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Merry Christmas to everyone on and at IRM Cheers Darius

Both bridges now painted and installed. Cheers Darius

What a wonderful display for these great models. Cheers Darius

Got the card stock out this morning and built one of two bridges… Cheers Darius

After a nearly two year hiatus, Middlemark V2.0 is under construction in a new, larger shed. The lower storage level to one side of the shed has been installed and the helix extracted from storage and fixed in position. We have taken the opportunity to improve things compared to the old shed. All levels are 3in higher up from the floor and the helix has been fixed away from the walls to enable a track to run behind it to feed the storage area. Cheers Darius

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

Electro-diesel Stadler Flirts selected to replace Dublin – Belfast Enterprise trains Cheers Darius

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

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

Unboxed the Class 201s and took them for a spin. Cheers Darius

No.111 “Great Northern” joins the party. Cheers Darius

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

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

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

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

Hi Derek. No apology necessary. I wasn’t in the least offended by your question. Cheers Darius

Made a start on the sea wall part of the layout. Cheers Darius

What’s a railway? Cheers Darius

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

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

…and to the up platform. Cheers Darius