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I commented (favourably!) on it, but possibly on another post! Point is, it's very nice!

It actually does replicate very accurately the way that shade of green DID weather! Thus, it's spot on!

Wow!! Fair enough...!!!! Excellent performance. (Ireland 6.23 to Co. Africa 1.08....) :-)

Hi Colin. You'll find all the encouragement you want here, plus a wealth of knowledge. So keep the questions coming!

That's excellent stuff. An oft-neglected type of vehicle....

I hope my postal order is in one of those bags...

Exactly!

The RPSI's new premises at Whitehead might well have room for some sort of layout, and it would indeed be a good home - though it would probably have been better accommodated there had it been includ in the planning stage. There's no doubt, however, that the management of the whole Fry project from the day it left the castle has been a mish-mash of poor planning, lack of interest in a major asset, ignorance of a major asset, and short sightedness. Setting a few of his models on a shelf somewhere is not only not financially viable - few of us even here would pay just to look, so forget the normal public - but also, it entirely misses the point of what Fry was trying to do. Those in whose care the stuff remains wouldn't have the first clue about this.

That's a lovely model.

That's what I was thinking. Can anyone elaborate on whereabouts / safety of actual models right now?

Absolutely excellent concept. Can't wait to see it develop.

No further news, it seems? Where, incidentally, is the stuff in store?

Mine too. I'll allow Donegal, West Clare, and AEC railcars. That's it. And let's allow A's, C's, B101s, 121s and 141s too. They can be locomotives. So says jhb, the oul philistine.

It's a wannabe steam engine. Never liked those railcars, so I don't blame it a bit.

Replay announced....

As a matter of interest, has anyone ever modelled a Railtours Ireland yellow tour bus? There's a new one, a 161 CE, on the Cliffs of Moher run these days.

Mr cantankerous here, but am I the only person who thinks that the only competition ever to take place on that programme was "who is the bigger, and less watchable utter moron"? - Evans or Clarkson? Both insufferably irritating giant ego people. Never watched it, always thought it was a load of rubbish presented by attention-seeking know-alls.... Rant over.

Hard to make out, but the coaches behind the loco are probably the sort of old DSER 6-wheelers so prevalent on the coastal and Harcourt St suburban lines at the time. The coach in the background is a full brake in GSR main line brown and cream, while the darker ones are in the older all-deep-Crimson-lake used on all stock until 1929, and secondary / 6-wheel / branch line stock until after 1933. The 4th vehicle in the train is also brown and cream, and while partly obscured is almost certainly a DSER bogie third.

Steve, thanks for replying....I haven't yet anything UTA in my I tended to concentrate on more CIE territory, before switching to things 009 and Austrian! I had some original transfers some years ago and from memory they were about 12 inches width - 14 as suggested a hive might be about right. I gave my transfers to the RPSI and DCDR so I can't look them up now. Quite a few published photos, in particular of "jeeps", would give a better idea than I can. I commend you on issuing anything UTA at all, as it's a minority interest, despite some extremely interesting operations, locos, lines and rolling stock having come under their watch (initially at any rate, before they hastily closed most!). In terms of sizes, the UTA used standard sizes of both their original roundel and their later crest, on all things railway and buses alike.

Outstanding stuff! Wish I was there! Not possible this year unfortunately. I'm intrigued by Nelson's "new project"!

That's looking really good.

A layout based in the highly scenic areas round Ballinacourty / Clonea would be amazing, and quite possibly a much enlarged Waterford Manor station.....

That would have been a highly scenic line!

Wasn't there a one-time proposal for an extension of the Youghal line to eventually get to Waterford? Such a thing - direct Rosslare - Waterford - Cork, had it been built, would almost certainly have made it into the 1960s, possibly early this century for beet.

I would have thought that perhaps traders might be let in provided they paid a fee - like at car boot sales, many of which are held on church premises all over the place. Having said that, it's entirely the business of the church concerned to lay ground rules for who may or may not attend. As others have said, they deserve credit for their commitment to this event in the past.