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Hi David Excellent progress and workmanship- I'd like to get one of those resistance soldering units sometime... I use a pickle solution in a tall glass jar for plonking the model in overnight after a soldering session, that will stop the green thing happening, it removes the flux, and if you make a strong solution the model comes out shiny n all in the morning. The jar lasts for years- though needs to be kept in a safe place Eoin

Hi Guys The site is looking great Eoin

Hi Guys Well done, great news for the Irish Railway Modeller and I wish you the best success.... I'll definitely put in an order for the Hopper Wagons Eoin

Hi All Here are two shots of items for the layout hot off the work bench.... Handrails for the pedestrian bridge steps are now complete and all is ready to install on the layout This is the gate into the field to access the beach, it's from an SSM etch with foam-cut stone pier posts- old style, not many about any more! Eoin

Hi I picked up a nice bargain at the show today-- A MIR 121 Kit for €25.00, cant beat it.... Eoin

Hi I saw the bridge in the flesh at the Carlton Hotel Show today, as we now say 'It's a beautiful thing'. By the shots above and all that's going into it this layout is stunning... Eoin

Hi BK Just thinking- you may be referring to the footbridge and lifts in one of the earlier photos- this can also been seen in the Tips n Tricks;- http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/4586-Hot-Wire-Foam-Cutting-By-murrayec?p=72001&viewfull=1#post72001 I'll have a few shots of it shortly as the stairs handrails are now etched and is currently in the paint shop.... Eoin

Hi Driver301 Beautifully done Driver, it's an excellent layout, a visual feast for the spectator of model rail- the massing of the buildings behind the platform pulls the eye in deeper to the platform and then one finds the view into the subway... excellent, we're in it! I hope your going to be at Blackrock, to see it in the flesh and operating, hopefully we can run the N DART on it? Eoin

Hi BosKonay The bridge is cut from insulation foam with the hot-wire cutter and then cut strips of foam are stuck on to create the walls and footpath. A paper template is cut from the CAD drawing to use as a guide for cutting- refer to Tips n Tricks section for home made hot-wire cutter... Eventually the bridges will be covered in printed stone work..... Eoin

Hi Dave Firstly closetmodeller's intended running is for the main lines through Greystones Station handling four trains to a time table- Timber Train, Commuter, Other Passenger, and the DART. Secondly closetmodeller desired a layout in liner fashion, for main line work, and not to take over his office room. Therefore the boards are 400mm deep and the sidings had to go otherwise the layout would be to cluttered. The outside siding still exists at Greystones and would have been nice to incorporate, but due to the depth of the baseboard it was omitted, as the station building is more important and we wanted to incorporate some of Main Street of Greystones Town in the layout. Eoin

Borithe Was that on the brick cottages on the way to the East-Link, I have the memory of a fish over one of the entrance doors- a Bass I think - it was some time back and I could have the wrong location... We need a fishy section now! Eoin

Broithe Perfectly clear..... - 'Earwiggie-Traine-Thingmejig-Hornby-Tension-Lock-Coupler-Things' ......please Sir? Eoin

Hi all Just home, yes it was an enjoyable day and great to meet all who came and said hello. Great and surprising interest in the DART, a lot of people knew it from theses pages, and David had great interest in the servo points control system. .......and what about Herbert's 'O' Narrow Gauge Doneygal Railways Railcar models- lovely stuff, I forgot to take photos with all the talking. ttc0169 I thought it was quite refreshing! I didn't see a 141 or an orange thing all day..... Would do that again Eoin

Well now, That went very well, as George predicted it was a 'cracking day' in all respects- stunning location, beautiful day, and great attendances. We were busy all day and I did not get a chance to see all the exhibits or take photos even! maybe someone else did and will post them up. Well done to all who ran the show Eoin

Hi Myself and David will be there with baseboards, the DART, and other things So as George said- do say hi Eoin

Hi john83 When you were looking at wrennie's AEC Rail Car at Bray last, the DART was right behind you... You can see more here;- http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/895-New-DART-8100-Model?p=74567&viewfull=1#post74567 Eoin

After almost 2 years of service DART 8101 (no. 1) is in the workshops for servicing and re-fit.... ....actually it's an upgrade to DCC. I wonder, does the DART give the same kind of service? Eoin

Hey George Is that hole in the top for the candle? and I see you baked them on a oven tray with loads of icing! Borithe would be proud of you.... Eoin

Hi I support the H&S idea, it goes without question that there should be a system to protect workpeople carrying out a process that potentially could kill or maim for life, not to mention all the other associated ramifications. One of the main problems is human interpretations- a H&S plan is only as good as the understanding the person who writes has of the processes involved in the work and how H&S officers on the ground implement it.... Borithe's example is clear evidence of this. My experiences of H&S is in the building industry and I have seen and experienced good management of it and mad abuse of it. One example is we were constructing a high-bay storage facility in North Dublin, a roof height of 11.5 meters which required a serious section to be written in our H&S plan at design stage for the roof workpeople working at this level. A fall from this height onto a concrete floor is instant death. When it came time to erect the roof beams I visited the site and as I approached from a good 1/2 mile from the site I could see a workperson walking across a roof beam of 300mm with no life line attached, I thought to myself 'a there must be a catch net under, but still there is no excuse'. When I entered the site to my horror there was no catch net and everyone up on the roof had life lines on but not attached to anything! I asked the foreman acting as H&S officer for the works to refer to his H&S plan for construction stage to see that the roofers were complying with it and was told 'a sure that's the way they work, if we ask for lifelines to be attached they will walk off site'!! One other, though not as serious- We were working for an outside contractor on a site, every time we visited the site we were sent to induction (architects are exempt from this) 1&1/2 hours of how to ware our shoes, site cloths, hard hats, and using drills, ladders...... it's endless, well 1&1/2 hours of it. We found out later that the H&S office for the main contractor was under orders to make as much difficulty he could for our design team to access onto the site! The problem with H&S system is humans Eoin

Hi Put this up full screen and turn up the sounds Eoin