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Looks like a "P" van - thus fitted.

Yes, there was indeed such an instruction. However, there's more to it than that - the Hall family were involved too. I wasn't aware that the Polloxfens were too - we live and learn! However there was indeed a siding right onto the quay way back, but it was removed, from memory, even in MGWR days. The Westport Quay line came across the causeway shown in pics above - it's now a road - but two sidings to be worked only as tramways as you suggest, continued alongside the quay. The last days of the Quay branch had the siding shortened to just the "causeway" bit, then shortened again when I became familiar with it in the late 1960s. At that stage, the "causeway" bit had just been lifted, the level crossing fenced off on the railway side with a stout fence of old sleepers, and the lower level siding within the station which connected this to the run round lop only recently removed. As we know, the Quay branch mouldered on, seeing occasional traffic only, for another decade or so. The Jerry Walsh photo dates from this time. The actual lines ON the quay appear to have been disused by 1930 and probably removed then. As well as Hall's Mill down there, there was another called Maude's, no details of which - as far as any railway interest is concerned - appear to have come to light.

Yes, it was a mill - owned by people called Hall. And there was a siding right down there, reached off the end of the Westport Quay line. The trackbed was still visible into the 1980s.

Surely you can get an authentic Australian Crossley sound by simply installing the chip upside down? (I'll show myself out....)

Yes, probably - I got my postal notification yesterday afternoon and mine were delivered this morning.

Woooohoooo!!! Playtime tonight….! Silver, green, black, black with yellow ends, and black’n’tan.

Methinks I’ll need to have a word with Santa…..

TDR, that viaduct is amazing!

Hard to tell in that photo, WestCork, but if the photo is any way accurate, the pot of paint you have there actually looks somewhat more accurate than the loco! The top one of those two is closer to accuracy.

I believe only two were dark green, though I can't remember the number of the other one. What was probably happening was that they were using up bus paint - buses and lorries had retained the older green, as had whatever steam locos were still green. They did this with one rake of carriages abut 1964/5, after the black'n'tan livery had started - they used up old paint stocks on a spare set (the carriage numbers were quoted, I think, in the IRRS journal of the day) and just painted them plain green. Regarding the lighter green livery that the other "A"s had, some had waistlines and some didn't. I was told once that at least one started its green repainted career without a line and had one added later, but I cannot confirm this.

I love your thinking, George! Perhaps a GSWR J15 with “Flyin’ Scotsman” on one side and “GWR” on the other, in nice LMS maroon….

I keep meaning to go down there and take pics before all of these systems are gone…..! I thought that was a very nice little film, by the way!

Having seen them on a friend’s layout the other day, yes, even if it wasn’t obvious from the pictures (and it is!), I can vouch that they are indeed WELL worth waiting for. I think I can speak tor all here in saying how much we hugely appreciate the massive effort and commitment of IRM, and especially with the odds stacked against you - China nit being exactly next door, covid and supply chains. The models are seriously exhibition standard. They exceed anything I’ve ever seen. Very well done, folks. (Yes, I patiently await mine! Silver, green and black….). Is there any truth in the rumour that you’re doing one in NIR blue and silver next April 1st?

I did see somewhere a post (gawd knows how long ago, though) which showed a coach that someone had used a car rattle can to spray to look like the 1956-62 carriage green - but far from being approximate, it was actually spot-on. I reckon if you get the right colour in your head from many of the excellent photos to be seen in various books nowadays, and try to find something that looks right, you could hit lucky. If the IRM mods are reading this, I think that IRM may have a note of the RAL colour code for this somewhere?

Superb! Which system is this?

They need a proper Transport police force, and with powers to simply put people off trains too, irrespective of whether they're near their destination or not, or whether it's the last train of the night! Human nature always dictates that unless people know there are very severely unpleasant consequences for bad behaviour, they will do it. You wouldn't argue with a bouncer in a Russian night club. The trains and trams (and buses) need people on board who will force anti-social elements to comply with civilised behaviour and obey the law, or else throw them off. I was on an up Cork service one night about eight years ago, and there was one man acting the maggot in the carriage I was in. Two other (large male) passengers made him go out and sit in the end vestibule, and told him to stay there or they would physically put him out at the next stop. They looked like they meant business, that was clear! The troublemaker behaved himself from then on.....

Maybe that's why they're called Memory foam. You won't forget them.....

Realistic sound is good. Not sure about realistic smells!

For their sake, let’s hope so - though we cannot be the “collateral damage”!

That I can believe! Certainly applies to all of my own relatives over there…..

Beano, that’s a really excellent layout with loads of interest in it! Love to see more of it, and the bubbles look great too. Interesting and varied scenery with lots going on….superb.

I think I’d prefer “chaos” to “boris….”

A very good and valid point indeed, and vital for future enthusiast generations. While I have yet to see this volume myself, I doubt if it would disappoint on this issue! It is pricey, but as Leslie says, those who WOULD be in a position to know their onions have been well impressed so far.

That just looks SO realistic. The scenic quality matches the modelling quality of the locos - seriously top notch.

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