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  1. jhb171achill
    If you mean the lamp housings permanently attached to guards vans, the body colour. Grey van, grey mountings.
  2. jhb171achill
    The one on the far left is unusual - any ideas on origin?
  3. jhb171achill
    Painted normal colour of van, thus grey, just like every single other square inch of the van. Got dark-coloured with rust & smoke almost immediately, though!
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    Only seeing this. Footboards were always painted black by CIE, but weathered down with brake dust and wear and tear to a nondescript grubby colour.
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    It would have been the biggest of the four, spread out over a very long site.
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    Looks good - a good representation, as the real thing to scale on a layout would be enormous.
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    A "Woolwich" could do it on about eight tons of coal there and back, with a good crew and not too many cattle vans on the back..... Just sayin'..........
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    I doubt very much if they did - personally, at the time they were current I was commuting on that line daily and never saw anything in Galway livery on the Enterprise. I do recall seeing at least one on a Cork train once, though, mixed in with other stock in ordinary livery.
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    Yes, though very few. Allman’s in Bandon and Courtaulds in Carrickfergus, plus Derry Docks and Guinness, are about the only ones I can think of offhand.
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    Same layout, different day! IMG_3114.MOV IMG_3115.MOV
  11. jhb171achill
    Yes, it is. He is a pleasure to deal with. I bought a few odds from him last year. He sells all his remaining stuff via that way now.
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    An ingeniuous use for one of those things!
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    The cabs, yes indeed - but the side tanks? Either way, an ingenious conversion! The livery for the GSWR was lined dark olive green as shown above until about 1902, after which black lined in red and white became the norm. The all-over dark grey first appeared about 1915, possibly following the extensive re-boilering programme at that time. During the currency of the dark green, lining was pale green, red and black up to about 1880 or so, with same green lined in black and cream later. Frames were mid-brown during the green livery.
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    Recently, there was talk of a yellow inspection car travelling from Rosslare Strand to Waterford. While some enthusiasts gathered at various points along the line to see this, but left empty handed when it did not appear as they had expected, one of these cars WAS seen approaching Waterford from Abbey Junction. This was maybe about three weeks ago. What I'm after is knowing whether it did traverse the whole route, or maybe just waterford out to the bridge and back - and whether anyone has a photograph of it that would be willing to lend me. Many thanks.
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    You'd need to remove the side tanks on the loco too...........?
  16. jhb171achill
    Absolute priceless stuff - really captures the atmosphere so well…. (Second video wouldn’t open….?)
  17. jhb171achill
    Yes, but I wasn’t there to see it…
  18. jhb171achill
    There will be serious overtime in CTC!
  19. jhb171achill
    That ground texture with tyre marks and a certain amount of grit just looks SO realistic! Superb layout, one of my favourites.
  20. jhb171achill
    Well done to the IRM team! (It's OK, I don't need Mk 4 models.......)
  21. jhb171achill
    Superb!!! That will be amazing!
  22. jhb171achill
    Well, it’s the very same wagon, so looks like it!
  23. jhb171achill
    Brookhall Mill was still sending linen to Dugort in the 1960s and 70s. Just before it went to containers, here’s another lot being shunted into position at its destination. “It’s to go to McBrides Tailors in town. He’s sending his cart to get it. I think it’s rolls of cloth from the north, but there’s oil stains on it - inside of that van is filthy. Think they’ll notice it?” “NOTICE it? It’s material to make wedding dresses, and there’s OIL on it and the best man is PJ’s son! There’s going to be WAR over this!….”
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    Interesting that you got a picture of that van leaving Brookhall, Paddy…. I was about Dugort the following day and I saw it arrive - a pristine cream wagon quickly getting covered in smuts from a J15 with dirty coal, as it was shunted into position for unloading. There must have been a big consignment, as there were two other GNR vans too…
  25. jhb171achill
    Wow - in all cases, looks amazing!
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