jhb171achill

That model has indeed so many differences it’s not even worth a repaint! Better to await a proper model or go for a Hunslet. Those shunters were poor and unreliable. The Hunslets, on the rare occasion all three were in traffic together, would feature on PW trains too. You'll need one of Provincial Wagons ex-GNR guard’s vans to go with the wagons. This will give you a nice NIR ballast train (as I’m sure you know, NIR never ran internal goods trains since the UTA has ended them). Paint it in extremely heavily weathered dark grey, with the small letters “U T” barely discernible with the number. Note for modellers of GNR guards vans: never, ever, in any livery were there cream inside balconies, white roofs, or black ironwork as per the Whitehead “Ivan”! All that’s missing there is curtains and a jacuzzi......

All the low plank ones (of which there were about 6-8) were ordinary ones cut down. The grey paint was just a rough coat of emulsion which washed off quickly showing the old UTA livery.

Yes there is, don't know exact details, though.

That is a really superb piece of work, Tony.

The old main platform in Waterford is now closed off. Seems that Harry Potter’s platform 9 3/4 wasn’t that far-fetched after all!

DEMU showcase? What’s that...?

Pre-1925, all names were all n English forms only. In formation of the GSR, a new standard was introduced, slightly off-white lettering on s black background. These were enamel signs (like the WLWR and MGWR often used), with the Irish version ingaeljc script uppermost, and the English version in Roman script below. By the time CIE was formed in 1945, these had spread to most - but not all - stations. Many North Kerry stations, for example, retained pre-GSR English-only signs on wooden boards with cast iron letters screwed on. These were painted black, with white letters. In the mid 1960s CIE introduced new signs with white backgrounds and black letters - the earlier standard colours reversed. These were plastic, and usually contained within varnished (later painted) wooden frames. While bilingual, Roman characters were used for both English and Irish versions. A few old GSR enamels STILL exist - the footbridge sign at Carrick-on-Suir, for example.

That was a PW trolley........

Point of order, m’lud: we never had “running in boards” here at all..... we had “station name boards”........

And Waterford now has a single platform - platform 5!!!!!!

Best option I’m aware of is the SSM scratch aid ones. Someone else (can’t recall) does kits of GSWR types too, but they seem to be similar types.

It’ll be great to see!

Correct on laminate liveries internally. Upholstery usually either black or almost black (extremely dark grey) with a very faint blue fleck through it, or lighter grey fleck.

Ooooooohhhhh!! Where’s me smelling salts!!

That looks very realistic. It’s as I remember them. The rust on the chassis and metalwork (which, of course, were the same reddish body colour when painted new) looks extremely realistic. Absolutely no problem - use away!

If that’s a pic which I posted here a few years ago, it was taken at Antrim in 1978 or thereabouts. Those wagons were very much standard opens, cut down by NIR as you say, and “NIR” painted over the faded “U T”. I’d say many standard off-the-shelf designs would suffice.

NIR never used the “day-glo”; all semaphores remained (in a few cases badly faded) ordinary red until replaced by colour lights. As far as I’m aware the first use on CIE was experimental about 1968/9. I remember jhb171Snr getting a sample of it about then. Maybe 1970.

I received said missive and perused it. A veritable cornucopia of shtuff, some even in the right liveries.....! All credit for variety and rarity value, and low price, to be fair. And some interesting 0 gauge - a rare thing in the Irish market.

When my grandfather was in Inchicore, regular visits between Inchicore, Dundalk, Swindon and Derby took place. Seniorx2 attended Derby more than once and received guests from there too. This would been later, in the 1915-30 period, I would guess in his case.

The word from jhb171seniorx2 was exactly this, and he was involved with the design work for their rebuilds. The J15 was a superb, simple, efficient and highly versatile design. No surprise that it was, even in older designs only, by light years the most numerous type of steam locomotive that Ireland ever had.

Now that looks REALLY good!

A new one to me - wow! I knew about the MPD cars.... is the implication here that in an AEC car, there was some sort of thing inside the guards compartment that swung outside at the relevant moment? I was basing my post that I’m 99% sure they didn’t have them, in reference to the idea of one externally, and thus visibly fitted. The above would solve the mystery. Nothing external, as I thought, but an internal one to do the job.

I'm pretty sure. 99.99%, that no AEC car ever had a tablet catcher. If there was one, I'd say it is a short lived one-off experiment. They'd have to attach it to what was actually a much lighter carriage body panel, much lighter than a loco side. Snatching at speed would probably tear the panel off.......

That looks really good! Keep it up......!

Preserved A class: A55 - static, Castlerea, Co Roscommon. Hells Kitchen Railway Museum. A3 - ITG owned, in storage, close to running order. A15 - ITG owned, in storage unrestored. A39 - ITG owned, close to running order, restored at Downpatrick. Others all scrapped.