PVS

Absolutely fine; nothing missing, mint condition. A real bargain. Modelfair are having a sale and have reduced 071 in s/b freight livery to £144 odd. My flexible friend got me one of those too. Postage? by current standards not bad at all. Recommended service.

I'll let you know about the modelfair 201; Just bought it.

Thanks all for the welcome and Wrenneir for settling the query. Guess Lima had QC issues in its latter days. I'll apply Abhainn Na Boinne plates if I can.

Hello All,

Firstly I'd like to say I'm delighted to join what seems like a friendly and knowledgeable group. I've been picking your collective brains anonymously on queries CIE/IR/IE for a while now so decided I really ought to become 'official' and join.

No doubt I'll have loads of queries. I'm building a layout set around 1979-94 or so based on the premise that Donegal had and kept a mainline which runs from Derry around to (eventually) Sligo via Letterkenny which is where my layout is set. A free hand with the station track plan, a wide selection of stock available and with a plausible excuse (to me at least) to run frequent NIR stuff as well.

Secondly, a question. I have recently acquired Lima 207 (don't panic, I have a MM Bachman IE example too; it's the early Enterprise livery that does it). At one end it carries the name 'River Boyne' - which you'd expect - but at the other it is named 'Abhainn na Life' rather than 'Abhainn na Bóinne'. I believe the loco named 'River Liffey' was actually no. 206. I think there was a production error on this one and I wondered if anyone has come across this before with this or any other class member?

Grateful for any insight.