jhb171achill

Thanks, Divecontroller!

So they're short gauge rather than narrow gauge....

Are they narrow gauge? And being tank-equipped, but no driving wheels, they must be 0.0.0T type?

Would indeed, Dive. Must delve for more oddities! jhb171senior once spotted the Giant's Causeway Tramway repair tram at Bushmills. I have that somewhere. Started another book recently and some of the things in that - IF publishable (and some are extremely poor original photographs so they may not be) - are very definitely in the oddball camp, e.g. the entire stock of the Waterford and Tramore on one train, odd maintenance vehicles from back in the day... and a good few green diesels. Good bit of work yet to be done, though.

The Mk 2 design was inherently prone to rust, much more so than other "modern" coaches, though in our climate obviously none are exempt. When the RPSI acquired the ones they have, the condition varied but some were in absolutely dire condition due to internal rust and were as good as rebuilt at Whitehead. These need to be kept inside as they are need for traffic. Cravens are a much better design, thus more hard wearing, but as any preservationist knows, you ignore TLC at your peril, so they - as Dublin area breadwinners - have to have pride of place in the care stakes too. Mullingar shed is not really used much any more as it's falling to bits. Once the current coach in there leaves, it won't be used by the RPSI again.

By this stage in CIE "Supertrain" era orange. If this sounds odd for goods stock, CIE's containers were at that time painted orange too, as were the cement "bubbles". I think the chassis were brown as they were normal flat wagons. The chassis on the bubbles were grey. These wagons shown were detachable containers, as distinct from the "Ranks" vehicles shown elsewhere on IRM in the past.

Both, Noel. Unfortunately there isn't room for it all to be indoors. The most important vehicles are under cover in both places.

There was so much freight still about then, though go back another ten years and there's twenty times as much again!

The heritage stock is in both Whitehead and Inchicore - probably about half and half. There's info is he still in the shed at Mullingar (GSWR 813). The RPSI volunteers there used to use it as a "tarry". It was never restored, though the RPSI externally painted it in CIE green years ago.

Aha! But I managed to turn it right way up! :-)

122 brand newly repainted, with (I think) 132 still in CIE livery. All but one of the carriages were newly tippexed too

With David Holman's "Arigna Road" in mind, the Waterford and Tramore at one time proposed a branch from about three miles out of Waterford to Dunmore East, a small fishing port. A layout based on three termini, Waterford (Manor), Dunmore East and Tramore would make a very do-able project for those who like me are short of space.

Ah! Ok.... I've a few bits for you too, Garfield, want me to post them?

S O L D (Within a minute of me putting it up!) Thanks!

Those were 071-skis.

€10 euro for this, including postage to anywhere in Ireland or UK. I'm selling this because I find out that I have two! It's an absolute gem showing all the locos and coaches and wagons - bogie and four wheel - which were rattling about in the late 70s to mid 80s. Laminates, Cravens, Park Royals, Mk 2 and (new) Mk 3 coaches side by side with Ahasi, beet, containers, you name it. Locos then were Hunslets, 071s, NIR "C" class, 121, 141, 181..... AEC push pull CAFs, darts.....

I'm offering these to a good home - no charge, but I would ask for postal costs to be covered, whatever they might be.

Being such an oddball thing, with a great many more operational difficulties than you'd think, they would at least be condemned to sidelining once spare parts - inevitably being at least expensive, at worst unavailable - would be needed. Another 2 or 3 years of steam would have seen the same locos in normal traffic just stretched out a bit more, like they were in mainland Europe or the UK (or the Larne line!).

My own early layout experiences mirror Mayners, with a Tri-ang* oval of coarse looking "super 4" track, a battery powered controller, an outline 0.4.0T "Polly", an open wagon, closed van and brake van. That was it. I was fascinated! However, with jhb171senior a railway employee, thankfully railways weren't quite as dirty a word in household conversation! 13th and 14th birthdays saw the arrival of two BR Mk 1s and class 31 diesel. I bought another second hand from my school friend's older brother for ten shillings. A lot of money (50p). But a new one was £3 - out of the question. (* Now there's a once very common name now long gone. Will the Hornby name go the same way or survive as an online virtual train app?)

The majority of the RPSI heritage coaches are still in existence, but no longer allowed on the main line.

.....and mine....

Superb! Dealing with people on a daily basis from the U S and A, yes, that's what they're like. Very nice people, not at all like stereotypes (but then, nor are we), but a very, very different sense of humour to us..... Their sense of humour is simplistic, cautious and conservative for the most part. And greatly tempered with their obsession with the "PC" culture of ensuring you don't offend anyone, no matter how wacko their ideas and sensitivities, before you get out of bed in the morning.....

Absolutely top class work

Relaying half way to Killala possible? :-)

I suppose it's possible that the copyright owner has advertised them themselves.