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  1. Just looking at other posts here - some CIE locos (approx 25 according to the late Bob Clements) did get all-over black in late 50s, but 850 didn't.

     

    The grey livery, incidentally, was also all over, including inside frames, connecting rods, smokebox and chimney; not black smokebox as almost universal with other liveries.

  2. Mick has a Bandon tank under construction-I have a Silver fox rail car set on order!

     

     

    The carriages will be interesting. One or two green laminates or Park Royals as railcar intermediates, but also perhaps a couple of 45' bogies of indeterminate origin! The brake would be either a brand new tin van or an elderly ex-MGWR six wheeled passenger brake or brake 3rd....

  3. Absolute gem, stunning!

     

    I showed the pics to Senior, who knew it well. He says it was grey initially and would have spent most of its life like this. I think CIE did indeed paint it green latterly, but it doesn't appear to have been doing much by then.

     

    If I may be permitted one slight detail comment, the number plates should be either all grey, or grey with yellow cream raised edges and numerals. But overall, what a stunner!

     

    How to follow that one.... Maybe an 820, the 4.6.2T based on the 800s, which never saw the light of day!

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