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  1. exciecoachbuilder
    Best of luck with this. The good old E class, the 'Scunthorpe united' of the diesel loco classes These loco's did all the shunting in Inchicore works, and for such a small engine they were incredibly powerful. I saw them shunting full length trains, including mk2's. I saw them pulling a line (albeit slowly, and blocking the main road that the tracks cross, for about half an hour) of disued loco's A's, C's Sulzers etc from the siding beside diesel no1 in the works. In comparison to the GM sound, I thought the E's sounded terrible, like a tractor ploughing a field... Paul.
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    I would never get tired looking at these photographs, fantastic stuff altogether.. Paul.
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    Bloody hell, two No 18 wood screws and two 3/8th countersunk bolts , to secure this small plate onto the vehicle? This plate certainly wouldn't be falling off anytime soon...
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    Yeah, the Connolly station picture is an absolute gem, and it captures 1970's C.I.E perfectly. In regards to the paint work on the vehicles, CIE always used the same paint back then, the same mixing procedure etc. The different shades are no doubt due to age. If you look at the 141 and the 121 class on the right of the picture, the 121 looks like it hasn't had a lick of paint in years, whereas the 141 looks like it had a recent enough repaint. The paint was always supplied from the same manufacturer, and the spraying technique ( until 1999) usually was , orange sprayed on the entire coach/ loco, then the black bands were marked out and hand painted on.. Paul.
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    Yeah I remember the Cravens, I thought the RPSI had lost the plot on this one. But it makes sense what you say, thanks for the info. Paul
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    That's interesting Jonathan, I thought that it was a primer or undercoat, a similar colour to the primer that was used on the MK 3 body shells. Because if that was the finished product on the RPSI coaches, it was a very poor paint job to be honest. Black and green? Did this livery ever exist on Irish coaches?
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    The green paint on the RPSI coaches was an undercoat/ primer they painted on the coaches in Inchicore years ago.
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    I think you are right there jhb, it looks like one of the executive coaches.
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    Hi, the coach in the bay looks like it is a full van, because it has 2 double loading doors on the side ( 2 on the other side as well). The step board at the end of the coach indicates that it was converted from a passenger coach, and it means that there was a passenger entrance door there before it was covered in. A lot of this work was done in Inchicore in the 1970's. A mixed bag of half composite, half van conversions, in which I worked on. The 1930's bit is interesting, because at the time of the conversion work, I never asked, or probably didn't care how old the coach was. CIE had a patchwork quilt fleet back then. Paul...
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    Love it...
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    Love this, the fertilizer looks great.
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    Hi guys, a few more photos for ye.
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    Thanks very much Jonathan, it was hard to stick with just one era with all the different models being released. Like a kid in a sweet shop, I wanted everything. But the 70's and 80's was my favorite era for Irish railways.
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    Hi, it's a bit of both really. I can do end to end (shunting etc) and I can sit back and watch the trains go around. I wanted to have an old school 'roundy roundy' part because I think that I would have gotten bored with just back and forth shunting. The two layouts are joined, so I can do a bit of shunting, and then run the train onto the roundy' roundy' part. But the best part , and what really keeps me interested in the whole thing, is building stuff, and creating different scenes. There is a big snag list on the layout, some scenes are not completely finished. AIso, i usually take a break and don't go near the layout for weeks on end, sometimes months. Paul.
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    Thanks very much Rob, much appreciated.
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    Thanks very much Patrick, the disconnected siding idea was from something that I saw many years ago up the yard ( top of the works) in Inchicore. There was a disconnected siding, but it had a derailed 611 class loco , a very disheveled grey h van and overgrown ancient buffer stop. I wondered why the per/ way lads didn't remove the vehicles before pulling up the tracks? I think that it's a nice feature on the layout.
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    Thanks very much guys, much appreciated. The water is actually a tin of varnish, that I poured over the river bed, and I wasn't sure how it would turn out. But it turned out ok for me.
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    Hi guys, a "few" pictures of my layout. I started building it around 2013/14?, after looking at Johnathan and Barry's wonderful picture of Gort station, in their book 'rails through the west'. The initial plan was to try and build a 1970's Gort station,but as always with this hobby I got carried away, and it got bigger and bigger. So it is basically a fantasy Irish railway from the 60's, 70's and 80's. I really tried to stay ' supertrain', but I couldn't resist the Crossley A classes, and grey 121. It's hard to know if it will ever be finished, because I have chopped and changed a fair bit since I started building it. The terminus is the latest endeavor, so fingers crossed to see how that goes.? Paul.
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    Hi, I would say that it went straight back into traffic after being worked on in the wheel lathe. I don't recall any vehicles being trialled after a stint in the wheel lathe shop. The wheel lathe shop was like a production line, and I can't imagine every vehicle having to be sent out on trial? Maybe someone here knows better?
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    Brass, end of story.
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    70's , 80's and 90's, shunting coaches and wagons out of the workshops was done by forklift. One guy with a whistle to guide the forklift driver,and another guy at the opposite end of the traverser, chocks in hand making sure the coach or wagon doesn't over run the traverser. Health and safety wasn't a big thing back then.
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    Some good points being made here, a can of worms has certainly been opened.
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    A great photo indeed, the black and tan livery on the GM's, was always very striking. B161, only recently repainted by the look of it.
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    Incredible stuff altogether, the grey streaks on the black paint at the bonnet end are exactly the way they looked, when the paint started to fade. Some serious weathering skills there Chris, well done sir. Paul
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