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I wonder would the spoil bodies make good barytes bodies? I also have no immediate use for mine. Though the barytes wagons themselves would probably be viable RTR candidates at some stage as they themselves were used as spoil wagons (mostly/only?) on weekends when there was no barytes traffic.

Yeah it ended at that price. Kind of weird as there are two other ones on eBay at £275 buy it now. They are always there too.

Not that picture DJ but same railtour. I had sort of written any C Class off for my mid 90's era but now I'm wondering did they come back down in their new colours much at all? I wonder was this 1991 tour a once off.

On page 40 if the ITG Traction & Travel book (third edition) there is a picture of 104 visiting Athlone with a railtour in 1991. Does anyone have any links or book references to further images of visits of this class south of the border?

Too rich for my blood at those prices (at least the ones I need are heading towards a hundred each) but if anyone wants to sell any of the following for €50 a coach or so plus postage feel free to contact me (I'll list the coach numbers + livery because the Bachmann numbering on these was cryptic): -4101, 4108 in IR livery -4108 in IE livery I have managed to secure the other 5 of these produced thanks to some gentlemen members of this very forum I have a spare 4110 in IE livery which I would be willing to swap for one of my missing ones. I'm in Germany but the coach is in Dublin and can be posted within Ireland or the UK if a swap comes along

Nice one and well done to Aidan. I'm sure he'll be blown away by his prizes. I'd love to get in to the works myself! Have to make to with the Deutsche Bahn works open days around here but sure there's no EMD diesel to see in those!! This hobby is tactile and will survive and thrive. IRM have brought it into the 21st century with its web presence and the world is your marketplace. Well done all!

One of the few genuine black Friday deals I've found today I have to say. No fake price increases here.

Sales going well on these spoils it seems! My IRM emails from sales@irishrailwaymodels.com always end up in my Gmail "promotions" folder no matter how often I move them or star them. I've added the email address as a contact now in the hope these mails land in my inbox in future.

Were there other quarries from where ballast was sourced or just Lisduff and Lecarrow?

Can't say fairer than that. Sold! Works out at just 30 quid a wagon Inc VAT. Much appreciated way for me to boost my container flat fleet. A quick repaint of the bogies and they're back in the 90's!

Yeah I found it strange to imagine that they would have been sure that they'd need ballast every week. Still if anyone has any more details about other timetabled workings elsewhere or in other years I'd love to hear about them. Or about this working. Interestingly the timetable entry is "real". That is it's not a "path" in the WT which they could easily have made it (like the best trains were). Possibly just an oversight? Maybe it did always run but sometimes only took a small quantity?

Looking at my 1992 WT it strikes me that I can only find a single pair of explicitly timetabled ballast workings. One empty train departed Athlone 07.25, arrived Portarlington 08.29, departed Portarlington 08.41, arrived Lisduff (quarry) at 09.35. The return laden working departing 11.15 and arriving in Athlone at 13.55. Is this the only timetabled working of a ballast train or have I just missed others? Why was this particular working timetabled? Did it always run? Was the train unloaded in Athlone or just stabled there for use elsewhere on the network? Cheers!

What did I miss?? I've been flat out.

There's nothing wrong with fair criticism either. Like if the models were poor runners or whatever then you could rightly complain loudly after handing over almost 200 quid for one but these little cosmetic details across a fleet of locos that were virtually all unique in some way due to the various modifications that took place would simply make almost any model economically nonviable if you were to be overly strict about being prototypical. You can have a wide variety of running numbers and liveries with little details that don't reflect the prototype OR you can have one or two liveries and running numbers that are exactly right. I know what I'll take.

How much did you pay for the body only if you don't mind me asking?

Beautiful looking models. Do people really think the big RTR players don't have to make compromises on details to make a model viable in the different variants? I'll take the IR model with the wrong marker lamps and silver headlight enclosure rather than no IR models at all!

Danke dir Walter

Little bit of early 2000's action with sound recently added on the test oval.

Is this MM0171 or something else?

Ah I see. Well that explains that. Luckily I'm not looking for that one! Anybody got any explanation for 143 and 187 or have I just been a bit unlucky and they're not rarer than the others?

Yeah but is it not in IR livery in Downpatrick?

Any particular reason for that?

Which of the baby GMs are the rarest? I'm missing two of the tippex ones (only era I'm interested in really), 143 and 187. Are these any rarer than the other seven tippex babies?

Can't say that without thinking of Ferrero Rocher lol. Fran as the Ambassador of course!

lol! Very good FL. Cheers Fran, I was thinking it might be something like that.