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There has been so much on this thread I just thought I'd actually stick a laminate from Flickr up here and leave it at that. It's quite a nice photo of a buffet car (1953). Sorry that platform obscures the underframe (it sat on B4 bogies)

Is everything shipping from the UK now and why? Accurascale has become the larger market and everything has been centralized outside the EU (GB)?

I assumed the max rated tonnage would be for a near horizontal jib so in addition to better control I can certainly see the need for working in tandem now! I didn't notice and lateral jacks/stabilizers extending from the sides of the crane and they seem to work with the jib close to the center of the rails.

Nice comparison of the Inchicore crane on the left and the Athlone crane on the right working together. Interesting to see the differences including the jibs, The Inchicore 35T crane 295A would lift most bogie coaches alone except for maybe some of the full kitchen cars and GSVs. An E class however comes in at 38.5 - 42tons plus fuel http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000306336 From the O' Dea collection The 10T CBSCR crane at Inchicore April 1960 http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304938 Broadstone Crane 2M laying waste to the Harcourt Street line 1959 http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000304525

A wealth of information as always John. When you say CIE Bredins you are referring to the early 1950s CIE traditional build wooden coaches versus the original GSR Bredins of the mid 1930s? So for the 2979- series depicted above the original GSR chassis has been retained in addition to the (modified) bogies? 2980 has that riveted under frame and turnbuckle tensioners or this was changed during the modifications? Sorry triangulated underframes etc. is still a bit of an enigma!

Offside of the 2979 series for completeness (no evidence of mail exchange doors/nets, GSR style bogies and bosca litreach pretty much to one end of the coach, both sides)

Is were any way that I can mark a forum as read instead of the entire site? After some recent merging of threads on BEVs et al. the respective fora remain 'unread' even if there is not a single electron of new content in there

Well maybe actually out of stock now, I just hexed it didn't I? Still waste of a thread

It's a waste of time publicizing this as another member kindly informed that its available in store at STG170 DC kits I believe

No pressure, Eoin. Thanks for the update. Just didn't want to miss out.

Incidentally it must have been unusual to see two TPOs as opposed to a TPO and an adjacent luggage brake van 15.00 Cork - Dublin Heuston mail with two TPOs and passenger coach , 1989 https://www.flickr.com/photos/152343870@N07/27007784518/in/photolist-G7JqUX-dWH5WT-2g7pGZX-2g7pH5r-2gkPYUH-Q8PzsB-2hRQ8bd-oHYbdU-7eTrcU-9ujJnW-kuukAn-dHnJXx-DdRxvb-8nrYmi-EyDfZ6-eWSTkJ-9xFsRd-WKyVBY-nK4B47-H9zXpd-24cFmo7-25o55NT-2and6uS-2hFtuDg-CCXnAi-7GRxp2-bsonac/

Any update on the availability of the CW bogies? @murrayec

It's really coming along nicely now!

Lovely mix of containers @NIRCLASS80 and the MK2a with the rebuilt Dutch van

I hear you @jhb171achill. Should be more like this. I don't know if it the photograph, this appears yellow on almost black but usually was more of a grey or dark green maybe? EDIT: Another view, both would be 2972-8 series TPOs Still a decent model in the absence of anything else @Noel I must have a look at mine. I don't recall the red/white logos. ReEDIT: Yes, they're there but not as conspicuous as the model is moderately weathered.

Only about three years late to this thread but some nice photos of TPOs still in service in 1986 so I thought I'd post CIE TPO 2972-2978 (1958) 2973 on standard 61'6" post 1953 chassis with commonwealth bogies (10' 5.5" wide) ) CIE TPO 2979-2981series (1968) converted from 60' GSR coaching stock from 1935 and still on GSR bogies, Dublin (Connolly), 1986 (only 9' wide and no evidence of the redundant mail exchange doors) Offside of the 2972 series TPO (where the work happened, but note that it could exchange mail bags on BOTH sides the in use originally)

It's true, huskies can be a little more unpredictable than your average lap dog

Cowans Sheldon must have been a large supplier of cranes indeed. I noticed this larger 50T crane (1948) that was used on the Swedish railways which is not too dissimilar to the 30T CIE crane posted by Wrenneire above

Actually I had forgotten about this old photo of the crane at Cork yard suddenly without its boiler in 1960 but at least it has it middle match truck No. 99 in place. CIE grey I'd say

I don't know about the tram but here's a little about the Halmstad-Nässjö Järnvägar (HNJ) (between Malmo and Goteborg running generally towards Stockholm) History At the end of the 1860s, local stakeholders made the decision to connect Halmstad (which at that time lacked a railroad) with the then Southern pedestrian railway Malmö-Falköping. Jönköping was elected as the point of access and the company Halmstad-Jönköping Railway Company was formed. In 1872, the railway construction was finally able to get started. New end goal during work They started building the track from Halmstad and the east, but after about a year it was decided to change the course of the course and instead connect it to the main track in Nässjö. Construction did not go very fast and was hit early by financial problems. In 1877 the track was opened between Halmstad and Värnamo and in January 1880 also between Värnamo and Lindefors (current Hok). In December 1882 the entire line Halmstad-Nässjö was finally opened, but after only three years the company went bankrupt. However, it was reconstructed and resurrected as Halmstad-Nässjö Railways (HNJ).

It's from the Swedish system

Agree with Railer. The masses will never become interested in stock or eras that are not available to buy. Yes, some modelers will always create some amazing things but they will be unique to a layout or two for the most part. Availability brings its own market. Yes, please! Prototypically wide bodies that graced the broad gauges of Ireland, hard (not impossible) to recreate that from existing kit-bashes

Murray & McNeill's book on the GSWR lists 4 breakdown crane and 3 traveling cranes in June 1924 just before the first amalgamation of the major railways in the winter of that year but no more definite details For the Cork based GSWR 35T steam crane it can be seen here in 1987 with the additional match truck that didn't support the jib but allowed the correct spacing of the wagons (also a 1449 series laminate awaiting its fate in the yard behind)