MK3 Scrapping

[Glenderg]

I just passed inchicore, and theres an executive carraige parked outside one of the workshops with the tail end painted in green and silver. Wasn't quick enough with th camera

[RedRich]

Is it the 22000 green silver style Richie.

 

Rich,

[Glenderg]

It was mostly green Rich, not much silver at all. I'll be passing friday, so will have camera prepped, unless someone else gets there first. R.

[RedRich]

Cheers Richie, I'm intrigued.

 

Rich,

[201bhoy]

I just passed inchicore, and theres an executive carraige parked outside one of the workshops with the tail end painted in green and silver. Wasn't quick enough with th camera

 

As in an execcutive mk3?!

[IrishModelRail]

Are there MkIIIs still in Dundalk?

[UP6936]

Last I checked they are still in dundalk.

Maybe there is going to be a surprise announcement about hourly enterprise services with overhauled mk3 stock.

Doubt it though...

[108]

The Mk 3's were still in Dundalk 2 weeks ago. I'll be up that way on Friday so will update then.

[BosKonay]

[Garfield]

I'm guessing that's a photo of the Enterprise genny vans just before their refurbishment?

[Warbonnet]

I'm guessing that's a photo of the Enterprise genny vans just before their refurbishment?

 

Scrappers ready for the chop in Inchicore I believe.

[BosKonay]

Scrap line I understand. Generators removed.

[Garfield]

Cheers lads!

[IrishModelRail]

The Mk 3's were still in Dundalk 2 weeks ago. I'll be up that way on Friday so will update then.

 

Cheers, I'll be there for the railtour on Sunday.

[UP6936]

Which railtour is that?

[Lough Erne]

The Dundalk railway society have chartered the train from Dundalk to whitehead and back on Sunday with 461 providing the motive power and a GM doing the carriage positioning runs.

[UP6936]

So will a GM (NIR?) be hauling an ecs working to dundalk? That would be something I would go to see!

[Lough Erne]

All information about the train including times etc is on the rpsi website

 

http://www.steamtrainsireland.com/events/

[IrishModelRail]

Which railtour is that?

 

The RPSI `Across the tracks`Belfast to Dundalk diesel and steam.

[jhb171achill]

Hope it calls at adavoyle, sion mills and rockcorry...... :-)

[Glenderg]

Picture of Executive coach as promised...

 

[BosKonay]

That's just unusual!

[RedRich]

To hard to make a decision without seeing all the coach painted. Is it just me or does it look like the black from the original livery is showing through behind the green paint as it looks a bit darker in that area. I wonder why the bogie is also painted grey. Cheers for the pic Richie.

 

Rich,

[Riversuir226]

A few pics of the mark3s left in Waterford.

Rich i think your right about the test livery on the mk3s

[irishrail123]

To hard to make a decision without seeing all the coach painted. Is it just me or does it look like the black from the original livery is showing through behind the green paint as it looks a bit darker in that area. I wonder why the bogie is also painted grey. Cheers for the pic Richie.

 

Rich,

 

Nah thats just a different darker shade of the green. The carriage has actually 4 different shades of green on each end (thats why theres numbers next to them. The bogie is probably painted just so they can see how it would look with the green :-)

[RedRich]

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A few pics of the mark3s left in Waterford.

Rich i think your right about the test livery on the mk3s

 

Excellent pics Tom. I would urge anybody with a camera and some spare time to try and get as many shots of the coaches before they are scrapped like Tom has done. Otherwise it will be a bit like some of us trying to explain what LP's are to our kids.

 

Rich,

[RedRich]

Nah thats just a different darker shade of the green. The carriage has actually 4 different shades of green on each end (thats why theres numbers next to them. The bogie is probably painted just so they can see how it would look with the green :-)

 

To be honest and I stand to be corrected, I think the areas where the green is getting lighter is where the flat sides of the coach are starting to curve towards the roof and chassis.

 

Rich,

[UP6936]

I think the mk4 stock amd railcars have grey bogies, so that's probably why it is painted. Rich, I think, and I could well be wrong, the green is a different shade. Wouldn't it look a bit bland if it was all the one colour?

[heirflick]

i wonder why they didnt bother to paint the roof?

[UP6936]

Maybe its not finished. Or, as the roof will likely be light grey, the orange might be difficult to paint over

[krose]

Picture of Executive coach as promised...

 

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Why have they printed the no. 4 on top of the primer coat beside it? Is there 4 samples? Are the other 3 corners painted differently?

[jhb171achill]

With the new logo in place now, but units in all different liveries, maybe they are experimenting with an overall corporate livery for everything? Except, presumably, the 071s; having returned to CIE loco grey, could this be the second dawn of CIE green!

[UP6936]

To run with your theory jhb, with carriages potentially being green, and the main freight locos (071s) going back to CIE grey, maybe the 201s, as the main passenger locos, will be all over green?

Personally I would like to see them in the new grey

[201bhoy]

To be honest and I stand to be corrected, I think the areas where the green is getting lighter is where the flat sides of the coach are starting to curve towards the roof and chassis.

 

Rich,

 

I think you're right Rich, you can see the white stripes showing through as well.

[jhb171achill]

A 201 in grey would be an interesting concept all right! Anyone here good with photo shopping?

 

I have to say I always wondered what an 071, 201 or above all an ICR would look like in black'n'tan!