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Much appreciated

Can any truck experts say what year these models vehicles could plausibly have appeared? https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/volvo-fh-box-trailer-lucey-transport-vol01bx https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/scania-r420-curtainside-scania-tinnelly-transport-sca03cs https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/volvo-fh-curtainside-barline-vol01cs https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/scania-t-cab-curtainside-ian-hayes-76tcab009 https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/volvo-fh-recovery-truck-a1-marsdenvol03rec I suspect most if not all of them are too late for my planned 90s layout but no harm in asking.

Cheers. The Bell reefers aren't available at the moment, right @Arran ?

Lovely pics. Are the Bell reefers also from crail?

It's a real thing of beauty.

I'd take a new release of (modern era) 2600s over a rerun of babies any day I have to say, seeing as the multiple units came up Still in service today and been around since 1994 is it? Getting on for 30 years and what, 3 or 4 liveries? Nice overlap with the end of the A's.

Happy days

The last A was stopped in September 1995 so I'd say there's every chance they pulled IE branded mk2d's. Nobody will ever be able to say it definitely didn't happen which is my rule of thumb lol.

BosKonay's mere mention of "decade" just sent the price of used baby GMs on eBay through the €300 mark lol.

Would you not buy half a dozen rerun MM babies though? I know I'd buy any rerun IR/IE ones. I'm still missing two tippex babies but I've given up on getting them cos I'm not prepared to pay 250 for one. To my eye they still look the part next to a 121. They aren't some Lima pancake motor job in fairness. Mechanically as good as the 121s IMO too. If the babies were rerun they could even fix the lighting easily (soft white LEDs for the lights where required and independent control of the headlights, no tooling upgrades are required for those modifications but they would add a lot of value).

But MM is re-running the 201 this year. The 071s are a newer design than the 201s and the tooling and everything exists for them. If a rerun of 201s is viable then surely a rerun of the 071s will be too at some stage. I can't really see what major upgrades the 071s could get with new tooling. They are still of a recent design. The babies are a bit different but everyone just loves them. They wouldn't be left on the shelves if rerun.

Excellent. I'll surely take a few Bells and a UBC but does anyone know if the IFF and Den Hartogh ones ran in Ireland mid 90s at all?

Keep the faith kevo. If people keep returning to the hobby or moving over to Irish prototype, even those bubbles will see another run some day I'm sure.

Ah ok. I missed missed that!

There was an update just a few days ago from Fran. They are in production as we speak

No lamps on the rear of freight trains here in Germany either, just two (nowadays reflective) red and white markers on the last wagon. As long as the signalman can see them to know the whole train made it through the block that is enough I suppose. I presume all signal boxes have sufficient floodlighting to allow the signalman to see the end of train markers.

Little works of art they are.

I hope things turn around for you soon Edo. Surreal is right. The only good thing is, that the first thing most people will do when they can is start travelling again! We haven't been home in two and half years. We were booked to visit Easter last year but yeah, that never happened.

Never even knew it was there. Thanks for the tip. That does what I want

Yeah I use the latest posts feature and would much prefer to see latest updated threads there. I am missing a lot of stuff by not clicking into each forum and subforum. If possible in a future update I'd really welcome such a change.

Are these not a bauxite colour under that dirt? (1993)

I'm sure they'll come as people pick up on the map's existence.

Yeah the Eircode is too specific for stuff like this and should not be used for security reasons. Townland or suburb is grand in Ireland. Outside Ireland I've never heard of a postcode resolving to a unique address but I guess you will know this if you live somewhere where it does. Absolutely delighted to see so many opting in. It gives a great mental picture of the community.

Those are ground (shunt) signals. They are missing the actual semaphore discs, which were attached to the "spider arms" and were rotated through 45 degrees or so. A different manufacturer but similar idea (most such signals would have a red, rather than yellow bar however): http://www.railsigns.uk/photos/p_ie1/p_ie1.html#pic_iedy You can see the spectacle glasses are mostly missing (only the green one on the left still present) I'm sure somebody with encylopaedic knowledge of signals will be along to help with the details. I'm out of my depth with all that stuff.

I'll never understand it but I I guess somebody is happy to pay it and will get enjoyment out of owning it. A mint one must be worth an absolute fortune.