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I have it, but don’t tell them.

I can only pin it down to several tenths of a second…..

I’m speechless; this is truly outstanding work.

No, the earlier “G”s never carried a “snail” either in silver OR green. The green livery of G611 at Downpatrick is fictitious in three ways - 1. Only the G601s ever ran in green, never the 611s. 2. Even if they had, G611 has black side frames (should be green) 3. The snail and small number on the cabside is entirely wrong; should be large number and no logo. When first in traffic the G611 series were black’n’tan. The tan band disappeared on SOME of them (not all) a few years later. When the last three were in use in the mid / late 70s, 611 & 616 had no tan band, but 613 did.

Happenings the other day…. The photo is of the forerunner to the GSR’s “Woolwich” K class - the South Eastern & Chatham Rly’s N class in England. It’s personally signed by Maunsell (bottom right).

I'll fish them out today and PM you both.

I may have a couple of brass kits of Bredin coaches here to sell if that's any good. I would just want whatever they cost me in the first place (from Studio Scale Models) which i'd have to look up.

Very sad news, but as WRENNEIRE said, it was known that this was coming. Nothing I can add to what's been said above, other than re-emphasising that he truly is the "grandfather" of modern Irish railway modelling. Without him, we'd probably still be painting British class 47s and French electric locos in orange and black.... I very much enjoyed the all-too-few conversations I had with him. Rest in Peace, Paddy.

Ya will boy!

Great to meet up again last night, Mol! We must do it again soon.

Pronunced Jones. A very approachable, deeply knowledgable and thoroughly decent guy!

Are those white roofs on the maroon omnes or pale grey?

That was a carefully-pushed publicity photo. It includes a railcar set in a fairly random-looking consist very likely because these were the very first things painted in this livery.

That’s correct, yes. It looked odd on some older stock when the split between the black and (technically incorrectly described) “golden brown” seemed to look as if it was in the wrong place! Latterly, it tended to be at a level more suited to the contours of the individual vehicle. Also, in earlier experiments with this livery in 1962, the white band above the windows was thicker.

While close up they’re not remotely like anything that ran here, the black’n’tan livery is so striking that these will look very credible in it. An excellent budget job. Make sure you paint the roofs black as well, rather than grey, whether in green or black’n’tan.