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Hi folks, Is the first carriage after the loco on this Waterford to Dublin train in 1981 a TPO? Photo by Frank Geraghty on Flickr

Tandem loading of freighliner containers taking place at the Lakeview freight yard earlier.

Small and simple and a Mills building, by the look, sounds alright to me.

Flirting continues on Tara junction.

Just got an Email from the RPSI Eventbrite account: Dear Passengers, We regret to inform you that this Saturday’s upcoming “The Mighty Kingdom” railtour to County Kerry has been cancelled. Unfortunately, when our operating licence came up for renewal with the Commission for Railway Regulation (CRR), they had received legal advice that our current structure was no longer valid to hold a licence in Ireland. The main issue is Brexit related, as our company is registered in the UK and this is now outside the EU. Work has been underway since the moment we found out that we have additional legal and Companies Registration Office documents to obtain in order to renew our licence. Despite our very best efforts and matters outside of our control we have not achieved this in time for this Saturday’s tour. We truly understand the massive disappointment that this news brings you and your fellow participants. We as an organising committee are also very upset at having to cancel this railtour.

Not sure on the pre-order deadline. I think that I pre-ordered about a year ago. He expects them to be completed for April 2026. I don’t know whether that means produced or delivered. I did so via email as I only log on to FB once or twice a year. Derek is on here as @GSI345, but doesn’t log on too regularly. Will drop you a mail, now in a minute, @skinner75.

Second scenic module takes shape. Cheers Darius

Having read the works of Ian Rice and explored the countryside (light railway remains) of Essex and Suffolk, I was tempted by the Accurascale "Buck" for a OO shelf layout inspired by the Kelvedon & Tollesbury or the "East Suffolk yes I visited Orford about 25 years ago and checked out the station site from Iain's Light Railway book. Then I remembered I have an EM gauge Ivatt 2-6-0, a Dean Goods and a small collection of Industrial steam and diesel locos, so perhaps something from the Welsh Marches instead. I have a stash of EM flexi track, chairs, rail and suitable buildings somewhere, but what to do with several stalled projects. Still mighty tempting!

The older tanks in the fleet must have been the best part of 25 years old, so these are long overdue, especially as the walkways etc on the old ones were very much the worse for wear! Hopefully, Givaudan will keep the Murphy's tanks on hire, and haven't replaced the entire fleet with these!

I admire your ability to keep moving on to new projects and make the best uses of the available time and space. I have a pattern of planning sometime starting then loosing interest/never finishing layouts. Looking forward to seeing your next project, a home for both the GN & SLNCR perhaps

April 26 for preordering these? I've not preordered one from him as yet. I can't access that Facebook group/page either, so no way of preordering if that is the only way to do so

Brand new Dana tanks recently unloaded off the XPO liner in Ballina freight yard.

Yeah, these will be something special!

I should have copped on, with so many wheels “missing”!

RIP David

This was very sudden, quite a shock - I knew him many years ago. RIP.

I'll need to get a log on for flickr in order to see those pics Paul. I'll have a look tomorrow. As regards material, either brass or n/s would be fine. Thickness would need to be sufficient for half etched rivets. I think the average for etched kits is around 15thou, in old money.

She's looking well. The separately fitted handrails really top off whats already a very nice model.

The ‘Countess of Antrim’ now has all her separately fitted handrails. I knocked up a simple plasticard jig to try and make sure the handrail spacing was consistent….. this was reasonably successful! I have given the buffer beams an initial coat of red: this will be added to tomorrow, then masked, before I start spraying all over black. The handrails and other fittings will be picked out in gun metal, and the dome and window frames will eventually be brass.

Looks like 3 out of the 4 have been stuck on

Thats a 141 kit, in the photo the cab sides are missing- unless they are stuck onto the cab fronts as the fronts seem to be propped up on something..... Eoin

Another PD2, this one for auction, ending in five days: https://www.ebay.es/itm/389075371676

Because I post the Euro prices? Oh… Kay… Moving on… MIR 071 kit for €87 plus postage and import taxes. The title says 071 Class on the main eBay page, then changed to 80 Class when viewing the listing, but it looks like an 071 in the photos: https://www.ebay.es/itm/286848025940 The seller does mention that they’re not sure if it’s complete. Bachmann Class N / Woolwich / Mogul in CIE green for €162 plus postage and import fees: https://www.ebay.es/itm/205784653411 That does look rather nice!

I was just having a look for photos of the prototype and found these, I assume this is the type of W iron you want: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53508778884/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/54253146283/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53507575592/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53507575597/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53501071339/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53508981899/ Whilst similar in style, this one is different in proportions: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53570644793/ Edit: this looks like the right type of W iron but the wrong railway. It's a good closeup though: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53507575262/ Based on your existing model, I assume you don't want a hole in the W iron to locate the axle bearing, because that will be in the cast axlebox. Any preferences on material (brass or nickel silver) or thickness? I can probably scale dimensions reasonably well off this photo, can you confirm the wheelbase of this wagon type for me to use as a basis for scaling? https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53508778884/ Might be worth thinking if there are any other useful bits for these wagons that could be added to the etch...