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Fertliser wagons, as in IRM bogies of recent times, 4-wheel cement "bubbles"* and Guinness "cages" on, initially 4-wheel and later bogie flats. * Never saw bogie cements on mixed goods trains.

Mixed rakes, yes, but only two or three varieties; typical at the time was bubbles, fert and Guinness.

…..and I had a conversation once with a fairly well known preservationist, whose technical knowledge and expertise and skills are very rightly widely respected, and he said the 800s were “awkward” looking!!!

They’ve obviously never seen Maedb, nor many MGWR, WLWR & GSWR designs, or Beyer Peacock export locos! (…….I’ll get me coat…..)

Correct. “Works Grey” - including full lining & numbering for same effect. “Works Grey”, as it was known, for works official purposes only. “Proper” livery applied before entry to traffic. In most, though not all, cases, this temporary “fifty shades of grey” was applied to just one member of a class, purely for photos. Sometimes on one side only!

Swiss??? Wow…. GNR(I) outpost in the Alps!

Any idea where they got the "p+t" logo from, ttc0169?

BIG fees for parasitic "consultant" cronies of Boorish johnston......

Very many thanks, just a bit o'craic!

I would presume that if they ever did, they’d cover all ten liveries they had, as they did with the A’s. Dugort Harbour has two Cs right now, both Silverfox, one all-black, and the unique C231 dark green one.

I believe that the now-preserved C231 was the only one of the class to get the dark green livery. Here, during its turn on the midday down mixed one day in 1959, it is seen alongside a newly painted “A” in the normal lighter green that the vast majority of both classes had. . Fast forward to summer 1965 and we catch two 141s paused during shunting on consecutive days…

Ah, ok, apologies!

Worth getting!

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Yes, that’s what I did with areas round wheels.

Who’s the author?

That’s Monday’s headlines, Leslie. They’re trial-running the UGs between Enniskillen and Irvinestown this morning….

Are there trains to Kinsale, Ballycastle, Killeshandra and Achill again?

The late “Big Tom” did a song about the “GNR Train”….

A55 plus the other “A”s will be off for weathering soon - once I pluck up the courage! Next stage will be to extend “Dugort” across a river bridge & turf bog area to the “big” station up the line, and beyond that to a fiddle yard. Hoping to get at that within the next few weeks, though as usual, “life” gets in the way!

Many thanks, Patrick. Some were done by Kevan McIntosh who made a lot of them up for me. I will ask him what colours he used. Others were done by me, by simply rubbing a random mix of very pale brown and grey weathering powders rubbed into cracks, just as general muck will collect in real life, and then very lightly brushing more (dry) round the chassis, rooftop and lower ends. Many thanks, Noel. More you be done, of course. Still haven’t started buildings, which will be the sort of corrugated-sheet structures seen on lines like Kenmare, Valentia and the west Cork system. So many, indeed; including relatives of mine too!

Summer 1964. This morning’s mixed train crosses the river…..

Very true. O'Dea's collection features very many cabins, with and without staff, including many of which (after decades of examining photos of all sorts) I have often never seen any other internal view of. As many others have commented, he also has a strong emphasis on staff in all areas in his phots, just as the late Mac Arnold had in his writings (often to the exclusion of much else!). I spent several days during the lockdown this time last year trawling every single image of his that is online and making notes. Ten years ago I did the same, by examining them on microfilm in the National Archives; it took me almost a week! Superb stuff, very educational.

On a railway, much of what we call "weathering" was, in the past, brake dust from brake blocks. Hence the brownish colour of "weathered" rolling stock in photos. I have seen many a photo of a wagon which we would know to be grey, but with a brownish look at least to chassis and maybe ends; a note for the more artistic amongst us!

Nice! They're actually already in their initial livery! (OK, very slightly lighter in real life...)... Most never had any other livery, but maybe some 40% of them ended up brown after 1970, for their last few years.