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this little baby arrived today...CIE TPO from Irish Freight Models...

 

TPO 012.jpg

 

i have to say she looks well in green, so heres a question - what coaches did she most frequently run with and what motive power would have been used?

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Short answer: Anything and everything loco-wise and coach-wise that was on the books back in the late '50s/early '60s!

 

Looks like a 3D-printed body, is that right?

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Interesting, how much can I ask Shem?

 

sorry for the long wait in replying Fran, but this ould computer is not just going slow - its going backwards! cost 75 euros

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€75 !!!! You could have brought the real thing for that price. The foreman at CIE's Mullingar Scrapyard had a grounded one for an office right up until closure - wonder what happened to it?

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It needs a crowd of lads in khaki dust-coats sprinting from it - towards Lambe's at Ballybrophy....

 

i'll volunteer my services for such a mission if you will!

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i'll volunteer my services for such a mission if you will!

 

Lambe's is no more - great memories of standing in there in the pitch black whilst the Guards gave some old biddy a lift to the train just after 'closing' time...

 

..beeping as they came over the bridge, so that they wouldn't be seen to have seen the place still open at that time..

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Lambe's is no more - great memories of standing in there in the pitch black whilst the Guards gave some old biddy a lift to the train just after 'closing' time...

 

..beeping as they came over the bridge, so that they wouldn't be seen to have seen the place still open at that time..

 

did they ever call in on the way back for a few unoffical pints when on offical duty?

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did they ever call in on the way back for a few unoffical pints when on offical duty?

 

I have to say that I never saw them in there - other places, perhaps.....

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Four of those vehicles were converted to passenger brake vans about 1969. One was numbered 2177, I seem to recall. So use on a non-mail passenger train is legit for a black'n'tan one 1969-73 or so.

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I'm interested in buying one of the IFM cie luggage vans. Kinda expensive... wondering if anyone here has purchased the item and any review is appreciated.

Thanks, Brendan

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