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15 minutes ago, Midland Man said:

can you get steam era as those look 70s/80s.

They look steam era to me apart from the orange vests. There's one figure shoveling coal. 

I got these at a show years ago. Is anyone interested in them? 

€15 plus p/p

A laden fertiliser train and a liner.

Hopefully I'll manage to get a small layout up and running soon. In the meantime, my fleet to date is below. Missing a pair of 121s. 

Has anyone got any of the drivers from this range installed in MM locos and figured out what drivers fit in what loco?

 https://www.modelu3d.co.uk/product-category/finescale-figures/railway-and-lineside/1998-present-rl/

They look excellent. I'm so tempted. 

1 hour ago, burnthebox said:

Hi GM & thanks for that but I would like to know what you mean by “ own website “ as I certainly don’t have one, 

BTB

It's a shop's ebay account. They also have a website. 

I hate to break to the people who bought from the Ebay shop... But their own website is selling the 201s for €110 and the coaches for €30. (So I've paid an extra €35 for River Blackwater ) 

2 hours ago, Noel said:

As per IRM's recommendation I super glued my couplings to the underside of the NEM pockets on Ballast and Bubble wagons, which gives perfect height for interoperability with other correct NEM stock. The Ballast wagons have a common chassis with the cement bubbles and the ballast plough vans, but this fix works for all. It may be useful also for users of 'Hunt' magnetic couplings.

In the pics below I used No 18s.

The recommended IRM fix applied below.

The effect of closer coupling on the length of a rake

 

Luckily they provide a stepped version for those scenarios. Glue is a bit too permanent. 

The MM 201 also requires the ultra close coupling for a more realistic appearance. 

There's are virtually the same as the Ferts but here's what the container flats look like with the Hunt couplings. 

Bit of an update on the use of these couplings on Irish rolling stock... As seen above the appearance of the cement bubbles wasn't really change by the installation of the close ouplings. Last week the ultra close couplings were released so I gave them a go... They didn't work, too close! So I mixed them with the close couplings and they seem to provide the perfect distance between wagons. I must point out however that these wagons aren't capable of negotiating S curves in 2nd radius with the Hunt Couplings. 

Due the NEM pocket on the bubbles being significantly higher than MM locos and IRM 42' bogiesld stock, you need to make sure you use the stepped version where you expect to couple the wagons to other stock. I have yet to try these. 

On 4/3/2020 at 2:27 AM, DiveController said:

It's possible that the triple stack cages did go on 'lurries' to Carlow.....

Marble City transport used to (and still do) a bit of haulage for Diageo. Back then they used to move the kegs between Kilkenny Station and the Brewery. The photo above is of a Volvo F7 and a flat bed. I think they used the smaller Volvo FLs and keg trailers also. 

They used the forklift identical to the one in RedRich's photo to load/unload cages and kegs. 

The below photo was taken in the Brewery after the liner had ceased. But this type of loading/unloading happened in the train station also. 

What are people's thoughts on the stainless steel bullhead provided by Dccconcepts? From what I've seen they're less expensive than the standard Peco stuff? 

I'm starting to have problems... The couplings are pulling out of the NEM pockets. The loco, the first wagon (until I fixed the Coupling in place) and now the second wagon are affected. Its a heavy enough train, 8 loaded IRM Ferts. 

8 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Do they make a slightly shorter one?

 

Not at the moment. The couplings above are the closer version. 

6 minutes ago, Midland Man said:

How many come in one pack?

10

IRM Cement Bubbles

IRM Fertiliser 

24 minutes ago, aclass007 said:

When you say they haven't improved the appearance much, do you mean they didn't close the gap between stock much? 

They have slightly. Also the Hunt couplings are smaller than the tension locks 

So about a month ago before the whole current "situation" (seems like an age ago) the new Hunt Couplings were released in the UK. Immediately they peaked my interest and after they had sold out twice I finally gotmy hands on a set of close couplings for testing on my Irish stock. 

Admittedly they haven't improved the appearance that much however functionality is vastly improved. There's no hassle uncoupling stock and there's less movement between them. 

(I've tried to upload photos but it's not happening). 

I'd say an Mk1 GSV is in the pipeline considering the rest of the modern weedspray rake is to be produced. High up on my wishlist also. 

The bar coupling that comes with the Ferts. Nice and close but the kinematic couplings allow too much movement 

I'm wondering if they'll work with the swivel type couplings that MM and IRM used for Bogie rolling stock. 

Excellent models. Love the addition of the close couplings. 

Some more inspiration... https://images.app.goo.gl/druUdrLzHy4493EE7 

Already regretting not ordering the pack of 8... I only ordered 4.