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Sorry to hear of this - definitely one of the best layouts this website - or Irish modelling in general - has ever seen. Good luck with the move, and here’s to a future reincarnation!

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Looking forward to this!

As we hear in so many places, about "areas"..... "Themmuns in there eat their childer...."!

The interior of 69, as above, on the DCDR, will actually be a completely different layout to ex-WLWR 900. 69 has a brake compartment in the middle, with a saloon either side. It was, of course, never like this in real life, nor did any railway that I am aware of have a coach with a guard's compartment between two first class open compartments, so the rebuild of 69 is quite unique; in operational days it was only ever a full brake (and one of only 2 or 3 six-wheel vehicles to receive black'n'tan). No. 900 had a single saloon, with a toilet at the non-windowed end, and a sort of "drawing room" compartment with two facing seats in the window end, as shown in the diagram with the pink background. The diagram of 322 / 324 / 325 below shows the layout of about the only three first saloons that existed (might have been a handful more), but these had a toilet in the middle and bench seating. An all-first saloon without a toilet would not have been likely. I am unaware of any such in saloon form. Bottom line is that there will be nothing at all comparable to the rebuild of 69 - but the finished article will be an absolute masterpiece nonetheless, and with double doors invaluable for wheelchairs and children's buggies. Let us hope it becomes a regular performer as a service vehicle instead of special days out only! It was, of course, not at all unusual for railway companies back in the day to rebuild vehicles with completely different configurations to what they originally had. The MGWR's 1M is a good case in point - variously a first class diner - or a third class seated coach! And with six wheel bogies, then four wheel ones. Second image shows the trio of first saloons with fixed bench seats and the last one shows 69 as it was throughout its railway service.

An absolutely excellent idea!

Taras and cement this afternoon… IMG_0916.mov IMG_0915.mov

I like those road signs! Very well done. Do you print them on card?

........and make them memorise it. Snipers can come after that.

Why, what did the oul pigs do to deserve that?

Awful. Considering that I advocate snipers and electric fences for graffiti vandalism, it’s best not to print how I would deal with people like this.

Truly awful news, was actually thinking of him this morning. A great loss to all here as well as his family, and an absolute gentleman. May he rest in peace.

Anyone know which services this week and next are railcars and which DDs?

Good news, that!

A very well preserved colour slide from summer 1958 sees the afternoon local from Castletown West arriving at Dugort Harbour.

Call in the sock livery experts….

He's lost. He got to Ardglass, ran through the buffers, down the pier and into the sea. The train floated up at Greenore, was winched ashore, but someomne had left the brakes off, so - boom! She's off to Amiens Street. It seems that a quick-thinking signalman at Clogherhead Junction switched the points, thus avoiding a little bit of a mess at Amiens Street.

Cat 1 says he eats his at 01:51; Cat 2 says she eats hers between 4 and 5 a.m., while Cat 3 says that she eats hers at 22:15. However, Cat 2 once ate hers at 02:00. So it's a yes.

So it was in Belfast a mere four minutes??

I have texted my daughter's cats on instagram to see if they agree.

I’m totally with you on predictive elephant algebra Napoleon Moscow noodle

What is the fremo concept?

One of Barry Carse's photos shows two of these at Thurles BFS. It is during the "campaign", so there were no less than three G class there at the same time; i think G613 and G611 were among them. The livery of one is indeterminate, as it is so filthy it may as well have been painted black, brown or pink and tartan for all anyone could see; buffers and all. Just wall-to-wall filth. The other one is plain unlined green, with black underframe, red buffers and red handrails.

Indeed. Probably somewhere in Dublin or Cork, well outside actual railway premises.

The font style in the English version is also highly unusual.