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Doubtless an antidote to the "twalf"!

No idea.

I had never heard of this place! Fascinating - thanks for enlightening us!

Complete with a framed photo of a GNR engine! Wonder how that got there......Interesting to see it all re-panelled - obviously being looked after well.

Latest info I have, and of only a couple of months ago, is that having failed to sell them, they would still open to an offer, but as mentioned elsewhere they want silly money. They won't get it unless they find a wealthy 3ft gauge in England; a species unknown to exist (don't say "what about Southwold"; it is responsibly run and even if they HAD silly money (which they don't) they would not yield to an "offer" like that). Meantime, they intend to store them, oiled and protected, until or unless someone with a bigger wallet than brain happens along; they will thankfully not allow them to deteriorate. Both would be relatively easy to put back into traffic, mshould they or another buyer want to do so.

Superb stuff - only noticed this now!

Cattle class, surely?

Not that I know of, Josh, but I’ll have a look. There were many different variants, and many were altered (sometimes more than once) during their lives…

Re. the locos, if anyone wants a proper paper scan of any of the drawings, let me know. I expect cost plus postage to be only a few euros. Or any further requests here - there's Q, SG3, D, P, PP, and all the rest, plus the crane tank and the BCDR 4.6.4T! They probably copied that when they were considering a six-coupled tank engine of some sort at one time.

I’m afraid I’ve nothing on wagons….

With the society being a voulntary body, and currently chronically short of active volunteers in the archive, I'm hearing many queries are going unanaswered - hopefully things will improve in time. As far as diagrams are concenred, no, I don't think I've any GNR stuff but I will have a look. I know I don't have any carriage stuff.

Your wish is my command….

First few:

Had a look at the website of the line it’s going to - quite interesting. Limited clearance ex-industrial line, and a decent length. Not a line I was aware of…..

I thought there was a section on here for posting plans, drawings and diagrams of prototypes. If so, perhaps admins might shift this entire post there. Otherwise I will continue to post here. In recent times, we’ve seen a fair amount of interest in GNR scratchbuilds, so I thought I’d post some GA drawings here, which will be useful to check overall dimensions. I have the 1958 Dundalk Works book of loco drawings. This contains details of every class then technically on the books, whether actually operational or not. There are dozens of them. If I post them all (more than happy to do so) the site will be bombarded with them for days. Possibly better if I put a few up selectively; thus, any requests? Im out’n’about right now - will post a few samples when I’m home.

With the wide open spaces, and nice balance of weeds and ballast, there's almost a South American look to this too - very nice indeed!

I’m going by car this time.

The first one shows an interesting selection of coaches. A late GSWR / early GSR (circa 1925 +/-) high capacity suburban brake, of a type used on lines like Cobh and Youghal, and several Park Royals. Probably a tin van at the en The one at Thurles, apparently with several engines in steam, is almost certainly during the beet season, when steam was used on beet specials in that area, and especially between Thurles, Clonmel and Waterford.

How many DD sets will be active this coming week?

Crossley, Metropolitan-Vickers, General Motors, Inchicore Works, Cravens of Sheffield, Dundalk Works….

I would add my voice to that - probably over half of my stuff is Dempsey-weathered, and it looks superbly realistic. Trains were never shiny clean in daily use….!

Several points; after decades of conservative rule over thyere, gopvernment investments in any public infrastructure projects is not exactly littered with largesse; and in order to try to counteract conservative votes, like in many other countries, the parties who represented the left are veeriong more and more towards insipid silence, mediocrity, and hand-wringing; witness the Dems in the USA too, who are now considerably mo9re right-leaning than pre-Reagan republicans! But to stick to the railway theme, the British still are "good" at railways, just perhaps not so much in some areas, though arguably a great deal better in others. None of the preceding posts are really about the railways themselves, or to back to topic, the Enterprise. Ever since railways had to be nationalised some 75 years ago, as a result of not being able to pay their way as businesses, they have been entirely dependent on state funding. Investment in railways, or lack of it, is a matter for a government - be it a British, Irish, EU or Timbuktooean one; rather than a lack of any will or skill within the railway itself.

Vans - be they older wooden ones, all types of tin vans, genny vans, BR or Dutch vans - often were allowed to get into a shocking state of filth, whereas passenger carriages were kept in much better order inside and out.

Yes, they were inded double-skinned. Great photo - trust Bob Clements to get the rarest of them all!

I am delighted to have a couple of these JM Design vans on my layout; I came a bit late to the party ande they were sold out when I was fishing about looking for them. Therefore, I bought several Silverfox ones to make up numbers. There is simply no comparison. Plus, EVERYTHING Silverfox produce in supposedly CIE green livery is utterly wrong in all respects. Grey roofs instead of black - and light grey at that - white logos and lining instead of pale green, and above all, the green colour is like British Railways loco / railcar green - nothing remotely like CIE green. I got a green van - I might as well have asked for a tartan one. So I just repainted the damn thing in silver grey and had Mr Dempsey weather it within an inch of its life. The JM ones, though, are superb, and a vitally necessary thing for Irish modelling in the late 1950s, throughout the 60s, and into the mid-70s. I think the last time I travelled in a train with a four-wheeler tin van must have been very early 1976 on the Limerick-Ballina run, just before it finished.