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The layout is looking fabulous Patrick. I'll echo Anthony - more pics please!

Hi Paul, welcome to the site. Having seen your Carlow Station and Wellingtonbheag layouts I am certainly highly impressed by the quality of your work. Can't wait to see Limerick develop. Plenty of pics please!

And, no doubt someone high up in the company thought 'must get rid of the MkIII stock to prevent this happening again'!!!!!

Fantastic work Kirley.

Don't forget the incident at Cobh on 5 May 1995. Locomotive 165, working an early morning empty passenger train, failed to stop at the station's platform, crashed through the buffer stop, ploughed through the wall of the Cobh Heritage Centre and ended up partly inside the centre's exhibition hall.

An excellent series indeed. The BBC released two VHS tapes covering the series - Part 1 (BBCV 4254) featuring 'The Long Drag', 'The West Highlander' and 'Lines of Industry' and Part 2 (BBCV 4255) containing 'The Holiday Line', 'Steam on the Isle of Man' and 'The Survivors'. To think that when the 'The Long Drag' programme was made the Settle-Carlisle line was under serious threat of closure. Look at it now, heavy freight traffic, numerous passenger services (albeit most worked by railcars), reopened stations and diversionary traffic off the West Coast Main Line.

Model looks great Kev, well done. No logos required. White lines - one above the windows for CIÉ era or one above and one below windows for IR / IÉ era.

Looking fantastic Kirley!

You have cowboys on the Red Line, now its Indians on the Green!!

Have a great day David!

Could be interesting when she left Dún Laoghaire heading south!

Richie, another sign for your collection. Its from Killiney station. I've only seen these signs at Killiney, there are two there one on the Up platform and one on the Down side. Strangely they are both only in Irish - there is no English version. For scaleing, the full brick directly below the sign is 9 inches wide.

Funny you should say that. Guess what was on the 'Enterprise'that day - - B132 in the original Grey & Yellow livery. Note the BUT 700-class railcar on Platform 3. Also, the multi liveried railcar set in the 'Howth Bay' platform does seem to be going out hauling the two coaches as this pic shows passengers (remember this was in the days before passengers became customers!) in them. Therefore it must have been a service to somewhere down the main line where the power cars could run round the two coaches.

Its not the link to the Hymek, but the one to the 'TRIANG HORNBY R720 IRISH CIE LIVERY MARK 2 OPEN COACH ORANGE/BLACK MEGA RARE!!!!' that I left up.

Strange coincidence that Triang-Hornby should produce this model in 1976 and that IÉ would get the same or similar ones in the 1990s. A case of life imitating art?

Indeed, best wishes for 2013 to all. And lots of !

The pic of E407 was taken in Connolly (or Amiens St depending on the date) station. The loco is shunting one of the two centre carriage roads (one of which is now Plat 3). B159 is standing on Platform 3, the main departure line (now Plat 4) and in the foreground you can just see the loco release crossover from the 'Howth Bay' platform (now gone to allow the extension of P4) On the extreme left-hand side an ex-GNR(I)/GNRB van is standing in what today is Plat 1. The footbridge running across the front of the trainshed connected the main arrival and departure platforms in the GNR side of the station and continued on to the suburban loopline platforms. Its a great image of Connolly before it was modernised. And the thoughts of breakfast in the dining car travelling up the South Eastern -

Brilliant work. More pics please.

Fantastic work Anthony! Looks stunning.

JHB, I think you might have something there about the newness of the Sulzer. According to Irish Railways Traction & Travel, B107 entered traffic on 25 February. So it was either brand new or only a very short time in service. I think that the buffer beam might have remained silver until the locos were repainted. There is a picture in Tom Ferris' book Irish Railways in Colour 1955-1967 of a very dirty silver liveried B109 taken in 1961 and it still has the silver buffer beam (p 92). On the following page is a 1963 pic showing B112 in the 'black & tan' livery with a red buffer beam.

Great work Noel, as usual.

Stunning work there Glenderg!! Certainly is a nice livery and one BAC should consider. Maybe you could interest them in it! A small point - would the 'Flying Snail' on the side have poited towards the front of the bus - i.e. be reversed? AFAIK the 'Snails' on vehicles which normally ran in one direction only, e.g. steam locomotives, both pointed to the front of the vehicle. The lack of a relief colour was a big problem with the tan colour scheme. In the pics above the buses with adverts between the lower and upper floor windows do look a whole lot better than those without them as they break up the large expanses of a single colour.

Great video Garfield. Like the shots (at 14:46) of the crew member walking about the roof of the loco as it shunts along the servicing road. Obviously no H&S worries in those days!

There's a picture of the locomotive in the open air on page 65 of the 3rd Edition of Irish Railways Traction & Travel (ITG 1994). It shows the same end as the pic above, but you can just see that the other cab side is still in the standard livery. JHB, I'd have to disagree. I don't think that the livery suits the A class at all - too much orange on the front of the loco. It worked better on the 201s as they have larger windows on the cab front. Thank goodness that they never tried it on the 071s or 121s! To my mind the best livery carried by the A class was the 'black & tan' scheme, with the dipped 'tan' band.

A sad loss indeed. A man of remarkable inventiveness who gave us many happy hours in front of the TV. May he rest in peace. ‘Thunderbirds Are Go’.