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  1. Railer
    It was the first MM 201 to sell out Noel. It's very hard to come by. I've only found 2 examples over the past 4 years of looking for it and bought one as a collectors item never to be run because of it's rarity. If you do see a clean boxed example expect to pay over the RRP for it. Only pity is that Murphy released it in the awful revised yellow face livery and not the original.
  2. Railer
    Was only thinking that to myself over the weekend. Might try and sell some of my North American stuff at the October show to fund more Irish purchases. Don't know how hard it will be to sell on though.
  3. Railer
    I bought the set for those wondering. Tony PM'ed me on post 8 of this thread. Don't know where that fit's in with others PMs but I never PM'ed him till he contacted me so no off thread dealing was done. I believe mods can check members PMs if anyone thinks there was out of sorts.
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    Very tasty, the livery scales down well thankfully. Love it.
  5. Railer
    I'd be one of those. I'm more of a collector, runner. I know I have no model building ability, the only thing I'd even consider to attempt would be one of the SSM 42ft flats, I won't even talk about actually trying to paint. Massive piece of work here BTW.
  6. Railer
    Hi Tony, I'll offer €450 cash and collected if these are still for sale.
  7. Railer
    The Mk3 EGVs have alot to power. Lights, aircon, the bogie air suspension system, the pneumatic doors and the kitchen coaches. The electrical system is very unique. The Mk3A set had a different system again an only the modified Mk3 EGVs could power the 3As.
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    They could have easially got a second if they wanted. Out of the 15 EGVs IE and NIR got their pick of 4 for the Enterprise, 7601 was put aside in Dundalk for Belmond while IE took another from Waterford for the PWD at some stage. That's 6 out of the 15 that was secured from the scrap list.
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    Something about a creek and paddle comes to mind.
  10. Railer
    Is 7122 left at Northwall going anywhere or are they going to store it somewhere more secure. I've read that it will be used for parts but how can one coach act as a donor for 10. It's amazed me up till now that they never secured a second EGV as a backup. There is a backup Enterprise EGV and the RPSI have secured 2 Mk1 GSVs and Dutch vans.
  11. Railer
    216 seems to be acting up alright since it's Belmond repaint. It was ok on the green machine freight runs.
  12. Railer
    That explains why I saw 233 at Connolly loco shed this morning so. I suspect that was 233's first trip up north since it's overhaul and repaint. The fact they swapped out 216 at Dundalk I suspect 216's TPWS is not active and there was no second driver available to be present in the cab.
  13. Railer
    Any news or word from the man himself regarding the all new and improved Supertrain Mk2s? The last update on the Murphy site has a rough due date of mid summer and that was posted back in the new year.
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    New C Rail containers

    Railer replied to Arran's topic in News

    He does some nice GCA Tanktainers that are not listed on his site but feature on the rolling banner. I asked him about them about 2 months back and sold be the last 6 he had, they look well and are very regular on the IWT over the past 6 or so years. Some Dana tanktainers would be good for modeling DFDS liners, always to be found lately in the pocket wagons.
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    New C Rail containers

    Railer replied to Arran's topic in News

    The Freightliners were in use during the 80s and very early 90s. Those Transamerican spiders I have never seen on any Irish train ever. Some BLS and Bruhn spiders would nice for modern IWT liners.
  16. Railer
    It's actually 080 or 077 you'd want to renumber and remove the logos and white stripe. As the supertrains would not work as 071 now is in IE orange now supertrain orange and has LEDs. Given 500 battleship grey 071s sold out in a few months a 252 unit run of the 40th aniversery 071 would fly.
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    It would be worth it for a run of 252 units. Both of the grey 071 releases of 252 each have more or less sold out everywhere and they were released last.
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    It 100% won't be going north of Belfast this season, too much red tape to sort out in time, that has been confirmed on multiple sites and media feeds. It was due to go to Belfast on a mid night run on Monday back very early to Heuston on Tuesday morning but that never happened.
  19. Railer
    Is it one of the newer generation Athearn models?
  20. Railer
    175 really looks the part too, nice and grubby.
  21. Railer
    Yeah, it's a great contrast between the two locos.
  22. Railer
    She looks class it that livery.
  23. Railer

    Irish Orient Express!

    Railer replied to 201bhoy's topic in News

    Nice, very reminiscent of the NIR 201s on delivery. I thought it was going to get a 310 and not a 210 EVN number seeing as it can work on the NIR network.
  24. Railer
    That looks superb next to the 141, thanks. The coupling does look to be mounted a bit high on the model to my eye, could be the camera angle though.
  25. Railer
    I was wondering that as looking at the side on pictures, the coupling bar looked to me to be sitting very high above the rail height for an uncoupling ramp to engage.
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