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Yes, Pat, I'm aware of (and agree 100% with) the non-political policy here. I couched my original post in railway terms and although I maybe should have mentioned it, it was my intention to stick to railway-related stuff. The Belfast - Dublin line, in particular, will be the most likely to be affected, plus possible changes to funding flows for NIR.

Two ways of looking at it: 1. Cross border traffic plummets as people stay their own side and the tourist trail from the south to the north evaporates. 2. With long queues of lorries at a reinstated border, passengers flock to the train. I wonder. Then there's NIR; who will fund it? There will be no more EU grants. With Cameron in no mood to fund any of his "regions" any more, if he gives the north more money to make up what it loses in EU funds, Scotland and wales will also want their slice, as will England, so he's not going to be able to do that, as sterling will almost certainly devalue anyway! Will EU-wide railway operating regulations be followed by NIR any more? If not, does that mean that IE and NIR will have different sets of rules after a while? If so, will NIR and IE crews have to have totally separate PTS passes?

Prompts me to think of jhb171-senior's epic journey on the footplate of one of those 4.8.0s to Burtonport back in the day - and his photo of sheep ahead on the line!

That's really turning into a first class layout. Well done.

Driver hours.

Excellent clip

Great to see these kits - congratulations to Mayner for them.

I commented (favourably!) on it, but possibly on another post! Point is, it's very nice!

It actually does replicate very accurately the way that shade of green DID weather! Thus, it's spot on!

Wow!! Fair enough...!!!! Excellent performance. (Ireland 6.23 to Co. Africa 1.08....) :-)

Hi Colin. You'll find all the encouragement you want here, plus a wealth of knowledge. So keep the questions coming!

That's excellent stuff. An oft-neglected type of vehicle....

I hope my postal order is in one of those bags...

Exactly!

The RPSI's new premises at Whitehead might well have room for some sort of layout, and it would indeed be a good home - though it would probably have been better accommodated there had it been includ in the planning stage. There's no doubt, however, that the management of the whole Fry project from the day it left the castle has been a mish-mash of poor planning, lack of interest in a major asset, ignorance of a major asset, and short sightedness. Setting a few of his models on a shelf somewhere is not only not financially viable - few of us even here would pay just to look, so forget the normal public - but also, it entirely misses the point of what Fry was trying to do. Those in whose care the stuff remains wouldn't have the first clue about this.

That's a lovely model.

That's what I was thinking. Can anyone elaborate on whereabouts / safety of actual models right now?

Absolutely excellent concept. Can't wait to see it develop.

No further news, it seems? Where, incidentally, is the stuff in store?

Mine too. I'll allow Donegal, West Clare, and AEC railcars. That's it. And let's allow A's, C's, B101s, 121s and 141s too. They can be locomotives. So says jhb, the oul philistine.

It's a wannabe steam engine. Never liked those railcars, so I don't blame it a bit.

Replay announced....

As a matter of interest, has anyone ever modelled a Railtours Ireland yellow tour bus? There's a new one, a 161 CE, on the Cliffs of Moher run these days.

Mr cantankerous here, but am I the only person who thinks that the only competition ever to take place on that programme was "who is the bigger, and less watchable utter moron"? - Evans or Clarkson? Both insufferably irritating giant ego people. Never watched it, always thought it was a load of rubbish presented by attention-seeking know-alls.... Rant over.

Hard to make out, but the coaches behind the loco are probably the sort of old DSER 6-wheelers so prevalent on the coastal and Harcourt St suburban lines at the time. The coach in the background is a full brake in GSR main line brown and cream, while the darker ones are in the older all-deep-Crimson-lake used on all stock until 1929, and secondary / 6-wheel / branch line stock until after 1933. The 4th vehicle in the train is also brown and cream, and while partly obscured is almost certainly a DSER bogie third.