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I like that! I'm very tempted to get one. I'm currently drinking a brew from my old ITG mug, featuring A3R now also at DCDR. My Irish mug has a 'twin' acquired during a work trip to Perth:

I'm just starting my Irish railway modelling journey so I anticipate a good few mistakes so please bear with me. How did I end up here, well not too many miles from me lives a certain Andy Cundick whose exploits with 4mm scale Irish modelling are well known here, given such influence I was bound to want to dip a toe in sooner or later. The other influence was from when I was growing up in the 1960,s, I had a copy of "The Observers Book of Railway Locomotives" and in there were some diesel locomotives which appeared to be painted SILVER! What a mad idea, only to be outdone in the 1980's by Network South East painting locomotives red WHITE & blue...now that was mad!. Anyway now I've got a replacement Observers book and it seems that edition was the first to feature the railways of the Irish republic. Now being English (albeit with Irish ancestry) and awkward my project is going to be built to 21mm gauge, now I must admit I don't mind building pointwork which is going to be done with code 70 rail and PCB sleepers, there should be appended to this message a photograph of my point plan set up with sleepers stuck in place ready to go! In more recent times I seem to have acquired a reputation for building layouts which don't feature many (or any) points, well my plan is to use two points so the layout might be classes as small as opposed to Micro and will be more charicature rather than prototype. Bear with me it might not be as bad as you fear. So I've got the cunning plan and rail and hope to make some progress over the forthcoming festive season, so best wishes to you all. Now let's see about inserting that photograph. John Bruce.

Thanks to Ian Sinclair, I have got my facts right (it has been corrected in the original post). The layout was previously known as "Dargle Road" and "Little Ditching" and was built by Ken Vernon, a North Down MRC member. The River Dargle rises in the Wicklow Mountains and flows into the Irish Sea at Bray.

Duly arrived in deepest Oxfordshire. Just waiting for the traumatic memories of my school commute to kick in…..great product btw!

High noon on the 24th, slow to load on the wrong side of the Irish Sea, but does eventually. John Bruce.

Trailer looks more aerodynamic now.

I agree with all of you - beautiful models - all credit to Mr Sankey's remarkable skills built up over a lifetime of such work. Thanks for the name suggestions - apart from the culinary suggestions from the officer in the Cookery Corps. I like Cabra (Midland), and Clonliffe from Our Man in the Achill Islands. Still open to ideas.

That is really delicate work Paul and as far as I can see, you're making a great job of it, modifications included. The soldering looks fine to me! Good luck with the rest of the build. I'll watch this one with interest.

I am looking forward to seeing what develops here, I do like my dioramas/micro layouts! John Bruce.

What a wonderful display for these great models. Cheers Darius

A little more detail emerging this morning than what was in the original RTE article above. It appears that residents who took a legal challenge to the multibillion MetroLink rail project are set to accept an offer from Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to buy their homes on Dartmouth Square. There's more detail on the agreement in this Irish Times article: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/12/23/tii-to-buy-dartmouth-square-objectors-houses-as-challenge-to-metrolink-is-dropped-2/

Fabulous and unusual. Your subtle finishing really works well

Ballyrina, Killyconcarne, or Ballyshawbhaegan!?

More epalettes and braid, please!

Unusual, to say the least, but all the more interesting! Fair bet that nobody is going to do an rtr version any time soon as well - though these days, who knows? Either way, another fine model. As for time off over Christmas, having hosted the family diaspora last week, it tends to be fairly quiet and having just seen the dismal range of stuff that the media has to offer am hoping Santa fulfils my usual wishlist of things to read, things to drink and things to make. Have a good one everybody.

*Collection preferred* €160 ono Jouef Train Set. Made in Ireland 1977-1981 or thereabouts. No HDI track. Loco and Transformer working. Video below Transformer was taken apart at some time, perhaps to solder something? Barrier on Unicopa Wagon is broken but break not visible. One buffer missing from each end of loco TWO curves and ONE straight with some surface rust. Can be cleaned with steel wool. Some slight tears etc. to box as shown. VID_20251222_003745.mp4

Thank you

I experienced similar issues accessing both this newsgroup and in accceesing the Accurascale website during the past week, otherwise no problems with internet access here in New Zealand or internationally.

Tried just before 2300h and it was painfully slow. Again now at 0230h, so slow that some icons etc don’t even load.

Contact Silver Fox and ask them directly. They had stopped doing the DVT’s last I heard, and were experimenting with new materials. With Murphy Models’ Mk3’s likely in the near future, including Suburban variants, and no DVT, it may be the right time for Silver Fox to run a batch of then.

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.'