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I also see Rails of Sheffield are doing some cracking deals on some Hornby Diesel locos

That's a great deal Fran

Agreed Fran the 071 the best Diesel loco to run on Irish rails

Driver Anthony asked signalman Eamonn have you seen "Ticket inspector Noel anywhere". "Yes" says Eamonn "I sent him for a pizza and Some beers" Party!!! says Anthony Will the liner move or will the 3 boys get drunk and have IE's first party train Tune in next week to find out =))=))

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It hard to believe its 25 years since that, where has the time gone:confused:

Great looking layout

Nice find Dave

Yes Yorkshire and Scotland are both trying to get the honour of the Tour De France starting there

Some great photos there Wiggy

It will make for a very interesting Olympics road race next week

Yes Fran I agree that the 201's were really the first complete class of diesels to be named but I am more interested in why the likes of the older diesels like the A/C class and Sulzer/121/141/181/071 never received the same treatment. As for a UKcentric thing when you look back at the history of Irish railways and see that it they originally came from UK companies building a major trading route to the British empires 2nd city at the time (Dublin) I surprised the practice of naming locos never really took on this side of the Irish sea. It would be interesting to see if the rest of the British colonies kept up this practice.

Yes NIR do the same naming a lot of their locos and stock

Its great to watch history been made today

What about locos Noel. IE ain't really renowned for naming their locos like other railway companies any ideas why.

Woodland scenics do some nice materials now for making trees

Wow Frank how do you get the time

Paddy told me at the Bangor show that the NIR blue and Enterprise purple have been put on the long finger and may be released next year

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