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Could be off a traction engine.

No…… nothing brown ever had the snail, other than a couple of (untypical) breakdown vans which were painted brown for the PW Dept.; one featured in many lifting trains in the late fifties. The “flying snail” was replaced by the “broken wheel” in 1963, but all forms of routine goods wagons - be they goods vans, guards vans, cattle or open wagons - remained grey until 1970, with many never becoming brown. A 1960s scene will have nothing but grey wagons; some will still have snails, but any repainted 1963-70 will have CIE roundels.

Can we put some rats into the 26, 28 and 29 class railcars?

Some of the other small companies taken over by the GSWR a long time ago were the same - old and very inferior passenger stock, which the GSWR dumped almost instantly - along with their wagons.

I would think that those "uncomfortable" flat-sided coaches would have been withdrawn just about as immediately as the GSWR could manage it. I've never heard of any getting GSWR livery - but more importantly, Inchicore was churning out brand new bogies by this stage, so there was a very good stock of quite new 6-wheelers drifting about to replace them.

Mystery solved then; the yellow posts for invasive weed, and the thing on the platform sides to measure the heights of rats in relation to rail level...................

Anyone know what these things on platform faces are for? They’re to be seen, all with different numbers and settings, all over the place. Also, at various spots on NIR, especially between Central and City Hospital, there are dozens of roughly metre-high wooden posts on embankment sides, painted in a very bright day-glo yellow. Same question….

Once the new 00 Works J15s are about the place, and the Hattons six-wheelers, the "grey'n'green" (and silver) era will get a well-deserved further boost. In an era where all trains consist of a set of entirely the same vehicles, and there are but two types of locomotive on the island, the 1950-70 period is surely the most interesting in railway history.............

He's been too long in a small hostelry up in Buckna or Bollyclurrr, so he has, with Cushendall's best poitín, so it is.

Superb!!!!

In all reality you’ll see little there which isn’t here too - if anything - in terms of Irish railways. For those into British or worldwide stuff, especially the more specialised aspects of it, there is much of interest, though.

I rarely look at it. IRM is the “go-to” for matters Irish; quite possibly RMweb serves better those who choose to model the 7ft 5 and seventeen-nineteenths gauge Arbroath to Pembrokeshire line in 1852. (Not 1853, very obviously)….. My understanding is that it is administered by a small number of unpaid individuals; if that is the case (and I can’t verify or deny it), one might understand; however, the ads are excsessive, all over the place, and annoying to the most patient. I made a comment to this nature on it one time and they barred me straight away! They did, to be fair, re-instate me - though I see little content there that isn’t here too. Life’s too short. I’ll stick with boring people here, rather than both of them!

Perfect; thus, what the brexitstanners call a "DMU" is hereby and henceforth officially a "CR".....

Some interesting stuff there, all right. (I wasn't aware that Ballyshannon was in "Britain", though!)

Oh no, just curious! I'm all for retro stuff, as you might imagine! And yes, I'd love to see an NIR railcar in UTA green or GNR navy & cream; and an ICR or 201 in older CIE dark green, complete with pale green lining and "snails"................

Looks real, all right. Yes, a rarity among "genuine" forgeries..........

Something I knew about but never dreamed there was a picture of! Good find...............

I still find it hard to understand why Translink persist with applying the old NIR symbol to these three locos; NIR still exists as a legal entity, of course, but the entire railway has used the overall Translink brand as its sole publicity and marketing label since 1996 - that entity now, in itself, being into its third logo. The equivalent is CIE still putting a MGWR or GSWR crest on something on rails, well into the 1950s, or a Craven or 071 being painted in CIE green with a flying snail in 1987.......

It's on my long-term "To Do" list, hopefully.........

Various types of central buffer are in use all over the world, and are actually in the majority. On narrow gauges - including NZ’s “Cape” gauge, plus the Irish narrow gauge, they g FG institute the vast, vast majority; 100% of Irish narrow gauge lines had central “chopper” couplings as above. The loco shown was one of a pair, the second-strongest narrow gauge locos in Ireland.

Only thing with them is that apart from the DSER suburban, Glanmire Road shunting, and West Cork, they were seen nowhere. Limited grazing grounds................

Photos of 464 actually look black rather than grey. Clements had told me years ago that there was only the one J15, then the J18. What is certain, though, is that these were late-era and very short lived exceptions to the rule. Grey with black front was not ever an actual livery as such. By 1960, the remaining locos had examples in lined green, all grey and all black - although all three were so uitterly filthy that for all anyone knew they could have been painted under it all in fluorescent pink and lime green tartan............

Indeed; those three only. (I forgot about the B4). They were repainted literally within momnths of withdrawal, so that pins them down to mid 62 to early 63. All others were either all grey or all black. In terms of "snails", some tenders hyad them, some hadn't laterally (maybe the transfers had worn off). The single J15 (193) and the single J18 did not have snails on their tenders which were plain grey. Cab roofs always grey on grey locos, black on black locos.

I'd be up for that too. While the "Jeeps" are neither fitting for my layout's fictitious location (in West Kerry), nor do they interest me as much as just about any other steam loco, I saw them in childhood almost every day - so I'll definitely be up for a couple.

What is WRONG wit6h these people! A West Clare loco and a Scottish loco in West Cork........ idiotic, lazy, bone idle "research"!