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Darius43
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For the past two days I have noticed that the IRM site and pages/topics are taking a long time to load - sometimes up to a minute. This does not happen with other websites. Has anyone else experienced this? Darius
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Electro-diesel Stadler Flirts selected to replace Dublin – Belfast Enterprise trains Cheers Darius- 1 reply
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Somewhere on VHS Tape I have a recording of a documentary called “Steel Chest, Nail in the Boot and the Barking Dog”, which was about the men who worked at Harland & Wolff. Steelchest, Nail in the Boot and the Barking Dog My father was an apprentice marine engineer at Harland & Wolff in the late 1950s. There is footage of trains at Bridgend part way through the programme. A time and place that has largely disappeared, alas. Cheers Darius
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Somewhere on VHS Tape I have a recording of a documentary called “Steel Chest, Nail in the Boot and the Barking Dog”, which was about the men who worked at Harland & Wolff. It features James Galway and the street in question. Steelchest, Nail in the Boot and the Barking Dog A time that has now disappeared, alas. Cheers Darius
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Unboxed the Class 201s and took them for a spin. Cheers Darius
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No.111 “Great Northern” joins the party. Cheers Darius
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Unboxed Class 110 No.112 “Northern Counties” and gave it an outing. Cheers Darius
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An NIR 80 Class unit has an admirer at Whiterock Station. Cheers Darius
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Loved watching “Model World” on TV in the ‘70s - still have the book with all the plans in the back somewhere. Cheers Darius
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Sea wall painted and temporarily in place. Cheers Darius
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Hi Leslie I have found that loosening the screws holding the non-power bogies on all the coaches helps to reduce the derailments for my 4DD. Others have found that removing the bodies and loosening the attachment screws to the coupling units also helps. Cheers Darius
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Sea wall surface made using Wills crazy paving sheets cut to fit and blended together with a skim coat of plaster of Paris. Plan is to colour using Woodland Scenics rock pigments. Cheers Darius
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Hi Derek. No apology necessary. I wasn’t in the least offended by your question. Cheers Darius
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Made a start on the sea wall part of the layout. Cheers Darius
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What’s a railway? Cheers Darius
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Hi Patrick. I found the seats on eBay. They came ready made but were a bit plasticky so I sprayed them black and painted the timber slats green. Cheers Darius
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The lights are from Kyte’s Lights and are wired to parallel bus bars (copper tape strips) beneath the platform. So not plug and play. Cheers Darius
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…and to the up platform. Cheers Darius
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Added lights and peops to the down platform. Cheers Darius
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I have used 2mm thick card painted with BR rail grey enamel. The concrete inside the real shed is likely to have a non dust/non slip coating so no need for a textured finish. Outside the slab surface may be tamped in real life for grip and frost protection so perhaps apply the talc to external hardstandings with slab joints scribed in with a sharp knife. Cheers Darius
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Boat club completed. Need to add fences and complete the scenic bit between the tracks. Cheers Darius
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Well, I did have to “bend the station buildings around a curve… Cheers Darius
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I base it as much as possible on photos of the prototype and modify it as necessary to fit the constraints of the layout. As long as the “look” is right then I’m satisfied. Cheers Darius
