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  1. jhb171achill
    They're all connected...... look, for example, at Mk 2 or Craven formations. At the end of the journey there didn't swop the brake to the other end. This can also be seen today at Downpatrick.
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    Fully fitted trains can have the brake anywhere.
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    Aaaargh! I was five in 1962!
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    Excellent work.
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    A great looking little layout. Just shows big isn't needed to look well. Loads of action, well done!
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    With such a hotch potch of carriages in a typical CIE train in the 60s and 70s, a carriage like this will look very well sandwiched in among laminates, Cravens, Park Royals and Bredins - and the odd wooden coach.
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    With the model layout at the CDRRS, might there be some way of linking up? Just a random thought.....
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    Organic wagons?
  9. jhb171achill
    Excellent - well done, Leslie!
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    Errors notwithstanding, a real credit to the manufacturer who doubtless took a real leap in the dark, and a great addition to any layout. A good layer of filth will make the UTA one look fine! (And it's easy to put a bit of red paint on the connecting rod!)
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    As an old-school type, dating from when models were made out of quill pens, cornflakes packets and sealing wax, I never cease to be amazed and impressed at what modern technology can do in the modelling world. I wish I had the time to get to know it!
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    Brilliant! Looks like one of those Disney liveries you get in England, where no two items of rolling stock are the same. First Great Eastern Connex Aviva Train Company and their 324.5567 class identikit railcar....and all that.... where "customers" are reminded not to take photographs in the train station........
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    Brilliant work. It truly was a most oddball looking yoke, wasn't it!
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    What about an 071 covered in 1970s wallpaper.....?
  15. jhb171achill
    Steam hauled passenger trains ran here and there until early 1963. Tin luggage vans were to be seen behind them on many an occasion - often with ancient wooden coaches!
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    Looks good!
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    An hour or two in Portadown? Did you not have a better defence barrister, Tony?
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    TOP class!
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    Aaaaarrrrggghhh!!
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    Lovely setting. The signal, it should be noted, isn't original.
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    A "woolly"..... Visions of an eco-friendly sheep-hauled train! Excellent.... The last Woolies in traffic were 376 (withdrawn 1961) and 388 (1962). Another eight had lasted until 1959 / 60.
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    Re-reading my post above it suggests that that tin vans were a variety of genny vans, which they obviously weren't. I should have added the difference between a steam van, a luggage van and a genny! I was merely trying to suggest what was at the back of the train in the "green silver grey" era and the 60s!
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    Gen vans....... "tin vans" were used from end of steam (when they became necessary) to 1970 or so when the Dutch and BRs were in service. Some tin vans were still in use around 1976-7. The last coaches still in green would have been about 1966.
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    Top class work, excellent!
  25. jhb171achill
    I can't be certain, David, but I suspect the front "buffer beam" was black, judging by close inspection of photos. So, white roof, grey cab and body, including strapping, black chassis as a railcar would be.
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