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Someone mention Arthur? Stick one on for me too.

Yes. No snails, lining, or any other markings whatsoever. Chassis, ends, drawgear, roof, the lot.... all unpainted.

Wow! A very unusual and welcome addition to the general world of modelling!

Imagine...... "Black and Tan" "Puke" Two names with one thing in common; best avoided in their day, and best forgotten subsequently!

The silver "livery" (ie actually not a livery at all - no paint anywhere!) was a fascinating but totally impractical way to turn things out. Ends and chassis, drawgear and brake gear, all got so filthy it was impossible to tell they weren't painted a muddy brown. As for roofs - bad enough on tin vans or carriages, but worse again on diesel locomotives - they were covered in smoky deposits, thus largely obscuring the "silver" on the roofs! Incidentally, as a point of historical accuracy, it's important to remember that "silver livery" doesn't mean they were painted silver. They were just left in bare metal, unpainted entirely! So nobody need worry about lining styles, paint shades, parts picked out in other colours and so on.... A strange one, all right!

CIE green would indeed look good!

Absolutely outstanding! Very atmospheric, very realistic.

Ah! That explains it.....

It would be indeed, Broithe.

It's not a million miles off the early 1960's experimental UTA "Catherwood" livery for railcars!

Regulations in the WTT, Minister...... Yes - the model is THAT realistic......!

True, minister..... and it was the "Pale"......

Since when has a "ZO" (i.e. Dublin) number plate been Northern Ireland?

Yes, but unfortunately not likely to translate into railway traffic.....

There's certainly no political will here at all, not has there been for decades, and that's not going to change. However, international carbon-emission agreements and resultant EU rules may well overtake things at some stage; let's hope they do. What Ireland has against it, of course, is small distances. However, properly thought out, you would imagine that basic system of goods trains from Dublin to Waterford, Cork, Tralee, Limerick, Galway, Athlone, Ballina, and Belfast or Derry should be feasible.

Having seen one of these wagons in the flesh, they are absolutely fantastic and an absolutely essential addition to any mid fifties to mid 2000s layout....

Outstandingly good!

Thank you Dave, very helpful.

As my American colleagues would say, that is truly AWESOME!!!

Off railway topic I know, but I was vaguely interested in getting a drone... looks like an interesting hobby. Anyone know the best place to go for advice / start-up?

Fantastic photos, folks - many thanks, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. We'll do it again! :-)

Yes. The law has not indeed caught up; doubtless numerous issues need to be addressed there. In the meantime, and probably only for a short time - most things are probably fair game.

Looks great!

A great pleasure to meet some of our number for the first time, and others again, at the DCDR today. Hope all concerned enjoyed it.

I have John Edgington's address - he doesn't do email but will respond to postal enquiries. The pic shown above is the earlier dark green. As Mayner says, the post-1955 lighter green livery (they were one of the extremely few classes to carry both)) is as shown in that photo in the book.