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Yes the joys of Saturday post. My couple of packs of Gypsums arrived today - despite being posted a day after my ballasts order - which appear to be loitering in the Dublin Sorting office for the moment. On the plus side - no commercial invoice - so wifey thinks its her christmas present arriving when she saw my name on it.........why can't life always work like this ......

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

typical - the boss decides to force feed me 3 episodes of the Crown and trains appear on the toy show for the first time in yonks........... Brilliant for the hobby here.

Great Deal Not my era - but a great opportunity for those to build up their fleets with these multi purpose wagons. Indeed ....................Im looking forward to at least 45% off the A Class next year

B125 with a cement load making its way gingerly thru the Bagnalstown Yard ahead of major construction works - the 121 is such a smooth runner...

Its looks even better in real life!....magnificent job!

Great - I'm missing one of the front window bars off my no 121.....only noticed it yesterday ....i suspect it happened during packing/unpacking......would that be available at some stage?

Hi Alan All serious model Railway stores sell Peco track and accessories - its pretty much the go-to RTR track. Marks Models carry a good range and will order anything else for you. You can also go to the UK Stores online - the likes of Hattons.Rails, The Model Centre etc etc - they are loads of them - prices don't vary too widely...............you can also go on ebay for a wider variety of new and used Peco track.... sometimes at great prices I'd say the first thing you should do is decide what are you are going to do, what scale etc, etc..............AnyRail is a great little programme to download to allow you do up a plan and try out the various guages and manufacturers ranges http://www.anyrail.com Also - at the moment - bear in mind - with the Pandemic there has been a massive increase in interest in rail modelling and the fact that Peco themselves converted their factory to PPE manufacturing for a spell this year - has meant that supplies of Peco track have run down everywhere which Peco are working day and night to replenish and orders are starting to trickle back into most retailers..........Also - if you are living in an EU country - bear in mind there is uncertainty over what Brexit is going to do - especially in the short term. Tullow Station eh?............so we are talking the pre 1960s with lots of older rolling stock and hundreds of cattle wagons!............that would be fab - best of luck with it. Ed

Feckin Brexit On the other hand - it might be a good time to open a model supplies shop here in Ireland for all the those with the new interest in the hobby - depending how much of a pain in the ar%e customs decide to be.............tho it looks like the current UK gov look like they want to make it as awkward as possible...................unless its all a bluff!

Id say you are talking 1964-65. While passenger services were halted in 63 - I believe some fella on here who has lots of records from this era mentioned a GAA special or two ran over the line in 64 as the main Waterford - Dublin line was overloaded - so the line must still have been extant at this stage - I'm not sure when the line from the Barrow bridge to Macmine Junction was lifted ...late 64/65?. The Signal box was demolished in 66 and yard reorganised into the configuration it has slept in since - so logic would dictate 64/65 for the picture.

The latest I've sealed and painted all the baseboards ( grey primer and green over that...why green?...it was sitting in a can in the shed...free!)...and they are now secured - but easily taken down to be worked on The book shelves area is the same - tho I've started the process of reinforcing the cut out areas - will be doing more aswell as disguising the entrances - when all the structural work is done, Im thinking of making different bridge facades for each one..just a though for the moment.. Other than that Im just waiting for Peco to restock their customers - who knew code 75 track was more in demand than the latest playstation

No bother Fran......if u don't ask and all that!

Quick question fellas Would it be possible to get 2 packs of ballast wagons and 2 packs of gypsum wagons...and a bundle rate?

Holy Moley ! Time to have a conversation with Santa about some hire purchase deal...!

Brilliant David - just fantastic

Evening all A bit of a yellow "salute" in honour of the 5 year anniversary - hopefully pulled next year by an A class or 3...... About this time 3 years ago I was not in a good place mentally - working crazy hours and days , stressed to the last...essentially on a TGV to total burnout and meltdown....one evening I was halfway thru my near daily half bottle of gin and i saw something on the TV about model railways and it lit a fire..next day...i borrowed a unused set off one of my relations and just the simple act of setting up an oval and watching a GWR engine and 2 carriages whizzing around was so calming and distracting for me and was the start of a journey back from the brink.....I then started looking around for Irish stuff and I found this place.....and ye have been stuck with me ever since! Thanks again Ed 20201017_211315.mp4

Congratulations Guys - 5 years is a serious achievement. Hopefully many more to come aswell.

I couldn't recommend them more Jason - The MM 121's are the business. Once you get them out of the box ( the most dangerous part!) - they just run and run.............even over this ancient warping Jouef track thats been sitting in dust in an attic for the guts of 30 years and probably never seen a track cleaner...........no bother to them.

Thanks GM ....the track is Jouef H0 interspersed with hornby code 100 - its the very slight difference in height that gives the very satisfying /very irish pre mid 90's clikiddy clack......totally unintentional - but does raise an interesting dilemma ...

Did a final running session with those great 121s running on over 90% irish made track (Jouef made in Shannon over 30 years ago) - borrowed off my father in law while I wait for my Peco order to arrive. Well the baseboard configuration is pretty much complete - now i will take it all apart to sand, varnish and paint the modules , reinforce the shelves and get it all secured back into place again......I'll post again when all that is done and there is real progress on the layout. 20201010_204948.mp4

They'll be here when they are ready - just hope ye didn't get too burned financially lads....... Look on the bright side - after this experience - "C" class will be a walk in the park

September isn't over yet................and Fran mentioned something about an A Class update early in the coming week..............

Wow - its a small world alright Thats looks great Fergal - then again all you have to do is look out your window for inspiration! The Station is coming along great - you are miles further along than meself. Fair play - Good to know Sheas is back open again - hopefully with the minimum of plastic - I was talking to Niamh a couple of weeks ago and she wasn't sure if they were going to open or not. Keep the pictures coming of your progress when you can - the viaduct looks great Stay safe Ed

Im going to pass this time - I think i've enough 42s in the liner bundle, fert bundle , spoils and weedspray ! Id say they'll sell out in short order anyway. The rest of this years budget will be going on infrastructure....tho that green lined A class is calling to me everytime I see it for months now...I might have to do something about that

Thank you Paddy I missed out on the 141/181s so you can guess how the 121s are going down with me Anyway a totally chronologically garbled line up from me attached....but I love it! 20200918_223056.mp4