GSR 800

You can tell they thought A LOT about the visual aesthetic of the outside of the building, and then kind of forget the design means you've a pretty limited square footage, especially in the entrance/concourse area. Interestingly, I remember watching a documentary on the construction of it, one of the designs was to effectively be a glass encased Arrol Gantry spanning the original slipways, which I think would have been much better! Alas, it brings in the tourists regardless. I think they've recently restored Caroline, so hopefully should be good!

Nomadic was definitely worth it for me, try to get the Titanic Centre during off peak times if you can. While its good, I think the internal design in terms of capacity and crowdflow I've found to be poor. There's also HMS Caroline just across the way, the last survivor of Jutland.

I think in many ways this is what IRM/Accurascale are doing with the likes of Mk2s and whatnot, wherever possible looking at commonalities to utilise. What could be done is something akin to Genesis or Rapidos planked wagons, building something 'generically' Irish that with a different paint job would suit British stuff just as well. The problem with that of course is Ireland has a larger loading gauge. For locomotives honestly might have a better chance looking at something like an 0-6-0 and which ones had the closest wheelbases to british ones. You of course have the Woolwiches too, though Rapido is currently doing the U, the larger dia driver variant. Something that could be looked at, though perhaps not true to the OP proposal, is that with the acquiring of Heljan, a 'common' TT 120 chassis could be utilised for 00n3 Irish. We've seen Bachmann offering a wide range of chassis for kitbashing at the like, Rapido and Fourdees make strides in using a common chassis with a 3d printed body on their Sirdar, perhaps something similar using an 0-6-0 chassis which can have pony trucks and bogies added on front and back to cover a wide range of Irish narrow gauge motive power!

Signalling shit itself between Lansdowne and Donabate. I think more 90s are due to come in later in the year.

I was thinking surely they'd run into a copyright issue

Killian, Zooming in on this photo gives probably the highest quality shot one can hope for. You could use the fitting for the brass pipe to the flexible as a support, printed to the smokebox door. There seems to be a kind of metal strap support from the flexi pipe to the tank also? I think the best bet could be printed as separate detail with plugs into the smokebox door? A discussion on the vaccum pipe can be found here

Pretty much found you can get away with dropping the wheel size by about 2 scale inches (down to 6'6 from 6'8) but you get a lot of slip after that. Sonic models have since announced their Glen class, which may be a better option as a chassis for the MGWR A (higher boiler pitch, smaller drive wheels). Past a certain point you're likely better off scratchbuilding, or perhaps 3d printing a chassis. At that stage might as well do the whole loco. I have seen a conversion of a dean goods to a 2-4-0 before, but the driving wheels are much smaller than the Irish 2-4-0 survivors. the GWR 0-4-2 tank likewise has much smaller driving wheels.

One hopes you understood it was tongue in cheek, and no cats have been fleeced for a layouts scenic purposes...

Bless free will, you're not obliged to watch any of them! I think the obvious solution (which he mentioned) to his issues in testing would've been an electromagnet. Otherwise, the big issue (unless like him you decide to 'side' all your rolling stock) is that other than bachmann, the tension lock coupler itself is magnetic. But certainly food for thought!

The Fish Vans, along with the Horsebox are lovely little kits, well designed. I soldered the main and glued the detail!

Looks to be a D17, no.94

Hornby D16/3 with driving wheels from a Princess Royal

not brilliant but shows some of the backhead detail https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53509091889/in/photolist-2pZhkzL-2qEc2KN-2pwDm6y-2pwq5MP-2pwiTJB-2pwDQTy-2pwDQTt https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53510472622/in/photolist-2pqQxgM-2qUTuzP-2pwjBQF-2pwfAqs-2qUUdW9-2qUTecq-2qUTdXn-2qUUdWe-2qUTuNE-2pwDXuL-2pwiTHu-2pwxaey-2pwiTJG-2pwEwFR-2pvFPEL is the driver operating the wheel there by the looks of it??

had a 'solid reversing wheel' according to a Decade of Steam, along with a 'butterfly regulator' and the somewhat infamous (to GS men anyway) letterbox firehole door.