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The Sweeney brothers watch the afternoon mixed amble across Carrowmore Bog one winter’s afternoon. Looks like snow in the sky… ”Y’know, Pat, the times I’ve sat here and watched that train go by, an’ not a blade of grass round the place. I wish yer man would stop talkin’ about scenery, and get it DONE!”

Yes, mad as a bag'o'frogs..... but so was the original! Cyril Fry made a model of it, of course. While the original is in the Malahide Model Railway Museum for all to see, I have somewhere a Fry photo of his model under construction. Will try to find it and post it.

Bredin third and one laminate now sold.

SALE OF SURPLUS ITEMS Studio Scale Models & Worsley Works 00 scale coach kits, cost price. Worsley - two Laminate standards, 2 Park Royals, 1 Bredin 3rd all £31 / €36 each. SSM: 1 Bredin full parcels / brake £79 / €90. Postage included to anywhere in UK or Ireland. Can post beyond that at cost.

Exactly! Warts’n’all!

G whizz, what a thread!

I think you're right on that. I recall seeing flats in the mid-1970s at Port Laoise PW depot which i thought were old carriage underframes. I didn't take any pics though, and I wouldn't be 100% sure what they were. Among them, though, was an ex-MGWR bogie flat wagon, 3???M.

The morning local, ten years apart; 1960 and 1970. Todd Andrews has retired now, but strangely he overlooked the Castletown West to Dugort Harbour branch, despite it only seeing twenty or so passengers per day, except fair days. Nothing, of course, to do with who the local TD is……

Will the 09:50 and 10:50 ex-Connolly still (theoretically) be DDs?

Absolutely outstanding realism!

Yes, he made that as a commission for CIE for a display stand they had.

Best looking person in Malahide.

Downpatrick really is going from strength to strength. The partnership there with the ITG has paid off many times over.

We end our travels in Malahide itself….. IMG_3663.mov IMG_3664.mov

I'll be heading north either Friday or Monday. I always use a service which is supposed to be a DD. Of the last six times that I have got the Enterprise, four times it's been an NIR set (once just 3 cars with people standing), one has been cancelled entirely, and one has been the actual booked DD set. I wonder what's ahead of me....................!