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The special for the victorious Dublin team will need 112..... it's blue!

Donaghadee was a house prior to being a station. I suspect Downpatrick was not an original railway building either; for that matter, nor was Soller on the Palma-Soller electric line in Majorca, if anyone's ever been on it......

So the bag tasted better than the crisps?

It has indeed been banana'd (tangoed?)

Donaghadee?

Quite right, Lough Erne! Next question. Apart from the Baldwin locos on the West Cork system, and excluding ALL post-1960 diesel powered things, what standard American built rolling stock operated in Ireland? And, on what offshore island (which never had railways) can you find a standard CIE "H" van body?

BSG, Haulbowline Island. ... Good shtuff! Keep 'er coming.....

Wasn't counting that one, Minister, though it fits the bill. A clue to a few: one was on an island, and remains of it are still there. One was in a city. One, other than the Kingstown line, left a city.

Look at that top photo. Garfield, here's a sixpence, nip over to the Railway Bar and get me a couple of bottles of stout.....

Steve, you're on the ball! Where in Ireland, apart from the Dublin & Kingstown and the Luas, was 4ft 8 1/2 gauge track to be found?

Indeed, Snapper, and the enforcement must be supervised by extremely violent, deranged and hungry Rottweilers.

Very hard to pin down, Richard. The RPSIs second hand book stock is probably your best bet, or eBay.

That was one which was changed from narrow to broad. What three lines were changed from broad to narrow?

Dublin & Lucan Tramway; and CBSCR, the two Baldwin tank engines in the 1910s, short lived beasts.

Chevron, you'll get all the answers here. OO and HO are the same track gauge, but OO are 4mm to the foot scale. Don't ask me how these things ended up being a metric amount against an imperial one.... HO is smaller SCALE to accommodate American prototypes and you needn't worry about it unless you model USA / Canada. A "rake" of carriages, rather than a "rack", refers to a number of vehicles, e.g. a 6 coach rake, or a 4 car rake. An 0.4.0 is a steam loco with zero leading wheels, four driving wheels and zero trailing wheels. A 2.6.4 has a pair of leading (small) wheels, six drivers, and four trailing ones. The RPSIs 461 is a 2.6.0 - look at it and you'll see. Good luck with your modelling. Probably best to start with a basic set and get the feel of it, then you can develop it.

That's the one, BSGSV. The loco had previously been resident in Dundalk, as CIE used an A for the Carrickmacross goods, while ex-GN 0.6.0s were used on the Dundalk-Clones-Ballyhaise*-Belturbet-Cavan goods. * yes, even after rationalisation, run round could take place at Ballyhaise, either side of the island platform.

I remember. Fiddown.

I think a few at least are less than complete inside....

Could be a funnel, hf, but the conventional wisdom at the time was it was upturned. I suspect that from a practical point of view, you could be right. Now.... Kilmeadan..... Carrolls cross, damn... I should remember.....

Excellent, most interesting! Now, will a R-T-R model one in some German, Austrian or Czech livery turn up!

Kilmeaden. I suspect elsewhere too, from back of memory, but old age precludes me accessing levant memory.... :-)

Excellent... Could doubtless also be adapted as a double decker. All it needs now is a liberal dose of weathering filth, a few weeds growing out of an axle box, and a large roughly hand painted "B" on the side to indicate beet-only use!

That's it, Warbonnet. With one light turned upwards the British Army, who patrolled South Armagh by helicopter at the time, could see where the train was after dark. I footplated the "Enterprise" one summer evening in 1986 and my photos show a helicopter travelling along with the train (just above it, of course!).

Looking closer, it's air braked, and I suspect the buffer height may be lower than in Ireland. Detail differences eg from steps and handrails are about the only differences between this and the CIE version.

That "CDR" one is particularly interesting as it shows the cab window style of the G601 type, rather than the later ones. So it is clear that locos of this standard type were being built for at least three gauges between the mid 1950s and early 1980s. I wonder are there definitive records anywhere showing what other G class loco's there might be kicking about? The one in Majorca was not owned by the railway company, but by the outside contractor relaying the old line from 3ft gauge to metre.