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I think that there may be one or two more of these due to arrive from Frizinghall tomorrow!

Have they retained the original seating? There was a lot of criticism of the original seating. The Sunday Cork-Heuston Arrow (stock transfer) had the reputation of being something of an endurance test. Possibly a rail equivalent of enduring the privations of Lough Derg. Perhaps no refreshments on Saturdays leg or the IRRS Railtour and "black tea" only on Sunday's return to the 'Real Capital" 

Some facebook comments saying its not quite original livery, whats the difference? I am going to presume its just the door being yellow rather than black at the front? Good on IE for doing more retro liveries, this looks fantastic.

The saga of the hotel project and the Gombeen Man did some good as I was headhunted and offered a role with Westmeath based Bennett construction that had impressed me for some time. First project was Project/Site Manager on a large North West Dublin Logistics/Warehousing project where my role was largely co-ordinating things with the designers nd specialist contractors while John our senior engineer and something of a Claude Greengrass character was in day to day charge of the sub-structure works with a team of engineers, direct labour, and specialist contractors. I looked after superstructure works (steel work, cladding, mechanical and electrical services) with a Finishing Foreman in charge of the Office Fit out. John was extremely enterprising individual along with his day job, he provided a taxi service for our team of directly employed workers from Westmeath, installed part of the project's rainwater system on a piece-work rate during weekends and indulged his Greengrass instincts by trapping game and vermin. Setting and checking out the traps did no go down to well with his passengers going to and coming home from work.  John would take a diversion to set or check out his traps and some of the lads were a bit squeamish about the dead animals in the back of the van. John got into a spot one day installing a downpipe  inside a warehouse at a height of about 12m using a knuckle boom and managed to trap himself between the structure and the cage of the boom, was unable to reach the controls but somehow managed to find a way out despite being the only one on a very large site before the days of reliable cell-phone coverage. I did not acquit myself to well with possibly the same boom after successfully replacing a defective double glazing unit in the project Office Block some time after handover and the Office Block was occupied, I managed to strike and damage the remotely controlled entrance gate to the Office car park with the knuckle boom. One of the clients Directors rang my boss in panic and was told not to worry that I would sort out the problem.  Apart from telling me that he received the call my boss never said another word about the incident. We carried out a temporary repair job and operated the gates manually for a couple of weeks before carrying out the permanent repair. Unfortunately I did not really appreciate that I was working for a really good employer until I jumped ship in pursuit of higher pay 2-3 years later and found myself in a far worse situation, though I guess I would not be where I am today if I did not make that move so there are no regrets.