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  1. jhb171achill
    Given the above, I'd be looking for a pair of Jeeps, pair of UTA and a pair of CIE green AECs.
  2. jhb171achill
    I’m happy - I loved travelling in some of the old laminate types, though Park Royals were neither quiet, comfortable or warm in winter! My recollections of the very few times I travelled in side-corridor Bredins were of warm, comfortable coaches....
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    Couldn’t agree more. A good quality AEC is well overdue. It spans the GNR, UTA, early NIR and CIE between (variously) 1950 and 1974. Black roof on the above, rather than grey, also! Irrespective of my own personal preferences, commercially speaking I think there’s little that would sell better than RTR Jeep, possibly W class, AEC railcar or 80 class railcar.
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    A RTR “WT” class 2.6.4T (“Jeep”) while not my personal favourite, would unquestionably be the most commercially viable steam loco. Only last night I discussed this at length with one of our respected manufacturers......!
  5. jhb171achill
    An 800 class would need RTR stock to go with it. Various examples of the 1935 and 1937 “Bredins”, and even the 1933 (first) ones. If offered, the GSR maroon one would go with 800, but green and black’n’tan versions would bring us right up to the 1970s when the last of them were withdrawn.
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    Correct. I recall my first visit there in 1969 or 70 - the station building was still there too on the opposite platform, as was the Dungiven bay platform. While innovative, distinctive and original, the NCC's trademark functional concrete structures were a truly ghastly sight to behold - pure communist-era Moscow, or Colditz in style; worse when strewn with 1970s sectarian graffiti!
  7. jhb171achill
    It is. This loco never hauled spoil trains as such. This will be right next to the station.
  8. jhb171achill
    The GSR did use a Gaelic font - I’ll get details for you. These were still in evidence in some places well into the 1970s, even on hoods only lines like Foynes. CIE, from the 1960s, used Roman fonts for Irish and English versions of names,
  9. 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......
  10. jhb171achill
    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.
  11. jhb171achill
    Yes there is, don't know exact details, though.
  12. jhb171achill
    That is a really superb piece of work, Tony.
  13. jhb171achill
    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!
  14. jhb171achill
    DEMU showcase? What’s that...?
  15. jhb171achill
    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.
  16. jhb171achill
    That was a PW trolley........
  17. jhb171achill
    Point of order, m’lud: we never had “running in boards” here at all..... we had “station name boards”........
  18. jhb171achill
    And Waterford now has a single platform - platform 5!!!!!!
  19. jhb171achill
    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.
  20. jhb171achill
    It’ll be great to see!
  21. jhb171achill
    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.
  22. jhb171achill
    Ooooooohhhhh!! Where’s me smelling salts!!
  23. jhb171achill
    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!
  24. jhb171achill
    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.
  25. jhb171achill
    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.
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