Noel

Hi Mick. The top one was a kit bash conversion I did of a Lima BR Mk1 BSK a few years ago, but SF do a kit and RTR.

Really enjoyed that video clip. Thanks for posting. Relatively our railways carry hardly any goods anymore and the once impressive Waterford complex nowadays seems reduced to an almost wayside halt for boring trams. Progress I suppose.

Thanks Jonathan, super photos from the golden era

Hi Paul. Pinch these lugs gently from under neath and the body pops off fairly easily. The lugs snap fit into recesses in the glazing on the body sides

PS: Link to Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hycote-XUK612-Plastic-Primer-Spray/dp/B07QZSP28T/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Hycote+XUK612&qid=1590007483&s=automotive&sr=1-1-catcorr

They are not a brake coach per say, they are for train heating and train electricity, the older ones nicknamed GSV (Generating Steam Van), modern ones that ran with mk2, mk3 stock were called EGV (electricity generating van). Cravens could just as easily run with the shorter Dutch GSV or the longer ex-BR Mk1 GSV. Pics below. Often on some rural branch services there was a single craven and one heating van. Silverfox models do kits and RTR of both types of GSV, or for an ex-BR Mk1 GSV you could kit bash a Hornby, Lima or Bachman BSK brake van into a CIE GSV with some plastic cutting, and shutting, filing and filling. ex-BR Mk1 GSV Early Dutch GSV

No fear no yellow. My IRM ploughs remain boxed in a cupboard pending display in a display case. Don't know why PW stuff is yellow anyway because it was only supposed to be run when its dark at night after passenger services have finished for the day, and therefore never be seen (ie the public can only see real trains running). I've no desire for a rake of mk3 coaches and no desire to run mk3, but just curious to try a few resprays. Might decorate interior, fit passengers and lights, etc, just for the heck of it. Its playing with trains, but patrick is right the only safe vaccine is to build some more 1960s stock, so I may get around to more beet wagons from PW shortly.

Having touched a piece of rolling stock as modern as a mk3 coach with my bare hands today, risking contamination, I fear I could be sent to the 'bogie of eternal stench' for isolation. The first sign of weakness was some Tara's followed by container wagons. Where will it all end Ted? My black and tan stock might not shunt anymore.

Solved, left coach body on a window cil in direct warm sunlight for an hour and the windows popped out by hand breaking the glue bond. Thanks to those to gave advice on RMI FB and RMweb. The heating tip worked a treat. There is no way I was going to mask 24 windows individually, impossible anyway to do accurately.

Thumbs up for Hycote after initial tests, seems identical to halfords plastic grey primer as anticipated (ie. same factory). It costs less even with postage from UK and is 400ml instead of 300ml, so great value. I bought a 4-pack.

Thumbs up for Hycote after initial tests, seems identical to halfords plastic grey primer as anticipated (same factory). It costs less even with postage from UK and is 400ml instead of 300ml, so great value. I bought a 4-pack.

What is the easiest way of removing the glazing from a hornby mk3 coach prior to respray in a way that doesn't destroy the glazing. No point reinventing wheels. This is more a question for somebody like @Richie who's probably resprayed more mk3 coache than popeye has eaten tins of spinach. Thanks in advance.

Halford's potential substitute. These arrived today in the post using AddressPal to get them to Ireland from UK. Will try some tomorrow and report back if they prove a suitable substitute for Halford's plastic grey primer. Made in the same factory by the same company https://jamesbriggs.co.uk I bought these on Amazon UK. Cost was slightly less than over the counter from Halford's in ROI. Brexit proof too as available from amazon.de (Germany) in Euro.

Assuming it was dee pee dee who seem pretty poor. El-Cheapo, they have done the same to us multiple times left stuff on the road, and signed for it themselves, lazy gits. Luckily nothing has been lifted but one piece of electronics they delivered was left out in the rain all night luckily the internal packaging had a layer of plastic, otherwise their customer would have been out of pocket as well as loosing us as clients. The end point agents many of these companies use can be very ineffective for the last mile of delivery, ring an office bell and any delay in answering off they go sending the automated failed delivery attempt, I caught one out with CCTV proving to their customer they made no effort to gain access to the site and just left immediately. An Post have proven very reliable during this CV-19 lockdown. Our postman knows us and will phone if any difficulty delivering a parcel to the door.

I know what you mean, me too, I have an affinity since childhood with the old peco backscenes, they just scream model trains at large in ones own imaginary world. Over the years I got a number of PMs suggesting I change my Peco Backscenes. Just trying one small section with photo realistic ones. An iPad just doesn't concur up the same excitement as the old Victor comic. Love that Airfix dock crane kit. I remember saving up to buy one from W J Owens in Bray late 1960s. Think Dapol may own the tooling now.

Class, wonderful. It reeks of 1950s Ireland.

If all the preservation societies both rail and traction steam formed a co-op they could negotiate as one unit and bulk buy from abroad (ie better buying leverage due combined volume). Its a bit like 2040 when all diesel and petrol cars will be put off the roads new and secondhand, but heritage car restoration enthusiasts will still be able to buy petrol to run them from chemical wholesalers. Steam preservation societies have nothing to fear from climate change restrictions because their Co2 emissions impact is so tiny as to be almost irrelevant. Future supply is the bigger problem as outlined in the clip above.. An alternative may be to convert away from coal to oil, cleaner than coal and easier to get in the future, or at least another few decades. The days of using coal to supply the national grid are numbered and you will probably see coal fired generation stations shutdown rapidly over the next 2 years. CV-19 has crashed the price of oil for the foreseeable future. Ireland burns less than 2% coal on its grid nowadays and they are being phased out. Decades down the road, the final insult might be to see steam locos powered by electric motors. 50% wind below!!!

Enjoyed doodling with this kit bashed tri-ang. Have 3 chassis for it, this one, another with running step rails, the third chassis has a plough. A very light bit of weathering on this provincial wagons CIE ex-GSWR 10 ton kit. The little man fell out so bostick to the rescue.

Here's a threo Left to right: Provincial Wagons kit CIE ex-GSWR 10 ton, IFM RTR 3D CIE 30 ton modern'ish era brake van, kit bashed tri-ang into a sort of CIE flying snail era ex-GSWR brake van. I have three chassis for the final wagon, the one in the pic, one with step boards, and one with a plough. I'm a fan of brake vans and the era they were employed. A goods train without a punctuating brake van at the end seems like a sentence without a full stop at the end, or a broken pencil - pointless. Fun doodling with these during CV-19

Some limited ageing applied

More doodling with kit bashed brake vans, perhaps a plough, perhaps a brake van, perhaps a wifi cafe

Impatience and complacency are a risk now. The HSE strategy seems to have been entirely well founded on science and sound medical analysis, and appears to have prevented this from spiralling out of control and prevented many needless additional fatalities. What Greece does is their own business, but I cannot see tourists flying there to risk infection, and rightly I cannot see Ireland allow returning tourists enter into free circulation until after an enforced 2 week isolation, otherwise this could kick off all over again and the economic damage continue even longer as restrictions might have to be escalated once again. It would be a shame to see the progress made so far lost to last minute complacency or economic fear.

€27.50ea inc postage when ordering 4. Yes I used to think the same myself but they are a superb representation of the most important and most numerous wagon ever to run on Irelands railways. They were a general purpose open wagon, used primarily for beet traffic near the end of their days, but they transported all manner of goods, merchandise, agricultural produce, hardware, food stuffs and building materials to every major town in Ireland. As a child on passenger trains travelling around Ireland staring out the window at every station in Ireland you saw lines of these in goods sidings, goods sheds and loading dock platforms as well as on passing loops being overtaken by the faster passenger train. Apparently in their hey day there were over 4000 of these wagons on Irish rails. You could see everything from shinny new farm machinery in them to barrels of guinness, to milk churns, to bags of grain, timber, bricks, steel, to small conflat containers craned inside them.