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Sounds like a plan... any excuse for me to travel west of Longford on the train rather than the usual eastwards journey!

Hmm... methinks this warrants further inspection

The four-wheeler? Damn, saw a photo a while back but can't remember where. When the Speno unit visited around 2005-2006, it was hauled around in a similar fashion, except it was sandwiched between two Dutch vans, with a pipe running from the driver's window to the rest of the train. The Speno, which is normally self-propelled, was hired from elsewhere in Europe (Denmark, I think) and had to be regauged by placing on two wagon bogies. I think this arrangement also meant that the unit itself wasn't equipped with train braking, hence the Dutch vans at either end.

So, a man's leg then?

Scary stuff. I particularly liked this comment on the video, though:

Y'see? Even rarer now!

Welcome, Jimbo! I've a few mates living over in Dubai... there seems to be thriving Irish community over there now. Can't wait to see your work progress.

Nice one, Des... you've always got a surprise or two up your sleeve!

Bullied open gets my vote

Not quite, Bosko... I was told before by a reliable source that the 071s burn approx. 9 litres of fuel per hour at idle, and the Babies burn approx. 6. That would mean a full tank of fuel would allow it to sit idling for 400 hours, or just over 16 days. </pedantic>

Brilliant find... love the photos of the Black & Tan locos hauling the Supertrain MkIIs.

I've never seen photos of them hauling Mk3s in Supertrain livery and I doubt they ever did, for the reasons Railer has given above.

That aircraft was grounded at London City until parts could be shipped in to fix the landing gear...

Only saw one of those in the flesh once, as I was waiting to get another bus home from school. It must've been around 1995 or '96 and it looked like it was on its last legs. Still had the CIE roundel...

All ITG stock is painted in authentic liveries. As for the blue and green liveries of the Cravens and Mk2s, they are, as you pointed out, painted in fictitious liveries chiefly because IÉ don't want anything orange roaming around the network when they're trying to push a new corporate identity (regardless of whether or not there are 071s still wearing the colours). What else are the RPSI supposed to do under those circumstances? Anyway, many of the Mk2s are ex-BR so wouldn't have been painted orange anyway... The set of coaches in the video above is the 'heritage set', which has authentic liveries. From what I can make out from the footage, the coaching set that day consisted of laminate coaches and Park Royals. As for the Stanier coach... they never ran here.

Yikes... Prestwick!? A major headache for anyone on that flight. At least anyone diverted to Shannon can make their way to Dublin by road.

Ha, I remember those Mitsubishi trucks. There was one sitting in the yard in Longford for ages. I think the all-over black trucks had 'Rail Link' logos on the box sides...

Wow!

Looking good, Fran! Love those old Alcos.... full of character!

Thanks for letting us know... could be very useful!

Looking good! Anyone who wants to model her should note she has a different pattern of buffers at each end...

Would definitely be interested in some Metro Vicks

This topic crops up at least once a year somewhere, without fail... Unfortunately, even if they got past the weight issue, 800 is out of gauge for the vast majority of the network. It's just one of a myriad of reasons why she'll never run again. Also, the permanent way department would baulk at the thoughts of that hammer blow...

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