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They definitely made it to Kildare and possibly Portarlington to reverse, having brought passengers down from Belfast for the Irish Derby. At least one pic of them at the Curragh in the Irish Railway Rambler book springs to mind.

Not entirely because the cab side window frame on 112 was replaced with an IE one while she was on loan to them in the 2000's I believe. I've decided that the tiny details like this and lights and running numbers will probably never be 100% prototypical on my railway. Swapping the bodies of 112 and 8113 would at least give a closer to prototype mid 90's 112. I hadn't thought of doing that but I might now.

Same here.

The announcement yesterday was very slick by the way. You guys had all your ducks lined up beautifully and everything going live in quick succession was like a Swiss watch. I still can't quite believe such coaches are going to be released RTR. The joint AS/IRM release was also very clever as a way to expose more GB modellers to "our little railway" and its quirks.

Some day I'm sure lol!

You can say that again:

Will we be getting a "leader board" like for the A classes or will they just sell out without warning?

Looking at the underside of the bogies I'm wondering will the brake blocks sit behind the wheels where the wheels are pushed out to 21mm? Or is there a magic IRM solution for that in the works?

No. The GM's couldn't do Push Pull. The DVT was used as regular coaching stock with the withdrawal of the Hunslets from Enterprise duties.

Did NIR ever lend a set of these to CIE/IR/IE? I believe they were lent on occasional bank holiday weekends where there was a bank holiday in the south but maybe not in the north but were they ever lent for longer periods?

Woah, hang on a sec....you guys slipped a ex FK mk2c into the NIR set! I completely missed it in all the excitement. https://irishrailwaymodels.com/collections/mark-2-coaches/products/nir-mk2b-pack-corporate-intercity-1 Now that means we can almost certainly expect RTR versions of IR 4103, 4104, 4105, 4106 and 4107. 4109 was the only standard based on the mk2b so that should also be doable. Very excited for the future, even more than I was!

Did they ever run all 9 of the planned bumble bee coaches together?

We demand Hunslets!! lol

Well you have to have something to re-release. I doubt it was forgotten. I'm sure it was a conscious decision

Yeah I didn't see that coming at all. Fair play, they look beautiful already. The Hornby chaps were clearly impressed. Obviously there's some common tooling between BR and NIR versions but the decision to press ahead with the "oddball" NIR variants is brave and I hope will be rewarded. With this announcement I can't help but feel an 80 Class isn't too many years away.....

Park Royals make the most sense to me given the hints about coaching stock and the fact they ran with A's their whole (long) lives.

*Bicycle pump not included

My money is on a DCC ready Lartigue Monorail starter set, complete with matching calves.

What happened to the roof at Broadstone?

Derby day with trains at the Curragh: http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000731468/HierarchyTree

Sad state of affairs. I ate a nice cooked dinner on the train (The Berliner, running from Hamburg to Prague, operated by CD) down to Dresden yesterday. There's nothing quite so civilised as eating a proper meal on the train, cooked in the galley. Edit: a loco hauled train too!

Is there a queue, as in will older pre-orders be shipped first?

That's awesome with the stay alive. Didn't think it would go anywhere near that far.

Looks like the same loco indeed. I wonder has anyone here also bought it? If they have they may well be able to provide useful information to help track down the money.

I believe he has or had possession of the loco and took those pictures of it. The images aren't downloaded from the internet and in fact you can see the resin printer and wash station he was trying to sell on adverts.ie before swiftly withdrawing the ad when asked where the loco is.