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Wayne Sleep? Did he?

That is absolutely astounding!

Just mulling over all the liveries carried by 071s....... NIR original light blue, later darker blue with either small or large yellow patches, original Illinois browny orange and black, supertrain, tippex with set-of-points, same with three-pin-plug, silver and black, all-grey..... have I missed any?

Conjures up (pleasant) visions of a "Woolwich" and 45 loose-coupled four wheelers........

Years ago when he was on that Friday thing, I always thought he was quite exceptionally conceited and irritating; what my late aunt would have called a "notice box"! He's never changed. I wouldn't even listen to him on radio, or I'd end up crashing the car. Good riddance.

Couldn't agree more, Wrenn. I've no time these days to be even retired!

Is Liver Fluke what you get if you drink scotch instead of Jamesons? Or Murphys instead of Guinness? Or if you listen to "Wagon Wheel" or "Wonderwall" instead of music?

That is absolutely outstanding! Customer's wife may have a very, very long wait....... understandable!

Yessss! Wanderer - there's your next project!

What about an ICR in black'n'tan for some anniversary? 0r a 201? Or a green goddess in GNR brown!

Accurate BCDR loco gee. Is indeed certainly not at all like what's on 30. The real shade was pretty much similar to what's on the RPSI carriages at Whitehead - not exactly "invisible green" but a very dark shade. For an accurate model, that's the best bet. Not everything in Cultra is accurate livery wise - in fact possibly only about half of the stuff. If anyone's interested in a list, for the record, I'll post it. In most cases with a little research the accurate forms of liveries are readily available.

He's an absolute moron. Even clarkson looked reasonable beside him. Well, a bit.

Login thing doesn't work for me either.

That layout absolutely oozes atmosphere better than about anything I've ever seen. Excellent work - keep the updates coming! I'll make representations to the RPSI to send a train down there........... !

Drew's models are absolutely superb though it should be remembered that since he liked CIE green, he painted almost all his models that way. In reality, very few prototypes of his models were anything other than grey. 850 started life in plain grey (rather than black). Drew painted one model loco (I forget which) in MGWR livery. I am not sure where he got the details - if from Bob Clements it was correct, as Bob had an actual Broadstone paint sample. Many incorrect theories have been put about over the years about MGWR green - and even more so, GSWR green. The correct shade of the latter is now on 90 at the DCDR.

Wow!! STUNNING! (As expected, naturally....)!

.......easy to model, then!

That looks really well! Models, anyone?

Probably the best is indeed something like that. In a completely ideal world, a terminus for all Dublin would be under St Stephens Green, with underground connections to the DSER, MGWR, GNR and GSWR lines. Had the Luas Green / Harcourt St Line not have been (re)opened, they could even have used that very well to start going down underground while also providing a commuter service. In such a scenario, with an underground "Dublin Central" (layout possibility?), the question would air as to whether the "Enterprise" and other main line trains would use Connolly / Howth Junction, or go under. Putting commuters unground would be an option just as much as the other way round. To go to the thread title, Brexit will put any solution to the cross-border line back, in all likelihood.

As recently as the 1970s, a single 121 could be seen taking empty cattle wagons from Dublin to Mullingar after a fair, and after being washed out. This regularly loaded to 70 four wheelers and two brake vans. Is IE's much-publicised long train as long as this, or longer? By USA standards, incidentally, it's about a fifth the size of some "normal" trains!

That's the problem, Noel..... !

Maybe they'll write "Panda" on the sides of them....!

Nothing's been the same since black'n'tan, in my humble opinion. We've had some utterly ghastly ones, as bad as weekly liveries across the pond on the Great East & Northern west wales pennine train company. Lime green and navy, insipid shades of green and grey..... Drogheda green giant, and the nondescript half-painted selection of 201s which have been bumbling about. I never liked the yellow ended silk and black of the 071s either - in fact, for me, the one and only live I've liked at all since 1990 is the new Enterprise version. (It's Enterprise predecessors were duller than a wet February Tuesday morning in Dundalk....)

Nice - captures Kerry's rich countryside very effectively.

"Raccoons"; an excellent name for them! So what's the green Belmond one? The "Seasick"?