hurricanemk1c

Thanks folks. I'm reserving judgement on the livery until it's finished, but the light ended up just about right

8209 worked the 0815 Ballina - North Wall IWT today (3/12/14). I headed down to North Wall and the docks for a few photos Regards, Kieran

Evening all, A group of photos taken recently, including a peek at Inchicore. Taking advantage of the weakening sunlight to produce some nice colours https://www.flickr.com/photos/hurricanemk1c/15881162626/in/set-72157649123185531 Regards, Kieran

As far as I know (and it's a technicality) CIÉ never had any Mark 2A's - only Iarnród Éireann did. Prehaps that might help your search. Mark 2 details that were bought from BR: Open Second Mark 2/2A (64S, 2 Lav, 31 ton 17 cwt) 4101 (5428) - AD2A 4102 (5411) - AD2A 4108 (5252) - AD2Z (48-seater originally) 4110 (5306) - AD2A Open Second Mark 2C (54S, 2 Lav, 32 ton 16 cwt). All AD2C 4103 (6406) 4104 (6405) 4105 (6401) 4106 (6413) 4107 (6403) Open Second Mark 2A (54S, 2 Lav, 32 ton 16 cwt) 4113 (19469) - AA2A (Built as Corridor First, then Corridor Second) 4114 (13471) - AA1A (Built as Corridor First) Open Second Mark 2B (42S, 2 Lav, 33 ton) 4109 (19512) - AA2B (Built as Corridor Second) Open Second Mark 2C (52S, 2 Lav, 33 ton 9 cwt). Built as Corridor Seconds (AA2C) 4111 (19521) 4112 (19553) Buffet Open Second Mark 2B (36S, 1 Lav, 35 ton 10 cwt). Built as Corridor Seconds (AA2B) 4401 (19489) 4402 (19497). All purchased in 1990 from Vic Berry Scrapyard, Leicestershire. As far as I know, they were on 'secondary' services to places like Galway, Westport and Waterford. Believe they were withdrawn between 2003-2005. 4111 damaged by fire and scrapped 1992 Regards, Kieran

Evening all, Some photos from Heuston this morning and a quick stop at Kildare for the DFDS liner Complete with a confused 22000! Regards, Kieran

231 borught an Enterprise set their for refurbishment

For Gat Ex stock it was a Mark 2 brake that was converted to gen van - It was a Mark 2B Brake First Corridor with BR

OK - it was 22036!

Not perfect - different toilet configuration and seats are different, but not that much different. Bachmann are producing Mark 2F's which are identical (bodyshell wise) to the Gatwick stock.

Dapol had announced a Class 59 years ago but never carried on - note that Dave Jones of DJ Models is the same Dave Jones that ran Dapol, so presumably knew that the 59 wasn't happening

Some of the Dapol stuff was announced in 2007-2008 and still isn't released (Class 50, although now in the CAD stage)

It really does depend. As an N guage modeller, I doubt that many, if any, RTR stuff will come out. It's well known even in the much larger UK market that 1 N gauge model sells for every 3-4 OO gauge item. If a good project came along and interested me and if I know the quality could be made, then I might fund it. A 3 ICR would be a good idea - vital for the scene from late 2007 on. If you modelled that period, you could have Baby GM's, 071's, 201's. Mark 2-4 and ICR's, along with a few freight flows. A big dream of mine is modelling Portarlington pre re-building (off topic now!). As all ICR's have two common vehicles (A3 and B cars), only three bodyshells are needed. A cool feature would be working a Voith Turbo Teloscopic Schaku Coupler. That personally would be more likely from a Crowdfunded model that mainstream model. It's always a risk to fund (even though you do get the money back if not successful). One or two failures of projects you've invested in and that's it, you are unlikely to invest again. I will wait with interest, watching other crowd funded models and see how they get on before considering whether an Irish version would be good

Hi all, Some photos from Wednesday and Thursday that I've just got around the uploading https://www.flickr.com/photos/hurricanemk1c/with/15848755521/ Regards, Kieran

First off, thanks for the share of the photo! This is not finished as has been previously stated. There should be some coloured swirls on the side. However, the mock-up photo I saw was at Engineer's Ireland in September on a presentation by Mal McGreevy so it's not up on the internet yet. It now has numbers (8209 at long last) and has been moving around Inchicore. Wednesday it was at the Heuston end of the main running shed and on Thursday / today it's been at the Cork end. This is probably the penultimate new livery for the Enterprise 201's - unless the planned electrification of the Belfast line by 2040 doesn't go ahead. (BTW the preference is for loco+coaches for Enterprise work in the future) Just as an aside 22036/37/38 will cover the De Dietrich off for refurbishment. They'll be on for a maximum of 4 weeks at a time (interval between B exams at Laois Traincare Depot). However 22038 was seen at Heuston last night so it might be rotated through on a weekly basis Regards, Kieran