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The only surviving 16xx is 1633 at Dunsandle https://www.flickr.com/photos/be216cd1/28063968640

Yes they were hauled by 121/141/181 locos. As per the picturebelow from Jonathan Allen’s collection on Flickr.

No not at all you would have to return them to China and good luck with that.

I think its the factory going solo.

Another one of the Brake standard

I can’t see a reason why not the complete document is about 45 pages so quite a task to scan and reproduce.

its dated 1st of July 1969 but bits added like MK2s etc so accurate to mid 1970's.

Here is an page from a carriage stock register 1906 is the only one listed as fitted to run with Diesel (Railcars)

Of the five of these coaches two 1904 , 1905 & 1908 had Great Southern type bogies and two 1906 & 1907 had Commonwealth bogies , only one 1906 was fitted to work in railcar sets .

The sound of the double sounds fantastic just like the real ones .

The Worlsey works model comes with ends and a floor with the correct truss arrangement which you would loose .

Nice painting.

Great stuff ttc0169 ,I love the publicity shots at Killiney and the Vale of Avoca on the DSE even though the Mk2s wouldn’t see service on that route until 1987 .

I have 056 for sale unused boxed €225.00 plus post

Here is an Oxford wagon I converted a while back.

Still Available €110.00 per set plus postage

Great work on the van I think it unlikely that IRM would do this prototype van as there were so few of them even pictures are rare ,if they were doing palvans they would most likely do the 26001 type which were more common.

Very interesting stuff one of the details I spotted in a picture of a grey H van in the 1970’s from Jonathan Allen is a painted handbrake wheel possibly yellow which is very unusual this might add an unusual detail to your repaints .

You correct I have put the correct picture on my post There is a very good thread here from Murrayec about building a Worlsey works Kit

It should look something like this albeit with better soldering skills than mine , the Worlsey works kits are a tad light on instructions!

The last picture is an instantor coupling and some of the others are too head on to tell

Great news Enda here is a nice picture from the O’Dea collection of some new “out of the box “ 30ton Vans at inchicore note the massive J hangers on them . https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtl

The fitted vans had a plate or spacer fitted between the buffers and body to slightly extend them this was possibly done because they had instantor couplings fitted to reduce the distance between the wagons to avoid them banging against each other especially when running with passenger trains .

The first ones to be withdrawn in 1968 were replaced by three ex GSR coaches becoming 2979,2980 and 2981 I suspect the interiors re used in the bogie vans the withdrawn ones were then used as vans for a while . Here's one as a van signs removed and letter box covered over . KAM_CIE_2766_Dun_Laoghaire_28_May_1970 | [Photographer: Kevi… | Flickr The others were used on Sligo and Wexford mails for a while into the early 1970s one became the foreman's office in Mullingar scrap yard . SLR_CIE_X_Mullingar_23_Aug_1986 | [Photographer: Seamus Latt… | Flickr