GSR 800

Interestingly (though perhaps unsurprisingly) it seems the trend will continue with the 'Heuston West' Station for Dart Southwest, which will have a platform 11 adjacent to 10. I'd say this is the most likely answer, having the slot open if/when Heuston needs additional capacity

Milne advocated for exactly that, along with shorter, more regular train schedules based around 2-6-0 and 0-6-0 designs, along with ending inchicores boiler renewal policy and standardising around fewer boilers, but CIE went diesel. In hindsight, this was a better choice, though the adoption of Milne's other proposals could have been beneficial (and may have saved some of the branch lines)

I like the first photo. The J15b's were quite nice looking locos, though not with the best reputation. Still an improvement over the J15As with their extremely conservative design. Neither class could beat the original J15, it seemed. I seem to recall someone, perhaps Milne calling for locomotives similar to the cattle engines to be built as a standard locomotive, presumably to replace the J15s. Perhaps their high maintenance (a feature of the wider MGWR fleet, apparently) put Inchicore off replicating the design. I think it was Nock who er...knocked the MGWR in comparison to the BCDR, noting that while the BCDR used its steam locomotives efficiently, it was not unusual to see dozens of locomotives sitting around Broadstone in the middle of the day!

Footbridge was truncated over the old CIE lines when the old platform canopy on the CIE side went. Footbridge over the main terminus was not removed until 1997 (by which stage it looked quite sorry for itself) from pictures I have seen when work was being done to the front of the train shed

Fitting name then... A very nice engine indeed. Will have to get one myself from alphagraphix sometime...

Can't say I'm surprised, considering how horrendously understaffed An Bord Pleanala are.....

I think the 800s are looked upon with the hindsight of the postwar years with little to show for themselves. Had they been given the opportunity, I'm sure that discussion would not have been had. Equally, significant expense had already gone toward rebuilding the 400s, they decided after looking at the expense of 402s rebuild to cut costs where possible. Interestingly, the 400s didn't compare particularly favourably to William Goulding, which could work at a similar pressure. I have yet to see a single photo of that locomotive, other than a three-quarter rear view of (what is apparently) her as a stationary boiler at Inchicore. One of the 500s met a similar fate.

Eyesight improving in the span of 7(!) years isn't a bad thing... Whatever the hell it is, it's still out in the field, though I haven't inspected it in a good long time. An old H van isn't far from it, though riddled with shot at either end... practising for crows, apparently.

In no particular hurry, since it apparently took seven hours to get to Bundoran...

Likely a regular train rather than the Enterprise, as Galteemore says All except the Enterprise, customs were checked at Amiens Street and GVS so it could run nonstop.

It was a BUT railcar set on the Enterprise after the VS class, so doubt that. Did see a video in the early 1960s of a Jeep replacing two 141s on a Belfast bound train

I think the 22000s were a pretty solid choice, some of the larger sets perhaps but they are the J15 or AEC railcar of the modern era, can't have a layout without them. Part of me is almost hoping the IRM steam loco is not an 800, me SSM one has just had the chassis finished! The other part of me has a list done out of all the things that need to be perfect...

List them out, the price you want, and post photos of them.

BUT railcars, most were withdrawn in the 1970s.

Are they adding cocaine buns to the menu? That'd certainly make the train rides interesting

https://galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-fm-news-desk/step-forward-in-redevelopment-of-ceannt-station-as-a-major-transport-hub/ News to me, only read about it when I got the IRRS journal this morning, from 2 platforms to 5. The new overall roof is akin to the original!

in inflation alone from 2007 or 2008 (think it was the latter when they were released but I was a child, so I don't remember) it'd be up to between 170-180 euro

https://railsofsheffield.com/products/pre-owned-irish-rail-class-181-cie-black-b188-diesel-locomotive not 750 euro so i guess this is a bargain...

Jaysus Foster and Allen transcend time itself...Mick has some explaining to do next time I see him.. "Balloons Weaver, Balloons, that's all I can tell you. The rest is classified." "Balloons?? Go down the road to the circus if you're looking for those...ya feckin clown"

I've seen worse for the woolwiches. Bunch of 121s have popped up https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275677629258?hash=item402faacb4a:g:R7wAAOSw~tNj5fR8&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoMTSj3SF54p7RJdZBKVjKzin8oj1eBtRRcTfSP7bSw%2BpTz4jSdaf%2FNZh6jtK%2BT8GISty9LFGwXyA37x63KD4O3Auzq2WWm5CQiXgdWs6fKSHjF9%2BL64Ttj561IxPUPatJVscO19hdSWyOEfUU5MONAM1vVjwvEK27EBjTzD87Lja0stk0ATEyifKuSqF9GYTRCr3Xt05R2hgjqovyFj9RM0%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8CLw7HJYQ

It seems like he thought 3D printing would evolve differently. I know someone who does prints of Warhammer 40k stuff, and he buys and downloads designs and prints them off. No reason something similar couldn't be done here?

I can certainly vouch for suppliers here like yourself and Killian. I think the quality of 3D printing these days can be excellent. Really a shame poorer quality prints turn a lot of people off an aspect of modelling I think has huge potential now and in the future as printers continue to improve. Shame the quality is poor considering the width of his offerings.

Seeing the site of GVS back to something of its former glory will be good to see, current station is pretty drab. Much more central location than 'Central' station, or is that why they started calling it Lanyon place so everyone would stop laughing.... ..I suppose theres a larger discussion on the new station to be had, for another thread. I like Queens bridge, it reminds me somewhat of Liffey Junction, being primarily for goods. Liffey Junction was an interchange for a while, and you'd better hope the connection was coming, because there was no way off the island platform! Unless you were brave/stupid.. Looking forward to see the model progress!

I wonder how IRMs magnetic types will hold up in the longterm..

Which is a very good thing indeed..