flange lubricator

Managed to dig out a couple of pictures of the interior of the catering car 4401 mk2b from Aug 1991

Above is a picture of the real 3188 at the Inchicore Works open day in June 1996 you have certainly captured the wrap around paint on the ends and the B5 bogies look the business , where did you get the extended buffers from?

Fabulous link if you flick through the pictures some with railway and non railway interest .

Great work Popeye the weathering add's that extra level realism to the models.

excellent job

Great modelling Daryl love the wrap around ends which were a feature on these vans in IR/IE era .

That's great weshty it would be safe to say you have the covered wagons covered .

Westhy could you do a sheet of various H van numbers

Stunning weathering

Thanks Jhb, your pictures are a great help upside down or not !

I simply used spare numbers from a 30T van from SSM I would be delighted if someone did a sheet of these numbers 1-10 for these vans and other CIE stock and with the arrival of Leslie's H vans at some point people's can renumber them also the new ballast wagons . I also did a Ex GNR(I)covered van I am just missing me letter N as JHB mentioned in a previous post ya must never forget the N !

Interesting variant on the end of the van on the right. This would be a good conversion from the parkside kit for a BR plywood sided van

 

This is one that ,I converted from a parkside kit a few months back

The second batch of wagons 32021-32023 were built in the UK by Bombardier Prorail in Wakefield for STS(Bombardier Prorail) which was formerly Charles Roberts the same company that built the ESSO wagons 971-1013 in 1960's , they went out of business in 2005.

The main differance in the two batches is the first batch had an underframe the second batch didnt.

Just to add to H Gricers very detailed post this is one of additional ammonia wagons delivered in 1995

What's the pipe coming from the axle box on 177?

That's for the Hasler speedometer

Another two gems.

 

Love 081 hauling the laden 4 wheel beets and the empty bulk beets together to shunt them in for loading. Way more then the 36TEU limit there.

 

 

Super stuff Railer brings back happy memories hard to belive the beet is gone 10 years now

Great video

The first 121 to be fitted for multiple working was 121 in Sept 1973, it took nearly another two years before the entire class was converted.

The fitting of multiple working took longer than that perhaps it was done as the locos were in the shops for overhauls by early 1976 only 11 of the class were fitted 122,128,125 and B132 remaining unconverted of these 125 was the last to be done in early 1978 .

I suppose the concept of double heading never really existed in Ireland before that? Seems like a gigantic oversight.

Were the two Inchicore sulzers 1100 and 1101 not fitted for multple working as built in 1951?

Super pictures

Yes good news, saw it on MM website http://www.murphymodels.com

 

Well done MM. Looking forward to acquiring 3 x 121s for my era (1xIE 2xB&T), and may be tempted into one Grey livery for static display in a case.

If black tan is your era grey 121's ran well into the sixties in fact CIE repainted one B135 in grey in the mid sixties two had the addition of a red buffer beam B123 and B127 I think and ran until 1966 like that

They were 70 seats as built as far as I'm aware .

Only the Park Royals had 3+2.

I think that the first series of laminate coaches 1429-1448 were 70 seaters with 3+2 seating nicknamed maze if I remember correctly.

super job on the bredins Kirley

Superb modelling

It's interesting that the CIE palvans were built in 1964/65 with no vacuum brakes I think the last non braked vehicles to be built?. I have always heard the railwaymen refer to the vacuum hose as "bag" I don't what the orgin s of that are .