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    They'd almost need to be made pre-weathered, as a clean was was an impossibility!
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    It's no longer the "no-name" layout. I'm christening it - with your permission - the "serious potential" layout! I don't think anyone here will disagree! Looking forward to seeing it develop. Some very nice locos and rolling stock.
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    Frosted. Smooth surface both sides, frosty type stuff on the inside. Dargan, if you can get to Downpatrick, PM me in advance and I'll arrange for you to see 1944 (the one the DCDR owns), up close and personal.
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    The UTA one is most certainly a dud. They painted numbers on wagons and never cast NCC-style plates. This guy needs to be reported, methinks..... Mind you, the MRNCC one looks genuine IF, and only IF, it's been actually painted that goldeny colour. But at that price - avoid.
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    That MR NCC "wagon plate" looks dodgy. It looks like brass, judging by the colour. IMPORTANT - Collectors, beware. These plates were cast iron, and would have polished to a goldeny colour. If it is painted that way, it looks 100%. If, when polished, the bare metal really is yellowy, it's a dud - albeit a very convincing one. The going rate in enthusiast railwayana markets for such things is £50-£60 / €60-€75. Even if genuine, on price alone I'd avoid that one like the plague.
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    Excellent info! On cold days, condensation would form on the inner lower walls, as these were "single skin" (hence, (a) the heating needed to be working, and (b) you could fit 3 + 2 seating comfortably. In RPSI times, tables were fitted in preserved ones. In traffic, they never had tables between seats; in those days it was by no means the norm, as it is now, for even main line stock to all have tables. In this respect, Cravens were well ahead of their time.
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    Referring to Britain as the "Mainland"...... Always reminds me of Borat's view of Kazakhstan, -v- the "U S and A"!
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    Only a vague thought - some of us here wouldn't be very flush with cash, but there would be a few that are..... Maybe if a consortium of a few brave souls put up whatever cash was needed and shared the spoils.... But, anyhow, some very informative stuff above. It is to the very great credit of all those responsible, that any RTR Irish models have ever appeared.
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    I remember arriving at Connolly and walking, with plastic bags tied round my feet, to Baggot Street (Waterloo Road). It was, I think, early 1981. It took me three hours to do that walk. Down the middle of Pearse Street there wasn't one person about, let alone a vehicle, and the snow was about eighteen inches deep from wall to wall.
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    jhb171achill replied to richrua's topic in General Chat

    I thought you meant the "C" class on the DCDR! (It's been in use on that line.....)!
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    I don't remember the circular windows after maybe 1980. I think it was gradual. Originally there were two internal layouts - suburbans (some anyway) had no toilets, but longitudinal seats inside the end vestibules. Certainly in my time of most travelling in them, which was mid-70s on, the inside walls were painted mid brown with cream or white ceilings, and the upholstery was the then-standard very dark grey (almost black) with a blue fleck through it.
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    That's funny! I remember reading once somewhere about a modeller using his wife's or girlfriend's clear nail varnish for some modelling purpose... Maybe some persons of the opposite gender do indeed stalk these boards (to see what hubby is up to)!!!
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    I would agree, Dive. Like its black'n'tan predecessor, it was a very bold and strong corporate image,way ahead of its time. Fifty-odd years on, black'n'tan (or supertrain) liveries would still look well on, say, an ICR - or even a 2600. The Enterprise livery(ie's), by contrast, don't have the same enduring effect, and the lime & navy, or 2-tone green of the dreadful 29's is worse.
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    By that stage, the black'n'tan "A" class locos were tending to look very work-weary, and when 001 appeared instead of A1R (!) in the orange and black, it looked so completely new and fresh! The black roof soon gave way on other repaints to orange, though obviously in traffic it tried its best to go back to black!
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    GSR / CIE numberplates are indeed etched by one of the members here - was it SSM? They're easy to paint! Cover with the same plain grey as the body, and pick out the numbers and rim in cream.....
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    That's absolutely superb. What are the locomotives?
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    I'll have a look tonight in the IRRS premises.
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    Very interesting - congratulations to Morgan. A perspective rarely seen.
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    With all the 141 and A class models about, I would think that a standard CIE "H" van would be an obvious one. They could gone in 4 variations - grey and brown, and some of each with wooden doors. The sliding-door 4 wheeled van would be an obvious companion.
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    They arrived in light green undercoat and were painted properly in Inchicore.
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    The leading loco would indeed have done most of the work.
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    Each loco was independently driven. This wasn't only in steam days - multiple railcars in the same train were separately driven on the County Donegal narrow gauge. Triple heading out of that siding at Portrush was not at all unusual, and double heading was common, both in the siding itself and often on things like bank holiday excursions. A layout with UTA coaches and half a dozen absolutely filthy Jeeps would make a fine, evocative sight. Add in a few MPD sets and a brand new 70 class set.....
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    Maybe I'll just call it Newbridge, then! :-)
  24. jhb171achill
    An excellent clip, brings back memories! The Jeeps were capable of a good turn of speed even with a heavy load.
  25. jhb171achill
    It might also be Droichead Nua........ (Runs and hides.....)
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