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It looks as if someone's been sick over it. I would hope that the dark blue on the carriages gets lightened up by some other features....

It remembers mine on this iPhone but not the iPad.....

Below is a pic of it. It's in all-white livery, in a snowstorm....... What ye think of that!

Exactly what I was thinking, Railer! (She's not fitted for the "Enterprise", though?)

I suspect there'll be a few surprises with where it turns up during tests!

Well, the Wanderer won't be there - he's in Angleterre, where I hope to have a pint with him once I get this plane....

The GSR's wagon grey was the same pretty standard stuff used by the GNR, DSER and NCC also. BCDR grey was slightly darker. The C&L ballast wagons (of which I think there were about 3) inherited the sandy yellow colour from the C & L itself. Lettering was black on these instead of white. To my knowledge they were the only exceptions to the normal grey anywhere on the GSR. There's a pic of one in Paddy Flanagan's book. The GSR, with it's apparent love of all things grey, painted all PW, loco and other departmental stuff the same grey as goods stock. I think, but I'm not certain, that the weed spray tanker was black, with support vehicles grey. CIE continued this until the advent of yellow for things other than track machines, into the 1980s. A point here - if anyone is modelling a weedspray train in anything other than recent 2 decades, it may be grey, not yellow!

Noel's idea of 141s and Cravens is an excellent one.

Off topic I know, but do buyers have any comeback on ebay?

Buying anything on eBay can have its issues. I bought one Austrian narrow gauge loco, and paid well for it, and it didn't work at all! (got it fixed).

Thomas the tank becomes Bruce Lee the Buddhist temple....

Assuming 3ft is wide enough for the curves at the ends....? If the layout was intended to be something like a small country terminus or a branch line type of setting, platforms as short as two carriage lengths were to be seen here and there.

The Derry Road, apart from being "not flat", had the likes of Carrickmore Bank, about the 6th or 7th steepest gradient in Ireland, and a long stretch of it at that, plus many, many other stiff enough gradients! I remember a single 141 or 121 with a mere 40 or so four wheelers loose coupled......

As long as it was the right shade of orange, of course.

No probs!

In that case it's worth recording for the benefit of others that this shade and this make are right. All it needs is a yellow unlined cab number and light green lined snail on the tender! ;-) If snail-less, it's also accurate. If it retains on old GSR numberplates, grey background, not black... But ye know that, rich...! Just for the info of others, if interested!

Hahahaha excellent! Daughter has reported back already on the proliferation of folk whose gender credentials are highly questionable..... The railways of Thailand, Malaysia and above all Indonesia are actually very interesting and would make an amazing model in 1970-90 period especially.

Just in case it's of interest to anyone, my daughter took this in Bangkok yeaterday, where she's on holiday.

That grey looks as close to the real thing as I've seen.

Having seen it working, it's an amazing beast in action.

Light engines, usually singly.

A man with a shovel back in the day. And he wasn't even wearing yellow socks.....

I can't speak for the motor, but I'd say you could do a reasonable approximation with one of those. The chassis might do for a 400 or 500 class also, if connecting rod differences were not a huge deal. Given that a pre 1960 layout based on the Cork line would need 400s,500s and "Woolwiches", (three 800's couldn't handle ALL the traffic!) it would be good to see a decent kit of them.

It's 1916, sorry, 2016, and a centenary, Leslie, so if there are orange ones, they'll have to do them in green too! ;-)