GSR 800

No fun for literally hours guaranteed! (straight jacket and hall for being dragged away not included)Also availbile FREE wailing child sound affects

Kedleston work on hold until i fully figure out everything with this new plan:(

I dont remember it being to hard to get to.you might need permission.When i asked they said it was fine,but just be on the safe side if you want to get up close.Freight very rarely if ever comes to mullingar.I only found out about the ballast train when i saw it standing on the railway bridge,to my joy hauled by an 071 class which hadnt been seen in mullingar for a long time.Otherwise mullingar is a few DMUs passing par the RPSI tours and the odd timetable mix up ending up in two angry drivers and one of them having to bring their train back to the station to one of the other tracks.everything seems to happen on mullingars railway bridges!

Although it is a good idea the downside is irish rail would not put money into the storage sidings. Many points are broken and most sidings would have to be ripped up.They might upgrade the line to the turntable and engine shed,or if the luxury train company invested in Mullingar(which would make me mullingars happiest young man)However they are going to have to pay some sort of attention to the disused station as it seems ready to collapse.As for freight im not sure but the pw yard did not dissapoint me!You might(all though unlikely)see a PW or ballast train at mullingar.last time i saw a ballast train was about 5 months ago so not sure if they will be around any time soon!

Thanks Broithe.Do you have any pics of it back in the day? Also if anyone has old pics of mullingar yard/westport yard

Hi guys.Since im building a yard for kedleston i knew it needed some buildings.But very few layouts are set in the 50s in ireland,so im not sure what to put in the yard(par an engine shed,water tower and turntable)

Certainly like the look of the luggage van.........

Hi guys.800 is about 75 percent complete par the wiring :mad:and crankpins:mad:and some other small stuff. To save me from the mental a good friend,who has been very helpful and has supported me (supplying me with necessery equipment for my endeover)has said that he would finish her off. A better idea,as i am hopeless when it comes to wiring

 

5. When the 800 class were built, their anticipated lifespan in full front line service would gave seen them operating until about 2000! "Maedb" in black'n'tan, anyone?

 

 

 

Bit strange but,considering the Scotsman now nearly 100 years old was still working (despite her seeming to be constantly in doncaster with cracked crankpins) so if the steam era for some reason had never been brought to an end or effientcy of steam had improved to provide instant steam(this was already discussed in another post)i dont see why the 800s wouldnt have lasted into 2000 or even later.I also bring up the question why werent they converted to oil burning?

Great work as usual! The orange "stripe" and black line seems to be a modern design with a bit of the old black n tan livery

the money does put me back all right.went to buy some tracks and had nothin left in my pockets after!but as long as you dont spend your life savings..............or college funds...........

it's basically square, 10ft per side times 4?

yep,dead on

In his picture of thurles engine shed he captures one of the 800s on shed

Given they are small rather than far away, it's per coach Dave

Time for specsavers?

No,Time for Ted!

Hi GSM 800 mind telling me what size is your baseboard, ft. & ins. please, otherwise it's complicated, thanks in advance,

10x2runnig round the board

For Kevin The sidings on the left would be a bit longer

some pics of kedleston.new yard design .some pics of the shunter taking ash wagons from the unbuilt shed area

Kieran could u pop up some more pics of the yard?

Little Red lima shunter i repainted.it had a nice livery but just didnt look the part. not based on any irish prototype

would they buy a 201 or 071?or more reasonably lease it?

inchicore or whitehead maybe?

Alright sound.Sure to have a long talk with him.

Hi Ian,

 

If you don't have it already, 'The Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland' by Ernie Shepherd is a good place to start. Plenty of photos, but all in black and white. It's unlikely there are any colour photos of MGWR coaches in their original liveries... I certainly haven't seen any, at least.

Would it have looked like the LNER livery Garfield?

Great job! Also good job with the Compound.Like the RPSI set

Hi guys,im trying to get as much info on the 400s as im am thinking of making a wiki page on them.anything of any significants would be helpful.