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    Triang hornby r768 irish cie livery class 35

    in For Sale or Wanted

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    Yes, but as Glenderg has pointed out their is international and there is international. The world extends way beyond Ireland.

     

    Being a Postman in former times, I suspect that the Royal Mail is being ripened up by top line management looking for a big payday when privatisation occurs.

     

    Moving aside from that for a moment, I find that postage from the Republic to the UK not too bad in most cases. The only differences being a slight price hike (over internal UK mail) and a delay of two to three days door to door.

     

    -Rob

    Ammonia tankers

    in Questions & Answers

    Posted

    Dare I say that's a very very pretty wagon pristine! The lovely green underframe, pristine glowing white shell!

     

    Just adding to the 'things I didn't know list' - Ammonia bogie wagon underframes are really green under all that ****

    Quote of the day

    in Letting off Steam

    Posted

    'Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.'

    Abraham Lincoln

     

    She doesn't know does she?

     

    There y'are married to a lovely lady, and out you come with the 'marriage is purgatory' quote...

     

    Do you have a dog? Does it have a little house outside? Is there room in there for you?

     

     

    :ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

    Thoughts on weathering, sidings and wagons

    in Questions & Answers

    Posted

    Thanks for your observations Jonathan :)

     

    I know that from my mainland experience, that if you look along a freight from the steam era up to the early eighties, all the wagons fade into much the same sort of colour, brownish brake dust, with fading from the sun(!) and wash from the rain.

     

    You may know that all the wagons in the train started off different colours, but look at the train in 'long view' and all the train fades into a brownish/greyish colour.

    eBay Watch

    in For Sale or Wanted

    Posted

    I'd go for the MIR one as MM 121 is a long way of if ever at all according to the man himself

     

    My views on the 121, pretty much match Anthony's, I'd say the 121 from MM is in no way guaranteed.

     

    Couple this with the new found enjoyment I'm getting from actually, y'know, building things, and the MIR kit appeals more and more...

     

    -Rob

    Some French goodness...

    in Continental European Modelling

    Posted

    Gareth,

     

    I too saw the Translink tender document, but could find no further specs apart from that the wagons where to be refurbed and converted from vac to air braking.

     

    However, this pic does show some remarkably similar wagons in service with SNCF:

     

    http://tgveurofrance.com.pagesperso-orange.fr/wagons5.htm

     

    Compare with the pics in this thread from the old site:

     

    http://irishrailwaymodeller.yuku.com/topic/1009/Photographs-of-NIR-Class-111-Ballast-Wagons#.UORjbmlwpVM

     

    The ends of the SNCF wagon's hopper are supported on a square block type brace, whereas the NIR models are supported on an 'A' frame type bracing.

     

    An HO model, of the French/Belgian type is available from this lot:

     

    http://www.mistraltrainmodels.be/product.php?lang=en&id=145

     

    -Rob

    Freight Photos Limerick Christmas 2012

    in Photos & Videos of the Prototype

    Posted

    Apologies for not thanking you for these pics earlier Rich!

     

    The detail shots of the ballast wagon(s) where just what I was looking for - I'm trying to size up my next (mini) project, and I've always had a strange attraction to per way paraphernalia.

     

    With those detail shots of the bogie timber wagons, I can see how they were constructed - strategic cutting and shutting of the ex 4 wheeler upper decks on a 40ft bogie flat. In fact, looking at them again, you could do the same with the Shapeways uppers and a Hornby lower....

     

    Hmmm... :D

     

    -Rob

    Bargain Watch

    in For Sale or Wanted

    Posted

    Just putting this here to keep the bargains mostly in the same thread :)

     

    On the same site there's this Piko bogie timber wagon @19.99ukp in HO that was talked about in a thread on here a while back:

     

    http://www.thesignalbox.co.uk/sb-special-offers/sale-piko-db-ag-lumber-wagon-was-34-99-now-27-99.html

     

    -Rob

     

    Apologies for quoting and bumping this, but I found the bit of the thread that was discussing these Piko bogie timber wagons here:

     

    http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/showthread.php/283-My-new-loft-layout?p=14803&viewfull=1#post14803

     

    -Rob

    4 wheel timber wagons and molasses tankers on Utube

    in Irish Models

    Posted

    Happy Christmas to all! I posted that Enfield clip on YouTube a good while back now as part of a bunch of clips from the MGWR. I have not been able to upload any more in the meantime because of a broadband upload problem. All that will be resolved within the next two weeks ( bye bye Eircom!!)..and then I look forward to sharing other footage from around the system over the coming months. Eamonn

     

    I reference that clip frequently for a variety of reasons; to check the state of weathering on the wagons, to check the colours of the stock, to listen to the Baby GMs pulling away... etc etc etc.... :D

     

    Any more that you post will be appreciated Eamonn!

     

    Thanks,

     

    -Rob

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