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My thoughts exactly. As 22D, it is most definitely ex-DSER, and in the short-lived chocolate and cream livery applied to main line stock - therefore it's a main line coach. Likewise, the full ducket confuses me - I have been unaware of any DSER vehicle built like this. Therefore, it is almost certainly a GSR rebuild.

Ray Good might have information on this.

SUPERB stuff, Bob49!

Snipers needed, with guns in correct livery……… (I’ll show myself out….)

That green does indeed look the part! Yes, most of the few pics taken in colour in West Cork show 464 - the one which WAS black! I’d love to see that job!

The thing that does puzzle little oul me is this; one of life's great dilemmas....... how come every single model of a Bandon Tank, anywhere, is always black, when only one* of 'em was, and only for a couple of years max? Just asking for a friend......................................! CBSCR had them green, GSR & CIE plain grey, except one (or two) based in Dublin in CIE green........ (* 464)

Absolutely outstanding, Noel. There is always SO much happening. Like wandering about Kingsbridge in the early 1970s, as I did, oblivious to the very few signs suggesting not to walk on tracks and so on..... I wandered, camera in hand, all rounmd the goods yard where the IRRS building is, across the tracks to the valeting plant, where I watched an "E" shunting carriages out of No. 2, and saw my first sighting of a brand-new 071 arriving from Waterford. Then, I wandered on over the tracks to the military platform (and here comes the "E" again), and back over to the end of what's now platform 5; another pic of a tin van parked there, and off I went. Nobody came near me!

I didn’t know Jeremy had made those - some of his highly impressive output over the years. Lovely models, and that G scale yoke is STUNNING.

It's dangerous, DJ!

Fantastic stuff. Good to see Margaret Whelan, the Dunsandle station supervisor, and Hubie Reynolds, the guard........... All of these people will feature in a forthcoming book.....................!! I can remember when I travelled on the line it even then seemed like something from a byegone age - and, in reality, it was. As the October sunshine lit up the carriage interior on the 2nd or 3rd last day, I saw graffiti scrawled in biro on the seat opposite me, "FAREWELL TO THE DUNSANDLE EXPRESS"..............

Can someone from Wexford MRC ping me privately please?

Yes, one of them (the full third) would.

Ah! My mistake……

Yes, she certainly did.......... GNR locos never had plates - always gold-leaf transfers of numbers (like the lettering and crests).

What timetables has he?

Absolute poetry in motion. I love the weather-worn look on the coach No. 4..... What overall length is that?

Nice!

The idea that there was a fair bit of experimenting in colours isn't actually correct; aged weathering, and the same paint in some cases on timber, others on sheet board, and others on metal surfaces, gave that impression. As you say, though, on the West Cork system there were some vehicles painted in a sort of "secondary stock" paint scheme. This was the standard dark green, still used on station buildings, road vahicles and buses until 1963; but without any lining. In some cases no snails either. While it was indeed to be seen in West Cork, it was also seen on the Cavan & Leitrim (the "bus-coach") and even more so the West Clare, where by the end every vehicle on that line was variously in the standard light green or the standard dark - in neither case with any lining at all, and few with "snails". Some secondary wooden bogies and a few six-wheelers got the unlined "secondary" dark green too, on the main system. I'm unaware of any diesel other than "A"s ever getting a snail; if anyone finds a pic of a "C" thus adorned I'd be interested to see it. Just about every model "G" seems to have a snail; in reality not one ever did. You're right about the railcars. They were introduced before the lighter green ever appeared, so would have had the dark colour, but from the outset only had the thin waistline lining, not the full version. After '55, they were gradually repainted the lighter green. One at least - and this was a one-off - had UTA-style yellow and black stripes, but on the front of the roof, rather than below the cab windows as the UTA would have a few years later. And this railcar certainly worked in West Cork.

The light blue was almost certainly a primer, and anything brownish could be weathered / dirty red lead as an anti-rust treatment.

Ah! The long awaited Connemara greenway awakes!

Indeed; Kingsbridge brass would have had kittens if they knew, as the instructions were - rightly of course - VERY strict! As per your variations, I've seen pics of a single loose-coupled wagon stuck on the back of an AEC set on the Kerry road, and similar elsewhere. Naturally, of course, all of the above were very much the exception rather than the rule, but they did happen. Normal was loco, coaches, unfitted wagons, van. I'd say in GSWR / MGWR days, this was always the case. The old companies were extremely strict.

Superb! It's amazing what you can get into 4ft x 2ft. Just what I'll need in a few years to get jhbGrandson interested...............................

That is a lovely little set-up. Is there a traverser at one end?

They most certainly WERE knowledgable, indeed! And yes, this is to me the responsibility of the historian, and the antithesis of it is lazy or inaccurate recording of detail. While to many it doesn't matter a jot, if an engineer took that view then no locomotive could ever have been preserved in operational order...... the historian MUST get the details precisely right; once the job's done, those who want to use that info can, and those who don't need not do so........ Hence my own incessant whinging about wrong liveries on real-life preserved things*, or inaccurate dates about building, withdrawal, the dates lines opened and closed, etc etc etc etc...........yup, serially boring to many, but to a FEW it's vital to have....! (* In Ireland, a big majority of things preserved are not correct livery-wise; some just in detail, others in their absolute entirety). This includes the "big three"; RPSI, DCDR & Cultra..........

The first two, RPSI; other three ITG, of which 146 is operational at Downpatrick. Someone mooning at it?