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I spoke with Paddy Murphy at the Warley exhibition and he was confident that a 121 class locomotive would be available to purchase this Easter 2019.

Wishing all Irish railway modellers a Happy new year from the Chief operating officer of Tara junction. Here are a selection of photos from the Christmas and New year period which seen an intensive passenger timetable on the lead up to Christmas eve and some New years eve freight liner operations. The passenger operation seen over 40 passenger carrying vehicles with a total seating capacity of 2,806 excluding EGV and GSVs, The use of the 10 piece MK2 a/b set was a welcome addition alongside a MK3 3 piece push/pull hauled/pushed by 234. On the freight side there were six trains operated carrying Guinness ,oil, containers, fertiliser ,cement both in bulk and pallet form and ore from Tara mines

They do have their advantages...….

Cheers Rich thank you,many happy returns to yourself

Happy Christmas to all fellow Irish bus modellers....

Happy Christmas to all fellow Irish railway modellers from the Chief operating officer of Tara junction.

Expected to restart in mid January.

Retro 073 is seen being refuelled at the MPD by the refueller with the shed foreman supervising proceedings.

Great to see and sample 216 out to and returned from Maynooth last Saturday-the draught Guinness on tap was delicious too..... Here we see 216 shortly after arrival at Connolly station with the last train from Maynooth and will shortly propel the train out to the wash road and later into the depot for overnight storage.

An increased eight wagon rake of Tara mines wagons arrives at the Lakeview freight yard behind loco 072. After its time on the Mk4 set Belmond liveried locomotive 216 was allocated to work the RPSI Cravens transfer from Inchicore to Connolly last weekend and is seen here passing through Tara junction with the empty train.

They are the stored air braked bogie shale wagons which are similar to the Tara's but without the lids and have been parked on the up sidings at Limerick that you probably seen Noel-and you would have been travelling on a 2800 railcar into Limerick as it was highly unlikely that a 2600 railcar was used for the shuttle

A rare move took place earlier on Tara junction when the Enterprise was delayed at platform 2 with door trouble ,the following Mk4 service which was hauled by Belmond liveried locomotive 216 was routed around the Enterprise to serve platform 3,it then operated in advance of the Enterprise which in turn followed five minutes later.

A Kibri kit as above.

Unfortunately not Dave-and is HO.

A box arrived a few weeks ago from a model shop in Germany.....and from its contents I built this.....and then after some weathering put it to work..... A late Saturday night possession on Tara junction seen some ballasting of the relief lines with 0117076 hauling a HOBS train which discharged ballast along the down main line followed by the on track machine which spread the ballast evenly all under the direction of Tommy the Permanent way inspector....

And so....the first batch of the superbly designed and manufactured Tara wagons arrived today at Tara junction to undergo trial runs and platform clearance, Here we see retro liveried locomotive 071 haul the short four wagon consist on a gauge clearance special around the layout, Thanks very much to the lads at IRM HQ for these superbly detailed wagons, well done from a delighted customer. I removed the tension lock coupling on the rear wagon to glue the vacuum brake pipe into position and also and more importantly was the fitting of the two red tail lamps to complete the set of wagons.

Photos taken from the Navan branch-just outside Navan Well done Eamonn..

Love the ratchet detail being picked out in silver,really makes a difference-nice one Robert.

I purchased my copy from the IRRS stand at the Warley exhibition last weekend and can highly recommended it.

After a recent spate of failures on the real railway to a locomotive and a permanent way machine,071 locomotives were dispatched to recover the failed units back to their respective depots for repair, I was fortunate to be able to recreate both scenes in model form. When 201 class locomotive 234 failed in Ballina retro liveried locomotive 071 was sent from Inchicore to haul the locomotive back, Here we see 071 hauling 234 through Tara junction station, Again when track recording inspection car EM50 failed at Boyle station, locomotive 080 was sent from Connolly station to haul the machine back to North wall and ultimately Kildare plant shop. Here we see the unusual sight of 080 hauling EM50 in the opposite direction through Tara junction station.

I was delighted finally to get my hands on a Dapol HST Intercity 125 book set in its iconic blue and grey livery, It is a fantastic model and is certainly no comparison to the Graham farish version which I also have, The power cars have directional lighting and a smooth running motor, I also purchased three weathered TTA tanker wagons which are seen here delivering fuel to the MPD behind 47 635.

Well done to the team at Accurascale for an excellent presentation and display last Saturday.

Some shady looking characters here...... Well done lads with the announcement of the Deltic-I was delighted to be there at the launch and to witness a very professional team in operation. Here are a few photos of an enjoyable day out...

Well done gents-a fantastic looking plough van. Really like the addition of the red tail lamps.