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Rails are as pain free to buy from as Accurascale in that regard

Having had the opportunity to see this bodyshell in person yesterday, you have done a very good job Noel. Looking forward to many other projects to come from yourself. 

I echo Alan’s comment above. A thoroughly enjoyable talk with great images and useful captions to go along with them. Thank you from myself and my dad. 

£233 including postage. So about right really with nothing extra added and no customs fees when it arrived

Grain The Canals and later the Railways were mainly built to transport food (export/import). Maltings & Mills at Grand Canal Dock re-purposed since the 1990s as Apartments and Offices. In a more modern context the Alexandra Rd Odlums silo (if it still exists) is an excellent example of https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50060591/odlums-mills-alexandra-road-dublin-1-co-dublin a silo used for grain imports once connected to the Alexandra Rd Tramway Cattle were shipped (by the trainload) from the great fairs in the West to pastures in the East (Mullingar-Consilla & Meath Line) for fattening before export on the hoof (mainly by rail) through Dublin Port.  My mother travelled on the B&I North Wall-Liverpool Ferry during the mid 60s and spoke of cattle being unloaded (possibly Birkenhead) before arrival at Liverpool.  Before the introduction of car ferries the B&I Ferry/cattle boat, docked at the Campshires on the North Wall Quay, with stock yards on the West side of Guild Street/Spencer Dock. Cattle traffic by rail dropped off during the 60s with the shift from live cattle to meat exports (higher value) regional plants and the shift to ro-ro ferries during the 60s-70s. Processed meat (bacon/pork) and dairy (particularly from Munster ) became and remained important traffics from the early 1900s into the ISO container era.  Plants at Roscrea, Dromod and Rathkeale shipped meat in containers until he stations closed to wagon load traffic, dairy (butter, cheese) likely to have been significant traffic from plants close to Tralee, Mallow & Charleville stations until the 1990s. A mid-late IRRS paper on the Mayo Line the author wrote about the unusual nature of poultry traffic during the 19th Century. Eggs exported in large quantities for use as pottery glaze in the Staffordshire pottery industry and young birds for fattening in the east/Dublin area, both possibly by passenger train. Ballina Beverages. Should we class the soft drinks concentrates currently exported by rail through the Dublin and Waterford ports as  Irish food exports?