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Yes.

Excellent!!!! Great news for all of us.

It seems the accurascale range is rapidly expanding so much that maybe they’re up to their eyes with that.

Back on topic, then. New 2024 IRM. My prediction - and I’ve definite inside knowledge - us a working poo nappy for an N gauge Fintona horse. A DCC poo-chip is an extra €67. Mark the date, but don’t tell anyone I told you. It’ll be 1.4.24.

A large number of our locomotives were built here - Inchicore, Dundalk and other places.

Indeed; just like these days!

Just 4 coaches for an Enterprise??

Mk 2 up to 1995/6 when DDs started, I think? Cravens a good while before that.

It looks great - though, straw rather than yellow - and (while probably impossible to replicate in 00 scale) it was only a on-inch straw line, and worse, edged both sides in a 1/4 inch red line! The RPSI's Mk 2 livery lining, with a yellow line, and a single, separate red line, was based on the notion that this livery should not be actual UTA, but should look reminiscent of it on dark green carriages. Thus, the RPSI's own livery, with yellow replacing straw, and different thickness and style of lining. But I digress! Darius - as always - truly amazing work. That Dapol yoke looks just like the aluminium-clad "upgrades" of old (originally panelled) NCC stock in the 1960s.

That’s an extremely good idea, Leslie. I, too, have a full set from 1946 as Senior was a founder member. I joined as a junior member when I was about 14. The journals are indeed invaluable.

A couple of my books have diagrams of MGWR locos and stock - Rails to Achill & Rails through Connemara. But what Leslie suggests is the wya to go. IRRS membership varuies depending on where yopu live, but it's extremely good value in deed for the quantity of material available, plus the vast collection of phots that members are able to view online, - an essential tool for any modeller. I suggest you pick a period and a particular peruiod if you want to model anything prototypical. See https://irrs.ie/

I thin k a few mods...

What area are you interested in, what period? Steam, diesel, UTA, NIR, CIE, Irish Rail, GNR, narrow gauge?

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And a wallet which never opens!!

I suspect - and hope - that from an admittedly microscopic base, UTA modelling is beginning to develop interest. A few years ago, the CIE grey’n’green era was virtually ignored. But then came along IRM’s early A class liveries, Hattons genesis stock, OO Works J15s, and Leslie’s “provincial” wagons…

“Oi! Can ye move! I’m trying to take a picture and ye’re in the way!”

A couple of Fry models on display on the excellent Inver layout.

I’ve a fair stock of them, most made up and weathered, a few still to be made.

Livery adjustments and you’re there!

And Cork. Those CAFtle trucks will remain in Dublin, and the naughty of Maynooth, Drogheda and the DSER will be condemned to travel in them for years, as the even naughtier of Belfast suburbia were condemned to MEDs and 450s in turn, for some four and a bit decades! Oh! How these townies must suffer! Then there were the plastic seat ex-AEC, pre-DART things. But, I digress; purgatory is for a different website.

I believe it’s all defunct now.

That one looks pretty good! There actually were occasionally minor variations in the real thing, though perhaps oddly a greater variation in the styles of the Roman characters....

I would agree with this. Despite rumours that 29s displaced by Dart pluses will end up in Cork, I am informed by a highly reliable engineering-background source that this is highly unlikely. Thus, unless the 28s go down to replace the 26s, and if so what would replace them?.... then the 26s will be there until some sort of battery / vegetable juice burning things appear. In my youth, talk was of closures, closures and more closures, and the complete replacement of ALL steam traction by diesel. Now, it seems to be about the complete replacement of ALL diesel-powered trains and locomotives by customer tubes which have battery-clockwork-hybrid engines fuelled by jojobi-juice vegan extract, water, eco-friendly air, or calorie-free biomass juice. And no toilets, despite suburban area line speeds of a 46A in heavy Friday evening Christmas traffic.

That is absolutely top class. Love the scenic background too.