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What time frame does this cover?

Virtually current. For example, the Second Edition was published in February 2004 and the diagrams in most cases show the position in November 2003.

From Gobnait O'Lúnasa to Fr. Jack so many hours of enjoyment. May he rest in peace.

Excellent, GSR, pints accepted!

Lovely pics JHB, they bring back memories.BTW, Nos 2 and 5 are Arklow.

Brilliant work Kieran!

Early inspection cars were painted in carriage livery - maroon under the GSR, and the older dark green, fully lines and "snailed" by CIE.

At least one of the earlier GSR cars got the Black & Tan livery. The May 1969 issue of 'Irish Railfans' News' contains the following entry:

'Drewry Inspection Car No.4 of 1927 has been renovated at North Wall, Dublin, and converted for use as a track recording unit to help locate irregularities in the lines. It has been repainted in the standard livery of black, golden brown and white'.

Impressive beasts, they are/were of French origin?

Indeed they were Railer. Builders were Fauvet Girel of Lille, France.

Having said that, I wonder if any other IRM folks have ever travelled in an 0.3.0 on a railway with no gauge? Anyone here ever travel behind it?

Sadly it wasn't operational when I visited the museum back in 1981.

I'm not sure if Paul Johnson owns the copyright to all of the photos on the site. The information at the top of the page: 'Some of these pictures were taken by me and some were bought. All are part of my collection. These pictures are published for pleasure/information/research purposes only and are not for sale or copy under any circumstances.' He obviously does own the copyright to the photos taken by him, while some of the older photos are, I believe, part of the National Archive collections held in the NRM York.

JHB, only a few wrong way up images so I think that the pints are well deserved. Don't know about the singing though!!

Excellent!! Thanks for posting John.

Would it be fair to say that a 009 gauge loco would need a shallower climb, due to smaller size and smaller weight?

On the other hand the load would be less also, so it might balance out.

Great videos John. Pity about the soundtrack in the second one though, it would be much nicer if one could hear the 'music' from the locomotives instead.

A great broadcaster and a wonderful ambassador for Ireland. He will be sadly missed. RIP

That layout is as good in real life as it looks here!

 

The last three of us standing emerged from Heuston station this evening suitably guinnessed and Tara Junctionned....

 

Never knew Tubbercurry had such great night life!

Sorry that I missed the second half of the trip - especially the driver training at Tara Junction!

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Mentioned on here but I can't identify any on the photos

The guy in the second photo reminds me of 'Doyle' from The Professionals! CI5 to ESB?

The poster in the background of this shot definately shows Mark 3's - something stange to put in (in what looks to be a complete formation too, from the photo in Jan 2016 Model Rail) if you're not going to produce the models

 

The Rapido announcement on the company's website starts: 'Following the exclusive APT-E trainset and Stirling Single locomotive, Rapido Trains Inc. and Locomotion Models are excited to reveal a new partnership to produce the ground-breaking Prototype HST (HST-E) Power Cars in 4mm scale/OO gauge as part of the ‘National Collection in Miniature’ series' (my emphasis). I would agree, however, that it would make more sense and be quite likely that there would be at least some intermediate trailers produced. Fortunately, for those wishing to convert these coaches to represent Irish MkIIIs, the vehicles used on the prototype HSDT were fitted with buffers. But, as RedRich says, the resulting conversion would again be just a repaint of an expensive BR MkIII with wrong doors etc and, as Glenderg points out, the cost of a correct version would likely be prohibitive.

Where has that been said?

It was announced at the Warley 2015 show by Locomotionmodels and Rapido Trains; it was reported in the January 2016 edition of Model Rail (p. 28); and the announcement is on the section Rapido Trains website dealing with British models (http://uk.rapidotrains.com/). It remains to be decided what the package will include - just the power cars or if there will be the coaches as well.

To the best of my knowledge there were no MkIII gen vans in Britain.

Brilliant stuff Railer! Thanks for sharing.

Patrick,

Great videos. I am curious about the industrial complex shown on the right hand side of the screen on the January 2006 video. Can anyone shed some light on what it was and its history

what place in the video is the are you refering to?

Relax Rich and Noel.

Livery mixes were almost the norm 1955-65.

Indeed they were jhb, as this photo taken in Amiens Street in, I think, 1961 shows.

I'm not sure, but I heard they were quite popular - at least, I was told they had several fans.