jhb171achill

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?

Just finished "ZZZ-ing" and its almost 2pm.....

Better seats, DiveC; there was just one coach in each set - they never ran together. A Pulman 3rd seat was much the same as a god 2nd class seat in an ordinary carriage. I'm not sure about fares - I must see if I can dig out information...

No, Broithe, I'm not coming back!!! :-)

That's an ex-GNR 3rd class six wheeler of 1880s vintage. he GNR tended to withdraw 30ft stock before the NCC, GSR companies, or, of course the BCDR. This one (at Gyle's Quay) is one of a number which have been there for years as holiday homes. I suspect it was withdrawn from traffic in the 1940s or thereabouts.

From the logo on the back of an envelope, printed before 80 BC, 100,000 years (to the day) before Stephenson's Rocket was invented..... From the jhb171 catacombs....

And..... Sorry - that was U2 tonight (a bit away from when I remember them as a support act in the Baggot Inn in Merrion Row many moons ago....) Anyone for a "telephonic communication"? Hmmmmmm. "W J" Beaumont..... "M" Beaumont....... My grandfather's writing was unbelievably brutal. Any wonder 800 turned out as a 4.6.0 instead of a 3.5.9......

I want one too; I'm there. Despite 04:20, just in from U2 gig and many very late pints. Life is good.....

Tis self explanatory... Note the "Christmas Day Service"..... Still with us, I recall, well into the 1960s.