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Open to correction, but I recall it was coaches in as-built bare aluminium sheet rather than being painted silver.

Re the SSM Sulzer kit, how is the body supposed to be fixed to the chassis?

Get advice before putting cash down, find out what your selected one is worth. It is not unknown for bodies like BnM to take the Michael.

Why and when did the station building go? Was there pre ww2, gone by the sixties

It's quite a bit different to the classic diecast van Denny's themselves had as a free offer with sausage labels some years back.

Indeed, haven't seen a tonnage plate in fractions of a ton.

Following the discussion on PO wagons, decided to have a Google on the Murphy Brothers Limited wagons as released by Murphy's Models. Found this rather sad family history, modelling wise the company name as depicted on the wagons passed out of use as early as 1909. https://discoveringmyfamilyhistory.com/murphy-family/

An Irish example, quite scarce due to rarity of PO wagons on the Irish system.

When repainted from Ranks livery to GSR/CIE markings does that indicate Ranks sold them off?

The railtour WAGs they would be called now!

Since we are doing cats, here's an IR tippex liveried example.

To be fair it's quite a good representation, pity the artist hadn't copped there's two buffers. Railway Magazine did a short series a while back on bad railway pub signs, one of the better ones was a pretty good image of a loco and train but with a massive tension lock coupling up front.

The hazards of painting murals from photos.

In the first link, it's interesting that the painter picked out the letters and numerals on the wagon plate on the chassis. Normally they didn't bother with this.

Its an attractive thing esp in regional colours, I don't mind it at all in Britain and in its proper context, it just seems to be a go-to, copy/paste design element now. It doesn't matter so much in a cafe or pub but in an historical or museum setting it gives me the ick. Irish railways had all their own distinctive heraldic coats of arms, modern era logos, advertising, typefaces...GSR & CIE Gaelic fonts. There's a deep well to draw on already.