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I think they may have been 'borrowed' by IR if a set was caught on the south side of a bomb alert or similar disruption on the Northern line. I have a vague recollection of seeing a set on a Sligo service in the '90s around the time there was trouble with gangs blocking the line at Lurgan...

I actually quite like the appearance of the Bulleid-bodied AECs. Not exactly handsome, but there's still a lot of character there...

One of the AEC sets with the Bulleid-designed bodies fabricated at Inchicore. I think most of these were later converted into powered intermediates.

Those pints will do!

For a 'generous donation' in a plain brown envelope we can make doubly sure this doesn't happen...

Yes, we generally ship in that order.

After the Crossleys were replaced by the General Motors engines, the locos were turned out in Black & Tan livery with the 'R' suffix to the running number. Then came Supertrain, and finally Irish Rail liveries.

Already lined up, @jhb171achill! Unfortunately, Australia is still struggling to cope with Covid and there are still tight restrictions in place, which is preventing us from progressing with this project at the moment...

DJ has it spot on. I don't know how you would interpret it any other way, to be honest. And what's wrong with a little tease now and again? Of course we have more announcements to make, but we're only going to raise the curtains when we're ready to do so.

Or has it?

Hi John, We also sell a standard ESU LokPilot decoder, which is optimised for the A Class, if you don't want sound straight away: https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/dcc-decoders/products/a-class-dcc-standard-chip

We're looking at delivery around the end of the first week of September, with shipments to customers commencing the following week.

With our A Class locomotives now in transit from our factory, we thought it would be a good time to update the sales chart! 036 is the latest loco to completely sell-out and many more have reached critically low levels of availability...

Bullying? Sorry, but you're the only one lashing out here; I'm only asking you why, which is a reasonable request.

What's that got to do with you taking bizarre potshots at Warley?

Diligence is nothing to get riled up about.

What an odd post.

Looks to be the same shade of green as the coaches, @jhb171achill? Yay, fun...

They're plastic. Unfortunately, the samples appear to have been drop-kicked all the way across Asia by the carrier which resulted in some wonky cab-front hand rails. The main shipment of locos will be better handled, but we're also getting the factory to take extra care with them just in case...

Welcome to the wonderful world of trying to get reliable colour data from old film stock. Here's a photo of A19 at Mallow in June 1961: https://rcts.zenfolio.com/diesel/irish-railways-cie/a/hA10601AC#ha10601ac And another photo of A19 taken at Limerick Junction just over a year later: https://flic.kr/p/qnWPUn Meanwhile, here's A1 and A14: https://flic.kr/p/2kLZvBt All the above were painted the same shade of green. Basically, images from that era can't be relied upon. As I said in my previous post, the colours were matched to genuine samples of the green used on the real thing, which we are very grateful to have been granted access to.

The pre-production model displayed at the Blackrock exhibition was hand-painted for the event and the green paint used was not an exact match for the real A46. The production locos are colour-matched to samples of the correct colours. Some of the locos with the lighter of the two green shades also had the eu-de-nil band, so that's definitely one for the future...

When first repainted, although it soon wore away to reveal the original silver colour as well as receiving the inevitable coating of Crossley grime.

Not sure I see the logic there. Ireland hasn't been blessed with the natural resources or heavy industry that Britain has, so traditionally there was no option but to import oil, coal, steel, etc. The shift in the import/export balance has a lot to with Ireland shifting to a service-based economy, which is thanks to more recent developments areas such as tech and banking. In terms of tangible exports, that's thanks to the growth of Irish food companies to become major players on the world market.

There are some photos of blue Tara Mines wagons here: https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/1199-tara-mines-rake-in-blue/

The ribbed lids could still be observed in use into the early 1990s. Even now, the third (peaked) style of lid hasn't yet completely replaced the second (curved) type, even though it must be a decade or so since they first appeared...