jhb171achill

This layout just never ceases to amaze me!

Bold colours are needed for a strong corporate livery. Think Cadburys, Coca-Cola, Yellow Pages etc. that's why the black'n'tan worked well for forty years. The drab greys of the "Enterprise" were woeful from the start. I always thought some sort if bright red and white, like Virgin Atlantic, would have worked well for that. To have a separate DART livery, to me, demands the same on the trains and buses - call it the "jackeen" livery (two tone blue would be no worse than many a thing). Everything else in a clearly identifiable IE livery. If green, so be it; but a bright green, not a wishy washy one - and grey is all right for a freight loco, but not paired with green as a strong passenger livery. Stations should be the same colour, like in "CIE green" days.

Dunsandle it is

Crimson would look better than what's on it! Serious point - I think that a standard strong livery should be applied to everything they have - darts included. It promotes a good identifiable corporate image.

"Red Bull" probably wouldn't suit them, but black'n'tan would..... UTA green, anyone?

"Bring back the black'n'tans"! ...has a very different resonance today than it did fifty years ago! I totally agree with the modern incarnation - that livery was half a century ahead of its time....... It would suit a 29, a DD, a Dart or a Mk 4 equally well.....

Interesting..... have to say I never liked the lime green and navy.... Maybe this will spread to the 26 and 28 class too?

All over green? Like the experimental one-end of an old Mk II coach? Is Inchicore going back to its roots? Grey locomotives and green carriages......! Flying Snails next..... Or GSR maroon?

"........Rails Through The West has been a huge inspiration and resource and I am eagerly waiting a follow up......" "Rails Through North Kerry" should be on the shelves in late autumn, in time to come to the attention of Mr. S Claus... It will tell the story in colour of that line, plus Castleisland, Fenit, Foynes, Croom branch and Castlemungret.

And a good idea that will doubtless be, weshty!

I have to say I always thought they were brutally ugly things too, but a sighting of one was always of interest to those of us who didn't live down in Cork or Waterford!

Absolutely stunning stuff as usual!

The 121s wouldn't have been silver, folks -just as a detail- they were delivered in grey (not unlike current 071 grey, though a shade lighter, and yellow).... The silver was on the A, B101 and C classes, as well as the first trio of G (601) and first batch of E respectively.....

As a former financial volunteer for both the RPSI and DCDR I would thoroughly endorse Leslie's post, and the efforts of the "Syndicate". I would thoroughly recommend to all here to support their sales activities, wherever you see them! And, yes, they do have an amazing selection......

s u p e r b !!!!!!!

Wow factor at Ballykay - yet again!

When will we as a society learn to just cull these people.... Worthless rubbish that they are....

Indeed.... jhb171 senior drove a 1951 Ford Prefect from new until about 1965...

Excellent work as always, Nelson.

It just shows the occasional one-off, sometimes even very temporary, livery variations which have cropped up over the years. A single solitary GSR loco, for example, had "G. S. R." (complete with full stops) in very light grey or white on its otherwise blank grey tank sides for a while in the 1920s or 30s.... (I'd need to check which one!)

Looks like the Germans arrived in No. 90!

Mr Flick, it's good to know there's a fellow martyr out there.

Aaaaargh. I'm not allowed cakes by the doc..... no cake, no choc, no sweets, no bikkies, no desserts, no sugar, no fun....... So I have little choice but to resort to Guinness. Life really is hard.

Heirflick, you'd be the first in a procession; I'm not sure how many long-term spare rooms ttc has!

Hope the DT's gets 'im bud.....