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Great news on DAPOL'S O GAUGE CLASS 66! I honestly thought that this was going to fall through, but it looks like they're going to make it work: https://railsofsheffield.com/blogs/news/dapol-o-gauge-class-66-major-project-update From the Rails of Sheffield website: Dapol have provided a major update for their highly anticipated Class 66 in O Gauge! Significant progress has now been made, with the arrival of a working engineering sample. The final models are now expected Q4 2025. Read on for more... Update from Dapol "As you may be aware from our last update (02/2023) Dapol's new design team members had taken over this project and set to work making corrections. They and Dapol as a whole has expended a huge amount of time and resources to make this model as good as it possibly can be. We have got to the stage where we now have a second re-tooled and re-engineered prototype. there are a few minor issues left to sort out but on the whole we are very pleased with it. Unfortunately, we have recently had communication from the factory that we have chosen to partner us in this project that they require a significantly higher price per unit (40% higher) to complete the project. At this stage, after we have invested hundreds of thousands of pounds in the tooling and have bent over backwards to get the project back on track to say we are disappointed is a huge understatement. To all of us at Dapol, this type of behavior is unacceptable and we have made the painful decision to move the tooling to one of our other factories, whom have agreed to take on the project with some new timescales for completion. The new factory has produced our incredibly popular OO gauge Hawthorn Leslie and O gauge GWR Railcars, 3MT and J94/Austerity, so we know their quality standards and attention to detail is superb and are confident they will make an exemplary job of the Class 66. Unfortunately, as part of the hand over we have had to accept a higher price per unit for the model. Normally Dapol would look to absorb these extra costs but due to the delays we have experienced and post COVID, inflationary pressures in the Far East, these costs are too much for us to bear alone and we will have to pass some of these on to the modeller."

I'd posit that the three main reasons there are wars which require things to be blown up are: 1. Religion. 2. Scarcity of Resources. 3. Mental Ill-health. I'm sure there are other excuses / reasons, but those three cover the majority.

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I'm saying nothin'!

I'm sure that Marks' will have them in stock when they arrive.

Yup, that's why I think there has to be one soon. Although the "due in the next 4 weeks" bit was ambiguously worded enough to be non-committal. Probably not on a Sunday, though.

There must be some sort of update due on these soon enough. Gonna go out on a limb and say Q1 or Q2 delivery?

Ah, live-steam / steam-generator / live-steam-generator, all the same to me, specially from the perspective of running them indoors. Circling back, if you had a few hundred quid, instead of a W1, you could probably set up a nice T-Gauge layout with a classic HST: https://www.tgauge.com/product/109/br-hst-inter-city-125 Lots of other T Gauge stuff listed, but that'd be the one to capture my attention the most.

More posts on class nicknames from the "Bargain Watch" thread:

Hornby Class 66, 21 pin DCC-ready, for £70, from Rails of Sheffield, in that attractive Climate Hero livery: https://railsofsheffield.com/products/hornby-r30222-class-66-db-cargo-co-co-66004-climate-hero-web-exclusive-diesel-locomotive For Irish buyers, I believe the VAT should be automatically deducted at the checkout, then payable to An Post on arrival.

The price seemed a little high but I'm not up to speed on live-steam. My fear would be the condensation. Surely most people will be running them indoors, so whatever it burns for smoke, water based, oil based, whatever, is going to coat the track area?

How do the Brekina TK's stack up side by side with EFE's?

@Darius43 lives in a parallel universe where time moves seven times faster. Resultingly, a week for him is just a day for us. He drops into our universe from time to time, just to laugh at our slowness.

Nice 1:76 Dublin Bus Bombardier KD for €345, sadly about €100 out of my price range: https://www.ebay.es/itm/156379051093

Oh wow, you smashed up everything in that tantrum, not just the coaching stock, only a bus left in tact!

Just for @LNERW1... A Hornby LNER W1! https://railsofsheffield.com/products/hornby-r30352ss-w1-class-4-6-4-lner-hush-hush-no-10000-with-steam-generator-steam-locomotive

It's the final countdown! Uh, phrasing? So, anyway, speculating... First O Gauge loco from IRM, something small like a shunter? N Gauge A Class and Container Flats? Hybrid wagon like the tank body from the current batch of Fuel Oil Tanks on Ballast / Bubble chassis, tweaked to allow for 21mm conversion? Gonna say they've hit the brakes on the brake vans until there's a consensus on Irish or UK buffer spacing for loose-coupled stock.

LOL, Google Chrome! Get with the times, Firefox and DuckDuckGo is where to be.

Sent him an email a week ago but no reply so far. Hope it isn't some "Only Facebook" nonsense. He's a member here but hasn't logged in for a long time. Username inmy previous post.

And a few posts on UK loco nicknames here:

Few bits to watch this week: Murphy Models 071 Class no. 077 in IE livery with a LokSound V4 for €378: https://www.ebay.es/itm/395619124743 I have a couple of non-sound ones for sale myself here: https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/13903-for-sale-murphy-models-071s Lima 201 Class no. 201 "River Shannon" for €89: https://www.ebay.es/itm/266965062156 3 x Lima IR livery Mk2D coaches for €32: https://www.ebay.es/itm/126641948557 Corgi OM40315 Wright Eclipse Fusion bendy bus in Dublin Bud blue and yellow for €36: https://www.ebay.es/itm/116303786371 Happy spending!

As per @leslie10646's post in the "eBay Watch" thread, who'd be interested in a re-run of his Provincial Wagons GN Bagged Cement Van with a new running number? One of the original run for sale on eBay at the moment for €29,50: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/235711470243 Put me down for a few handfuls, too, @leslie10646!

And what an odd nickname. Also heard them called teaspoons or teacups or something.

Rails of Sheffield are offering 5% off this weekend using the code BANK5 at the checkout. Some lovely O Gauge Class 26's going very cheap: https://railsofsheffield.com/collections/vendors?sort_by=price-ascending&filter.v.price.gte=0&filter.v.price.lte=892&filter.p.m.custom.Scale=O+Gauge&filter.p.m.custom.class=Class+26&filter.p.tag=Diesel+Locomotives&q=Heljan I'm lucky enough to have one from the last round of offers.