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    I could build an ark... Or the Olympic?
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    Here yez go, cropped, and the right way up John, I will pm you later
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    That is EPIC. The interior is feckin brilliant. i agree with Noel, they should have put it on a straight bit of track, I'm surprised it could even get on that radius.
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    Only an undercoat? Pheww, that could have ended in some terrible nicknames
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    Does anyone have pics of Meabh in Witham street?
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    Pics are a bit all over the place, don't really know what happened.. Anyway, test fitted..
  7. GSR 800
    Started the rods today,put in the vice and laminate, Back in the shop..
  8. GSR 800
    Excellent By the way, I'm really enjoying Rails to Achill, J26s, Achill bogies and Sean Lemass, and some foghorns galore!
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    please be of steamers, please be of steamers:praying:
  10. GSR 800
    Kettles all the way! UP THE RPSI!
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    But John, surely anything is better than identitrams? I mean day in day out that is all ye see on the Aul Sligo line. The most interesting thing that has happened at Mullingar in months is when the windloff was stabled there during a strike. A 201 might be boring, but at least it's a loco. Phhh
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    Hopefully with the freight tonnage yoke increasing, we will see more locos, and less AND DONT COME BACK!(fires shotgun)boring identitrams
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    Yesss...I will consult the money giving machine..
  14. GSR 800
    Your getting slow Richie!
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    Thanks for posting this John. I am fairly certain i have never seen a DSER van in its original livery PS If you find some pics of 800s be SURE to post them!
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    Gswr 4-8-0t

    GSR 800 replied to WRENNEIRE's topic in Workbench

    Has the 4-8-0 herself been finished lads? I would love to see some more pics
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    Will ye buy one for your favourite customer too?
  18. GSR 800
    I can't be sure if that's the reason, but Meabh was the leader of the class, and was seen as more popular than Macha and Tailte. It certainly looked like the class was changed to make 800 stand out. The pic would have been taken in 49, before the park royals. But you have said yourself,there was rarely a uniformed rake of coaches until the 70s. Before it was a regular sight to see a train with no two coaches the same!
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    Man I love that pic. Truly shows the 800s in the prime, doing what they were supposed to do. As far as I am aware, Tailte carried the extra hand railings to the grave. It seems that that in the late steam days,CIE focused there attention on Meabh when it came to the 800s,cared for her better. They put single chimneys and red nameplates on macha and Tailte, possibly to make Meabh look more unique. Just my opinion
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    And ehh.. That's in Cork. When do I get my Guinea?
  21. GSR 800
    Ohh my beating heart.....three 800s:x I think I'm in love..
  22. GSR 800
    Some excellent photos there Richie. Those headboards on Meabh are for some Irish American thing(obviously). Maybe a president? They also carried headboards, as seen in Horsetans post for the 1849 1949 centenary. Note the split footplate on 409 and the flush one on 402. 402 was the only one with a fully flush footplate, after their rebuilding, and was considered the best of the 400s Does the splasher on 409 look damaged?
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    Indeed. I think the extra horizontal one makes them look better, but the rest look like they had some extra hand railings in the shop and just farted them on, any old place
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    I would love to see that pic! I'm not sure if any of the 800s ever worked the radio train. The 800s as CIEs largest and most powerful locos would have been seen in a lot of advertising. It was that or some work worn J15. Of course once the As arrived they became the advertising locos
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    See for yourself.. Macha in 64.. Maebh in the mid 50s Macha in the 40s..
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