DJ Dangerous

On 16/2/2024 at 12:23 PM, Warbonnet said:

Hi everyone,

We have done up a wee formation guide on these to give you some idea on traction and set up!

Cheers!

Fran 

Have I missed an announcement somewhere?

10 minutes ago, GSWR 90 said:

If they do release an 80 class, and if they do a DCDR version, I hope it’ll be 69+749 rather than 90+752. It’d be hard to get the graffiti on 90 and the rust on 752 exactly right.

Well, you say that...

17 minutes ago, DERAILED said:

Sorry, who are you some sort trainspotter who thinks he should be on the stage?

I'll explain what I mean, It's quite simple really. Back in the 1980s, CIE/IE got passengers from A to B in a good deal more comfort than they do today and in the process, tried to break even. They failed to do so then and there's no sign that by making rail travel an endurance test rather than a pleasure, they are any nearer to breaking even. I'll put your patronising bad manners down to the fact that you're probably not old enough to remember the 1980s yourself. As an aside, do you ever take the train or are you one of the camera swinging brigade that swan around the country in their car taking photographs . I suspect if you were a regular rail user you might have stronger views on the range of facilities available.

Just one clarification.

Much as I love 80's and 90's models, the real life prototypes were anything but comfortable.

And the food was crap.

And they smelled wierd.

You're right, though, that @JasonB fellow is an impudent little toad, these kids today don't know anything, with their rap music and their Tik-Tok videos.

So, I have a question...

When, not if, but when, IRM release an 80:

A. Will there be a limited edition DCDR version?

And:

B. Will it be an authentic representation of the one in the video?

39 minutes ago, Broithe said:

Nostalgia used to be a lot better years ago. 

I don't think there's much point in it now.

Brrrrrrringgggg.

"Hello?"

Oscar Wilde called, he wants his sarcasm back.

As @minister_for_hardship, @Galteemore and @JasonB have all said, it's about the numbers.

You can't take just one piece of 1984, slot it into today and expect it to behave the same.

I posted this in the other thread on the same topic, basically agreeing with the lads above, but with two threads on the same thing, the topic can become muddy:

On 1/3/2024 at 2:49 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

Have you any cost/benefit figures on catering services?

Initial start-up cost, operating costs, cost of infrastructure required on trains and at stations, insurance costs, licencing costs, plus the occasional lawsuit when some Negative Numpty says that they got food poisoning?

Vs. Increased income to cover the costs and turn a profit?

 

 

26 minutes ago, DERAILED said:

It's not 1984 anymore - what does this even mean? In a great many ways the railway has gone backwards since 1984 something as basic as catering cannot even be provided anymore, neither can parcels be carried, stations be manned or passengers be protected from assorted types of pond-life...Yes, it's not 1984 anymore.

I think @JasonB means that the world has changed in the past 40 years. Progression in some areas and regression in some areas.

This particular thread is about progress. Almost nobody cares about catering on the trains, people just want to get around quickly.

Wages and prices are in an ever-increasing spiral, and in order to keep up, everything else needs to be stripped back.

If we go back forty years, to the days of catering on trains, Ireland was broke, nobody had anything, nobody could afford anything, the trains were lovely to look at but crap to travel on, it was a different world.

Adding things like catering back in would literally be throwing money away for nothing.

Just devine.

These 1:18 trucks are something else!

Scaniaaaaaaaa!!!!!

23 hours ago, Irishswissernie said:

I am resisting the temptation to buy a Terrier! The Rails write up about the history of the class with regard to the Great Western Railway is a load of 'bullshxt' . The locos were an LBSC design most of which were sold off to industry , small minor railways and in WW1 some were used by the Government.  The Southern Railway inherited the residue. Only 2 ended up on Great Western Railway taken over from the Weston Cleveland and Portishead Railway. They would have been hard stretched to have been seen across the Great Western Railway ,network. One was scrapped in 1948 and the other in 1954.

Resistance is futile!

Thread-merge alert!

11 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

I once got contacted from Alan asking to do an article about my Bandon tank. It’s a shame I didn’t see the message until almost 12 months later! 
 

I’ve read some of the articles it’s fantastic stuff 

And then what?

The article was published in a later edition?

Or Alan said "Naaaaah, I've changed my mind, stuff your Bandon Tank"?

18 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:

Proving my point that the public are rather dense.

You win the internet for today!

Just take a look at what gets posted here on the forum!

Does anybody else on the forum have any of the HUO's?

2 hours ago, Noel said:

Catering needs a big upgrade, with hot meals on board once again. Especially for same day return trip folk, working in Cork or Dublin for the day before returning home. If IE don't up their service levels sadly more and more folk may defect to the faster motorways where there is hot decent food available.

Have you any cost/benefit figures on catering services?

Initial start-up cost, operating costs, cost of infrastructure required on trains and at stations, insurance costs, licencing costs, plus the occasional lawsuit when some Negative Numpty says that they got food poisoning?

Vs. Increased income to cover the costs and turn a profit?

2 hours ago, DoctorPan said:

That colour scheme is toxic in the eyes of the public! 

Boooooooooo!

Booooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Kontakt - Show Me A Sign:

While @jhb171achill is listening to:

11 hours ago, Rob R said:

Hattons had 150 of them in stock at the start of their closing down sale.

Now we know where they went......

I wonder what else went that same route!

9 hours ago, DERAILED said:

Wouldn't it be nice if IE gave the Mk IV's a bold new, serviceable livery too - something simple like, or identical to, that used by Belmond? Incidentally, no word when they are going to upgrade 1st class on the Rosslare line?

How about a bold, new, serviceable livery, that's also been tried and tested?

Like, all-over orange with a black band and twin white stripes!

Thanks for sharing, @Rob!

Your poor performance at East Wall is partially forgiven.

Holy crap, they look gorgeous!

It's great to read positive things like this, instead of the usual IE-bashing.

Keep it up, IE, you're all we have.

EDIT:

Hmmmmmm, now that I scrutinise the seat-cover design more intensely, is it just me, or does it look like every single seat is occupied by a girl in a dark swimsuit and swimming cap?

On 8/2/2024 at 11:40 PM, DiveController said:

My 1981 book was on the missing list but was found near the re-numbering queue.....

So I was second guessing myself that possibly the 'kitchen' end of the Grill, the BDTSs or DBFO 813 might have had B5 bogies but the three generator van were the only ones to have B5s at the genny end 

What's the difference between a B4 and a B5?

Should the generator vans have one B4 and one B5?

One for my fellow O Gauge buddies; Rails of Sheffiels have Dapol Terriers going dirt cheap:

https://railsofsheffield.com/products/dapol-7s-010-015-terrier-a1x-plain-black

On 27/2/2024 at 9:04 PM, jhb171achill said:

A dog barking

So some DMX you mean?

Nice!

@Broithe's fault that this is stuck in my head:

Raven Maize - The Real Life.

8 hours ago, leslie10646 said:

So, I should have them with me at the Show in March if they aren't all bought in advance.

There, fixed it for you!

5 hours ago, derek said:

Noel, any chance of a clearer look at the class 37 in the first photo? Just peeping in at the right hand side. I wonder if it is the same Hornby model I got in the late 70s? Thanks.......

Always loads of 8H22's on eBay, dirt cheap:

https://www.ebay.es/itm/404814478647

1 minute ago, Westcorkrailway said:

One would assume that A: direct copy’s of others work would be frighteningly obvious and B: 3D printing still has many years to go before it could say, replicate a product even half faithfully would be quite hard. Let’s just say I don’t know if a 3D printed A class is around the corner

S##t, was hoping an O Gauge one WAS around the corner!

Although I have to disagree with you on the quality, the pics in the first post here are sublime.

Somebody, possibly @popeye, has posted pics of 3D stuff in their workbench thread, and it can produce exquisite results.

Opened up some of the grey HUO's today and got them on display. Cracking wagons, but I think that we REALLY need an Irish wagon to run on that 32mm track!

7 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Does that mean there might be a few counterfeit IRM "A" class models out there?

I believe that the topic of smuggling counterfeit A's has already been discussed elsewhere, and while trying not to be as rude and uncouth as I usually am, the smooth lines and rounded edges of the A would likely make them a favoured candidate over an 071 or a 141, when it comes to smuggling.