GSWR 90

Ouch – I hope that isn't from experience!

So the Hunslets are being delivered – does anyone have any thoughts on them?

Thank you, no worries as I've pored over that IRRS article plenty of times!

Thanks very much for this. Which book is it from? I'd be interested in learning more about their work at CSÉ if it gives more details. I'm not sure why 613's plates are black and brown. Maybe a varnish that went funny? Here is a photo from the early 2010s, and they're very definitely black and silver: And here's a photo of it in the 1990s, in cream and black:

I hope IRM don't start making G class models. I would be financially ruined.

Contortionists wanted. Removing the cement so we can get at the bolts holding the smokebox to the frames. We’re also having a whack at the ones holding the steam pipe together. I have put together a No. 90 “mood board” so we can illustrate its history to our visitors

Thanks – no, they are not in order, these plates are off 611, 613, and 617 respectively

Hi Paul. Yes, there are vague long-term plans to restore 6111 to as-built condition (without the engine of course) for use on passenger trains. It will hopefully be No. 2624 with composite passenger accommodation, and the cab would make a good guard’s van complete with windows for propelling and a nice view for passengers. That’s a long way away – they were withdrawn from service because they were literally falling apart in the 1980s (a passenger tried to open a door and it fell on top of him), and that was before it was left at Inchicore for 40 years! This is very much on the long finger, as there are much more pressing restoration projects underway, including a couple of other very long-term carriage projects and other carriages which would be much easier to get running again. Of course, there’s also another railcar currently being restored in the Workshop as well. It’s a lot of work (60+ carriages) for a relatively small organisation with limited resources, but in the event that we don’t get around to restoring the AEC in our lifetimes, the main thing is that it is now safe and its future is secured for future generations. I will send you a message re seeing it up-close.

Ireland's most glorious diesel loco, G613 at Heuston, 1962, from the O'Dea Collection. But what is it pulling? A carriage (no underfloor engine) with a window and lights at the end? Not a Bulleid AEC, not one of the Park Royals converted to driving trailers for the Waterford and Tramore – what is it?

Does anyone happen to have the Deutz works numbers for each G611 loco? Thanks

Live reaction from my savings account:

The dismemberment continues – the blastpipe and blower have been removed from inside the smokebox

Does anybody know where these locomotives currently are?

90 appears to have briefly worked in Fenit – from "The Liberator", 18th June 1935

Thar she blows with the carriage portion. It has tumblehomes and a much nicer roof, vents, and doors than 90’s