WRENNEIRE

What date is today?

Not a word Kieran, really playing this one close to his chest

Not sure Kieran I will make a few enquiries Anyone else have any info?

Back on page 39 of this thread I posted some pics of EFSI HO vehicles Came across this one during the week littletois, but with the same contents as the EFSI Model Anyone familiar with littletois?

PM sent George Phone not working?

Cheers Fran But I dont have a collection any more.....

Found this ad in a 1974 copy of Railway Modeller. Toyland had 4 shops in Dublin and 1 in Galway Cost of the mag was 23p How times have changed

Saw this today May be of interest to some here Basically they provide a UK address and you ship it there & collect at your local PO when it arrives Not too sure of postage costs, do you pay postage to the UK address & then again to have it shipped to your local PO or does one payment do it all? https://addresspal.anpost.ie/

Want me to bring the Metro Vic plate Eoin? I will need your first born as a deposit

Dart looks like it could have had a lot of mawla used in its construction as well

The games up Murray, new kid on the block http://www.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/scratch-built-00-gauge-irish-dart-train/10056154

Some more of Marks wagons (Without Grey chassis) Just thought I would stick that in first before I am attacked 8686 CIE Cattle Wagon 8989 Weathered version 9090 Plywood Ventilated Van 9191 Weathered Version A bit of promotional stuff 9292 Marks Models Salt Wagon

I was thinking Wrennlesseire George

PM sent Richard (Just click the Notifications tab at the top of the page) Welcome aboard

Hornby must have had a few spare hours on their hands Or as we say in Cabra: "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave".

The young people of today would not believe you, Weshty

"Martin" has another bargain on today These struggle to make €100 on a good day https://www.donedeal.ie/collectibles-for-sale/mk11-coaches-livery-/11740398

Mothers day Special today men. Marks Models threw their hat into the ring with a small run of "Irish Wagons" 8484 A CIE 5 plank wagon 8585 A CIE Ventilated Van 8787 Weathered version of the 5 plank wagon This shows the Marks Models reference number which I thought left a little to be desired 8888 Weathered version of the Vent Van

He also has another bargain for sale https://www.donedeal.ie/hobbies-for-sale/irish-rail-cravens-open-coach/11667656

Following in your footsteps Steve Couple of nice late issue Locos in the haul that I picked up from you

Some more Period 4 variations Coach inners were used when no plastic ones were available Cut in half and stapled together Yellow was the more common one White less common Older period 3 box's were labelled thus on the rear And for anyone interested these are some Coupling conversion sets, some different packaging as you would expect with this crowd. So 3 more variations, 30 Higgs alone!

Just a little aside to show how collecting can get a little out of hand This is a fairly ordinary wagon, W4635P Coal Wagon, Higgs London, in the first series or Period One box This wagon also came in Dark Grey & Light Grey When they came out first the wagons came with a set of Hornby Dublo couplings, but after about 18 months Wrenn decided to charge 1/6 for a set of couplings and they stuck a label on the back of the box to indicate this So now instead of only 3 wagons in the collection I have 6, 3 without labels and 3 with, see where this is going? Period 2 came next, this is when they merged with Tri Ang There were 5 different coloured wagons issued during this period, Dark Brown, Light Grey, Dark Grey, Green and Light Brown Another distinctive piece of their production was overlabelling existing box's with different labels as can be seen on the right hand side box So instead of collecting only 5 wagons I had to collect 10, 5 of each. Light Grey Dark Grey Green Light Brown Period 3 came next with only 2 wagons issued during this period, Grey & Green However another variant appeared during this period and that was a long boxed wagon, where the company ran out of the shorter box for these wagons and then used longer boxes for their utility wagons to box up wagons to fill an outstanding order Also the plastic inners that protect the wagons are now classified as WA1, the previous inners were plain/unclassified. So a normal Grey, And Green Overlabelling was also common during this period and labelling on one end only cropped up from time to time So 2 wagons now become 8 And finally Period 4 wagons where only 1 wagon was issued and they had dropped the P prefix from their previous issues, W4635. But as you can see there are 3 different coloured box's, so 1 becomes 3 So 27 Higgs wagons collected and I am sure there are a couple of varients I missed over the years

As some of you may know, and there was also a clue in my IRM handle, I have collected Wrenn Railway products for longer than I care to remember Recently I decided that the collection was surplus to requirements as my Irish collection seems to expand by the week After a lot of searching I found a trader in the UK who was willing to take the lot, I had had a few guys who wanted to cherrypick the nicer bits but this guy was willing to take all the railway stuff, Locos Coaches & wagons The collection of spare wagons were first to be packed away This came to 15 Banana box's worth, 1 box holds 76 normal sized boxes or 60 long boxed ones There are also 3 box's of Coaches in this lot, 38 coaches in a box Box of spare coach parts and box's Next were the locos. 174 of them on poor Granny Brackens best table Every box had to be cataloged with the contents and because of weight the locos were packed in with wagons to help distribute the weight. Lastly the collection itself was boxed away, and if I wasn't such a miserable auld bastard I might have shed a tear or two, some really hard to find and one off wagons that I had forgotten about. So before the clear out, (there is another press to the left) And after.. Granny Brackens dining room now looks like this 32 banana boxes and another one for some sets that would not fit in a banana box Patiently waiting for a man with a van to arrive and hand over a brown envelope

Feck Feck Feck........ D'fhéadfadh go mbeadh Diatrócaire ar a anam

Linfield Keep some Birthday Cake for Sunday!!!!!