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Wonderful. I am looking forward to seeing more.

One of my favorite performers.

http://www.barewalls.com/pv-450111_Ireland-by-CIE.html Maureen found this on line recently while looking for artwork for the layout area. I have never seen this image before. Does anyone have any information about it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_801_Class Here is some information on the travels of K801

Are there photos in Steve Johnston's Irish railway modeling book?

I would prefer kits if the cost is significantly lower.

I have several containers built from Peco card kits and they fit in the SSM open and my scratch built Bulleid's.Sorry I cant post a photo as my digital camera died.

Glover is right on the mark about the H vans. Any layout depecting the 1950's to the mid 1970's should have lots of them. I'm suprised that a kit has not been available. SSM provide 30 ton brake vans and wooden opens and ex GN 12 ton vans and sliding door vans can be adapted from Parkside Dundas kits, what we need are H vans, Bulleid opens and CIE cattle wagons to convincingly model the CIE loose coupled era from the 1960's to the mid 1970's. Add a 20 ton brake van and some older vans and you have the 1950's covered also. It would also be nice if any new wagons produced could be converted to 21mm guage without major surgery. Best of luck with the project Liesley.

Thanks for posting these wonderful photos.

I am very much looking forward to following your progress.

I have also had to wait for a reply from John but he has always got back to me.

I hadn't heard. Thats very sad. I saw the band twice, in 79 and 81 but unfortunatly he was no longer with them. Their first three albums are on heavey rotation on the stereo and in the car and are recieving very positive reviews from all who hear them.

Dr Feelgood's live album "Stupidity" from 1976. I got this on cassette when it first came out, later got the LP and recently the CD which has the tracks from the "encore" single which came with the first 20'000 LP's.

Thats correct. Its a nice kit but I have mixed feelings about it. It was chosen to reflect the atmosphere of the Mallow Waterford line. The orignal intention was to use two kits to make a longer viaduct but the space available was too short. The stone colour is also wrong for the region and the arches are about half the lenght of those of the Kilmacthomas viaduct. I decided to use just one kit to represent a smaller bridge rather than on oviously (to me) too small version of a large viaduct. Progress on the layout has been slow in the last few weeks and I havn't posted anything since my digital camera died. The platforms at Grange are under almost finished and an Athearn SD9 underframe has been shortened to fit a SSM Sulzer. I will post some photos as soon as a camera becomes available.

Im afraid the only work involved was E mailing John at Silver Fox modells and paying him for it!

This little beauty arrived in the post today along with a couple of heating vans. I've got a thing about black Metrovics with yellow warning panels.

Congratulations, I wish you all health and happiness.

Recent progress on the layout involved painting the backscene behind the road overbridge at Grange station and building the goods store and loading bank. This is my first effort scratchbuilding a structure. The roof is not yet finished. The model is based on the store at Tallow Road on the Mallow Waterford line, the demensions estimated from photos found online. The model is built from foam core board covered with styren stone sheet. A similar model will be built for Glen More station. I plan to add windows to the ends as soon as I find sutable ones somewhere.

I took a break from constructing Grange goods store which can be seen in this short video.

I love the point levers. they really add to the atmosphere.

Here are a few photos of the palvan. Sorry about the quality but I cant get a higher definition to download.

The 12 ton ex GN van's are from Parkside Dundas. These kits come with two different ends and I use the end with the smaller sprung buffers. The other ends with the larger hydraulic buffers are then used with the Parkside Dundas palvan kit to make the sliding door vans. According to "The Locomotives of CIE and NIR" these wagons were built with three different ends but I dont ever recall seeing ends similar to those supplied with the kit. I dont know for sure but from the photos I'v seen the corrugated ends seemed most common. A little carving on the lower inside of the corrugated ends is needed to make it work. The doors are built from thin plasticard sheet and strip and the vac brake fittings are omitted. I dont have drawings, just consulted photos. The end result is a very distinctive Irish wagon.

Nice work. You did a great job with assembly and painting.