Niles

Day trip from Dublin taking in: The Belturbet Railway Museum (home to both narrow and standard gauge locos and rolling stock) Cavan & Leitrim Railway at Dromod (including a steam trip behind "Nancy" and a chance to view their newly arrived Bord na Móna Wagonmaster and Hunslet diesels, fresh off the bogs) Hells Kitchen Bar and Railway Museum, a chance to have a pint inside preserved A Class diesel A55 and view an extensive collection of memorabilia Dept Connolly Luas stop at 09:00, back for 21:30 - ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF PLACES AVAILABLE ON THE COACH https://www.tailtetours.com/three-museums-tour

Part of the old GVS tracks have been given a useful second life... https://downnews.co.uk/dcdr-gets-sleeper-donation-from-central-junction/?fbclid=IwY2xjawEd75RleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaxBxTlld5U-nko9pZoNUSR81EUXpM7YdwgbEwvE16wVQyPWS4TOot746w_aem_6G7BmclJDx9exGxnVjAUQg

Excellent initiative and a very worthy cause indeed.

Interesting that it's still numbered '1001' as late as 1961.

Oh sorry forgot about this. The '8' appears to be a slightly smaller size than the '101'. Lesson, don't worry too much about getting numbers spot on, the real railways don't.

I was researching this for a non-modelling project which will emerge in the next month or two; from what we can tell the broken logo there for trials but not when they actually went into service. A detail I never really twigged until recently. The sound is iconic, any videos?

The class leader out and about yesterday morning. (Also a little quirk for modellers in this photo, it'll drive your OCD mad).

I quite like this... something new to look out for too.

I'm pretty certain my first rail trip was on a DART from Bray into town... probably about 3 but I distinctly remember thinking they were like 'Daisy' to my toddler eyes.

Happy Birthday to the DART, which began operations this day 40 years ago. Personally I think the original sets are still looking pretty spry for 40.

@Cyberbeagle and I spent considerable time researching the subject of how many eau de nil lines the dark green ones carried when repainting 1944 at Downpatrick—the evidence we found suggests only one. And yes, contrary to what many say, a few of them DID carry the dark green (and with 1944/1381 being the third in class, it's quite likely it was one of them).

Mine arrived sain et sauf today too. Now to get a minute to play with them...

A Die Dietrich set carrying invited guests went over it on the day the NCC route reopened (I know someone who was on it). I believe there was a bomb scare which meant it going back to Belfast via Lisburn.

Inverness still has one tootling about as well, pretty certain I saw at least two passing Longsight depot in Manchester a while back too.

Mine arrived today safe and sound. Haven't got a chance to play with bar posing them with a Woolwich. I wasn't home but the courier rang me to let me know and all.

Wow. even without the train that's some lovely modelling there.

Quite impressed with these, the really capture the wider look of Irish wagons compared to my models of 'narrow gauge' GB opens. Was doing some ballasting yesterday evening and found them the perfect size for keeping a small load on hand.

I used to say the same about Broombridge, but since the Luas went in it's become as safe a station to dwell in as any. That said I know some perfectly nice people from both areas.

My favourite part was in Grand Canal Dock, a guy in an adjacent Dart sat there bemused by what was going on, then eventually decided to take a picture himself.

I did suggest that we should have worn double denims or gaudishly 2-colour tracksuits.

Very sorry to read this, I only met Ken at Bray last year, very nice guy and an extremely talented modeller, it was my first time meeting him but he came up to say hi again at another show. My condolences to his family and friends.

An epic tour, wonderful atmosphere on board and a great social outing too. I have to say say the moment in this photo gave me goosebumps; I love locos, steam and diesel, but never have I had such nostalgia on like this railcar railtour evoked. Literally like looking into a mirror to childhood trips.

Our committee has organised a one day outing from Dublin by bus to visit the Difflin Lake Railway (home to Ireland's newest steam loco, 2003-vintage Duchess of Difflin) and Donegal Railway Heritage Centre. At the latter we hope to make a presentation using the proceeds from our previous outings towards the museum's fundraising efforts. Places are limited, details at https://www.tailtetours.com/hills-of-donegal-tour

We added a blog to the Táilte site a while back going through the history of the various termini Belfast has had (though already it's a tiny bit out of date ), https://www.tailtetours.com/post/a-virtual-tour-of-belfast-s-terminal-railway-stations-past-present

One observation from his reviews, they can be a bit one size fits all. For instance, I've seen him criticise big Pacifics over their slow shunting ability, when really it's not the type of thing the prototype would have excelled on either.