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Generic looking stuff - not identifiably Irish….

I’d ask Nurse for different medication!

My guess is - for a good while. There has been talk of (a) hourly services and (b) 90 minute services* for at least a third of a century. Think budgets, necessary tax, costs, votes, and the gombeens that we persist in voting for, with zero incentive to plan long term. ZERO. Result: ain’t gonna happen unless the EU (hopefully) forces us to. (* With ever increasing journey times due to said gombeens having no interest in bulldozing north Dublin to create a 4-track line from Drogheda to Wicklow, expect journey times over said sections, no matter what tube-shaped “customer” train is operating, to take the same pedestrian times over the same sections, as the Dublin & Drogheda railway in 1844, and the Dublin and Kingstown railway in 1834; or possibly the donkeys before them!)

This will be Cork! An 800 plus the solitary Rosslare-liveried “Woolwich”!

Would the one with 583 not be 1960 rather than 1950? Wheel handle on wagon brake....

Exactly!

This in all reality is utterly ridiculous. In my dad's time, if he decreed that a level crossing was to be replaced, the local council got a phone call to say the railway was starting it on Monday, and it was done.

Brilliant stuff, Gibbo! Yes, they were. There were two used on the Loughrea branch, though I don't know their history, I believe they were used to bring fuel in for the resident G class locos. One was believed to have a tank which originated on the West Clare, probably to bring diesel toi Kilkee to fuel the railcar which did the Kilrush branch shuttle. However, such vehicles were as far as I know, always "departmental" wagons, rather than used for commercial traffic. As an aside, for the general readership, with no petrol industry or milk tank traffic here, tank wagons were extremely rare in Ireland, and almost all that we ever had ( a few exceptions) used for railway use.

I ate them all….

I’ll do me best, LNER!

Nice - and a green “D” class with it!

Senior used it a lot on the GNR in the 1950s too.

They certainly LOOK like they are in them, all right.... and, while I could be completely wrong on this, I do have an idea that i've seen other pics of these types of older (smaller) containers inside open wagons. Must have a delve! My curiosity hath been suitably piqued; but I'm off to the Island of Man in the morning, where there doth be steam, so it'll not be for a few days..........

Interesting one - the body could indeed pass as an approximate CIE brake van, but the wheelbase is completely wrong - it would need a totally different chassis.

The guy clearly hasn’t a clue what he’s selling!

The GNR AEC cars were more or less the same as the CIE ones; detail differences existed in terms of guard's compartments and heating boilers etc. But basically the same type of yoke. Very noisy especially when accelerating, but in terms of seating comfort, by light years the most comfortable railcars ever to run on this island, especially in the first class. Heating could be an issue; when it worked, it was fine!

That’s common parlance for that wheel arrangement, because it is denoted as such; Bo-Bo.

Yes - once Dart+ starts, all trains from Rosslare and Belfast into Dublin will be HSTs; Highly Slow Trains. What sort of lazy research is this......surely, whatever amateur clown designed this could at least put a picture of something that actually ran on this island; a Skibbereen tank engine missing a wheel would be more appropriate than an HST in a 1990s livery........ Complete with a logo of an organisation which ceased to trade in this fashion in 1996 - 28 years ago! Bring back the flying snail...........

Link?

Where is all this Isle of Man, Ratio, T&D and C&L stuff? Can't find a link? And the ebay ad is all written in gobbledegook - I can't understand it....

Loud silence from Rails of Sheffield on these; not a sausage on their website, nor any update on Hattons. So near, yet seemingly still so far?

I think I met that person in a pub last night............

Yes. Jumbo and Sambo, shunters in Waterford and Dublin, and the vertical-boilered “Pat” in Cork.

You'd probably be better off trawling the archives of the IRRS?

Indeed - especially if the back story is that it's still privately owned. Guinness had their own engines to "feed" wagons into heuston station well into the 1960s; Courtaulds had little green shunters of their own - two or three of them - which, actually, I think were Pecketts themselves, albeit of a totally different design. Irish Shell BP had a little 4-wheel Planet diesel shunter at Alexandra Road well into the 1960s. It's a Whitehead now. Tiny little thing wihich would make 90 look like an 800 class...........