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At the very end, Waterford had the middle layout and Tramore was just a dead end….

They need mobile phone sockets in them at the least. Last time I was on one they didn’t have it. This is as good as expected nowadays; same with the 29 class.

Do we know the paths for the CAF? Presumably it’ll be advertised as no 1st class or meals? I need to know what services to avoid! I’ll only use DDs.

Senior had been using it as a PW inspection car at that time. He told me that its brakes were also dodgy by that stage, so that was another reason for the stick!

Excellent work as always1

“Yes, I know it’s DEAD… Barney threw stones at it and it didn’t move. But where did it COME from?’ ”It's that oul weedkiller, whatever they’ve put in it now, makin’ em all grow, or the myxomatosis or something….. ye think it bites?” ”I'm after tellin' ye it’s DEAD, ye thick. Any sign of the guards yet?”

On a typical day, there will probably be about 4 or 5 trains running. Mallow station is on a separate circuit - today that had the Executive train with a zebra-liveried 201. The two-car 26 is often on that too. The main circuit today had the NIR train shown, the 2-car 26, a grey 121 + bubbles, an "A" with cravens and a Mk 4 set (as shown). So five sets today - that's fairly typical - plus the 0 gauge overhead. There's a 29 class set now too, forgot to mention that one. I posted pics of it a while back. Nice repaint job.

Many thanks! There can be up to half a dozen or more trains operating at one time. Also present today was a 121 with cement bubbles, and an "A" hauling Cravens. On the upper !O" gauge track, a durty silver "C" class had a late 1950s train of cattle wagons...... In storage, among other things, are 201s in various liveries, 071s likewise, Mk 2s and Taras. With the new IRM announcements, hopefully we'll have some 4-wheeled stuff out'n'about soon! And, of course, eventually bring on the ICRs!

A CAF??? They might as well use a 2600 as one of those.

A "Woolwich" can be made up from one of the Southern Railway "N" class 2.6.0s - just remove the "blinkers" and drop it into a bucket of dark grey paint! (Or lined green after 1946). As far as a Dean Goods is concerned, if it is to fit into a Sligo scenario it has to be a loco of MGWR origin ideally, though obviously WLWR & GSWR types came in off the "Burma Road". The cab of a Dean goods is unlike most that the GSWR or MGWR had, but is not at all unlike WLWR cabs. A simple repaint will turn it into a very generic WLWR 0.6.0; it could, for the sake of argument, given a round-topped firebox and alterations to the front splashers, be turned into one of the two 235 class - but they were scrapped in 1927 & 1951. Alter its cab to a more GSWR-ish style - a simple job with plasticard - and it's good enough as a generic loco off the Burma Road - one of the many iterations of the J15 class. I have seen a picture of a MGWR J17 with a cab a bit like that. This would work, and would be arguably more suitable, as these would have been more typical in that area. The only "must" would be the removal of the brass GWR dome and to put the safety valves in the normal place instead of on top of the cab. All 0.6.0s would be plain grey up to the mid-1950s, some with flying snails, others not. Towards the last few years of steam, a small number of 0.6.0s were repainted plain black - again, some would acquire flying snails while others didn't.

If they make the Caark ones red and white, boy, thye'll need to make the Dub's ones two-tone blue!

It’s 1992 and an (abridged!) Enterprise passes through Malahide. IMG_0985.mov

With the new timetables coming in, Midleton 26’s are now extended to Donabate, and a Mk 4 set is on the Rosslare….. IMG_0986.mov IMG_0984.mov An Executive special passes through Mallow today, conveying politicians to Cork to announce the reopening of something as it’s election time….. en route, they decide over a pint what they’ll announce, and make a note of it for when Claire Byrne grills them…. IMG_0988.mov

Nurse! Nurse!

That really looks the business. Perfect weathering too, and surrounding scenery.

Probably same as their lorries - mid-to-light (wagon) grey body, red & cream cab! Crest on cab side, “C D R” on “wagon” dropsides…. (Unless they decided that it qualified as a “red wagon”!)

Do I detect the Waterford, Limerick & Western Railway edging in here?

I spotted one of those at Dugort Harbour in the 1960s….

I mourn the passing of Hattons; with my last correspondence with their model developers they were looking favourably on GSR livery too! GSWR would have followed…..!

So do we now know for a fact that Tralee Council are the actual outright legal owners of the locomotive?

So three railcar sets! All 6-ICRs?

Wasn’t aware of that! Nice!

Looks like four train sets needed for that. Three DDs plus an ICR, presumably. Tempting, therefore, to assume that the railcar will do the 05:50 ex Dublin, and corresponding trips throughout the day, e.g. the 09:00 to Dublin, 11:50 north, and so on........

There have already been road vehicles in garda markings, and buses in UTA & CDR liveries, and a double decker probably suitable for 0 scale, in CIE green. Lorries in CIE green and 1960s black cabs. Perhaps some of the following: 1. Postal vans - to be seen on platforms loading mail off trains - older dark green "P & T" livery, or Royal Mail red for the north 2. Buses from various eras in CIE, UTA & Ulsterbus liveries. 3. Lorries with CIE (various eras), UTA & Northern Ireland Carriers liveries. The latter suitable sitting alongside a RTR Jeep, whenever that comes out! 4. ESB vehicles.

Probably sussing out different distributors. All delivery services are getting expensive now so it pays to shop around. I'm sending a small parcel tomorrow to Switzerland and it will cost €13.