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Whitworth Road / Sherriff St / Ballybough / Clonliffe / Cabra

Likewise; mostly poor.

Yes, more or less. Maybe Cabra (Midland)?

Wow - outstanding stuff! You were thinking of a suitable name - might I suggest that it's obviously somewhere in the Dublin area northside... maybe pick the name of a district adjacent to the Broadstone to Liffey Junction line, or make it some sort of MGWR shed near their lines down to the docks....?

Me too. I want 145 and 150.

I'd guess that didn't actually happen. I've never heard of a DD set south or west of Dublin.....

That’s not allowed to be posted here. i know stuff….Shtuff. Yer man who knows Thomas. Say nathin, ok?

Those look REALLY good!

Brilliant as always - I like that use of an old six-wheel passenger brake.

Now THATS a rare one! I had no idea they’d ever been north of Drogheda!

Would the good folks in IRM Towers be able to comment?

For me, update is the desktop now loads it at reasonable (but not fast) pace; mobile now very bad loading it, but lightning fast with all other websites.

I’m going to print that off as a guide!!

These look amazing. May I ask if an 00 gauge version is likely?

Yes, still an issue. Won't open on mobile at all, and when it does on this ("big" computer), some pictures won't open.

Indeed, and their various translations of Bray have all been held to be suspect. But - to go to a point Mayner made which I had omitted to remember - a private siding would not, indeed, have had any sign on the railway at all, let alone a bilingual one. These were only for railway signage and name boards, particularly in the passenger parts of stations. By law in Ireland a private company (like a mill) isn’t, and never was, under any compulsion to have bilingual signage, whereas a state utility (like post-nationalisation (1950) CIE) was. The GSR was never a nationalised utility, but in its station signage it behaved as one, although there were many examples of stations which lasted well into CIE times with original pre-grouping English-only signs. So for “Mol’s Mill”, the oval device of the milling company would, if strict accuracy is preferred, really be the only show in town.

That Webb seal looks well! Maybe a tidied up, black-on-white version, enlarged? The GSR bilingual signs of the late 1920s were enamelled, so they were flat.

I’d go with the second font - I think it stands out best. The “Q” on the last one is no more “Irish” than mandarin!

Agreed. Behind the TPO appears to be a newish laminate or else 1951-3 era CIE standard. The DSER coach would only be there to carry mailbags.

Reminds me of what I posted earlier in the Dugort Harbour thread!

I'll be Enterprising again soon into the new year. Hope it's a DD, not a 29 class!

Yes - I had actually thought it was long gone by then.

That's exactly what it is! And behind it is what by then was a VERY rare DSER survivor!

The last market day before Christmas, 1957. On a bleak December morning, Thursday 19th December 1957, an “A” class replaces the usual J15 on the morning passenger train, which has an extra coach on today. An influx of dealers had the pubs in Castletown busy last night. Here it is seen crossing a badly flooded Carrowmore Bog about 8 in the morning, halfway down the Dugort Harbour extension line.

After decades, I've allowed myself to be persuaded by a friend who does a lot of brass stuff himself, to join what Galteemore of this parish calls the "Burnt fingers brigade"! Incidentally, for anyone making up those Aplhagraphix kits out of card as they are, every single one of the liveries shown above, true to form, is wrong, in some cases in every single detail, even the base colour!