legal challenge to the multibillion MetroLink rail project are set to accept an offer from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to buy their homes on Dartmouth Square. There's more detail on the agreement in this Irish Times article: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/12/23/tii-to-buy-dartmouth-square-objectors-houses-as-challenge-to-metrolink-is-dropped-2/

Judicial review into planned MetroLink rail line is withdrawn https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/1223/1550368-metrolink/ The application submitted by residents of Dartmouth Square was withdrawn following mediation. The Minister for Transport has called it, 'an early Christmas present for us all.'

Liffey Junction is in Cabra, I believe

Thats my understanding too As for the letters J, K Q, V, W, X Y & Z - I'm pretty sure they still don't formally exist in the Irish alphabet, but you'll see them crop up in loan words and the like - for instance on election posters you'll often see 'Vótail #1'

Swings and roundabouts Galtee ... I didn't have to worry about Latin at my school

Liberal use of the ol séimhiú there, not to mention the 'fada' - an accent you'll see above vowels (á, é, í, ó, ú). Also it might be helpful to know when you're making up signs or fonts that in the Irish/Gaelic font in this sign ... the first letter on the first row is a 'G', which is very similar to the first letter on the third row - which is actually a 'T'. The second letter on the first row is an 'A'. The first letter of the second word on the first line is a 'D' (with a 'séimhiú' over it) and as an aside ... and absolutely nothing to do with this thread - but you'll see on that sign that Kenmare translates to Neidín (pronounced something line 'Nay-deen'), meaning 'the little nest' . This has always struck me as a particularly pretty name. A lot of Irish names can be real tongue twisters, but to my ears Neidín sounds as nice and gentle as the image it invokes

The dot above the M in the first sign (and above the C in the third one) is actually our friend the 'séimhiú' - when Irish was modernised ini the 60s, the dot was replaced with the 'h'. sooooo .... 'Muileann Bhaile Na Ceathrún' would be 'Muileann Ḃaile Na Ceathrún' in GSR days* *again, there may be grammatical errors in my translations as my Irish is very rusty

I'd go with the first one - its easier on the eye than the second one, and closer to the GSR signs shown above.

On the name - Irish translations can be tricky, as the grammar is very different to English. 'Baile' (that's the bit that translates into 'town') is typically at the front as in 'Baile Átha Cliath'. Its also the reason so many Irish placenames that have been anglicised start with Bally. From the eircode finder website (which is run by An Post, the Irish postal service), 'Quartertown' is translated into 'Baile Na Ceathrún', so thats what I would use. Mill is translated as 'Muileann' as Galteemore said, and you'll put that in front of the town's name, so I think* it'll become 'Muileann Bhaile Na Ceathrún' - note this adds a 'h' (which is actually a special grammatical construct called a séimhiú) to Baile. * Its 30 years since I did Leaving Cert Irish, and I wasn't particularly good at it then, thats why if I was making a bilingual sign I'd probably just do it as 'Quartertown Mill / Baile Na Ceathrún'

That cover is a particularly fine fine effort at abstract art by AI. Its remarkable, the more I look at it ..... the less I see (less realistic things, that is)

Instantly recognisable!

The mill looks very well - as Patrick says the stonework looks well but I also think the timber doors and window frames set it off nicely

Hopefully, these kinds of delays to major projects will be reduced in future: Government to introduce emergency legislation to fast-track key projects ... The Accelerating Infrastructure Action Plan is aiming to cut red tape in order to deliver more housing, roads, water treatment plants, energy sub stations, hospitals and other critical infrastructure. It also contains measures to reform judicial reviews. These include the introduction of a test on the likelihood of a review being successful before leave is granted take one. ... https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1202/1546788-ireland-cabinet/

She was hardly making rock buns or rocky road? Anyway, I hope nobody chipped a tooth

The corrugated carriage shed based on Kenmare is in the August 1970 edition of Railway Modeller