jhb171achill

I wonder where 532's number plate went?

Absolutely top class job.

It's off a tram. I suspect British.

Those on 186 and 184 are replicas made (accurately) by Whitehead. When the society got them, they had painted numbers.

00n3 would be better as its closer to 3ft gauge. 009 better for scale 2ft gauge and wouldn't look right.

It'll be 00 scale push bikes and Lycra next....! Bring on the grey 121s!

Correct - Inchicore removed them about 1955-ish

This is the late Johnny O'Meara's stuff. Among it is a cabside plate of D16 "Achill Bogie" No. 532! I might bid. Or I might not.

Trouble is, whatever metal they were made of polished to a silvery colour!

Eoin, yes, normally a light yellow creamy colour but according to jhb171achill Senior, who spent many Saturdays bumbling about Inchicore in the 1930s, the odd one did have polished numerals and rims, like 186 currently.

That truly looks so good. Captures the era perfectly.

"The sin is not the doing; it's the being-found-out" (Most politicians, 1789-present)

Now THAT would be a sight to behold!

When repainting, Eoin, for max effect I would paint the connecting rods and wheel rims great as well as the body. The numberplates look excellent. All over grey like the body, but rims and numerals picked out in light yellow / cream.....

David, I would guess - as standard - that the buffer beams on the "Unit" were red... Absolutely FANTASTIC work, as always. Brilliant. Such an unusual layout...

Last hour before closing time? :-)

I was just thinking - with the curvature on some of the dock lines, it's a wonder that anything six-coupled got around there at all!

If there are seats - better to contact th RPSI to be sure. This is the first year in 20 that I haven't done the seating plan myself so I can't be sure, but based on last 2 years, it was completely booked out.

Under your expert hand, that would be an absolute delight to see, Eoin.

Given lottery wins of some magnitude, if a preserved one in Britain was going begging, it could be brought here and regauged - perfect for the DCDR! But then, the GNR tank loco in Cultra, or No. 30, would be better........

Good to see 8209 and 077 with "proper" numbers on them, rather than irrelevant, unnecessary and unintelligible lengthy computer codes written along them.....!

Kilkenny will see great steam activity over the two days!

One lasted until about 1963. I think the other was long gone by then.

MGWR Broadstone departures, 1st January 1920: a.m. 4.30 Passenger / perishables to North Wall (LNWR) 5.45 Engine & Guard's Van to Amiens St (GNR) 7.25 Down Limited Mail - Galway (from Kingstown Pier 6.5am) Journey time 4 hrs. Connections to Westport, Killala & Achill. 9.00 Cavan passenger 9.25 Kingscourt passenger (connection to Athboy). This originated at the LNWR terminal at North Wall at 8.45. 9.45 Creosote wagons to Liffey junction 10.00 Passenger to North Wall (LNWR) p.m. 1.10 Sligo passenger 1.30 Galway passenger with connections to Achill & Killala 1.50 Kingscourt passenger 2.00 Passenger to North Wall (LNWR) 3.00 Maynooth passenger 5.45 Kingscourt passenger 6.00 Cavan passenger 6.30 Mail train to Amiens St (GNR) & Kingstown Pier 6.40 Passenger to North Wall (LNWR) 7.30 Galway night mail with connection to Westport only It should be noted that departures labelled "Galway" also had connections for the branches to Edenderry, Clara, Loughrea, Clifden, Achill and so on, and also from Athlone to Westport, Achill & Killala. MGWR practice was that one departure would have all sorts of sections to be jettisoned for different connecting lines at major junction stations. In addition, goods trains operated from North Wall (Midland) at: 12.45 am Westport (all stations Athlone - Achill) 2.00 am Athlone (Clara, Mayo Branch) 3.30 am All stations to Mullingar 5.00 am Kingscourt & GNR stations either side of Navan 5.00 PM Most stations to Cavan branch and branches, also beyond to GNR destinations 8.15 pm Ballina, with connections to Killeshandra and Cavan lines 10.15 pm Galway (Clifden & Loughrea branches) Other goods went by mixed trains. Cattle trains could load to 45 wagons LADEN!