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  1. jhb171achill
    Derek recommends a supplier called Vinny Byrne's, who has outlets in Ballyfermot and Santry. He tells me that if they are given that code they'll make it up. I don't know, however, if there's a minimum quantity. I'd be happy to join in with anyone else to get a supply if that's necessary. I would think a matt version would be best.
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    I have been put in touch with a gentleman named Derek Farrelly, who some of you may know. Derek has very kindly given me the reference numbers for the authentic green used by CIE on buses and road lorries 1945-62, on such steam locos as were green, and on coaching stock until 1955. The references are: Dark green (body colour) - BS 381C 226 Light green ("eau-de-nil" for lining) - BS 381C 216 My thanks to Jim Poots for the introduction. In an exchange of emails, I am investigating the possibility of a supply being made up in small tins for us model people - bus or rail. With growing popularity of the "grey & green" era, as well as "black'n'tan", I wonder what level of interest there may be. If nothing else, it will solve the question of what shade is right, for those not lucky enough to remember the real thing.
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    I'm about to put up a post under the heading "Availability of authentic 1945 CIE green", as I have got the codes now.
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    I got it. US$117 including shipping. We'll see what it looks like. Now I need to get realistic green paint! And CIE transfers which are eau de nil rather than white, yellow, gold, or turquoise!
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    Yes, it is indeed. I went to great pains some years ago to mix green for a Spanish railcar (G scale outdoor railway). It turned out like CIE green. It should have been way, way, way darker - like in the chassis of an ammonia wagon. The colour wasn't remotely like what it should have been.......
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    Addendum; the coach colour for GSWR was a very dark brownish maroon, rather than green. GSR continued it for a while, before toying with chocolate and cream before settling on a maroon the same as your model initially! It was CIE who brought in the green. The shade on your model, and surrounding John Wayne, and on the Bachmann thing, was what was used 1945-55. They retained this shade for the few green steam engines, and for buses and lorries, until the 1960s, but carriages and diesel locos started to be repainted a lighter green from 1955. I thought those "blue" yokes must be transfers.... they're so neat. If you hand painted those, well that's a credit to you - the accuracy of them! (If a transfer, might be an idea to tactfully tell the maker they're the wrong colour....!)
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    I would add, a lovely paint job nonetheless, and for a coach of this type, you can get away with no lining if it's based around Cork; in late fifties they turned out some old secondary stock in the older green (as above), two snails as in the older green livery - in other words, exactly as your model!
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    The green is pretty good. Coincidentally, I had an exchange of emails with a gentleman who says he can get me the proper code for it, which I will share once I get it. The "snails" and numerals, if you're asking, are not the right colour - they look quite "blue". The light green can be seen in the photo of John Wayne. However, and there's always a "however", a fair oul dose of weathering will calm it down to a reasonable level. The numbers are also slightly overscale. The Bachmann coach also had slightly overscale markings.
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    Uncivilised folk that they are! I blame Brexit for this illiteracy........!
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    Not necessarily, Weshty, and I would add hopefully not. Should circumstances arise where there's a shortage of the bigger locos which will take some years to get back to normal - and this HAS happened in the past - it's possible. I certainly hope so - she's a superb loco. But for the foreseeable future, right enough, she's unlikely to turn a wheel in traffic.
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    186 is ok, as it's displayed and in authentic appearance. I often though that with one J15 at Whitehead on display, a good location for a cosmetically restored 184 would be the museum at Downpatrick. No. 27 - years ago, there was a proposal for a museum at Belcoo, with a short line to operate Railcar B on. Funding, unusually, was available, through EU and Peace money. This was about 1999 / 2000. Lough Erne was to be a star attraction in a museum there, in the old (now demolished) goods shed. While funds were there, the landowners weren't all agreeable so it didn't happen.
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    We have 2 inches of the stuff. Shock! Horror! Armageddon approacheth; there will be mighty plagues of locusts, yea, saith the Weatherman, and plagues of locusts and asps! And the bread will be no more! And that leather-clad wan on RTÉ weather will appear, yea, even in your own homes on TV, to torture your eardrums with her ghastly contrived elocution-lesson pronunciation, that would verily make Ross O'Carroll Kelly throw up in a bucket.... Doom! Repent ye, miserable wretches, of your sins!
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    I'll go for the "over-estimated futile panic" theory. My theory on what's happening: I call it "winter". There will be no minus twenty, no two metres of snow. Remember where you read this first; my pleasure. By the way, what's a weather "event" meant to be? What inane and stupid terminology, says jhb171 the grinch.
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    Most certainly is, StevieB. Two RPSI locos have worked there, and at the time of the Antrim relaying contract some years ago, the DCDR had offered to make its two E class locos available should it be necessary (it wasn't). A J15, though, is too big for the DCDR. Not in terms of size, of course, as the DCDR was a main line, and the Quoile Bridge could take an 071 - but coal appetite. It would cost several thousand each way to transport it to Downpatrick, and its coal consumption would be far too uneconomic. In theory, a straight swop could be done with 142 and 146!
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    It is currently out of commission, as more suitable locos (i.e. faster) are now in traffic. It I should in good shape though, and could be out back into traffic comparatively easily if necessary.
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    ......or Connolly, Galway or Heuston!
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    Ye would swear it was a real house, Eoin! :-)
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    Couldn't agree more. Captures the atmosphere of CIE in the 60s and 70s perfectly. The brown Palvan (with the beet pulp) - is that scratchbuilt or a kit, Patrick?
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    Superb, Leslie. My biggest regret is I never did the Derry Road or the North Kerry. Could so easily have done both.
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    What do you think?
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    A very useful suggestion for those with little space..... kits of E and G class are available, and with not too much effort a British 08 could be made to look like a D class. Small steam engines too, same purpose. Have a look at the attached, and think of a model of a sugar factory reception sidings....... loads of Leslie's beet trucks, and maybe a scratch built Downpatrick "sugar engine"! (From H Beaumont Collection)
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    I always thought that a C & L styled layout would be amazing. Mayner's C & L models certainly confirm my view...
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    Looks great!
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    C O Y B I G !!!!
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