DJ Dangerous

It sometimes takes me weeks to find time to even unbox an RTR item, so kits wouldn't interest me at all. Maybe in thirty years time when I've already given up on life. Wouldn't that mean that the couplers on the new batch of Cravens would be at the wrong height relative to the current Cravens? As in, mixing the new batch with the old batch in the same rake would be difficult?

So the first ten years of the A have no compatible RTR coaching stock, even with a run of Cravens. Quite a dilemma for a manufacturer, on which to produce. What's wrong with the height of them? My Cravens and locos couple together grand, with the OEM TLC's. I'd rather see some blue and cream ones and some blue ones added to the mix. €160 a pop plus postage!

So 048 is a winner!

So would Cravens be an easier coaching model for a manufacturer to produce, to fill the coaching stock void that exists for the A's and 121's, since there were so few varieties and they covered a long period?

Brilliant question... If anybody could give a withdrawl date or stopped date for the upcoming models of the A's (and 121's), that would be wonderful! I'm logged in, and can click like for most posts, just not for BosKonay's.

Ha! But they did about ten years ago, because I saw people like his posts way back then... That's a long time on the naughty seat. A class twin-stripe / Tippex livery question. On looking through various photos online, it would appear that all three variations, the Super Train twin-stripe, the IR twin-stripe and the IR twin-stripe with day-glo panels, were running in the early nineties. Is this accurate? Did each of these liveries run on a batch basis or a by-loco basis?

Were there a lot more variants of the 1950's-built stock than there were variants of the Cravens? So the 1950's stock ran for about thirty years? And the Cravens thirty to forty years?

Thank you for the info! Why can't I click the like button on your posts?

Is there any chance, without being too pushy, of an announcement like we've received for the buses, the spoils etc, advising when each of the A's reaches a certain stock threshold?

"Real-X" do 1/72 Jap vehicles. Not exactly correct for 1/76 trains but close enough to not stick out.

With the Irish model railway market so small, it seems to be a feast or famine, either too much coaching stock sitting on shelves and no locos available to haul it, or lots of locos available and no passenger stock for them to haul. I recently cleared out most of Chris Dyer's Cravens, with the arrival of the A's and 121's impending. So, a question: What coaching stock would have been compatible with the largest number of both forthcoming models, ie what would have run the longest? I'm assuming that it was the Cravens? They ran from something like 1965 until 2006? So would go pretty well with a lot of the version of both locos. If so, is it likely that we will see somebody release more Cravens models over the next six or twelve months, to give these lovely locos something to haul?

Aw. We don't really do model shows down here, specially anything to do with trains... As we don't have any trains, no railway heritage, nothing... Except for that wierd one over in Gran Canaria in the seventies.

One has to be on FB to track these ones down?

If that's not true, or even highly probable, life has just lost all meaning.

That should keep some folk happy!

B121 is still available?

Ha!!!

Was the Olympian also painted in City Swift livery, and a City Imp style livery?

Ha! Awesome!

Absolutely outstanding, thank you!!!

I wasn't even a twinkle in anybody's eye back then, but those Panorama's are gorgeous. Any excuse to have one!

The Plaxton Panorama, sorry!

Thanks! Wow, that CIE one is lovely! When did they run from and until?

Still in stock in Cork. If you drop them a message, I'm sure they'll move them to the online store for you. Even still, if you don't get the loco, and the RPSI (hopefully) have another coach release at some stage, then there'll be nothing available to haul them!

I doubt that the RPSI could afford to release a loco and coaches at the same time. Marks Models may still have the RPSI Mk2 sets in stock.