Patrick Davey

A very strange delivery to the seaside this evening, there must be something weird going on.

JB I was thinking maybe a bit later, the branch would still be in GNRB hands until 1958 I think? A30 would probably be devoid of her silver livery by then though.

This is just awesome! Enjoying the progress.

A30 arrives at and departs from Clogherhead with a local service to Drogheda, in early CIE days. A30 at Clogherhead.mp4

1 blue NIR set left!

In between work duties today I have been reading back through the main A Class thread here on the forum, reliving all the anticipation of the delivery date and all the excitement when they landed and the cracking photos we all shared. Hard to believe it’s over two years ago!! My 4 A class locos give me much enjoyment every day, even if I can’t run them every day they’re always there to admire and I have plenty of photos photos too of course Once again, a big shout out to the IRM team for the huge amount of work that went in to bringing us these exceptional models

Silver A class - unbeatable. Pity the prototype reality was very different!!!!

I’ll just leave these pics here. That livery is

That's the one! Cheers DJ.

Cheers B I think I saw that one but am not sure if it's the updated one or the original one which came with the locos?

Evening all - would anyone be able to direct me to the above document? I can't find it on the IRM website but I am notoriously useless at web searches. TIA!

Sensational - well done folks!

Delighted to be bringing Brookhall Mill to the upcoming Bangor show!! @Tullygrainey Alan Nixon of this parish will be giving me his generous assistance (look out for the snazzy red polo shirts!) so please come along and say hello!

Niceeeeeeeeee

Lovely loco selection!

Still my favourite CIE livery:

A gathering of locos at the seaside this evening. I don’t think they brought their buckets and spades though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-68435978

Interesting find!! Would like to see it in steam!

Cheers Derek!

Another step towards the finishing line:

Handy!

Really need to stop adding details

Some observations on Belfast Grand Central station, and a few questions: 1. Wow 2. The furthest left platforms are very long....presumably these are the future Enterprise platforms. 3. There is a huge blank wall to the right of the platforms - wonder will this be opened up at all as it looks a bit bland to me and potentially a bit overpowering as I think it might block out the sun.... 4. Do the platforms actually have enough capacity to accommodate future re-openings.... the only truly realistic one anyway is Armagh I think, but would Armagh trains run all the way to Belfast or instead feed into trains at Portadown? 5. Looks like it will have a very spacious concourse 6. Wonder why the platform canopies appear to continue under the overall roof of the main building? But vvvvvvery impressive overall - looking forward to arriving there by train!

2025 I think although I heard late 2024 mentioned recently..... nothing more precise yet unless someone here knows?