IRM Latest! The Hunslets Enter The Final Frontier - Delivery Update December 2025

[Darius43]

Perfect, thanks.

Cheers

Darius

Edited Thursday at 18:14 by Darius43

[Jonathan Allen]

50 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

My Hunslet 101 blue with red chevron has arrived with additional etched bits in the detailing bag.

I’ve fitted the hosiery etc. but the instructions don’t mentioned the black and yellow etched panels or the ITG roundels.

Can anyone provide enlightenment as to what they are and where they go?

Cheers

Darius

You may want to check photo references before adding anything - I only photographed 101 on the sprayer and she did not carry warning boards: 101 Bangor | Some use could still be found for NIR's 101 cla… | Flickr

104 did, but you will have to wait for a B201 model!

 

[MOGUL]

2 hours ago, Jonathan Allen said:

You may want to check photo references before adding anything - I only photographed 101 on the sprayer and she did not carry warning boards: 101 Bangor | Some use could still be found for NIR's 101 cla… | Flickr

104 did, but you will have to wait for a B201 model!

 

The yellow and black boards would only be added when the weedspray was actually spraying.

So maybe the coverage on the trip out to Bangor was considered satisfactory and there was no need to spray on the return, or the tanks were empty! 

 

[Jonathan Allen]

3 hours ago, MOGUL said:

The yellow and black boards would only be added when the weedspray was actually spraying.

So maybe the coverage on the trip out to Bangor was considered satisfactory and there was no need to spray on the return, or the tanks were empty! 

 

Very probably - but if you enlarge this shot at Seagoe: 101 approaching Seagoe | No sooner had the cement cleared th… | Flickr there appears to be spray coming from the end vehicle and the boards are not fitted.

Likely the crew just forgot. At the end of the day, Rule 1 applies.

 

[Galteemore]

Might also be a practical reason. I don’t think the 101s had lamp irons

[Darius43]

There’s one on the model.

Cheers

Darius

[Galteemore]

6 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

There’s one on the model.

Cheers

Darius

So there is! Only seems to have been one - presumably to satisfy statutory requirement for tail lamp when propelling 

[Darius43]

That’s probably why there are a couple of red tail lamps in the goody bag

Cheers

Darius

[Jonathan Allen]

2 hours ago, Galteemore said:

Might also be a practical reason. I don’t think the 101s had lamp irons

They did: 103 Connolly | 103 "Merlin" sits in Dublin Connolly station … | Flickr Just one, on the right hand or "second mans" side. 102 Dublin Connolly | 102 "Falcon" awaits departure from Dub… | Flickr 101 - Belfast Central station | The IRRS tour then moved to … | Flickr

 

 

 

[Davenport]

Hi Lads,

Did the Hunslets ever visit Cork does anyone know? if so anyone have a photo? I seen a photo of a NIR 071 in Cork before on the lower Glanmire road but never a Hunslet.

Thanks

[Blaine]

On 18/6/2026 at 8:22 PM, Davenport said:

Hi Lads,

Did the Hunslets ever visit Cork does anyone know? if so anyone have a photo? I seen a photo of a NIR 071 in Cork before on the lower Glanmire road but never a Hunslet.

Thanks

Never South of Inchicore or Lansdowne Road. Thats as far as they got

On 18/6/2026 at 7:07 PM, Darius43 said:

There’s one on the model.

Cheers

Darius

Thats the only lamp iron they had, and way out of gauge at that

If Hunslets were regular visitors south of Dundalk after the Mid 1980's they would have had a second lamp iron fitted - this was down to the rulebook change after the Cherryville Junction crash - every Irish Rail train had to have 2 lamps fitted and not just one

Edited 16 hours ago by Blaine

[Jonathan Allen]

14 hours ago, Blaine said:

If Hunslets were regular visitors south of Dundalk after the Mid 1980's they would have had a second lamp iron fitted - this was down to the rulebook change after the Cherryville Junction crash - every Irish Rail train had to have 2 lamps fitted and not just one

Didn't know that Blaine - I only photographed the things.

Right to the end, the Hunslets had only one lamp iron - on the second man's side (left if looking at the locomotive, right if sitting in the cab). I last photographed a push-pull set south of Dundalk on 19 July 1982 101 leaving Drogheda | With arrival of the two 111 class loc… | Flickr but they probably worked south after that. The coming of 113 in August 1984 likely saw the end of push-pull working on the cross-border links, but if anybody knows different, I'll be glad to hear from you.

Last photographed top & tail push-pull on 17 December 1988 102 & 101 Lisburn | A poor shot on a bad day, but this is be… | Flickr but that only got to Newry. Again, I'll be glad to know of any later workings.

When it comes to lamp irons, the DTSOs are a different matter. I seldom photographed the a&s* end of a train (no imagination when it comes to photography), but this shot suggests there was a lamp iron on the left (looking at the unit) above the light and another just below the cab window. Those positions did not change during the service life of the DTSOs 101 Bangor | 101 "Eagle" propells the 15.00 Bangor - Portado… | Flickr as far as I can tell.

My last photograph of a pair of Hunslets on a Dublin was 24 June 1989: 103 & 102 leaving Lisburn | To have had one 101 working by J… | Flickr - a when 101 also worked the sprayer and there must have been several blue moons in the sky. No issue with the lamp irons as 102 & 103 would have run-round in Connolly.

If anybody can fill-in the gaps in my knowledge, it will be appreciated.