GSR 800

Also what about storage for rolling stock. A fiddle yard or storage sidings would come in handy. Would a station work on such a tight radius?, it would be hard to get large logos around without derailing. As junctionmad said by directional running is unusual and not prototypical, also the amount of point work to get to such a small MPD seems a bit of a waste. What if you put the station where the viaduct a girder bridge is and them at the start of the curve, this would allow a central platform which could facilitate longer trains.

Would the drivers be prosecuted at all when someone gets killed by a train?

Some have no respect for others. That probably what all the commotion was at the Mullingar station.

So haven't posted in a while so let me fill you in. The track plan is finalised, the terminus is now facing the other way so less shunting is required. A extension board will be placed so there is more space for the turntable and a goods yard, adjacent to the will be some carriage sidings.

P.S. I will try and get pics shortly but I can't really get the tablet to upload them

I was hoping for one on eBay. The 181 is after going up to 62 pounds, hope you win Robbie!

Indeed i came across it while looking for an A

Many people here have converted them to DCC and sound such as Anthony but I'm a DC man

Ok, here it is, a 181 class might even be someone here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bachmann-Murphy-Models-GM-181-Class-187-IE-Irish-Locomotive-OO-Gauge-Used-Boxed/201413485428?_trksid=p5411.c100170.m2943&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140131123831%26meid%3D504f0d30c7534fc3a94ae1408ca1a55e%26pid%3D100170%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D311426683166

I believe I saw a 141 n the cheap on eBay, I'll try and get a link for you

141 and 071 can be bought from model shops like Marks (Dublin) and the model shop Belfast. I remember seeing a C in a. Display case in marks a few months back. Otherwise the As and Cs can be bought from silver fox. The 121s have never been made RTR but MIR made a kit of them up to there closure a few years back. I believe shapeways now make a body for it. The shunters I'm not so sure about...

It took them an nearly two hours to get from north to South Mumbai by car due to congestion and the awful state of the roads, not surprising why the railway is so busy. Within 40 seconds of a train departing the city terminus another arrives!

They still used the silver ball system on one of the single lines

The new Enterprise livery has been called the raspberry ripple livery by some members of NIR staff!

what an excellent nick name,"raspberry Ripple" i think it will stick!

You would think after so many accidents they would make it safer...

Yes it probably would have been developed for that in the boom and would hang on in the crash, in the what if 2015 cruise ship traffic would be increasing slowly and bringing profit in. Summer would bring great business to the area

A scenario in which the black sod bay terminus had been built to its earlier designs, finished just before the war the bay receives good traffic in the 20s but the 30s and 40s bring little traffic and after years of neglect it's closed. Possibly reopened in the 80s but scaled down to a one or two platform station, it now receives a couple of 22000s a day but nothing more.

To kick off here one of the T&D in the early 50shttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r9fHocB3_Fw

eBay has a few http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ESU-Command-Station-Digital-central-ECoS-II-50200-NEW-Multi-protocol-H-D-1-/201408190112?hash=item2ee4dd16a0

I believe that the GNR, when deciding on building the VS class, had considered something bigger like a 2-6-0 or possibly even a 4-6-0. However, the decision on a 4-4-0 was made due to the limited size of the works at Dundalk, which was not capable of handling anything bigger. In fact, when the 4-4-2T locomotives were in the works, I believe the buffers had to be removed in order to be able to shut the doors.

Also the crane at Dundalk could not cope with the weight of such a large loco, and as you said the narrow works would have a hard time fitting it. a 4-6-0 would be costly and wasn't really needed plus by the time they would have been built (1953-4?) it would be obsolete within a decade

My god that's a stunner! That'd be one hell of a layout:drool:

Here's a what-if layout scenario, based on things which might have happened - or indeed, were actively planne at one stage.

 

It's 1965-70, and steam as not been consigned to the bin. CIE has under it's ownership the following:

 

A large fleet of D class, as they were considered perfectly adequate.

A reasonable fleet of modernised J15s on secondary or shunting duties.

A fleet of fast modern 2.4.4.T locos for suburban and branch traffic

Five 800 class on the Cork line along with twin-engined Sulzer diesels and inherited ex-GNR diesels of American and German origins.

Ex GNR 4.6.0 steam locomotives on the Enterprise

A fleet of B113 types....

On the DSER and Waterford lines, ex-GSR 850 class 4.6.2T locomotives; these, along with the 2.4.4T types, and possibly a modern mixed traffic 2.6.0, being a standard "modern" GSR / CIE set of classes, the last of which would be destined to remain in traffic until about 1990....

Very interesting idea, I'd say there would be some very interesting designs, but why would this scenario happen?, and what of the turf burner? I'm almost tempted to have this scenario on my layout. I'd love to see a model of a GNR 4-6-0, a good donor would be a LNER B12.

Ah ya beat me to it broithe!

Despite " mass emigration " before the famine the population was still growing by roughly 1 million a decade, mass emigration or not

What would it be like if the great famine had never happened,railway wise, with a population of 10 or 12 million?