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They are priced at over the odds in general, unless you really want one, in which case, it's not!

Anticipated your post being the next one as soon as I wrote blue there, JB. You're right in the sense that the top of the tank is a much lighter color. Why were the H & Palvans a lighter shade if this (formerly) was the order of the day? Hard to work out the number in the shadows of old photos. It would be 25112 as they were numbered 25050 onwards

Detail looks great! Very very good. Any details to be added to the bottom of the dual discharge cones or that's hidden by the chassis?

Indeed, 25062 is from the very first batch of bulk cement bubbles. Lovely shot, Dave,. Really like the blue/grey livery

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Not as good on the variants of the W irons and axles boxes but had certainly noticed the lack of the hand brake lever. This shot has barely enough detail to appreciate the lack of brake levers on at least wagons 3-5 and at various point through the rake http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000306218 While the bulk grain 25001 series wagons had donors, I didn't see any record of a donor for the bubbles Prior to posting that:confused: Happy Researching!

Clearly both types of wagon were in operation at various times. The O' Dea collection has an 8pm CIE goods leaving Derry in 1968 with 5 Guinness tubs spread over 2 wagons. I'm not sure of the length of these flat wagons but both have space for three Guinness tubs in line without the need to stagger them. http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000307472 And to add insult to injury there's this

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000307375 Bubble at Derry, 1967 http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000306704 Bubbles at Kildare, 1967 Had been wondering about the blue/greys in all of this. Maybe you can share the various other details at some point?

25062 from the original series of 20 wagons 25050-25069 (1964) definitely had BULK CEMENT stenciled accross her tank as you have probably seen in the O' DEA collection, Derry, 1967. Oddly I cannot make out the roundel due to the color and angle on a B&W photo but it must be there just below. The O'Dea collection has a rake of 7 bubbles behind an A class passing Kildare in 1967. 2508x is from the 25 wagon series 25070-25094 (1965) but the last digit (likely 8)is obscured by the ladder. The three bubbles nearest the photographer clearly have the CIE tan/white roundel and BULK CEMENT and the remaining wagons (although illegible) all have the appropriate white color in the correct position to indicate that the visible rake of seven wagons were stenciled with BULK CEMENT. Normally 20 wagons ran in a rake behind an A class, so it indicates how common the BULK stencil was, (likely everything in the 60s) Back to concrete, Locomotives & Rolling Stock of CIE and & NIR Doyle & Hirsch (1981) p.79 shows 25156 from the 25140-25199 series introduced c. 1972 in Drogheda (?Year 1972-1981). Locomotives & Rolling Stock of IR & NIR (3rd Ed., 1987) p.77 shows 25152 from the same series in Limerick , year undetermined. Both clearly have CIE roundels and BULK CEMENT. Anyone who might still have the instructions for the MIR cement bubble kits will see two liveries for the bubbles with orange, CIE roundel, BULK CEMENT from "1963-1979", and cream/ivory, Irish Cement from "1979 onwards". Clearly not everything had the cement scraped off the tanks and were reliveried immediately in 1979 (if at all)

Breaks my to see that

You don't understand, Harry. I meant your door in Westmeath 8 hours ago. Meadhbh, new plates for Macha, just Tailte to acquire:p ......... And JB has still got 141 for sale, I think

Already picked the lock with the pointy thing:p

I googled everything I could think of and could not find the old forum. Does it still exist or is it in binary heaven?

You have been threatening to sell these for months on end. I thought you were going to put them on eBay for $1 million each:p

Is there a link to that still? Searched this site and could not find it

Paddy, That's a very nice looking station building. Like the prototypical look of the brick edged in limestone block, Nothing like that available to buy as far as I'm aware. I presume you scratchbuilt it?

Nice job, Eamonn!

Cool!

That was an awful accident, John. Basically the poor guy is a vegetable with a profound traumatic brain injury. The settlement amount imposed on KiwiRail by the court is actually very small despit being the highest ever granted. While we laugh regularly about H&S and the need still-capped boots etc., there are times when it does need to be adhered to and these are the instances where it seems to be more frequently ignored.

Would someone explain what is the difference between MKI and MkIII gangways referred to in the thread? Secondly for clarity are the terms "Steam Heating Van" and "Heating (& Luggage) Van - HLV" synonymous, I.e have a boiler for the production of steam only for train heating, with train lighting being provided by dynamos on the bogies? If so, is the term Generating Steam Van (GSV) synonymous with the terms above or do these vans have both boilers for heating and generators for electricity to provide lighting e.g. Train Line (TL) on Cravens and earlier stock With the introduction of MkIId's, MkIIa's & MkIIIs, lighting and electric heating was by means of the appropriate MKII, MKIII EGV or Converted/Rebuilt Dutch EGV(?)

Saw that. They're green but they don't have the Guaranteed Irish mark :praying::praying:

Nice tutorial, John. Enjoyed reading that for the less experienced kit builder:tumbsup:

The Philly crash is pretty odd, two guys in an excavator that was hit by the train, possibly hit the boom, details unclear. The video of the Thailand crash is like deja vu, no care taken by driver to cross the double line, brakes at last moment but front of bus already impinging onto the second line. Three dead and if any more of the bus had been on the line it would probably been all on board

Yes, that's very interesting. The yellow step and grab handle seems to be common to all the wagons but the new red H&S floor and railings are obviously to provide a safe walkway over the air and vacuum piping/ cylinders etc for access to either end of the pocket. Since I'm not aware of any containers with half-doors:D, I wonder if it's for access for monitoring/control e.g. a reefer placed in the pocket?

That's very interesting, that they had them, lost them, and the explanation of them being used as spares makes a lot of sense now. I can't access my book on Metrovicks right now (it's on the wrong continent) but seems like the wipers were as reliable as the engines!