Billycan

Nice pointwork too.

Love the recycling - station canopy and pringles tub.

Happy Christmas everyone, Happy Christmas. And many thanks for sharing the photos, running the trains and posting the videos. Looking forward to more in 2024.

It was a Wednesday morning and the date was 17 December 1834. At 9:30am a train of carriages of the first, second and third class hauled by Hibernia departed Westland Row filled with passengers. The rest is history. If you have any words or pictures to share, today is the day.

Or perhaps this one Plate Girder Bridge Side – PECO (peco-uk.com)

Try F23 - both cab lights will show.

For the day that's in it.

Out and About on Bloomsday 2023 at WR&A Quoted text copyright The Joyce Project: Ulysses Touring Joyceans returned to their carriages to continue their funeral re-enactment.

Most would be proud to do one. But to do two is a new level. Nice.

James, You might think of your layout in terms of embankments and bridges over a streetscape. In that case railway bridges are about 17ft-0in above road level and that defines an important height for you including the trackbed in Harcourt Street station. If you are modelling with DCC Concepts or Tortoise your point motors will probably have to suit that height and you may have to increase the embankment height a little to accommodate them. You'll need to consider this in conjunction with building the embankment faces and whether off-the-shelf kit of predefined height will work or whether you will need to scratch build. Consider building the embankments and bridges in sections, starting with an easy one, so that you can learn as you go. If you keep the embankment sections short (max 6ft-0ins) with all of the electrics within them it becomes easy to lift one out if you need to do any work on it. No ducking under the supporting bench structure or lying on you back to do work. Think out the height of the line and your street levels from Harcourt Street to Foxrock. It starts at embankment height and descends to street level, then passes over the Milltown arches and back to street level. Maybe you could keep the trackbed horizontal and adjust the street levels between the different sections using the art of compromise as suggested by Seán. Think about modelling the street scenes at bench level and rising to track level. A track plan is an excellent suggestion. Buy a roll of lining wallpaper (about €2 in Dealz) and download the track templates from the PECO site. Create a track plan for your stations and other sections on the lining paper and you can easily orientate it in one piece to best fit your space. The PECO printable track templates code 100 should be at peco printable track templates code 100 - Search (bing.com) For the width and length you need OSI maps. Talk to your friendly librarian to see what might be available so that you can get accurate photocopies and then you can scale dimensions from those. Remember to record everything as you go. Photograph your work-in-progress and if working in DCC don't forget to document the addresses of all your point motors. If you can get trains running sooner rather than later all the better. Harcourt Street is a great station to model with arches, bridges, turntables, sheds, sidings for holding your fleet, and buildings. Take your time and enjoy the journey.

Modelling, story and music are on another level. Super.

Understand that alright. And what does this mean? There always has to be one doesn't there?

Don't understand that. So, given that orders for the Genesis coaches + lighting will easily exceed this €150 that seems to mean there will be hassle with the VAT?

I have received a number of parcels from different suppliers in the UK and all have been received without hassle. The goods arrive in Ireland free of UK VAT, An Post notify me in a card in a sealed envelope of what has arrived, who sent it and what charges are due, and I pay the Irish VAT and fee online. Straight forward and there has never been anything returned to the UK sender. So, perhaps Hattons are trying to be too helpful at this time and given that later this year the Genesis coaches will be arriving it might be wiser for Hattons to change their approach an row in with what works for the other UK exporters to Ireland. Just thinking out loud.

Nice to see the different viewing angle.