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I had a look, and apologies for duff info. It was another font I used called Celtic Gaelige available from http://www.dafont.com/celtic-gaelige.font (Click the small Download button on the far right, not any of the larger shoutier download buttons.) When you get it installed you'll have to do a few tricks to get the most out of it. Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map and in the drop down box scroll through the list to Celtic Gaelige. All the non standard letters are available. Select the one you want, highlight it and copy it from there and paste into your Word Document. The English is simply Arial Bold. Great Signage Awaits.....

I have a few of them upstairs on the big rig and will post them up here. Despite my searches, I don't recall that there is a one size fits all font for Gaelic Railway signage. R

Extract it from the zip file and go to its extracted location. Right click and select install from the options. Alternatively cut or copy the file and paste it into c/windows/fonts folder. When you fire up word it should be available in the dropdown for fonts. R.

Yes, turf burner. Little ones with LED's for signal boxes etc. Ye hardly thought I meant that turfburner?

No need, they'll be going free with the RTR Turfburner released on the 01st April 2016. Edit - Actually I believe other producers have the H-Van on their "work" sheet.

One of my favourite boozers on Moore street before it was burnt out....

And a reason to throw a few slaps Dave if your precious collection is misfondled in any way. Sounds like a win win for a collector/ex. Boxer?

I think it's the footage of the Sean Connery "Great Train Robbery" train.

On the shorter rakes, half the ballasts would be turned so that the hopper doors would discharge evenly. 5 left, 5 right etc. Plenty rakes ran single sided though,and I've seen up to 24 run in a rake, though it's not likely as a working movement. Possibly a stock rearragement. P.s personally humbled by the positivity shown toward this project from such a dedicated community. Looking forward to meeting a few of ye tomorrow, to have the craic.

Excellent thread roxy! I did hear a story of a man who used to check the phoenix park tunnel late at night who heard the ballast crunching a few feet behind him every night. It never bothered him as his father did the same job before him. I heard a great story years ago in pallasgrean where they had the railway hotel. I worked behind the bar as an oik, and the lights would flicker at about 11 every Saturday. Locals always put it down to the ghost train. I put it down to bad wiring, but it still spooks me

Kieran, Completely missed this thread with all that's going on. I'll email you what I have on Monday, drawings too.

Gills Sans MT for the English, and Clo Gaelach (Twomey) for the gaelige. Google will sort you for the second, but gills sans is pre installed. Richie

I did mean magnasite. Am currently formulating a scheme...I'll know more about it Sunday when I speak to a specialist. and dolomite and gypsum should be easy converts.

They are identical wagons. I've even been asked by a customer to convert a rake to gypsum wagons. It involves no more than removing a few decals, replacing it with those from your favourite irish decal supplier, and painting the release wheels in the same bauxite that the wagons will come in. I'll even do tutorial on how do every variant possible with the chassis, magnasite included.

Yes, John, they will come already numbered, out of a shortlist of 12 running numbers. We're trying to organise the manufacture in such a way that different numbers will be available. DJM have indicated that factory produced and user applied decals is not a recommended solution from his past experience. Richie.

GNRI had some full width balconies types, Glaslough being one, and it was in the design handbook initially. They appear to have ditched it in favour of the straight up and in approach. That said there is very little "irish" about it. I can't think of cabin that had random rubble stonework to the lower quarters. Brick was easier and cheaper. Unless you had a large box like Mullingar and it needed to support a lot, but that was dressed stone. The finial detail on the roof is GNRI, but the barge boards are a fiction. Timber panelling always ran horizontally for weathering/flashing reasons, and usually there was a decent overhang on the roof. Is this a real pre-production image or a sketchup model someone has made for a train sim or something?

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Loving it. A few downpipes from cotton buds would tidy it off nicely.

This is a rake of 10 from April 2014, topped and tailed with ballast ploughs. They are my own scratchbuilt ones NOT SAMPLES OR PROTOTYPES, to the same dimensions and size as the ones being produced. The cutting mat is 3 foot long, to give an idea of scale.

Turf power only, as instructed by the ghost of Bulleid....

Correct Kirley, will ask the lads to fix that now. If you scroll down the main page, beneath "Meet the Team" there should be emails for each of us. Yes, we will be at all the shows once they arrive at the North Wall, and we are in discussions with retailers about stocking them also. R.

Yip, exact same. Snapper posted some great photos, http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/536-Gypsum-Wagons-(PWD) another market for the decal wizards!

The only difference is that the hopper sides as they met the angle were rounded rather than straight, and the hopper discharge wheels were finished in red oxide rather than yellow. In fact, one of them is intended as a running number. We'll be working closely with decal suppliers providing artwork and running numbers, so they can supply in that regard. Richie.

I'll be manning the stand when you do disappear. If their like rubberbandits when you get back, nathin to do with me, kid.

Someone mentioned Bran Flakes earlier, which made me chuckle at it's sheer ingenuity