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After almost a year of no operations after the disastrous floods, the Downpatrick & County Down Railway will be running trains once again this month as The Phantom Flyer rolls into town on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October. The stock in use will be 450 class 'Thumper' set No.458 "Antrim Castle" (as seen on Derry Girls). If you're looking for some heritage diesel railcar action while bringing the kids on a Halloween scare with a difference you'll find full details and tickets available from: https://www.downrail.co.uk/event/halloween/

One featured on the 1964 Grand Steam Tour of Ireland with laminates and J15s, well worth watching this video incidentally:

Beautiful. Now there's a model idea...

WayBackMachine doesn't always save images depending on what way they were hosted. I suspect in Fototopic's case the images were on a different server to the site superstructure.

Mine was included on the invoice for sure.

Just got my invoice there this morning... all straight forward in the end.

Love the station building, really nails the Wilkinson style found on the MGW and DSE.

I suspect by the time the sets were cleared for other lines and staff trained, GC would be passed for 201s...

In this universe (Earth 1541)* a Woolwich survived into preservation, seen here with 186 on railtour duties in the 2000s. *Yes I'm a DC fan

Trust me if I was hungover I wouldn't be cutting polystyrene on a Sunday morning

A bit under weather this weekend so stayed in, used the opportunity to experiment with a polystyrene platform base. To be continued...

Dublin Heuston-Limerick Junction (reverse)-Limerick Check (reverse)-Killarney(reverse & break)-Dublin Heuston. Booked stock is a 201 class loco and a mkIV carriage set, this will be the first ever passenger working of a mkIV set over the Limerick line, having previously only worked there on acceptance trials/works visits. 201s are also now comparitively rare visitors to the Limerick and Tralee lines, with 071s traditionally more common on PW and railtour workings. https://www.tailtetours.com/event-details/the-great-southern-railway-centennial-railtour

Among the items are Gerry Cochrane's Back in Steam, an inspirational read on how the DCDR came to be and its story up to 2009. Highly recommended for all lovers of Irish railway preservation.

We've a few places left on this if anyone wants to join, we'll be confirming numbers with the bus company in a few days.

Some magnesite wagons recently arrived for storage