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The nurse put those funny salts in my tea again this morning...... It's actually a superb loco. AND - as always - ANYONE who manufactures ANY Irish prototype has my 101% support.

The pills worked, Glenderg...... I'm calm.........! My fits of the Trembling Conniptions have eased..... all is serene!

Whoever prints their box labels can come into the quiet room with me, and I will "re-educate" them! Pills? I've swallowed three bottles of them, and a pint of cough syrup!!! "N class"! Aaaarrrrgggghhhhhh OK, I'm in the quiet room now. Goodnight...... A N D...... it appears to have a YELLOW flying snail. Why? No steam engine EVER had a yellow flying snail! Now I need smelling salts and my toes are curling up.

The box says N class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whaaaaaaatt!!!!!!! The N class ran in the Republic of Brexit, not here!!! Theyre K1s, not "N class"!!!! Where's my rifle?

Hmmmmmmmm....!!! There should be a third volume, yes, and some of the above will feature - IF - we get time. YES - It's been discussed; you read my mind! Now, to be fair, if it happens it won't be for a couple of years due to other commitments in the case of both authors.

Quote "................Bare wagons may also be released later, allowing customers to add containers they already own.............." Do these come in boxes with "Parental Guidance Advisory" on them?

The original number font and colour would apply not only to this stock, but was the same as that used by NIR on 80, 70, MED and MPD class railcars. It was also used by the UTA on carriages. Thus, if such a range is produced, it will benefit a wider number of applications. Originals may be seen on the preserved UTA coach (728) at Downpatrick.

So, Garfield is supplying peaches as well! Excellent...........!

Me!

Absolutely - I couldn't agree more. (Volume Three: "Rails through Glen More".....) My own pending effort is intended to recreate exactly the same period and scenes. If it ends up half as well, I'll be happy.

Maybe that was it..........

I had G scale in my last house... I have a very nice scratch built Spanish 1100-class 3ft gauge prototype diesel, like a 3ft gauge A class. I also had a somewhat more crude Majorcan railcar (1959 Creusot type), and a couple of carriages and a scratch built E class guards van. All in storage with Nephew right now - could resurrect if anyone was interested. The line closed and was lifted at last house move. Eoin - do you scratch build live steam?

I read several years ago - somewhere - of somebody using 009 track to represent 3ft gauge, modelling locos and rolling stock to 3mm scale. Did anyone hear of such efforts or have any experience of this?

Absolutely! The Creator ordained it that bogies were for carriages and 4.4.0 locomotives, not wagons! Well at least we don't have to have these new-fangled 071s......

Brian is the Messiah!

It also means more Provincial "H" vans, as I'll need a few brown ones too!o Dont forget cattle wagons, Glenderg!

It also means more Provincial "H" vans, as I'll need a few brown ones too!

Damn! Damn! Damn! My plans for an exclusively 1950s / 60s collection is now up in smoke! I'm going to have to have ferts and Guinness traffic......yes, shtick me down for some! This means I'll also need a "Supertrain"-liveried 141......!

Green..... accurate, though in this light, and with new paint, as under the floodlights at Ballyglunin for the "Quiet Man" scenes, the dark green shows as bright as it ever was. After being in traffic, it toned down and could look a bit darker and a lot "flatter". The above weathered would do the trick on a model. EDN shows accurately here - on my screen anyway!

That is certainly true initially, though I don't know at what time they decided to let 071s in there.

Hot off the press, thanks to Robert Gardiner, GM of DCDR: the pre-1955 dark green, post-1955 mid green and the EDN paints are coded as follows: Dark Green is BS381C/227 Lighter Green is RAL6001 Eau de Nil is BS381C/216 The last one I'm not sure about on paper, but on vehicles at Downpatrick it is quite correct.

Mighty stuff indeed, Paddy - superb!

I have to say, folks, if there's a load of new stuff all together on the market, like many here I certainly can't afford to buy it. For a number of reasons I'm VERY financially committed this year. However, since I know from above comments I'm not alone, surely the answer is that the various items concerned will simply sell that bit slower - thus enabling a bit of saving. In my case, I'll prioritise. I'm still trying to pick up the odd thing that was offered for sale a few years ago but is now sold out - but these were snapped up at the time (e.g. Mayner's excellent tin vans). If all these new things appear at once, the rate of buying will hopefully slow to the extent that we'll mostly all get a bite of the pie... Hopefully, anyway....

Exactly..... all of us would need to be looking at the real thing in daylight, and a model, not a computer screen!

And they're potentially blocking the way for emergency services. Idiots like this put people's lives at risk, like that stupid woman who went SWIMMING and had to have a lifeline thrown to her. Natural selection......