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Interestingly the third tank at least seems to be lagged. It looks like the outer shell has cracked, and you can see some of the insulation sticking out. Judging by the angle of the ladder, looks like that one took a knock at some stage.

I have 1 of the Dapol ones that I gave a quick respray with a can of grey paint as a test. It was convincing enough, length issue aside that I went ahead and got 3 more KQAs, transfers and the brass kit from @Weshty to convert a rake of 4 of them. But I have made no progress as yet beyond that, as all of it is currently in a box in a storage unit for a house move. The problem of course, is that for a large part of their life(when in service), they CPWs were loaded with 45ft containers which won't fit in the Dapol wagons for obvious reasons.

These are most likely carrying Bitumen Emulsion or cutback bitumen to Road Binders Ltd in Quartertown mill, which had a siding off the Tralee line. Cold Chon manufactured these at plants in Oranmore and on Sligo Quay but I'm not sure where the Shell branded tanks might have been coming from. I'm guessing that the siding closed some time in the 70s, and these tank containers worked in regular liner trains replaced delivery by Tar wagon direct to the Mill. Road Binders and Cold Chon have both since become Colas, now where have I heard that name

And standard gauge wagons piggybacked on metre gauge carrier wagons in a few instances

They are lovely coaches, and the LNWR livery in particular is a cracker, but even at £85 a coach from rails,they are pricey. Plus they are only part way right for the DN&GR boat train stock, which I believe was non-gangway stock. Will be interesting to see how they sell at the RRPanyway, but I doubt we will be picking them up from the bargains section of a UK box shifter anytime soon unfortunately

They are was some discussion about the DN&GR ones that passed onto the GNr in the thread about the rapido Evolution coaches thread earlier this week.. I would guess the Bachmann coaches may be a better match than the Rapido ones but @leslie10646might no more as he mentioned the roof was wrong on the Rapido ones..

Those are a previous run from a few years back now.. We don’t restock a run, they are a one off. Instead it would be a re-run with new different running numbers/livery variations but we don’t currently have a rerun of PFA wagons announced

Forgot to ask Paddy about 071s, but he does have a new announcement for us all.. Hopefully someone will share it on here soon

Very well thank you.. But I had the benefit of already knowing, and a drop of whiskey before bed!

Very atmospheric shots Noel, all that’s missing is the condensation fogging up the windows, with a few smiley faces drawn in it and a patch where someone has wiped with their sleeve to see what station they are at as the PA is indecipherable

A few of my northern hauliers with the McCurdy being a recent arrival..

Good Afternoon All, After the success of our last restock of Oxford Diecast a few weeks ago, we have decided to get some extra models into stock this time around including some favorites in Irish Liveries(Bus Eireann, Garda, McBurney, Woodside and Others) along with some plain dealer white models which are ideal for customs liveries and Code3s. These are now in stock on our website at https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/vehicles/availability_in-stock but be quick as we have only been able to get limited stock of a lot of the items!

Found a pic, will ask if I can share it on here.. Looks like the 071 coupled up to the DVT to haul it back into Conolly, and would imagine it didn't stop anywhere en-route so would imagine they used the DVT for door controls

Not sure if it is the time you were thinking of, but your comment seems to have jogged a memory so I checked over WhatsApp’s.. 11th November 2021, DD set failed at clongriffin quite late so must have been the 20:50 ex Connolly.. 071 on IWT duties in NW was borrowed to go and recover the set with passengers on board back to Connolly

My pics, passing Cabra a few minutes later. 084 looked like @JasonBor @murphaphhad a go at weathering it!