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For those planning to go this weekend, this event is delayed (books not yet back from printers). Will update in due course. I had been hoping to have the launch this Saturday, as this will be the exact 50th anniversary of the last public trains.

One of these was not on the IRM stand….

If anyone’s about on 7th November I’m doing a talk in New Ross on the North Wexford line that evening. All welcome! And they tell me they’ll have choccy bikkies….

Probably the laziest and most hideous, unartistic livery ever applied to anything in history!

How ON EARTH do they get working motors into stuff that tiny? If extremely small scales like this, or Z, gain much traction, what about a 5mm gauge track to represent 5'3", and Irish models at a scale of 1mm = 1ft!

Correct. Like all such paintings, it was for official photo purposes only. Before any locomotive went into traffic, it was painted in its "proper" livery. The IRM grey model certainly has novelty value, which will make it very7 popular with collectors, I would imagine. I am unaware of any manufacturer ever making any model of anything in "photographic grey". Especially for a beast THIS size!

Unfortunately, apart from the “wannabe”-CIE-era aspect, the livery on that thing is is utterly wrong on several counts!

I’m clearing a quantity of surplus of my own, plus some bits I’ve been asked to sell for a non-internet friend who has gone into a nursing home. First, these; carriage (the first of many) €10 and two container flats €5 each. Postage €8-€12 depending where you live.

Sold

Having seen the prototype today, I would VERY highly recommend this. Put me down for a few!

Selling this as surplus to requirements, for same price I paid for it, €100 / £90. Will have it at Blackrock on Monday at the Tailte Tours / Downpatrick & Co Down Railway stand.

Ask and thou shalt receive. Bundoran and other places GNR. Barrack St included - for Dempsey! This is the autumn 1955 WTT.

These were particular gems;

Yup - will delve.

Correct; and as a result he was arrested the next morning! So; while browsing the 1928 timetable, a few other interesting branches…..