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More per way "clickbaiting" dave!

Dang, you're fast! I'd go with a small 2mm x 2mm piece of styrene at the bottom in the middle gap, and use polystyrene cement to weld the broken bit and the infill on. Broithe's is a clever approach though

Have you a shot of the damaged bogie? Collectively we might be able to offer a fix? R.

Cheers JB, will dig out those books and have a root through. This is what I have so far, and It's enough for now. R.

Photo, or I not believes you.

Cheers lads, but I've plenty of the later class. It's just to find out what oddities like pipes and horns go where for a shapeways thing I'm going to try rescue.

Really stuck lads, only have 3 to work from. Any daycent photos appreciated. Richie..

Looks super Noel, glad the tutorial was of some help (must finish it off now ). Those bell 20's look great on her :-)

Gill Sans font, unless I'm mistaken.

A bit like the silver EWS scheme from across the ditch. Maroon coaches too I wonder?

Is there collective forgetfulness of late Thread below fleshes it out Stephen. http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3388-Craven-Coaches-1145-amp-1146?p=53136&viewfull=1#post53136

One of Des Coackhams witty summations of heating system from the 50's onward. "In the days of steam traction carriage heating was mostly taken for granted by the railway traveller. Come 1st October every year, our termini were wreathed in low-pressure steam escaping from the hose-connections between carriages. Each compartment had its simple on-off valve something like a small regulator handle, and a ribbed iron heater in the dusty recess under the bench seat on that side. No flow-and-return here; what steam reached the last carriage was dissipated into the atmosphere and the locomotive obligingly provided constant replenishment. When the diesels came, that was a different matter. Wealthier undertakings like British Railways equipped their new motive power with oil-fired boilers to do the same for thousands of carriages requiring steam heat. CIE, with delivery of their Metro-Vick A and C class diesel locomotives imminent, came to the conclusion that this would be unduly complicated. The heating van was the expensive answer. From 1955 Inchicore turned out an armada of 56 four wheelers, 30ft long and built to the 10ft 2in carriage profile. The first 41 were sheeted in unpainted aluminium to match the finish of the diesel locos. They tared 21 tons and used the new design of triangulated underframe, under which were slung tank for water and fuel oil, jostling for position with the accumulator box and dynamo. A Spanner boiler, first installed in the AEC railcars and capable of generating 1000lb of steam per hour, was situated in a small middle compartment with the Guard's van on one side and luggage space plus another water tank on the other. There were gangway connections. Four further heating vans of 1964 were 30ft six-wheelers (shades of past times) and weighed 30 tons. Two Spanner boilers gave double the output of the previous vans. Space was limited , with two fuel tanks underneath, accumulators were inside the van, along with two 500 gallon water tanks. Weighing as much as a bogie coach, the six-wheelers had roller bearing axle-boxes." There is also a photo of 1349 outside Inchicore in 1951 which quotes it as a side corridor third carriage, so not sure about the assumption they were once buffet cars. R

Coach Numbers 3201 to 3212 built 1951, converted 1977 and renamed from 1339 to 1353 to 3201 to 3212 series of coaches. 61'6" Standard Brake Heating and Generator Coach John Mayne of this parish has a bit about them here http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3365-CIE-coach-sides-to-fit-Dapol-60-Stanier-coach-kit This is as close I can find for a photo, though it's from the next series in the coaching list. Difference is the single door moves to the next panel on the right, and a slim window inserted. PR 3223 by Paul J Rafferty, on Flickr

From a thread you started yourself.... and no, there are no kits for them. http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/3553-Generator-cars-for-irish-coaching-stock-specifically-HLV?p=55502&viewfull=1#post55502

http://www.thewandererphotos.com/2010photos/March-2010/i-Rpxqz8R Here is the wagon being unloaded. 36 gigabytes at last count, and plenty yet to be filed away. Always on the hunt for more They appear to be 20' long and 8'2" wide to suit the 42' flats. Each time I try and figure out the profile of the wheel supports, it just makes my head hurt, and you'll need to make 21mm wheels too

Yip, 42' flats :-) Lifting rings JM.

If I didn't know any better, I'd think you were trying to clear out my PW photos

Suggest they should go in the Tutorial section, each under a separate heading. Could the tutorial section be taken out of Workbench also to make it more visible? Also a pinned thread with "Tutorial Requests" at the top?

For the love of god, or whatever deity ye bow down to, will ye stop retiring Paddy Murphy before his time. I've heard so much crap in the last week as a result of this thread, you'd think he was bound for moo moo land. Second - have you lads any idea of the hundreds of thousands of euro he has tied up in craven coaches, 141's not to mind 201's. That money has to be released in order for him to live, and then feck about with other models. No businessman, no matter how much of a lunatic, is going to release a 121 until all the other crap has shifted. And no amount of crowdfunding aul ***** is going to help the man - if he was stuck for a few bob, he'd be the first person here looking for a dig out. Gonna take a long term break from this forum now.

Useful info, could have been handy at the start!

If they were legitimate 1950's stock, Noel would have posted a thread waxing lyrical about how good they were. He hasn't, so they're not.

Don't know my MK2 a's from my f's, but here's some photos of em in supertrain. or Superstandard as I believe they were known as???

comedy gold rich!

The silverfox version looks like someone hit the cab a belt of a shovel, it's not even remotely close to the profile of the cab and drawings and the prototype in the shape of the a class are available to measure. Nothing to do with chassis, pickup or any of that. It just doesn't look like an A class. And it's not cheap either.