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Looks like the bould Craig!

Wasn't aware of that.. A quick reading of the wikipedia(never the best source of course), shows a gentleman who seems to have been on the wrong side of politics both Irish and UK! Thank God his second cousin Winston Churchill had good advice in 1940!

The full History of the wagons is in @Warbonnet's annoucement thread here: The Londonderry is a reference to the Marquis of Londonderry, who's family ran Colliery's in NE england as other posters have mentioned..

The traffic in coal from Dublin Port was from the CDL siding to Asahi, and I don't think Cawoods had any involvement.. The Cawoods flow as a short term flow by rail from Barrack Street to Arklow, with I believe Staffords of Arklow being the recipient.. The containers were shunted by road between warrenpoint(where the ship from Ellesmere port docked for the main NI flow) and Barrack Street.. The CDL yard itself could make a nice micro-layout, taking in part of Alexandra road and with the conveyor used to carry the coal accross alexandra road forming a nice scenic break.. Further down Alexandra road and the other side of that conveyor, the Boliden terminal could also make a nice micro-layout, with a prototypical wagon traverser being accessed by a sharp 90 degree turn off the main lines.. I would think there are plenty of other 90s/00s locations modellable including -Kingscourt, with a small pad and covered shed used to store Gypsum which was loaded by a wheeled shovel into 4 wheel wagons(available from IRM), and also the possibilty of timber traffic, which was trialled in the 90s.. With a bit of alternate history, this could have become a regular flow.. 4 wheel and 62ft timber wagons aren't too hard to scratch build using Dapol and Hornby underframes, and plasticard to make the head boards and stanchions.. - Ardee Road, Dundalk, which replaced Barrack street which handled kegs and containers.. A relatively compact site, with a nice bridge to form a scenic break.. - NW wagon repair shop, with clever use of sightlines/forced perspective the Ballast bank could also be incorporated - Cabra Cement depot(one I plan to do as time/kids/life permits), two/three sidings parallel to a twin track mainline, with bridges at either end for scenic breaks.. Cement trains arriving from the Heuston direction after a run around, and setting back into the yard.. The train would need to be split to be placed under the shed for unloading.. For added interest, a regular flow of passing trains made up of pretty much anything that ran on the Irish network transferring from Dublin port/Connolly to Heuston/Inchicore/Cork line.. Cabra also received a few deliveries of smokeless fuel(I believe in Fertiliser wagons) which could be easily modelled.. - Athy Cement Factory, a relatively compact siding alongside the Canal, with cement wagons being discharged into a silo for the factory Castlemungret and Platin are probably a bit on the large side, but a taster of them could probably be modelled, with clever use of a backscene to give the impression of a wagon loader as part of a bigger plant

Not an exact match, but the NER V4 Brake Van recently announced by TMC looks fairly similar to SLNCR No.6: https://www.themodelcentre.com/article/new-tmc-exclusive-ner-v4-brake-van-revealed?srsltid=AfmBOooSYrR7TJO0qAloJShZ5KjukJWibOsCsiAM56ou7pSdM_uTozmU

Second pic is Killiney rather than Sandycove, a rare mistake @Irishswissernie!

Most likely, they are being delivered using a side lifting trailer(which most trailers that lift the container off are), would mean parallel parking is a non-issue..The driver would just need spare either side of the container to drop his out-riggers, and a ladder to hop on top and attach the chains.. At a guess, I would say there is possibly some construction work going on nearby or else a flooring shop using this option to make up for a lack of warehouse space.. Most of the containers were shipped from Klaipeda in Lithuania, with an odd ball from Indonesia, so wooden flooring would be my guess at the load..

Good on, tell us... Who won the tug of war?

It was mentioned in a round about way in this article during the week: https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/spanish-firm-in-legal-challenge-over-awarding-of-650m-fleet-contract/a1117458650.html There doesn't seem to be any formal announcement of the tender award from any of the parties though..

In light of the news that the new Enterprise will be a Stadler product, I’m wondering if Noel had inside knowledge when he ordered his FLIRT??

The older tanks in the fleet must have been the best part of 25 years old, so these are long overdue, especially as the walkways etc on the old ones were very much the worse for wear! Hopefully, Givaudan will keep the Murphy's tanks on hire, and haven't replaced the entire fleet with these!

There was the skeletal remains of one dumped in the Boston sidings in Pearse well into the 90s.. The picture was shared on here not too long ago, I have a feeling by @Mol_PMBbut I can't locate it just at the moment.. Ah, here we go, Page 3 of the H van thread

I had seen similar pictures to these Noel, and have a pack of Accurascale Gypsum containers that may get a spray of Yellow as a result as the designs are similar.. However, are you sure Biomass is the intended flow? The containers in the picture are actually owned/registed to the Roche Clarecastle project(https://www.bic-code.org/bic-codes/bmuu/), and are currently used to ship contaminated Soil from that site to Germany and the Netherlands via Foynes. A few years ago before that project went live, I did hear mention of it being a possible rail flow from Ennis to Foynes, Waterford or Dublin. In the end it didn't go ahead at that time, likely as Roche/Indaver chose to charter their own vessels and route via Foynes which obviously has now rail connection(but will soon)..

The mine is back in production since late last year, but the product is being moved by Road by a fleet of virginia logistics trucks hauling sheeted bulk trailers, normally identifiable on the N3 by their Environmentally hazardous substances placards.. Access to the Alexandra Road tramway has been severed till 2027 for upgrading works on the Ports road network and apparently the rail network. https://www.dublinport.ie/e9-million-investment-in-rail-freight-yard-at-north-wall/

Try https://www.modellbahnunion.com/OO-gauge/OO-Mechanical-Wash-Plant.htm?shop=modellbahn-union-en&a=article&ProdNr=Bachmann-44-184&p=1063