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Not DSER, but Seniorx2 made this in about 1910. It was then a "new model" of goods / convertible* van and I suspect it may have been something he had a hand in designing. The model is 7" gauge, thus a strange scale of 1.333 inches to the foot, or 33.866mm = 1ft! He also was making this live steam loco but never finished it. I do not know what class it was - could have been freelance. (* colloquially known as "soft-tops")

I agree with all of the points raised above. The cost exceeds the price of a security man with POWERS to eject these scumbags without fear of reprisal. I think that snipers placed about Inchicore and Fairview (and other places) would do a good job.....

Indeed; maybe Galteemore is party to an IRM announcement about a RTR "Hazelwood"!

?dnuor yaw gnorw eht ti sI

New issue arrived by post today - an EXCELLENT production. This is very highly recommended for all with an interest in Irish railway modelling. This issue showcases some of the very best layouts, very best models lately produced, and some of our most highly skilled and inspirational modellers. An Achill locomotive and its build are a highlight for me….

I think the Midland had wagons quite like that too….

The "DWWR" (larger) plate was normally on the chassis, with the other generally just above it as shown - but the type of van shown in the pic appears to be different? Could there have been several variations, or might the one with these plates have been non-ventilated, I wonder?

Several very inspiring DWWR / DSER model wagons have appeared lately - take a bow, Ken, in particular! This might be of interest - came across this among Senior's photos. I think he took it at Harcourt Street in school days, thus 1920s / 30s.

I absolutely love this unusual layout. That scene with the MPD cars pulling the goods is so unique and so well done - excellent stuff.

The fact that such things have to be simplified into comic form for the benefit of those to whom they are addressed - is downright scary!

Haven't seen it yet, Jim, but I'll pass that on to Barry!

Let's hope so! However, getting a cent out of one government, let alone several successive ones, seems as unrealistic as ever, unfortunately.

Light years from reality, I think....... just finished reading the whole thing in detail - I'd have been better informed about the REALITIES of future rail freight if I had read the Beano!

Sorry to be the spoiler. This report and all that is in it, and all of what little behind it constitutes any sort of thinking beyond the plot of a novel, is utter drivel from start to finish, It is contrived by overpaid consultants to please other overpaid consultants, and contains not a jot of anything that is not either (a) blatantly obvious, (b) utter fantasy or (c) irrelevant. Every word of this document consist of NOTHING but inane buzzwords and ZERO detail, let alone any sort of commitment beyond a "Dear Santa" list of pipe dreams. "Reconnect the port of Foynes", it says. Apart from this being old news, re-heated and trotted out by successive local gombeen men and politicians with no knowledge of railway operation, WHEN to reopen the port? How? How much will it cost? Who will do the work? When will it start? It will "drive growth"... blah blah. How? By what measurement? According to what research? With evidence of what proposed inward traffic? "Support opportunities with mining and offshore power generation in the region..." What planet are these people on? Mining is supposed to be nasty to the environment. Are the Greens going to support a mine so that when its worked out they can put a cycleway in it? Support offshore power? How exactly does a land-based railway do that? Do they put all the wind power in boxes and manhandle them into "H" vans at Foynes, for onward distribution to Fiddown, Buttevant and Bangor West? WHAT power generation? According to what research results can the resurgence of the Foynes branch be deemed to link up with offshore wind power? Are they going to electrify it? Marino Port - reconnection. Apart from the obvious question of why they ever disconnected it, when will this happen, how, at what cost, and for what traffic? And so it goes. I hear that consultancy report writing pays well.... To produce coloured tables of IE's management structure - who's paying for that, and for what purpose? One new goods train - one. With 18 little wagons, which operates a couple of times a week. Big deal. See how impressed the Swiss or Americans might be when reading that. Yes, I know we're not the USA, and we haven't colossal volumes of Pennsylvania coal to move thousands of miles - but that's not the point. Even little Brexitland, a minnow by mainland European or North American standards, doesn't need to produce something like War & Peace to herald this. 100 new goods services? What happened the recent announcements and diagrams by colossally-paid consultants about a new freight terminal at Rosslare (with a nice picture showing it at the far end of the car park)? According to THIS one, Rosslare doesn't feature - but Athenry does! Gawd save us. "B Ogle", and for that matter, the tooth fairy, speak more sense than this. Mr Meade should be well aware now that there is no appetite at government level, even with that wee lad Ryan making Leo Martin-Varadcar's tea, for investment in rail freight. Even if IE genuinely wanted to make a case for it, and the signs over the last 25 years have tended to be to the contrary most of the time, I suspect it would fall on deaf ears. Let's be generous, though, to these over-fed consultants and whatever poor fool hired them. Say there ARE genuine plans for 100 new freight flows. It's reasonable to assume most or all will be containerised. Let's assume that a serious attempt is made to have 25 or 30 wagon trains. We currently have three freight flows (yippee!). So that leaves 97. Let's say that they mean 97 single trips, thus counting one "freight flow" as a single trip only; that makes about 49 return trips. Let's say that each has two sets of wagons, one being loaded while the other is laden. Plus a few spares. That's going to equate to several thousand wagons. OK, I hear you say, maybe one set will be used on many of these traffic flows; maybe some will be one train a fortnight. With 12 wagons. I wouldn't open a paper bag to read about that, never mind a glossy report. And what of locomotives and crews? If the driver of the Waterford - Limerick junction railcar is off ill, they cancel the train. One driver on that route! Where are all these people coming from? Where will they get the locomotives? Forgive my cynicism, but that report is sadly not worth the paper it's written on; it is pure Harry Potter stuff. Rant over - for now.

I’m sure animal cruelty organisations scuppered that plan!

Please pass on my very best wishes for his speedy recovery, Brack. Thanks!

The heating in those things wasn't the best. From memory, they could be draughty. Today's railcars (especially ICRs) are the opposite - sealed pressure cookers with the heat turned up WAAAAY too high.

yes, exactly.

The station where you see the train arriving at 7:48 is Western Road terminus, Cork. It is now the site of a hotel, but the abutments of the bridge it passes over just before are still to be seen.

That one's narrow gauge.

There were actually at least three variants of end detailing on those vans, that I can think of. Also at least three types of doors - you've depicted two of them nicely!

I think that we can only plan things now - I'm currently planning a holiday for some friends here, for next June. They live in the States. I just told them to check out getting holiday cancellation insurance, just as I would if I was planning to go to America. So for model exhibitions, I think it's sensible to plan them as normal - but have a plan "B"!

I've learned to do this now..............!

I don't have the dimensions, Patrick, but I am just adding that I have a Parkside palvan myself, and I have to say that it is so undersized that I don't run it - yes, there's a significant difference - the British one just doesn't look right on an Irish layout to me.

It’s those Midland six-wheelers, Connollystn. I can feel it in my waters.