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  1. jhb171achill
    I tried contacting him once but no reply….. was going to ask him to do No. 90 in each of the actual liveries it carried, to assist the DCDR in choosing its eventual livery at the time when it was being restored for use there. He didn’t answer, but DCDR ended up finishing 90 in the livery it would have had when new.
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    Yes, the “tippex” name refers to the last livery they carried, either with the “set of points” logo or the “three pin plug”. Since the new entity Irish Rail hadn’t any money for a new livery when CIE was split up in 1987, the new admin traction just put white lines on the existing livery. Hence “tippex”. All three of these nicknames (and many others) originated amongst workers in Inchicore Works. When the 2600s were new, Connolly drivers christened them as the “Fanta Cans”; one suggested to me later when the navy blue, white and lime green livery appeared, that they were niw turning them into Lilt cans!
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    I’m sitting in an ICR as I write this, and my back sympathises! Unlike many of the good folk here, I don’t actually mind ICRs per se, but the new leather seats are too upright and too hard. As far as any railcars are concerned, probably the best of a very bad lot are NIR’s 4Ks at the moment. I agree about the DDs, by far the best there is operating today, outside Downpatrick!
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    A 29 outside a commuter setting is an abomination, saith the lord. The Gatwicks were similar in comfort terms to a 450 or a 2600.
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    I was working in Belfast then and commuted in them every day. They were seriously uncomfortable - flat hard seats that would almost make a 26 class railcar seem luxurious, seats too low, windows too high, stuffy in summer and cold in winter. Very spartan inside. Less comfortable than British or CIE equivalents…. I actually though the CIE ones were ok.
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    Certainly never regularly. Latterly they did a single daily run; Newry - P’Down - Lisburn - Central, even working out empty.
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    I’m following this with interest! Will we see an 800 class in GNR blue, or a De Dietrich set in CBSCR olive green? A Lough Swilly 4.8.0 in Donegal red? (Airfixfan, what ye think?) Lined CIE green on NCC Jeeps? NIR Red Bull livery on Cork 26’s or Drogheda 29s? CIE Black’n’tan on an NIR “wokfru” 4K set? The sky’s the limit….
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    The DVT - assuming it’s the same one we’re talking about - did arrive, but sat at York Road and never turned a wheel in traffic. It is now “preserved” at Downpatrick; the only railway vehicle in Ireland to have seen 0% of its (Irish) life in service, and 100% of its operations in preservation as a barrier vehicle!
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    Wooohooo!
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    Sure the whole idea of them taking on was a load o'hot air..........
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    I think they're going for scrap eventually, after they've stripped them for spares. They're of zero historical interest here anyway, and there's probably no room for them anywhere.
  12. jhb171achill
    You'd need some head for heights to walk across that gangway!
  13. jhb171achill
    I'm listening to the dog barking downstairs...........
  14. jhb171achill
    This has got to be the single, solitary most stupid proposal ever put forward. It puts decisions like abandoning freight, selling goods yards, closing West Cork, Tramore, Harcourt St, the BCDR and the Derry Road into third place. It’ll kill the line, already hamstrung by having filthy 29s on some services, and Castlegregory branch speeds over the entire route. Maybe that is what the No Trains Authority wants?
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    Some of these ads on things like fleabay or done deal are borderline fraud…… Indeed. Listing it as “vintage model locomotive” might be better.
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    Is that clown STILL trying to sell that thing!!!
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    I knew it. The Brexiters invented all that stuff........ SUPERB! Greeat work.
  18. jhb171achill
    That’s the trouble with terminology today - it has to be gobbledegook to “impress”. Back in the day, when the English language was used on the railway, you had brake standards, open composites, side corridor seconds, corridor thirds, six wheel lavatory firsts, and the like. Obvious. Now, it has to DBSO-2F, BSK(II), SGHT MK 2-SO(T) and the like…… No doubt when the De Deitrichs and Mk 4s go, we’ll be faced with an array of identikit vehicles, but called “A”DFGH-1, “B2”-EV, SSD5 and so on. Rant over.
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    Even by the NTA’s standards, this is a several light years beyond stupid, as are the Cavan & Leitrim style speeds over the entire route.
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    The Enterprise is probably the most comfortable of all these days.
  21. jhb171achill
    Tis true; “Dunluce” was / is No. 74. Good to meet you again yesterday, Galteemore!
  22. jhb171achill
    Re-liveried LMS loco as NCC
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    It would take three weeks, probably!
  24. jhb171achill
    As far as I’m aware this is underground. Probably looks like a massive underground car park, wherever it is.
  25. jhb171achill
    Yes, there is space thus allocated, but no actual construction. The area is, as I understand, used for storage.
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