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As always oozing atmosphere love the mix of cattle wagon colours grey and red oxide .

Nice work GM171kk they are the earlier keg pallets they were lifted off the train and straight onto the lorry for onward's delivery to pubs

Nice job on the wagon here one in Cork looks like the bottom half is in red oxide

Nice picture of A19 with a covered H van which is 'fitted' for vacuum brakes I wonder had it come off a passenger train.

Here is a good picture of some Vac Brake versions one with 60M.P.H Brian Flanagan photo from flickr

Looks great Patrick I have three to do all you need is the transfer saying '60MPH and VAC Brake ' I find it incredible the thought that those wagons were past for 60 mph on the back of a passenger train , one can only imagine what the journey was like for the poor cattle .

And maybe they are going to fit sound chips

Here is another interesting one if you notice the open top black container to the left of the picture with the CIE broken circles on it , I think these were used for carrying scrap metal to Cork for many years used to be a regular to see some of them on the midday liner , they would be easy enough to reproduce using a kit from C rail containers and remove the top.

Here is a picture from a previous thread , with the same wagons which seem to be slightly oversized so are marshalled in between a 20' container .

189 was the first loco to haul them , then over the years 201's, 071's, 121's, 141's, 181's, pairs mixed pairs and even single 121's if that was your thing , but never an A .

The bogie Bulks were never hauled by the A class as they were air braked wagons the A class were never equipped for air braked trains (029 was as a trial ). Nice job on the wagons

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Fabulous picture by Jonathan Allen from Flickr lots of CIE containers and B&I line containers love to see C Rail do a 20' B&I container like this .

Your layout captures that scene perfectly, The fert you remember the was the Farrnfore fert didn’t run that often only seen it once in 1999 I think with a 141 class .

In about 1980/81 the old loco shed at Ballybrophy was being used as a location for the removal of asbestos from the park royals .

Fascinating insight exciecoachbuilder , in the mid eighties I worked on some Laminates with the RPSI and they had no insulation just as you describe , the Iroko was cheaper then other hard woods but also very durable to rot , I think the internal partitions were possibly made of oak . The later bulit laminates 1497-1503 built 1964 may have had blue asbestos which led to their withdrawal and eventual disposal in a quarry in Co Antrim in the early 1980's. 1500TL coach built 1964 next to the parcel van

Received by Fert wagon's today and what can I say the word sublime comes to mind. I am wondering will at some stage in the future IRM make available the sambre et meuse Y25 bogies as an accessory?

The Beet 40' looks very good .

Here's another O'Dea photo of the vans under construction http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304519

Curiouser and curiouser , Des Coackhams book Irish broad guage carriages refers to the twelve coaches built by the GSR as 60'0" long and 9'0" wide which I think maybe incorrect they were not all uniform . Looking at pictures 10'0" seems too wide more likely 9'6" or 9'0"wide ? here is another picture from the O'Dea collection of the 1960 built van next to a four wheeled heating van which is 10'0" at waist . Both coaches would be either 9'0"or9'6" at cantrails the bogies vans always looked very straight or slab sided . http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304884 in the IRRS journal no 37 vol 7 Modern CIE coaching stock by D Kennedy he mentions the vans as 61'6" long 9'0" wide and a carrying capacity of 6 tonnes.

The 2549-2558 vans were a complete copy of 2548 which was a Bredin designed Van from 1935 built by the GSR for the Cork mails with the exact same dimensions 60'0 long 10'0 wide the major difference being the latter version used a triangulated underframe and commonwealth 8'0 bogies , as mentioned by Mayner above SSM models already do model 2548 as a brass kit . http://www.studio-scale-models.com/BredV.shtml Another picture of the van new with a very well turned out Guard standing beside it . http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000305119

I would certainly be interested in two.