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Same here

Whitworth Road / Sherriff St / Ballybough / Clonliffe / Cabra

Is there any mk3 driving cars u can still buy? It doesnt seem to be on silverfoxmodels

Likewise; mostly poor.

Judicial review into planned MetroLink rail line is withdrawn https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2025/1223/1550368-metrolink/ The application submitted by residents of Dartmouth Square was withdrawn following mediation. The Minister for Transport has called it, 'an early Christmas present for us all.'

To be honest, anywhere around or in Dublin. I have two meetings after the New Year, and hopefully something will be confirmed. Oh. And some updates on junction project

Beautiful

Very hit and miss for me today

Well, Merry Christmas to all on the forum! Best wishes to you, your families and friends. White-ish Christmas this year, but more investigation remains to be done.

@leslie10646 Cross Guns Shed? As in Cross Guns Quay, beside the North City Mill by Glasnevin Junction

Hit and miss today. Right now, it’s grand, and has been so for an hour or two at least, but was dog-rough earlier today.

That's a nice wagon and looks well. Now take a few days off for Christmas

Could it be your ISP? Or wifi? I’ve been monitoring and haven’t detected any slowness

Yes, more or less. Maybe Cabra (Midland)?

A wagon for Kilmore. This is the Weighbridge Fitters' van, apparently a one-off with no number. Desmond Coakham speculated that it was built on the chassis of a ballast brake ordered to be broken up in 1908. I used plasticard for the body with some brass strapping from an Alan Gibson etch. The sides apparently differed from one another but the two photos I was able to find were both of the same side so I guessed the layout of the hidden side based on the description in Desmond Coakhams' book. (The Belfast and County Down Railway, Colourpoint, 2010) The chassis uses an MJT compensation etch to create one fixed and one rocking axle mounted on a brass floor. These will do the work of carrying the wheels behind the scene. Brake details came variously from Gibson and Brassmasters wagon chassis etches. All of this then hides behind the outside W irons typical of BCDR rolling stock. They are cosmetic in this model and are superglued to the sole bars. Along with spring units, they are pre-production 3D printed items from Enda Byrne (ckprints.ie) which I got the opportunity to try out (many thanks to Gareth Brennan, Kieran Lagan and Enda for moving this along). They're finely printed and suit this project well. I used tissue paper to texture the roof, flooding it with liquid poly to bond it to the plastic card. The skylight is also a guesstimate since the available photos don't show it well. Next, paint, transfers and weathering. Some couplings, then it's just about ready to go. There are a number of errors (should have a window in each end for one thing) which I'm not going to lose sleep over.

Liffey Junction is in Cabra, I believe

Lagging again this evening. Very annoying

Cabra or Phibsborough? Looks fab

Yes, Jonathan, that's what I thought as a possibility. So what's the name of the Townland where Liffey Junction is situated? Or, as you say, en route to the docks, then I can pose Bob's cattle train on the upper line, en route to the Boat ......

Indeed. That doesn't make the size or spacing correct. I have seen some comments online about the buffers, and I believe the spacing was corrected for the 121s. However, it is a good indication that no-one else thinks it's worth the effort to correct them. So I think I'm probably ploughing a lonely furrow here, and it's unlikely that it will make financial sense to spend a lot of money replicating some buffers that no-one else wants.

Don't think that will buff out.....

Stunning! What beautiful locos and rolling stock.

Wow - outstanding stuff! You were thinking of a suitable name - might I suggest that it's obviously somewhere in the Dublin area northside... maybe pick the name of a district adjacent to the Broadstone to Liffey Junction line, or make it some sort of MGWR shed near their lines down to the docks....?

Either he did not see the height restriction sign or he he not know how tall the trailer was. A road in Lisburn was closed after a lorry collided with a rail bridge on Tuesday morning. The incident happened on the Lissue Road, which was blocked as a result. The railway bridge forms part of the Antrim–Lisburn line, which is currently disused.