jhb171achill

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In silver, yes; red and cream would be awful!

My best memories..... the 17:30 Cork - Kingsbridge with a DCDR-style dining car, a tray with dribbly teapot and a well done stem, potatoes and peas......

With painted sides, that thing must have looked like a portable corrugated iron shed!

From the archives...

From the catacombs..... at random!

That brake is a beauty. I always hoped an old full brake could run on the DCDR....

A pad of headed memo paper... €10 plus post.

Like you, junctionmad, I hope you're wrong..... One thing; if the current infrastructure is more suited to a bygone age, and freight facilities are gone, there remains the possibility of restoring it - though costly of course. We'll see...

A proper cooked dinner in a GSR dining car. Back in the day, this would have set you back three shillings (€0.21c / £0.15).

Now the time to get the best deals for next year's holidays. Roll on summer 1933! From the jhb171 catacombs.... Incidentally, I will sell this if anyone's interested - €10 plus post.

From the jhb171 catacombs....

After the West Clare closed, Inchicore was to have given consideration to converting the three F class diesels into broad gauge shunters, or using the engines in new build shunters.

These might be of interest..... From the Catacombs.

€10 plus postage

Interesting.... So it was probably red and cream when it was here.....

So, members can now book a dance with someone at the MGWR social..

GSR, one of the RPSI's long standing members has "461" in his email address, and I have "171" in mine...... Pure coincidence, naturally.....

Or, better still, does anyone know where it was trialled? Photos....? Maybe this all-silver creation was what was behind the decision to not paint new laminates and tin vans for a short time in the mid 50s.

Haven't written one letter, GSR, and nor would I... as a former volunteer myself of many years! :-) Volunteers in any such organisation have a lot to do and contend with (for no pay) and I know that had anyone directly criticised anything I did, the answer would have been very unprintable indeed! In money-strapped days, the RPSI got a job lot of cheap maroon paint, and I meself applied it to carriages which (a) needed a repaint, and (b) were never painted that way in traffic! My point in making posts here is quite simply to provide historical accuracy for modellers, as the actual colour of something is the first thing that anyone notices about it. Perpetration of an incorrect livery in preservation will in the long term be misleading to anyone who aspires to accuracy in appearance....

Oh, I assumed it was one of the Gyles Quay ones.... but, yes, that's the carriage's origins, and there were several other bodies of the same type at Gyles Quay itself.

Have you any sets of points, and how much are you looking for?

Superb job!

So, if you've just snuffed it, how are you supposed to make up your coffin?