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I'm fairly confident on what I'm doing with RC but confidence has been my downfall many a time so I'd love to take a look, thanks so much!

Very generous offer, thanks so much! I’ll be helping exhibit at the Dunshaughlin and Mount Temple shows this autumn if you would be there and would like to drop them off then. I can buy them for however much you spent on them.

A useful tutorial and explainer that may be helpful for those interested in uncoupling solutions. The first really viable uncoupling system I’ve seen for tension locks.

I think the reason the A and C are listed under CIÉ 001 and CIÉ 201 on Wikipedia are to keep consistent with the page names for the 071, 101, 121, 141/181, 601, etc.

How many people are working on the game at the moment? Is it just ye two and the developer of NIR?

Think I made something approximating a BnM wagonmaster in Minecraft as well but i dont have any screenshots and the server has long since gone down.

Interesting to see the resemblance to the 59s in the more squat windows and inset horns. I imagine it wouldn't be particularly hard to recreate with an old Hornby 59 and some Plasticard and filler to flatten the lower front. Also, I assume that's supposed to be between Killiney and Dalkey but it is a little funny to imagine that the IRRS were simply optimistic enough to believe Bray Head would be double-tracked before 1994! https://www.flickr.com/photos/northernblue109/6992812547 not a full DD set but certainly nice to look at

I believe the camping coach was removed with the line in 1960, so it was possibly moved closer to the running line so as to be removed more easily?

121 in the current dark grey 071 livery would also be an interesting one! Maybe a Mk3 set in 26xx/2800 style silver and green?

Very useful, thanks a lot. I’ll try that on the cutting section and see if it can then be used on the rest of the line.

My personal approach is crossing my fingers and yanking out any longer blades myself if I need to, but that might not be the greatest strategy, I don't know.

Well, no update on RC yet, but I have gotten a bit of landscaping done at the Cut at Barnacollin, since some of the cutting wall had been washed over the tracks. As such I’ve started removing the sloped loose earth and excavated back to an almost vertical face made up of more tightly packed earth. Ive also cleared the debris off the track and replaced it with an even layer of fine soil- hopefully this will allow for some “green track” to form similar to that seen on Bord na Móna. Just a small update for now, but hopefully I’ll have a bit more progress to share soon.

Realise I'm 3 years late but all the infrastructure from Cherryville to Waterford was built to accomodate double track (and immediately north of Waterford there was room for a third track carrying Limerick Junction trains). Thankfully although most rail-over bridge decks are single track, the supports are all still wide enough to support double track the entire way, and new bridges over IÉ alignment are as wide as practical by default, so of course have room for a second track. The only point at which there isn't room is the <200m section over Thomastown viaduct, but as demonstrated at Drogheda, a very short single-track section is manageable, especially adjacent to a station. It would involve replacing the aforementioned majority of single-track rail-over spans, but all other masonry can accomodate dual track, and aforementioned triple track would also be possible north of Waterford, although I'm not sure it's necessary given that the Limerick Junction line would be unlikely to ever go above one train per hour per direction and the Dublin line is unlikely to go above 2 in the next few decades.

Appears that @irishrail201 has been inactive since 2021, but it looks like it may have been done by hand with either a fine paintbrush or waterslide lining strips, plenty available from Fox Transfers although no idea whether that's what they used.

You don't need to be there day in day out. As long as you're over 16 you can volunteer on your own and if you're 13-16 you can volunteer in some roles if there's a parent or guardian on site. And if it's easier for you to get to Stradbally we'd be happy to take you! Everywhere is in need of volunteers, and basically every railway in Ireland is small enough that you'll get to do the fun stuff fairly quickly. If you have a question about volunteering somewhere drop me a PM, as a quite young heritage railway volunteer i might have some useful experience.