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  1. jhb171achill
    I had forgotten about this thread - I omitted to mention I got as far as Foynes too, on a few IRRS & RPSI trips..... and Mullingar to Athlone a number of times on both RPSI and service trains...... If old age and creaking bits permit, Barry Carse & I are thinking of doing the Waterford greenway at some stage soon.... and I've still to do the North Kerry one and Newport - Westport. Must learn how an electric bicycle works. Far cry from a scruffy 0.6.0 but it would have to do.
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    Or to add to that, Crossley sounds only in silver, green, black, and black-with-yellow-ends liveries, and the early black & tan without the "R" suffix or top headlights. GM sounds only with "R" after the number, and Supetrain & Irish Rail.
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    The blue one, 216, was in Belfast both this morning and this evening….
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    But my question was about the one that was once on the Clonmacnoise railway - the green and yellow yoke. Was there one of those, or were there more than one - and where is it / are they now? This / these were not at all like either the Keef one above, or the Dromod one.
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    Too modern for a fussy oul fossil like me, Bandon Tank! (But, now, if it WAS an actual Bandon tank, now that would be a different kettle o'fish!)
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    Interesting to see how this develops (and I hope you get your money back), from a general point of information about the rights, wrongs, practicalities and legalities of online selling in general. Personally, I have bought quite a few items online over the years, especially when building up what at one time was a pretty large 009 collection (all since sold to pay for MM 141s and 121s!)….never any major probs, though one of two things I got years ago weren’t QUITE the bargain they appeared to be once I got them…
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    A tin canister wagon of some sort, on wheels, at Amiens St Station….. Today
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    Excellent!
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    When things do eventually calm down, there’s a preserved XA (Aussie A class) in full working order, Crossley engine included, on the preserved Hotham Valley Railway in Oz. Six of the class survive, plus bits of another, in various locations in the land of upside-down kangaroos and man-eating spiders the size of “A” class locos, but only the one operating. Doubtless IRM will set sail, tape recorder in hand, to capture this beast. Same engine as an A, and a very different sound indeed to a GM “Transplant “. Look up “WAGR XA” in your YouTube machines…..
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    Very much appreciated, folks!
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    Superb stuff. The 2nd and 3rd were on an IRRS special. Love the one with the cattle trucks - that's precisely the type of "look" I'm aiming for with the "Dugort Harbour" layout.......
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    That BnM thing - how many of those were built? I always thought it was a one off, but I seem to to recall someone telling there were two?
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    "Is he the only passenger today?" "There's one already on - that railway enthusiast eejit from Dublin with the camera..." ---------------------------------------- "Ye hear someone's shot Kennedy! It was on the wireless!" "What? The auctioneer? PJ's cousin?" "NO!! The American President! John F!"
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    The morning local train arrives today....... IMG_9564.MOV Cattle trucks being shunted; tomorrow is fair day again!
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    Now, that I didn't know.
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    The publisher, Stenlake Press in Glasgow, can provide details - he has just circulated bookshop wholesalers. I can supply one when I get them - probably in a week or so.
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    Best place for it! Was that coach at Finntown??
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    I posted two to the USA last week. The PO charged me €7 for one and €15 or something like that for the other, as a particularly inflexible lady there told me it was a few grams over a specific limit!
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    Sure will!
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    Disgusting behaviour. Have you reported this fraudster to the gardai?
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    Can you intercept it?
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    They sold one of the trams to the Southwold Railway in England, who plan to use it as a seating extension to their tea shop! They've done it up a bit - probably badly needed it. Always thought they were gawd-ugly things, even at Shane's Castle!
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    And they will be well run in when we get them.
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    Surely that’ll be very hard on their engines if they travel all that way by rail?
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    Not my layout, Rob! Belongs to a friend - who appears here, as it happens, from time to time!
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