Garfield

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...

Mod: Permanent ban for JB

A few quick pics I took this evening. It's Longford signal cabin, as it was in the 1960s...

What date is it again?

A transaction recently took place in which I took possession of one of Glenderg's latest creations. He handed it over amid much cursing and referencing to numerous attempts to get it right. I got the feeling he won't want to make another one in a hurry! Will post photos when I get a chance.

Some weird and wonderful stock running about the place...

Still just the one train... it's just good old multiple working, except the locos are radio-controlled by the driver (sorry, 'engineer') in the lead unit.

Cuirim wheat beer is tasty stuff... and possibly the only decent thing ever to emerge from Bagenalstown.

TOKiMONSTA - 'Darkest (Dim)'...

Cool, just making sure.

Broithe, I fail to see what this has to do with Downpatrick?

Love those old AECs!

Seamus, if you look through photos of Metro-Vicks down through the years, you'll see many of them had 'wonky' horns at one point or another... seems to have been pretty common. I'm not sure whether it was done on purpose or if it was a case of the horns being loosely fitted.

Apart from the godawful UIC numbers, I think it looks good. Good to see they had the sense not to stick on a full-colour logo!

I think the question was why did they refuse to grant permission, rather than why is permission needed...

Need to get my hands on one of those...