John, I'd found a little about the Great Southern Railway Preservation Society here which might explain why they are not in traffic, and aside from the two in Downpatrick, it seems everything else was lost......Except the converted parcels/brake van that became the iconic weedsprayer wagon. I assume Edgar Craven Bredin was the same engineer, along with Beaumont, responsible for both iconic carriage design types associated with his name?
Good lord, that's a needle in a haystack find Leslie, a stock list is exactly what I'm looking for, and even a single photo would be a bonus to add to the other seven or so I have. Thanks for the info, really appreciated. I need to sign up to the IRRS
If anyone has access to the rust collection point up wesht, enthusiastically described as a transport museum in Dromod, could they grab a couple of snaps of the light green and brown Bredin carriages grounded in the muck, immediately behind the IE platform, if they could safely navigate between the ice-cream vans, RTE broadcasting vans and De Havilland Chipmunk aircraft?
I would ask for measurements, but you might trip over the narrow gauge anti aircraft guns.
Richie.