Irish CIE trains help!

[mobo999]

Hello all, please can any one help me to identify what sort of value these train have? I have been made an offer but have been unable to find to much on the internet apart from their history and that they are quite rare.Thank you all for your help in advance.

[nickinwestwales]

Hiya mate-going out on a bit of a limb here.......This looks to me like a `generic` LIMA set,poss from the `70`s-the loco looks to be either French or Italian, the coach bogies look identical to those fitted to my LIMA Swiss stock-indeed,the whole lot looks similar to an SNCF set I have -also from LIMA-
They did offer essentially similar sets for the export market repainted for the target country`s rail system-as such I would imagine they would be of value primarily to collectors of the brand rather than as items in their own right-there is a fairly comprehensive LIMA website which should give you more detail
ATB
Nick

[taz]

they re jouef hdi in origin made in Shannon, Ireland in the late 1970s/early 1980s, they turn up occasionally, as for value i could find out for you.