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A small voice in the other corner says: 'Oh yes! And what about in 1950s green with eau de nil numbers'.

And there was me thinking that Walshisland wanted to secede from Offaly and join the Moscow GAA league!

Stunning!

Fantastic layout and congratulations on the award. Is that Heirflick's panzer in the background of this photo?!

Great find Ben. Thanks for sharing.

Reminds me of travelling into work on the Bray-Balbriggan service, back when it was a push-pull and it stopped in Killiney. Ah, the good old days - comfortable trains!

Happy Birthday Anthony:cheers:. Have a good one!

Sorry to contradict you 73.River.Roe, but NIR MkIIs and CIÉ MkIIIs did run together in 1985 as outlined in my previous post. See also the pictures which were linked to by David in post # 18 and Killucan2 in post # 21. I have a photo of the 09:00 ex-Belfast with the MkIIIs for the PWI special attached, taken at Rogerstown somewhere and, if I can dig it out, I will post it.

Classic! Fantastic job Anthony.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that there were two variations of the 121s grey livery - the original grey that they were delivered in and a slightly darker shade of grey that they received when repainted in Inchicore. Perhaps JHB might be able to throw some light on this?

Following heavy rains in the Baltimore (USA) region, a 120-year-old wall on 26th Street in the Charles Village area of the city collapsed last Wednesday,sending street lights, the footpath and half a dozen cars crashing down onto the CSX rail tracks some 30 feet below. Fortunately there were no injuries. The attached video taken by a local resident captures the moment of the collapse.

Just beat me to it David. In June 1985 the Permanent Way Institution held its annual summer convention in Portrush. One of the excursions that delegates could go on was to Dublin where they visited the CTC Centre and an exhibition of permanent way equipment in what is now the car park at Connolly. The PWI delegates travelled in the MkIIIs from Portrush to Lisburn as a special train (not sure what hauled it - could have been the CIÉ loco which had worked the empty stock from Dublin to Portrush). At Lisburn the MkIIIs were attached to the rear of the 09:00 ex-Belfast for the journey to Dublin. As far as I remembered the delegates returned to Belfast and on to Portrush on regular trains and the CIÉ stock did not go back north. Anthony, the original video is wrongly dated December 1984 and is in fact a compilation of cine films taken by Barry Pickup over a number of years. JHB, unlike the times when Cravens were attached to the back of a MkIId set and were locked off, there was no problem running NIR MkIIs and CIÉ MkIIIs together as the brakes, couplers and gangways were compatible. Railer, the MkIIIs were at the back of the train because it was more straight forward to do it that way in Lisburn. To put the MkIIIs at the front of the train would have required a lot more shunting, with resulting delays to the 09:00 service. I reckon that the photo linked to in David's earlier post (# 7) was the trial trip for the June special and would have operated without passengers in any part of the train.

My deepest condolences Seamus. May she rest in peace.

Nelson, try Weshty of Studio Scale Models on this site. He can do custom transfers and should be able to sort out your problem.

Stunning work Anthony. Just shouts South Armagh near Kilnasaggart.

I hope your plans progress as it appears that the prototype, which is temporarily out of use, is to be permanently closed.

Even stranger! While 27150 did have a 12' 0" wheelbase, this series of wagons (27101 - 27300) were 4-wheel flat wagons dating from 1970.

The vans in the series 26001 - 26500, introduced 1964/5, had a 10' 0" wheelbase and were 16' 11" over headstocks.

Pure class Noel!

Not off topic Leslie. He's a Stones fan and isn't that what they put in the spoil wagons?

Amazing!

I certainly agree Anthony the livery certainly suits the 201s and your work on the model is stunning. And you've done a far better job with the positioning of the fleet numbers and EVNs than IÉ have achieved on the 071s.

Did CIÉ / IÉ actually put the two new cranes into service? Or was their usefulness overtaken by the increasing lifting capacity of road cranes?

Dave182, during storms on the Bank Holiday Monday in 1996 (28 October) one of the gantry cranes at Belview collapsed, blocking the Waterford - Rosslare Strand line. The line remained blocked until 11 November, the delay in clearing the wreckage of the crane being due to the presence of some HazChem containers in the debris. During the closure of the Waterford - Rosslare Strand line beet trains from Wellington Bridge to Mallow were diverted to operate via Wexford and Dublin. The IRRS Journal of February 1997 (No. 132) has a great picture of 087 with a beet train on Bray Head on 30 October 1996 (see page 351).