WRENNEIRE

Lima ( Lavarazione Italia Metalli ed Affini) was founded to produce toy cars & boats etc in 1949. in 1958 they moved into producing toy trains which were manufactured in HO Scale. They made their first N Gauge models in 1966, there were Italian outline (surprise surprise) and they were available in the UK. Lines Brothers, who owned Tri Ang did a deal with Lima in 1967 whereby they used one of their subsidiaries, G&R Wrenn, to sell the Lima products and they then allowed Lima to produce their Big Big Train under license. Because of the success of their N Gauge models Lima decided in 1973 to enter the British market because there was only one main supplier at the time. Unfortunately for them they entered with HO scale models and as they were smaller than their OO Gauge counterparts they did not do as well as expected. They slowly started to replace their HO models with OO models and by 1977 they had completely replaced the HO ones. In 1977 Wrenn withdrew from their agreement with Lima and it is around this time that Lexie Keady and John Byrne were introduced to the Lima people because of their friendship with the Wrenn brothers. So starting with HO and moving onto N & OO we can see where we were before the current Murphy Models catalogue was produced and get down on our hands and knees to thank the man for saving us from these models. First Irish set produced Lima HO Supertrain Set 5516T

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Its half of Gauge 1, but fits in between O gauge & 00 gauge Theres a chap in Hollywood in the County Down, Des Brown, who is a big exponent of S Gauge and occasionally brings small displays of it to shows in the 6 counties

NO!

Gay Byrne drove the last Howth Tram.....

Kent, 4th April 1988 Mark Lawrenson & Mark Hughes?

But not for the guy in the dodgy Kangol hat that played during the interval............

Not exactly Broadstone Shem but a classis I think Machine wagon with 2 covered Generators and front wagon with 2 searchlights? Answers on a postcard...........

I think it was nearly all over by then Paul!

What time does the Donegal game start at?

Would this have been Broadstone as well?

Check this out Paul http://www.anyrail.com/index_en.html

Just updated some of the Catalogue information on page 18 I picked up a 1981/82 catalogue with insert and also the 1978/79 insert

Bid of €160 on it at the moment! Thanks for the info troops

Saw this item in a catalogue last night Described as a cast iron railway plaque. Writing states: This load must be either quite full or empty when travelling on the Irish Railway System, Mc Mullen Bros Ltd. Any ideas what this is all about?

Love to see the H&S lads get their paws on these 2 guys! Pic was taken a few weeks before Broadstone shed closed down in April '61

Good call Eoin, interested in seeing how good this is

In fairness Paul, I think it was marketed wrongly Seller had it listed as in original box but it was not "Irish" Hymek is R768 and the BR version is R758 The CIE one was not produced during the Tri Ang Hornby era also.

Lord, paid way over the odds for this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OO-GAUGE-TRIANG-HORNBY-HYMEK-LOCO-IRISH-LIVERY-/300935045114?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item4611205ffa

Just to let you know that there are a few more bargains out there http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRASS-KITBUILT-00-GAUGE-DECAPOD-0-10-0T-GREAT-EASTERN-LINED-GREY-LOCO-No-20-/130953947810?pt=UK_Trains_Railway_Models&hash=item1e7d76aaa2

Some pics to compare the coaches MM/Bachmann ones on the left, Marks on the right Strangly enough both coaches pictured here have the same running number 2096 Roof detail, Marks on the bottom Both coaches are the same length and height Corridor and non corridor (Marks) Opposite sides Close up of Marks And opposite side Bachmann one picked up in 01 at £19.99 punts, generally go for around the €50 mark So at €29.99 this is great value One small crib, plastic wheels, but it should be easy enough to replace them with steel ones.

Just taken this off my Dear Santa list

Lovely stuff Norris Davidson, the narrator, best Dublin accent in the world! Sounds like he wants to go home for his dinner!

Think they were advertised here some weeks ago http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/2202-Locos-for-sale

Couple of broken down wheelchairs!