GSR 800

The thought of a ready to run 800 or A made me run around the house 10 times! Boy I hope their the 50s and 60s era. It about time that happened!

I'm just thinking. In that scenario would we end up with Black and Tan Bandons? Or would steamers be kept in green for passenger locos and grey for freight.

Maybe he just mistyped?

If this happened and diesel was more expensive than coal for some reason and governments of Ireland were pro rail and if we had a larger population it would mean a lot more locos and rolling stock. It's 1946 and CIE have decided to continue the GSR's renual of the steam fleet. plans are drawn up for new moguls or medium sized 4-6-0s to replace some of the older D's still on mainline duty. The 400s and 500s are given some minor improvments and 2 or 3 more 800s are built. diesel is experimented with and the result are are some light diesels to share suburban services with some Bandons and 2-4-2s. The turf burning project is still a failure but CC1 actually gets to do some proper runs. By 1950 the 2-6-0s have entered service and the older D's are either put on branch lines or scrapped. The J15as and bs have been completely rebuilt with the j15as giving superheated boilers and multiple other improvements. The original j15s are still in service but their numbers are reduced. In 1968 diesel arrives with the 141s? and some steamers are taken out of traffic. 181s would not have ever be needed but in 1982 the 071s would come about. In the 90s with the steam age ending it does so in spectacular fashion. the 800s are given their last chance to run and pound the mainline with all their might. the 201s enter service a year later. And forget DMUs they might have been inevitable everywhere else but not in my mind!

But you know the way the GNR got a new livery, a named express and modernised their steam fleet

It looks like a manufacturer to me broithe.....they must be on the forum

We're the k3s reliable? Obviously before the made a balls of one of them as the ETB

Could this be the thing we have been looking for? Would they produce an A a C and an 800? Most of all will they be as good as murphys?

Building a model of the terminal building in an average railway room you wouldn't have much space for the trackwork!

Sure the terminus building is the only thing they would be looking at!

Here's a good might have been, what if the GSR had good funding in the 30s and 40s, and with better advertising awareness like the GNR had

A little off topic but why were the k3s paired with modern stander style tenders like the 800s while the 400 and 500s were left with their old ones? Honestly JH we will probably never know but it could have been a midland. Would be nice to know it was connected to it. I'm surprised a 2-4-0 wasn't sold to the RPSI or UTFM. Would be a wonderful sight to see.

From Wikipedia

no.186, a sharp Stewart engine has a superheated larger boiler, belpaire firebox and tender no. 356. anyone know which loco was originally paired with?

Ending soon http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121723615796?_trksid=p2047675.m570.l5999&_trkparms=gh1g%3DI121723615796.N36.S1.R1.TR3

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Comparing pictures the tender looks very

Like a D10s tender

A b12 tender is like it although a bit smaller

That was it Nelson.

Doesn't one of the preserved

j15s have a 400 tender? I heard that somewhere but can't be sure if it's true

That shot of the glimpse of the mk3 in its old livery is the picture that shows the end of an era, stunning

TDR that link isn't working, for me anyway

They'd probably do it better than the PTS lad could ever do, you have to actually know what to do, not just on paper

gone are the good days John

wasnt Liam Neeson a signal man before he was an actor?