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Id say that the lines closure date comes with the train used to pull it up, and take it away. Can't get much more closed than that.

Finished roofing the station today.(Finally!) Needs to be weathered to hell and back though. Far too shiny. Quite happy with how the galvanised sheeting turned out. However the joins along the top will need disguising on this side. As I said, it needs serious weathering, not only because it's Cie and this is far to clean but because I don't like going blind whenever it catches the light!

Good place to "try before you buy" then

Are these new additions to the malahide fleet Permanent?

No obvious names standing out, but there is there were a few numbers and letters stamped on the side, I searched them on Google and found a similar lamp for sale in Japan. However the seller also had no idea where it was from, he also guessed india. A picture of the cleaner lamps stamp

@jhb171achill Any info on its origins? Also thanks very much.....

Too big for one post apparently.... It has to glass sliders, one for green one for red. The red picture is annoyingly blurry but I'm not going back out into the cold tonight... It was like the worst birthday ever, trying to blow this out.... And that's not to mention the fumes

Picked up one or two things myself a while ago, One of which is this Lantern. Nice little piece if do say so myself. I'm highly doubtful that it's Irish though. I've a funny hunch that it's Indian, maybe some of you more knowledgeable people might shed some light on it. Enjoy the photos of my Kitchen too! Now for the potentially controversial part, I actually use this lamp, I get things should be preserved safely but I feel that since I've paid for it, I might as well use it. Plus it looks fair nice in the dark. I've only just realised how rusty it looks in that light. I can assure you it's not that bad.

Not sure about the distance between Durrow and Attanagh but Mountrath station is actually known as Kilbricken and is situated a few kilometres outside the town, as for the line to Kilkenny starting there rather than Portlaoise , I'll have to disagree with you as I've checked the old O.S. maps which show the track going from MaryBorough (Portlaoise) and when overlaid with modern satellite maps it's possible to trace the trackbed right to Abbeyleix. The reasoning about Abbeyleix being a posh town so that's why the station's there is interesting. It fits in with a similar story that I've heard being that the De Vesci estate gifted the land for the line to the railway company for free, in exchange for it building its station there. Interesting about Durrow though, never heard that one before.

I can see that the wagon bodies are made from either plastic or mount board but how may I ask, did you get the chassis together for them to sit on?

This may cause offence, but are those triang coaches being hauled by the GNR tank?

You can say that again!

https://www.cie.ie/CIECorporate/media/HistoricAnnualReports/1971-1990/CIE_1972-1973.pdf This has probably been discovered before but it makes for a very interesting look back in time.

Having just learned about the 30th anniversary of the 2600 railcars, it begs the question, will these receive a similar retro livery treatment?

Reminds me of when I googled how Dick van dyke was doing, some luder claimed he'd had memory loss and took a dive into an empty swimming pool. Needless to say he's alive and well.

I'm not on insta but I'll try and see it somehow...

Sigh, it's threads like these that make me crave a big running session with members of this Forum....

Prototypically accurate I hope?

It's going for how much now!?!? You could get a professional model maker to make any loco you want for that price....

Looks like he........met his match with this

I for one am not losing interest in this project, especially not one so close to home.

It's projects like these that make me feel like I should model something a bit more........orange.

Beautiful work on that distillery, May I ask how you made the roof slates?

Oh how I envy you, you got to grow up with 121s, A class, loose coupled trains and getting a rides the guards vans whereas the year I was born the first ICR made it's arrival. Fabulous story. I look forward to seeing this layout becoming reality.

Stunning Model, Alan, although I've always felt that the UTA livery looked a bit like the Graham farish shredded wheat loco....