GSR 800

All Fleadh'd out: 1963 The railwaymen and women at the station and yard can finally take a bit of a break the week after the Fleadh. A great success, though the Bishop is apparently not too happy with some of the carry-on during... B141, the first of her class, brings her Dublin-bound train to a stop. J 15 162 trundles past, en route to the shed. She is soon for withdrawal, likely joining dozens of other locomotives at the gantry for scrapping. The Craven is being trialled...lucky passengers ..... Hello friends, my apologies for the hiatus. Mullingar is currently undergoing an overhaul and that dreaded word...' rationalisation'. One of the main issues I had with Mullingar was fitting it into my available space. The original layout was end-to-end, but this was not particularly satisfying and prevented any ability to operate the Sligo side other than as sidings. I've also wanted to model a terminus, hence Amiens Street. But now there were two models. What to do with them? After various attempts, the idea came with a 10x6-ish board. This gives just about enough room to loop a line back for Sligo. Mullingar's platforms were shortened somewhat to fit within this, with the shed and yard to be placed on the other side. An offshoot board will serve for Amiens street, the 'scenic fiddle yard' for the layout. So far so good, I will update as it progresses. The island platform structures will be interesting, the canopy is very ornate and intricate. Perhaps a job for the 3d printer..time shall tell. Thanks for looking.

Simply wonderful stuff. Detail on the backhead is excellent.

Absolutely fantastic. The little Peckett is a favourite of mine. Can't wait for more!

DMToys is very good

Likely 401. You can just about make out the top of the 1 on the bufferbeam, and she was kept around with 402 for a good while.

road usage tolls are being considered (Though I'm sure they would be quite unpopular) more reasonable proposals include replacing the tax system based on emissions with one based on the weight of the car. (Bad news for those who have bought some of the massive electric cars!) Increasingly, however, there's admission Evs aren't the be-all and end-all, so it's very possible for rail to make inroads (no pun intended).

I'll get out my shovel and do it myself if they wont...madness it was ever closed in the first place. An interesting one is the 'Maynooth loop'. It seems to be to allow Sligo-bound trains to utilise the quad track from Heuston to get around Dart + services as far as Maynooth.

Run up to Cultra and hook up a compressor to Maedb's whistle

The detail looks excellent, top-notch; shame about the glitch. On the upside, you might be able to do a wee diorama of some of the inchicore sidings with a loco on the wrong end of a cutters torch

Looks like work may be beginning to clear the lineside for platform 11

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.