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  1. murphaph
    The magnetic roof is really nice looking.
  2. murphaph
    I'd be amazed if there wasn't a long crossover period.
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    There's an article in the Observer today about the boom experienced this year by the UK model rail sector as people have been forced to stay at home and their attention has turned to that old childhood dream. Even the more established firms are facing big problems due to unprecedented demand coupled with manufacturing constraints.
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    I'm happy with the business model if it continues like the ballasts. Enough for one complete rake, more or less, per release, safe in the knowledge that next time there will be new running numbers. That'll do me.
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    If anyone doesn't believe how tricky it is to catch up once you miss the initial release, all you have to do is look on eBay for IRM stuff. You generally won't find any and if you do it'll likely go for 50% more than the RRP. I've been lucky in meeting (virtually at least) some really decent people (away from eBay) who aren't price gougers. Otherwise I'd still be scratching around looking for the first few items at highly inflated eBay rates. By the way I'm still looking for that elusive bubbles pack A if anyone is willing to part with one lol
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    It helps a lot as always I was missing the crucial aspect of the air being forced into the passenger space via the train's movement.
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    Gotta make hay while the sun shines George! Just don't tell the missus!!! As DJ said to me, sure they're an investment.
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    Can somebody explain what pressure ventilation means in this context. I tried googling but the term is not specific enough I reckon. How did it work in a railway context?
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    These aren't the worst wagons to have an issue on the NEM pocket heights luckily enough. They ran in fixed rakes more or less. You wouldn't be (prototypically anyway) shunting these things individually I would have thought. They were all going from point A to point B. Either unit train gypsums from Kingscourt to a cement factory or ballasts that were loaded together at one point and brought together to the works site. That's the case for me anyway. I'll modify the end wagons in the rakes a la Noel's Kadee fix and use fixed couplings on the intermediates, using the NEM pockets as they are. For me at least there will be no need to modify all the wagons. I had ordered the IE bundle, all the IR wagons individually (as I have the IR ploughs) and the ore bundle but then I realised I need two ore bundles, one for the laden and one for the empty return workings to Kingscourt! Don't forget your empty workings lol. Another ore bundle ordered so!
  10. murphaph
    Great stuff and fair prices. The effective 75 for the ploughs in the bundle is particularly fair. I wasn't originally going to buy the IE ploughs as I have the IR ones but at that price it would be rude not to lol.
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    Hi all, Does anyone know of a source for decals for the MB 709 imp (as used by Bus Eireann on local services). Cheers! Phil
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    I had a look around the German speaking interweb and if the information I found is correct there won't be any new Profigleis anytime soon. A guy said the machine is broken (presumably) during the move of production to Romania. "Nachtrag Oktober 2018: Die Produktion des H0 profi-Gleises wird nach dem Umzug der Formen nach Rumänien aus technischen Gründen nicht wieder aufgenommen. Die Fertigungsanlage ist wohl defekt. Es gibt aber noch großen Lagerbestand im Handel." https://www.modellbahn.net/index.php/startseite/news-modellbahn/335-fleischmann-h0-wird-2019-eingestellt
  13. murphaph
    Is that a three aspect colour light signal just sitting there on the ground?
  14. murphaph
    Is TT gauge as popular in Poland as it is in the former GDR? I live outside Berlin in what was the former GDR. Half the stuff in my local model shop is TT but over the "border" in the former West Berlin you don't see nearly as much, even 30 years after reunification it's still N and H0 there!
  15. murphaph
    So just for my own benefit, the NIR FKs were all converted to open standards by say 1995? Did any FKs survive as corridors, perhaps indeed as firsts?
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    Were these BR FKs not converted to opens like their counterparts in the Republic?
  17. murphaph
    Yeah they'd fill a 20' sized hole in the market.
  18. murphaph
    Yeah the 20 foot flats would fly out the door I reckon.
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    In my dreams Dublin Corporation refused CIE permission to run those wagons through the city and they had to come in via Waterford and Limerick Did these wagons ever ever ever actually make it to Limerick in reality? Even for maintenance? I'm guessing no. If Arran did manage to produce such a niche container (perhaps in cooperation with IRM a la P42) I'd be hard pressed not to buy a rake too even if I had to use a little fantasy to get them on my layout! They'd be an awesome sight of silvery goodness.
  20. murphaph
    I'd take 40' Bells as well and if the pair that went for £88 + shipping on eBay two days ago is anything to go by there is some pent up demand for them.
  21. murphaph
    Well that's the best story of all Edo. Really fantastic. And some people dismiss our hobby as pointless!
  22. murphaph
    There's this mention of a new livery in that thread: "Looking again at the journals, the new NIR InterCity livery is mentioned as being introduced progressively in the Feb 1989 issue. Turning back to the 111 Class, 113 is mentioned in the Oct 1989 journal as having been 'repainted in the new "InterCity" livery - a deep medium blue with yellow end panels and red buffer beams'." I guess that's it, right? So do we have any idea when the last mk2s were repainted?
  23. murphaph
    Yeah congratulations. Long may it continue!
  24. murphaph
    Was there a change of plan or were Hattons just mistaken Dave?
  25. murphaph
    So I think those frames are all still silver and the coaches are still in IR livery. The IE 201 shows this video is from 94 or later. I really strongly suspect now that with the livery change to IE these coaches had their window frames painted black.
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