flange lubricator

44 minutes ago, Warbonnet said:

Doh, sausage fingers on my part! 

as long as they are supertrain sausages with a black stripe 

In Principal I would think the chip would fit however you will have to fit a speaker to the MM141/181 which is soldered to the circuit board not the sound chip!!

Class_141_Sound_DCC_MR130_058-061.pdf (murphymodels.com)

11 minutes ago, StevieB said:

What underframe did you put under the fitted H van, a reworked PW one or another?

The only difference was the addition of brake cylinder, hand brake wheel and brake blocks .

Conscious of not wanting to go too far of topic below is a picture  from left of J M Designs pre 1953 covered van , Provincial Wagons post 1953 covered van and last Provincial Wagons post 1953 covered van but ‘fitted’ brake blocks on all wheels and round hand brake wheel as they would look running with Vacuum brakes .

I certainly will be ordering a LMA van or Two for variety whn they are available.

9 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

A rare beast, indeed; colour pics of them are as rare as hen's teeth, as the green livery was only applied to very few, and was very short-lived. It seems that the idea was to use them on mail trans between Cork and Tralee. This green livery, which included (coach-like) black ends and chassis (for once!), and probably a dark grey roof, only appeared in the early 60s and would have repainted grey after the "snails" were replaced by "roundels" from 1963 onwards.

A note in either the IRN or IRRS Journal suggests that 100 were painted this way - that is certainly incorrect. It's possible that was at one time a plan, but if so it was never executed. I seem to recall seeing somewhere in the past a note that in fact only four or six were thus treated.

RCTS | Irish Railways (CIE) (zenfolio.com)

14 hours ago, Mayner said:

 

 

I was always fascinated by these wagons as although described in "Irish Railways Today" (Pender and Richards 1967 & Locomotives and Rolling Stock of CIE & NIR (Doyle and Hirsch) they were extremely photo shy I did not come across a physical example until I came across the grounded body of 16812 in use as a store on a construction site in 1982-3 and did not see a photo of a complete wagon until I saw a photo of a pair of LMA wagons awaiting scrapping on the IRRS Flickr site.

 

 

 

I am also discovering some wonderful gems in that IRRS flickr site there is fabulous one of a H van 18828 in green with Vacuum brakes with sliding doors by Gerard McGowan , which like you I had read about but never seen picture of one . Many thanks to Ciaran Cooney of the IRRS for painstakingly taking the time to scan these pictures ,  while some of them are just ordinary rolling stock photos and would not appeal to many they provide a wealth of information for the modeller .

My  five sets of 2 x iPhone speakers duly  arrived and fitted one  to MM182 along with a GM 645 sound chip sounded a little loud when compared to my MM126 so I turned it down a little .

10 minutes ago, murphaph said:

Anyone have more details about the dates at the end? Were they cut up in Enniscorthy or were they moved to somewhere else for scrapping?

They were moved to Clonmel and then a few at a time to Limerick works to be coverted to Ballast wagons in the late 1990's

47 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Don't worry, we'll give it at least a week to the next announcement

I think the Dolimite wagons 26612 -26627 were the same chassis too very similar wagon to the ballast /gypsum.

Great news they will look great with supertrain and Black and Tan locos I will be participating.

They will look even better in a mixed set with CIE oil wagons which is the way they operated , hint hint nudge nudge …………….

16 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

10% is added in the cart when you buy two or more.

I think you mean subtracted? 

8 minutes ago, irishmail said:

I currently have an 071, No. 080 listed in classifieds. https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/classifieds/item/9-murphy-models-071-class-loco/

 

Not my era but a very reasonable price 

2 hours ago, skinner75 said:

Found similar for a lot cheaper!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254107829332?hash=item3b2a01c454:g:OjwAAOSwn4ZcVv6F

(This is actually Road & Rails ebay page)

I think if you read it you will find that its 'From £2.04ea ' but when you look up the same speaker the price is pretty much the same carraige via ebay is higher and that dosent include the charge from the postman ,I will stick with dealing direct .

On 24/1/2022 at 8:35 PM, murphaph said:

The double iPhone can be made up yourself with 2 iPhone speakers wired in parallel (halves the 8 Ohm impedance to 4 Ohms) with the plastic housing trimmed a bit and shrink wrapped in heatshrink. Oddly the speakers are waaay cheaper on the Roads and Rails website. At least I think these are the same ones:

https://www.roads-and-rails.co.uk/collections/speakers/products/35x20x7mm-double-iphone-speaker-4-ohm

I highly rate good smartphone speakers because they are designed to produce a lot of sound in a small form factor. They have to fit in a space much smaller than a loco and reproduce high fidelity quality sound while doing it. They housings have baffles and whatnot to create the bass almost out of nothing. It's quite remarkable how they manage it.

Ordered some on Monday from them Qty 4 plus 1 free for £35.95 incl postage which worked out at €43.99 Road and Rails took off the Vat, I had to Pay An Post a futher €13.23 in Vat and handling making a total of €57.22 so each speaker worked out at €11.45 landed at my door which is not too bad .

looks like its from the appendix to the working timetable 1935

15 minutes ago, seagoebox said:

Limerick Junction before the shot-blasting was moved to Silvermines

Esso wagons 

17 minutes ago, seagoebox said:

Beet wagons at Wellington Bridge 16.10 1990, and Limerick Works 18.6.1991

A great example of thrift by the railway and re cycling repurposing of rolling stock 1950s bodies on 1960s underframes which lasted until the end of the beet in 2005 . 

Certainly the baby boomer speaker is more in the price range , the double iPhone when landed will be somewhere near €50 !!. When you add to this the chip it makes fitting sound to the B GM loco a little expensive. 
Wonder has any one done a comparison sound of both speakers ? 

2 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

By “corrugated” I meant the Bullied ones….. yes, maybe with vans?

Always with brake vans the latter double beet wagons post 1985 were mounted on Lancashire flats which were vacuum brake and did not require a brake van but the earlier single bullied corrugated wagon were loose coupled and always required a brake van . 

3 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

 

3.  Corrugated wagons without brake van (1980s / 90s)

 

Don’t think the corrugated wagons or bullied opens ran without brake vans 

Looks like a commer van 

On 19/8/2020 at 12:05 AM, Mayner said:

The photo may have been taken in the early 1970s,  I remember seeing a photo on a train with BR containers in wooden open wagons (possibly the same) on the Ballina Branch during the early 1970s. Lyons Tea also had similar containers which were also transported in open wagons https://peco-uk.com/products/lyons-tea-container 

I bought a set of Bachmann BD containers as a load for open wagons, but end detail needs to be trimmed back slightly tom fit in an SSM IRCH open, I don't know about the Bachmann or Dapol Opens

https://www.bachmann.co.uk/category/model-railway%2Fbranchline/accessories.

Cable drums would be another good load for an open, CIE transported cable drums for P&T and ESB and parked P&T vehicles and cable drums seem to have been a common feature in CIE goods yards during the 60s and early 70s

Great picture on the IRRS twitter feed of one of the smaller Lyons Tea container

Irish Railway Archives (Ciarán Cooney) (@irishrailways) / Twitter

Or this very similar adjustable heat control 

Draper 61478 Soldering Station (40w) | MicksGarage

Yes its the side of the mock up of the MK3 pp

On 31/8/2021 at 5:00 PM, Warbonnet said:

 

If anyone can provide photos of former BR Mark 2B or Mark 2C coaches they may have in their collections we would love to see them!

Picture from Nigel Curtis of BR 19512 (FK downgraded SK) which became Irish Rail 4109