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    Happy Birthday Irish Railway Modeller! Many thanks to Pat, Fran, Stephen and Rich for setting up the forum and to all those who have contributed to it and made it the fantastic resource that it is! Now, about that cake .......
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    Rich, early livery Bredins (green) did not operate with gen vans. To supply electricity for lighting each coach was equipped with batteries charged by a dynamo driven by a belt off one of the axles. The coaches were electrically independent from each other. Heating was supplied either from the locomotive (steam and diesels 1100/B113 and 1101/B114) or from a steam heating van (diesel era). Gen vans were not introduced until the early 1970s - well into the Black & Tan era.
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    As far as I can remember the booking office at the ISPS Stradbally railway site was one of the standard gauge cars. Not sure if it is still there.
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    Fantastic model of a real location. It was featured in Continental Modeller recently and, if I remember correctly it is 16 metres long!
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    Garfield is correct. The signals protecting manually operated level crossings were distant signals. The 'home signals' in these cases were the red lamps on the gates themselves. Using a distant signal to protect the gates allowed trains to pass the signal at caution and to pull up to the gates - this being needed to allow the driver/guard to contact the gate keeper (where one was available) - and also in the case of crew operated gates. Had home signals been used then, if they were at danger, trains would have to stop at them and could not pull up to the gates.
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    New series looking at the railways in Ulster on TG4 tonight at 21:00. Tonight's episode looks at the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway
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    As far as I can remember, some if not all, of the axlebox covers on the coach's bogies are branded CL&RR - Cavan Leitrim & Roscommon Railway.
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    Rubbish Patrick! You are indeed a great craftsman. Your might consider your layout to have 'minimal scenery and trackwork' but yours is spot on. And while you might consider many of your models to be 'crude imitations' they too are spot on. The images of, for example, the B141 trundling through the rolling countryside with a short goods train perfectly captures to essence of the Irish railway scene in the 1960s / 70s. As such, your layout certainly deserves to be considered for a magazine article.
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    Classic, as usual, Patrick!
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    Ssl

    josefstadt replied to BosKonay's topic in Site News & Help

    Me too.
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    I see that the BBC News (Kent) had an item featuring Roy's layout: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-36547794
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    I think that the CTA only applied to the movement of people, not goods, between the RoI and the UK. A Brexit would see the re-introduction of customs' controls along the border, for the railway at Dundalk and Newry (Connolly and Belfast if there were non-stop services). This would increase journey times and lead to a worsening of the railway's position vis a vis road transport.
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    No George it's just the undercoat. The finished colour will be the same dark blue that the coaches are in.
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    Great work Richard! Really captures the look of the prototype.
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    The 'Graham's Resprays @themodelshop.ie' thread on this site has pictures of one:
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    Definately Dún Laoghaire. The coach behind the locomotive and the one to its right are presumably in the early 1930s brown & cream livery of the GSR.
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    Hope you never meet Jack when in an aircraft Walter!
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    For models of Soviet era / Russian era passenger stock one can also try http://www.eurotrain.ru. Unfortunately their website is only in Russian but if you scroll down the first page of the site to the button below the Steiff bear that says 'Смотреть все модели' and click it you will get to the rolling stock section.
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    Great selection of photos Kieran!
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    Have a great day Boss!!
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    New Website

    josefstadt replied to Dave's topic in News

    Nice one Dave. All the best with the new site. Helix's is the singular possesive form. The plural of helix is helixes or helices, the latter being the most common version.
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    Stunning. I can almost see myself looking out of the second window from the right on the upstairs floor, which was part of the office where I was based in the late 80s to mid 90s.
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    And there was me thinking this had something to do with Jeremy Clarkson. Such as:
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