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Looks like that rubber-band-powered biscuit tin they have on the giants causeway railway!

Group buy - that's a great idea, if the is anyone insurance-related listening....

Mind you, for someone breaking into someone else's house, I'd be all for that happening to them! Insurance - probably, then, best to shop around. Years and years ago, I had some very expensive came equipment and I found that if you shopped around, you'd get it covered for about 10% of the cost of taking out some sort of special policy. From memory, it worked out at maybe €40 a year on top of the basic policy cost. Maybe double that nowadays.

Is there anything in 00 which would approximate to the RPSI's "Harvey"? Or, the ex-Allman's Distillery loco which the GSR bought for shunting Cork docks? I always thought a layout based on an Albert Quay style setting, with a siding out onto a dock would be of great interest to operate or watch...

Probably best included in household insurance under "valuables", I would think.

True, glenderg....

That Rocar fella doesn't seem to have any info about ordering, or prices - does he do commissions, I wonder, or did I just miss something?

Believe it or not, I have that book somewhere but have yet to read it..... wouldn't be like James Boyd to make an error like that - but none of us are perfect!

Art imitating reality; it's like sticking an American engine into a Crossley-engined Metrovick.... I wonder if that would work.....

So maybe €150 the lot, or thereabouts..... that's not bad. GSR800 - instead of Irish coffee, I'll have a Guinness. Many thanks! :-) And instead of mince pies, let me at the dark choc digestives....get back! get back!

Are there many people on IRM who deal with 45mm gauge garden railways? If so, I may have some bits and pieces of interest.

Ye will never find me, Harry. I didn't say WHAT part of the IRRS I'd be in..... To go back to the thread - roughly what's the cost of the Sulzer body PLUS a suitable chassis (class 55, for example)?

GSR, you're scarier still. The CEO of the 400 class Mafia! The GSR actually kept their carriages very well, as did most railway companies back then. However, that meant washing, not always repainting! Often paint on carriages was badly faded and worn before they saw a paintbrush again. The constantly poverty-stricken SLNCR was probably an extreme case!

Looks really well. Jason.

Actually, if the mods will forgive one slight divergence from the thread, there was a good reason why dull colours and dark shades were favoured by railway companies in the past. First, grey and black paint were cheaper. Secondly, how long would an orange-roofed coach or a silver-grey ICR stay clean, let alone a raspberry ripple DD coach, with a steam engine up front, and larger stations full of them?

On behalf of the Rivet Counting Militia, I hereby issue a fatwa against the Grey Militia. See ye in the IRRS tonight.

Whats a diesel?

What's the ballast in your autoballasters made of?

I'm just wondering. I know they all spent some time in black - or most of them anyway; but did any (in the sixties, of course) get the yellow end panels that was on some A and C class? I don't recall seeing any like this - I'm pretty sure none did, but I could be wrong.

Well at least, Eoin, good news - a DART is probably quicker / easier to make than a GNR 4.4.2T with a string of old wooden suburban coaches, no two alike! Though, in the case of your DARTs, equally impressive....

Eoin, it's well worth it! I've a heavily weathered J15 en route to compliment / contrast with it....

"Maedb" in 4ft 5 3/4 gauge.... sorry, couldn't resist it! :-)

If you mean the curved in ends, Jawfin, yes. While the W & L was the only Irish railway company to feature this design, not all W & L stock had it. 900 and 907 have straight vertical ends. Interestingly, the photo of 907 at Halfway shows what looks like a single set of windows in the middle in the position of an original compartment- but from the window spacings that is a SECOND class one, not first as the drawings suggest! The luggage part may be part of it. There have been occasions where an official drawing of something is at variance with what actually existed. I wonder is this one? I'm getting the feeling that I ought to go and have a look.... but Wesht Caark is a long way away, boyo!

To be that gullible, it would be an insult to a gull......!

I didn't know those things even existed. Did they actually operate at that type of speed? Where, when? Come to think of it, what are Ireland's fastest railcars ever? ICRs? A 70 class in good order in its day could put on a serious burst of speed, though it was like sitting on a cork in a rough sea....