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Hear, hear! A lot of (interesting) wagon for your Bucks!

Under ones like these at Clara, I assume. The Ranks siding. IRRS St Pat's Day Tour 1963. Lance King Collection Copyright Irish Railway Record Society

Emm? Thinking out loud ......... This is a "H" Van with bits. I had thoughts of doing one as an easy win based on my H Van kit. BUT, I did the H van first! Have I missed an announcement? So, we know what's next ..... I wanted them, so: Order in, 9 minutes after announcement - am I the first? Good luck with them. Good choice.

Definitely! That was the non-stop schedule some years ago (might have been the 1980s when the track wasn't as good as now?). Then they added in all the stops! I footplated an 071 with the late Willie Graham, when, despite his reputation as a bit of a tearway, he drove with exemplary professionalism, even slowing where he knew there were bad bits of track. We did it easily. Bring back the 071s?

Indeed! An interloper in 1963! Lance King Colllection, Copyright IRRS

Thanks, Derek, for the good reference! The layout is coming on very well! Keep it up. Leslie

Thanks for these lovely views. John D saw things others ignored. Enjoy "Port" - my family spent endless holidays there when I had no money. Not sure about the caravan - we used a flat on South Harbour - 50 yards from breakfast table to the first coach of the 10am train! Happy (often very wet) days!

Ernie, please forgive my impertinence in correcting the account of the Dunlavin photo. The train REALLY was stock run down for a a cattle special from Baltinglass on the Monday, 16th. The coaches were for the IRRS members who travelled down on Sunday 15h March with the empty train of wagons ("The Last Train to Tullow"). Most members returned home that evening but on 16th the Fair was held in Baltinglass and the cattle were duly loaded at the bank: Baltinglass 16.3.1959 Lance King collection, Copyright IRRS Thanks for the super JGD photo of No.207!

It was great to meet up with Andy and David today. It was the 13th on one respect that I missed a photo of the Great Britain tour having failed to find the watering point near Wantage (now grotesquely build up!). Linda, though, had the Winner in the National! Here's the three of them admiring the Forbesian Cavalade to end all n arrow gauge cavalcades with Andy's CDRJC railcars in numerical order No.1 (two versions of No.2) right through to No.12, so Phoenix was there as No.11 - being admired by @Galteemore, @Andy Cundick and my Chauffeuse! Then as the line grew! Quite show of narrow gauge delights! Brilliant Andy and thnaks for getting them out for @Galteemore

Well done for finding this, Nelson - a real gem, especially the shipping. My shipping books are not beside me, otherwise I'd have a go at identifying the Cross Channel ships which are about the size of the lifeboats on the Ulysses! The shunter is NCC No.16 a 0-4-0ST built by Bowman Malcolm in 1916 at York Road. She lasted until 1951. (Info Bill Scott's Bible and Northern Counties Railway Vol 3). The newer GNR vans were built 1922 on, so that helps date it?/

If the Flirts resemble the Swiss ones, fine, but if like UK ones, it's still time to think of a move.

You poor souls - @Galteemore is almost certainly right - you're going to get the AWFUL Intercity Express Trains (IETs) which we suffer here on the "Other" (Unimportant) Island. Even worse than Vomiters (sorry, mistype, Voyagers). Emigrate before it happens! I'm too old, or I would have done it already.

Too late, Cathal, they have already done that sneakily on the "Borris" thread! I was certain they were mine (as Fergal had bought a couple of my kits in the past) but they are the pristine "as built in 1958" version. I should have noted the lettering below the solebar - I never provided transfers! Very well done.

BRUCKLESS ALERT! Mind you you have to be Wiltshire this weekend (so no excuse @Galteemore). Bruckless is at Calne, see below! https://www.calnemrs.org.uk/ Come and see a narrow gauge line which was almost as good as the Rhaetian Railway (was - EMUs everywhere these days!)!

Ah, the Turbostars? He may get a loco and coaches in the future if the Railway Press is correct, as Chiltern Railways are looking at running the (Accurascale) Mark V coaches behind Class 68s. Good news for The Lads and Dapol, who do the Class 68.