NIR

There's always dockleaves to fall back on, but watch out for the nettles.

Look carefully and you'll see the Laws of Physics are overloaded!

On 3/2/2020 at 4:12 PM, murrayec said:

I could be persuaded to run off a few bogie sides, a chassis plate and maybe a battery box.......

I would be interested too, looks very decent.

Now that *is* nuts

I'm sorry Noel but your 0.0001% assumes the virus is not going to spread any further when the reality is it is spreading faster and faster every day that passes. It is going to happen now, everywhere, and the death rate is higher than 3%

With any kind of bug the realistic objective is not to eliminate it but to slow it down and masks are effective in doing this, as are reducing social contact and avoiding international travel. If you don't feel like doing this for yourself then at least do it for the sake of others.

This invites the question: did the NIR or NIR ligature ever have a name?

0%, isn't that just the small numbers fallacy though.

At our local airshow back in the 80s you would get fighters on active duty with NATO turning up, those fellas didn't give a shit, fast and loud and low, over built up areas!

Peco bullhead looks good as an OO gauge proxy for proper Irish gauge in 4mm. I think their non-bullhead is OO gauge but at 3.5mm scale so the sleeper spacing is wrong, and it does look wrong.

I don't mind the MUs so much as the anaemic platform and bridge rebuilds, just so long as they leave a few wonky refuge sidings and loops here and there.

A 10.35am arrival in Cork sounds fine for transacting business, as they used to say - calling in at a government department, bank or professional firm then a trip around the department stores.

I wasn't going to bother with fertilisers but I'm glad I did, a nice addition to my two containers and three bubbles, and quite enough to be running on a 4' layout!

21 hours ago, Mayner said:

The 6 wheeler is an ex-GNR Diagram 47 Ballast Wagon.

Looks like something in Parting Shot pages 83 and 84. Portadown 1968, spoked wheels, wooden solebar/headstock, grey... but dropside like the second drawing. Number 8067.

Pack A out of stock already. Some nice age related variation in the remaining packs including a 48 tonner, strengthened to carry peat briquettes I think.

Maybe experiment with it in the foreground for forced perspective when taking photos? A sort of bystanders view.

Limerick to Clones via nowhere in particular...

That looks good, an interesting building too.

Happened once or twice that I noticed, including one setting back, but I doubt it's dangerous in itself, just inconvenient. Variable stopping patterns must be a real pain to drive.

5 plank, interesting... I thought they were 4 plank, or were they built (or rebuilt) as 4 plank?

The Cambrian C58 kit comes very close with a 5 plank body 70mm long, 32mm wide and 14mm high on a wooden solebar/drawbar.

The wheelbase is 36mm but looks extendable to 40mm as the solebar and W irons come on two different layers. The end stanchions can be trimmed to a taper with some cutters and 1mm x 1mm brass L section used to make the stanchions either side of the door. The two door springs can be formed from staples. With sides cut down to 2 plank the diagonal strapping stops just in the right place too.

No Warnincks Advocaat?

Appreciate the card, Merry Christmas everyone.

There were also Pandoro containers* from the P&O Irish Sea operation though I'm not sure they were ever rail-borne.

(* or were they just trailers?)

Depends what you mean by commuter. Liverpool and Manchester doesn't sound very commuter, Stockton and Darlington even less so, but London and Greenwich or London and Blackwall do and they're later.

3 hours ago, Warbonnet said:

One thing we forgot to include in the box is instructions on how to fit the bag of detail parts. Here is a handy guide if you want to fit the detail parts to your wagons! 

Just one question. The container protection device, was that fitted from new or was it a later addition? Wouldn't have been much use for the side opening CIE containers.