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Saw that T & D yoke yesterday - very well built. It was a great day there yesterday and I was delighted to meet some of the newer names on here in person (and admire their layouts, in many cases), as well; as catching up with old colleagues like "Provincial" Leslie. Dempsey's Dundalk (Barrack St) goods yard and the compact but excellent Beaghnach End were particular delights, as were the larger ones - Dundalk featured strongly with the huge DDK Works layout a major attraction too. Now - someone I was talking to yesterday told me they were plnning a layout based on Birr, and I promised I would fishout some material that might be relevant; but I can't recall who it was. If you're reading this, ping me at jhb171@gmail.com. I'm not there today, but will be tomorrow. Need to buy a few bits! Massive congrats to SDMRC in setting this up. Absolutely superb show.

Saw this at the show yesterday. STUNNING!!!!

I’d be wary of ladies like that…..

Unbelievably superb! Over half a century out of my era but this is something I absolutely MUST have!

"For display purposes only"?

My understanding is that this was experimental, very short lived, and applied maybe to one or two of several types of wagons. A but like green “H” vans, very few, and re-done in “normal” livery pretty quickly (by wagon standards!). I do know that later, some cattle wagons, flats and opens (probably VERY few in the latter case) had small one-plank-height WHITE snails too - the cattle wagons shown is probably one of those. The “light green” referred to was the standard “eau-de-nil” used with green liveries. Since this EdN was long gone (from new paint jobs) before the early 1960s lighter grey wagon livery appeared, you won’t get light grey wagons with anything other than white numerals and snails (no matter what size).

This was very sudden, quite a shock - I knew him many years ago. RIP.

The Sweeney brothers watch the afternoon mixed amble across Carrowmore Bog one winter’s afternoon. Looks like snow in the sky… ”Y’know, Pat, the times I’ve sat here and watched that train go by, an’ not a blade of grass round the place. I wish yer man would stop talkin’ about scenery, and get it DONE!”

Yes, mad as a bag'o'frogs..... but so was the original! Cyril Fry made a model of it, of course. While the original is in the Malahide Model Railway Museum for all to see, I have somewhere a Fry photo of his model under construction. Will try to find it and post it.

Bredin third and one laminate now sold.

SALE OF SURPLUS ITEMS Studio Scale Models & Worsley Works 00 scale coach kits, cost price. Worsley - two Laminate standards, 2 Park Royals, 1 Bredin 3rd all £31 / €36 each. SSM: 1 Bredin full parcels / brake £79 / €90. Postage included to anywhere in UK or Ireland. Can post beyond that at cost.

Exactly! Warts’n’all!

G whizz, what a thread!

I think you're right on that. I recall seeing flats in the mid-1970s at Port Laoise PW depot which i thought were old carriage underframes. I didn't take any pics though, and I wouldn't be 100% sure what they were. Among them, though, was an ex-MGWR bogie flat wagon, 3???M.

The morning local, ten years apart; 1960 and 1970. Todd Andrews has retired now, but strangely he overlooked the Castletown West to Dugort Harbour branch, despite it only seeing twenty or so passengers per day, except fair days. Nothing, of course, to do with who the local TD is……

Will the 09:50 and 10:50 ex-Connolly still (theoretically) be DDs?

Absolutely outstanding realism!

Yes, he made that as a commission for CIE for a display stand they had.

Best looking person in Malahide.

Downpatrick really is going from strength to strength. The partnership there with the ITG has paid off many times over.

We end our travels in Malahide itself….. IMG_3663.mov IMG_3664.mov

I'll be heading north either Friday or Monday. I always use a service which is supposed to be a DD. Of the last six times that I have got the Enterprise, four times it's been an NIR set (once just 3 cars with people standing), one has been cancelled entirely, and one has been the actual booked DD set. I wonder what's ahead of me....................!

Extra marzipan on my cake, please............

More from Malahide Railway Museum. The Mk 4 for Cork has a fault in its satnav, so it’s heading for Wicklow instead…. IMG_3671.mov Also crossing the Liffey…. IMG_3670.mov

I do know that one of his LLSR relics - a coach transfer monogram - went for a walk....