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I noticed on the Silverfox website that the rebuilt "A" class has full-height orange on the sides; this should be lower band only as per their model of a 101 in same livery. Their railcar liveries are all very wrong in some way or another.... Just saying......

That Bleach Green layout is absolutely fascinating.... love the 70 class whizzing past.....

Jimmy O'Dea took some nice shots of it about 1970. They can be seen online via the national library website.

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It's from the 33rd county - a place called Co. Netherlands. It's a good bit east of Co. Antrim.....

I know, Dive, I know...... That's why my house isn't currently on the market..... I do have an SSM kit for one, not yet made up though.

Good to see they've "travelled" to a good and safe home!

I believe the two at Downpatrick are ex-Mallow as well, Derailed. When the DCDR approached IE with regard to 90 and the SLNCR railcar, these came also, as part of the package. One is restorable, albeit (like 84M) a complete rebuild. The other, while outwardly appearing much the same, is in fact worse. However, the interesting thing about that one is that you can just about make out on one panel on one end, a bit of the short-lived dark blue "Tourist Express" livery. In an ideal world, I'd love to get funding to do those two plus the GNR six wheeler, and the two BCDR ones, as a "six wheel coach job lot"....!

Neat model, Colm. The Adams "Radial" tank, as initially pictured in this post, could with substantial remodelling of the side tanks be persuaded to represent a WLWR C5 class (as GSR designated them). There were but two, surviving until 1949 and 1957.

Yes, Colm, I had just randomly picked various odds and ends from Senior's stuff - which will take some time to sort and list. There are lists of locations and dates, but the accurate matching of these to actual photographs remains a work in progress.

Top class models!

Always thought that was a very elegant design..

"Senior" recalled a day at Kildare watching such things, and then getting the train back to Dublin. It was running very late and was headed by a J15 with a couple of bogies and a couple of six wheelers. It set sail for Kingsbridge and took off like the clappers. I can't put my hand at present to the timings, but the loco comfortably topped 60 on the way...... not what many would expect from a J15, but back in the day not unknown.

I'd love to see a RTR J15. I'll sell me house and buy 111 of them!

They were quite modernistic looking, Liverbird - hard to believe that their chassis were many years older!

Couldn't agree more! Timely, with 6111 going to the DCDR - at last!

I'm not sure if handrails were actually delivered with them or not, but they certainly didn't have them until after repainting; numerous photos exist of them in BnT but no handrails! This could be due to the initial idea that they would operate nose first, but contradicting that idea is the fact that they started operating cab first long before handrails were fitted....

They must truly have looked strange to enthusiasts of the day!

They were delivered like that, all of them, but repainted in Black and Tan at first repaint. They therefore only bore that livery a very short time; I think the last to be repainted was about 1967/8. Originally, as you can see, they didn't have side handrails either. The wagon is a standard pattern GSR one of 1930/40's origin. A few remained in traffic until the large number of "H" vans were all in traffic. Therefore, that picture is taken between 1962 and maybe 1966. In Ireland they were used as main line locos, not shunters; in latter years often running in pairs with each other or members of the 141 or 181 classes. 124 and 134 are preserved.

I would be strongly inclined to agree, Mayner. As close as you can see on that picture of the Duckham's tank, it looks like it. New build tankers by then would have probably had an entirely different profile.

Here's a day out for you, based on old notes of one such, some seventy five years ago. A 400 class takes you to Cork, first of all; and you're sitting in a "new steel" coach (= Bredin type). Walk from Glanmire Road across to Albert Street for a look; it's several years since the Passage line closed now, and the track hasn't been long lifted. Cross the street for a look into Albert Quay, but that's routine stuff. Been on the West Cork before, will do it again. Time to walk to Capwell before returning to Albert Quay. A quick look round there, but no time to how to Western Road today, as we have an appointment back in Albert Quay. As we await, a quick look up into the Waterford-style "overhead" signal box. Now, it's time. Up into the cab of a 2.4.2 tank of GSWR ancestry, for a spin out to Macroom with empty cattle wagons. These are to be left out there for the next fair. Footplate jaunt to Macroom, dump the wagons and back in the guard's van - an ancient wooden GSWR one. Back to Dublin that night in an old wooden GSWR first class coach, with a different 400 up front. Departed Glanmire right on time, arrived at Kingsbridge about a minute early. And they didn't pass a solitary ICR en route...... Some years later, the Macroom line closed, and the route of it is now partly flooded by a reservoir.

Will do, Kirley.

Buried Macroom loco? Pray tell.... if I've heard that one at some stage I must have forgotten all about it!

Not just that, Warbonnet, but 400s and 500s on all sorts of traffic, 4.4.0s as well - and from the mid twenties "Woolwich"'s too!

Work away, Nelson, a pleasure to assist!