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Yes. I've said this numerous times before. While many berated the Greens in the last government, I was fully supportive of their utterances on public transport, and I presume that a lot of the effort towards reopening this line may have been as a result of representations made by the much-maligned Eamonn Ryan. If so, good for him. Equally, I fully support any railway reopening. However - with precisely zero even vague talk, let alone "boots on the ground", or anything beyond wild opinions, as to WHAT will travel over this line, from and to where, and on behalf of whom; it is very tempting indeed to see this while thing as a complete white elephant, to have a ribbon cut across it by a local gombeen TD, and whoever Leinster House sends down in a limo and a raincoat to make a speech and shake hands. And then it goes silent. A month before the following few general elections, one of those yellow things takes a scoot down it and back, and it grows back into nature. Yet, yet again, I sincerely hope I am proven catastrophically wrong, and soon, but so far there is not a whisper of anything definite to contradict this view, let alone evidence. It is overall a somewhat bizarre situation. Meantime, because of previous inaction in bringing services back to Navan, there seems to be a blank-out clause in government, so that no matter what, nothing can be done here; it would constitute a climb-down for FFG. Reality is, passenger services to Navan, and reopening the Athenry to Claremorris line, would appear to have very definite and tangible arguments in their favour. We will see.

Never even heard of such a thing! Didn't know they had any wagons, and anything of that type would certainly be completely unique for Ireland. The whole thing looks a bit flimsy. Are we sure that's for the Fenit company, or something else which coincidentally has the same initials? Wasn't aware of the station building either = good catch!

In the 1930s it was the Turf Development Board, which pre-dated bnM. I believe the Dept. of the Taoiseach archives within the National Archives contains detail of that era. But your absolute go-to, who may watch this page, is the BnM expert, Sean Cain.

That’s the thing - space! Ive passed the point where all can sit in sidings. What I do now - and its light years short of perfect - is put a pile of 1950s stock on for one operating session, 60s for another.

I copied it as you said and it works. Many thanks! I know a guy who is building a live steam one so I will pass this on to him.

Maybe a few of us might detour to a local hostelry when all the buns are eaten..... Very true..... the Cultra livery, of course, follows the well-established Irish preservation tradition of getting liveries wrong on just about everything but ITG diesels (G611 excepted) and the RPSI's GNR locos, No. 4, and (belatedly) 186! Incidentally - how on a keyboard have you managed to get the dots above the "d" and the "b" on "Maedb"? Nice touch, and correct; didn't know it was possible.

My involvement is simply that I'm involved with the museum, and do all the historical / model arrangement side of it. Another regular on here is involved in the maintenance and servicing and trouble-shooting of the operational 00 scale layout. The new model on Monday night will be seen running on it too, all being well, so he'll be in attandance too. Mind you, as far as liveries are concerned, I've a very wide data base of what went with what! On an unrelated note, that pic above shows Ballyfermot when it was as Senior remembered it - rurality beyond inchicore! he was there the day they rolled 800 out for that photo. It was in works grey, not yet painted green, and not yet fitted with either nameplates nor its GSR crest on the tender. It was standard practive to photo locos when new in shades of grey and white, as this showed detail up best in photos, which of course were all in B&W. Inside, the painters awaited with the new green paint for the very first locos of either gauge to emerge with anything other than all-over grey for over 20 years. It must have been some sight. The reason that 800 had no nameplate for its official photos above was that they had planned an English language one, thus "Maeve", and written in roman characters. Someone decided that instead it should have Gaelic script, and the Irish spelling; and thus it was. But on photo day, the new ones weren't ready yet. Now, back to the event on Monday night!

Many reach for their smelling salts at the sight of this, but I think it actually looks well. So, we’re looking now at a Jeep with a choice of Donegal red, GNR blue, CIE green, or WLWR maroon….

Aaaarrrghhghgh! Not the TANK! I give in. The new model will be a (damn keyboard broke there...) So have I!

Amazon have just dropped the rotten eggs off, but I’ve redirected them to the Oval Office…….

Like most preserved wagon liveries, the H van at Downpatrick is wrong (as are the NCC brake van and the GSWR plough). The Flickr one of the grey van was an experimental version, not used generally, while no such experiment was ever carried out on anything brown post-1970.

Not sure if a Fintona horse could manage more than six……!

Brilliant! (I’ll stand on me head to look at ‘em…)

I told ye. It’s a Fintona horse. But don’t tell anyone here, it’s a secret.

Saw that, yes. the lettering is in pale green in a style only used for a short time after the GSR became CIE. Yet, the flyiong snail, which at the same time (1945-8, maybe) would also have been fully painted in pale green, is now a late 1950s white-painted stencil!

They did match them perfectly when painted; it's just that as you suggest, weathering varied them, as with anything. Very much so - absolute black but with filth - but they were actually painted red, always!

It was single unique vehicle, specially converted for the Waterford & Tramore. After it closed, it was re-converted to "irdinary" format and returned to the main line. Foynes train leaving Limerick.

This is a diagram for a DCC-fitted left-hand discombobulator for a multi-gauge CBSCR Fintona 2.8.4 tender engine.

OK; so we’re looking at a blue tender version of a 2.6.4T “Jeep”….. (IRM Chief Draughtsmans Office)

Yes.

Excellent!!!! Great news for all of us.

It seems the accurascale range is rapidly expanding so much that maybe they’re up to their eyes with that.

Back on topic, then. New 2024 IRM. My prediction - and I’ve definite inside knowledge - us a working poo nappy for an N gauge Fintona horse. A DCC poo-chip is an extra €67. Mark the date, but don’t tell anyone I told you. It’ll be 1.4.24.

A large number of our locomotives were built here - Inchicore, Dundalk and other places.

Indeed; just like these days!