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3 minutes ago, Horsetan said:
Strangely appropriate that they all act like Trump in the brazen pursuit of advantage.
Are you certain that they are not all pseudonyms used by King Donald?
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My 4DD is no better than Brendan's, same bogie derails on the same point - I COULDN'T loosen the screw - mind you I was afraid of breaking something. Mine was bought for the Cabinet, so less of an issue and at least the SR green pones don't seem to have gone cheap.
However, the Leader .......
Is going at half price in all liveries, so if you want a pseudo Turf Burner to sit in a siding - it's under a hundred quid. Mine was fine and pulls twenty of the Boys nice wagons with ease - I can only report what I found - I've never tried the lights ..........
@Darius43 - is the sound worth having?
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Commiserations, David, on what must have been a very trying few days. I hope that a solution comes up.
You mentioned your 40 year old H&M Clipper. I still use my SIXTY year old H&M Powermaster with its sliding rheostat taped off (I think I simply lost the knob!) to run either G scale or Rosses Bay.
DCC can be a pain, but generally it has worked quite well on Portadown Jct. I wish I could successfully work the Factory reset on my Digitrax! When things go haywire, I take the old-fashioned computer man's solution and switch everything off and on again!
Good luck - you deserve it.
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On 22/6/2026 at 6:56 AM, Paul 34F said:
A wonderful shot of Bundoran Junction. It would make an interesting layout, due to the arrangement accessing the Bundoran line, plus the associated shunting and splitting of trains.
Paul
Yes, Paul, what a remarkable place to make a layout of - it would take up an impressive amount of space with its sweeping curves and dealing with THREE entrances / exits, more or less at right angles. A challenge for someone with a very large house?
The late Norman Johnston and Charls Friel gave it ten pages in their brilliant book Fermanagh's Railways in Colour. COLOUR photographs of it should appear in a forthcoming book.
A couple of years ago you could have bought the building for under £200,000. The former tea room would have been perfect for a layout! The sale included the entire area of the triangular junction! I couldn't persuade my other half to up sticks - too far from the ROH, Covent Garden!
See:
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Gruesome watching tonight, but I will say it out loud that in sixty years of watching England, I have never seen a better England performance as that in Mexico. They deserve their semi-final place for that alone.
Whatever Real Madrid paid for Bellingham, IT WASN'T ENOUGH!
I look forward to the THIRD Battle of the Falklands .....
I bet @Galteemore is the only one who knows whhen the first one was?
Good morning all - must get to bed - I'm on duty at church in the morning!
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On 4/7/2026 at 12:44 PM, Mayner said:
In a way some 3D prints are not unlike some of the more 'challenging/ropey loco and stock kits produced in the past by MTK, El Crappo & Jindenco/Falcon brass. Interestingly some resin manufacturers now produce 'machinable' 3D print resins. Like the kits of the past modifications to fit the chassis, could be down to design or material or to keep the customer occupied.
A modeller who largely pioneered 3D printing for model railway use in New Zealand has transmissions parts (gears and flywheels) and gear boxes 3D printed in aluminium from his own CAD work and I have had lost wax brass castings produced from my 3D CAD work (brass details castings JMD 52 Class /D17 (buffers, raised firebox step ring etc).
I was lucky/spoiled in that the Auckland 3D print shop that produced the prototypes for the JM Design CIE Goods Brake in 2020-1 produced consistent high quality prints in a suitable resin, down side was printing 'small scale models" was more bother than it was worth!
Eventually selected a Chinese print shop that consistently produced high quality prints using a similar resin, after trialling print shops in New Zealand, Singapore and China main issue was original Auckland and current Chinese supplier used a suitable resin (stable and not too brittle!)
Protototype and production models printed with separate roof body and (rigid) chassis (detaiul added in production version) no sign of warping/distortion after 5 years.
One piece Chinese printed wagon chassis. (this was a spare/reject on of the brake levers broke most likely during clean up stage)
Having had a few of @Mayner's kits through my hands, I can testify to the excellence of his Chinese "printer".
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On 4/7/2026 at 12:48 PM, Past-Avenue said:
Bray Train Fair tomorrow 5th July.
I'll have samples of the 1950s CIE cattle wagon with me.
4 version's available
Flying snail in dark grey,
Flying snail in light grey,
Cie roundal in light grey Fitted,
Cie roundal in redie brown Fitted.
For those who have some provincial wagons one's these will add to the variation of a goods train.
These Cattle wagons will be available on the website in the next few weeks.All current website stock avaliable at the show
Enda
Ckprints.ie
Great stuff, Enda.
Good luck with the new wagon.
Leslie
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No, not individual sales, but people populating my database. sales amount to 5,875 items and I have doubtless missed quite a few at shows etc.
The 500th gent was ordering one of @Past-Avenue's nice CIE Brake Vans, as it happened.
When I have time, I'll be adding Enda's new wagon to my website - another wagon based on one of my kits - and very nice it looks too! He'll be selling them at Bray, I think, this weekend?
I forgot to be polite - THANK YOU to those of you who have bought all those wagons / containers etc etc
Sorry, guys, not quite retired, even now, by the Grace of God, I'm eighty .......
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Hhmmm, I'm not sure if I should admit to this.....
My grandson for some reason couldn't get his infant mouth round Grandpa, so I became known in the family as "Kaka" - DON'T LOOK UP THE MEANING !!!!!!!
So "Kaka" I am and I have a Brazilian football shirt with that gent's name on the back. I wore it one night when Brazil was playing on TV and the silly sod got sent off.
No worries about England getting far, their defence is non-existent.
Of course, they need Northern Ireland's captain to play for them. When Conor Bradley played for Liverpool against Real Madrid, Conor saw Mbappe off the pitch!
They breed real men in Castlederg .....
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13 hours ago, dropshort105 said:
Finally got em running right.
Very nice, of course, BUT!
Time that you reprimanded your station staff for not lighting the signals.
Of course, I can't talk - not a single signal on POrtadown Jct, my drivers have telepathy ...........
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Thanks. They sold out before I could move! I'm not wild about buying things completely unseen.
Order sent this morning!
I've just noticed that I have several thousand points - I should buy something else ........
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It was with great regret that I got the news from Facebook this morning that David Wynne, a member of the South Dublin MRC and passionate N Gauge modeller, has died after a stroke, from which he never regained consciousness.
Although he didn't contribute to this forum, as far as I remember, he was omnipresent at exhibitions, North and South, showing his continental layouts in 2mm scale. Many of you will have known him, have met him and have enjoyed his quiet good humour and enthusiasm for his chosen smaller scale modelling.
My thoughts and prayers are with his wife Margaret and daughter Shirley at this very sad time.
We have lost a staunch supporter of the hobby.
May he Rest in Peace and Rise to Glory.
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Well, Paul, you can get them now - just ask!
Brake van the business.
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Just a Heads Up folks.
With the Accurascale Hunslet diesel appearing, they mentioned that for a while they hauled the former Magheramorne Spoil wagons on another contract to reclaim land from the sea, it provoked some interest in my kits of those Spoil Wagons.
They were used for a time as permanent way wagons as well.
The good news is that I hope to make the kit available again, as the moulds have been found.
I have an order to get the ball rolling, but are there others who want some - speak now, or ..........
PM me if you are interested, please.
Semi-retired, Leslie
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Well, @jhb171achill, you've written the history of the line?
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14 minutes ago, Darius43 said:
KR Models has this morning sent an email to its subscribers that it has gone into liquidation and that those who have monies tied up with them for pre-paid models will need to seek redress with their credit card company (if they used them for payment), otherwise they will be unsecured creditors and most likely receive nothing.
I have several of their models: GT3 (great), Fell (works ok, which is apparently an achievement), 4DD (rather nice after some fettling) and Leader (so far all the wheels are still on, which is also apparently an achievement).
All in all a sad end.
Darius
Yes, it's sad that they couldn't make their business model work.
Like Darius, I have a Leader (thankfully still OK, but not run for a few months) and the 4DD, which is iffy, but an interesting model to have, even if likely to end up in a glass case .......
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Great to see the shot of Macmine Jct - a place which saw CIE steam until very late on.
You could model it very well with a couple of J15s, an AEC set and an A Class, a few coaches, a dozen wagons .......
I only had steam through it once in pre-RPSI days - on the famous RBAI Railway Society tour in 1963 with No.151 - we were already a couple off hours late by then!
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This one's for @jhb171achill probably?
Did we conclude that this:
was close to a GNRI breakdown crane? If so, it's a pretty good price.
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Thanks, Darius,
Well spotted!
I'll follow your example, buy one on eBay and get it painted, if I can persuade my workshops to do it!
I think @jhb171achill has gone down that path, although I haven't seen it at Dugort Harbour.
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Hi Darius
I presume that the MAK is a Roco V65, seemingly minus Hand rails?
Looks the part!
Thanks
Leslie
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I'm pretty sure that I said I'd be interested too, @GSR 800.
I told my potential builder I'd leave him mine as well as pay for the building, but hopefully I'll get to run it a few times .......
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On 13/5/2026 at 10:48 PM, IrishTrainScenes said:
Connolly - Adamstown & return?
Now, now, PATIENCE!!!!!
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And the calorific value of the coal which they got. I believe tests of turf as well during the "Inconvenience".
Hey, @jhb171achill, why buy the book when you've displayed most of the contents here?
Its photo content is probably more valuable than the text, which, I think, was repeated in The Jurnal in due course.
At the time, though, it was rightly considered a book to have.
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See that you put piccies up, @jhb171achill - I have three IFM ones and don't want to buy more if they look massively different - but a Snack car might be nice to have .......
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Football's Coming Home!
in Letting off Steam
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Yes, I thought that I'd never find myself supporting Spain.
Now, the Play-off for Third was one of the best examples of attacking football I've ever enjoyed. When England were 4-0 up at half time, I thought that France had given us a four goal start - you can imagine how i felt when they quickly got two goals to make it 4-2! Mind you, England badly need a back line - a pity (for England) that Conor Bradley is Irish!
To complete the 6-4 win involved Bellingham giving the ball to wee Saka (one of several Christians in this England team) to take the penalty, as he was on a hat trick - yet Bellingham if he'd scored would have become the highest scoring England World Cup player ever. Saka got his hat trick and minutes later, Bellingham scored a beauty and realised his goal (pun intended)..
All part of the Great Eternal Plan - things work out! There is a God, no question about it.
How many of you noticed the Christians on BOTH sides come together in prayer at the end of the match?