Flying Snail

I'd get on board that train. 071 hauled Mk3s = peak nostalgia for me. I'd probably end up buying a few 071s if they're re-released. I have only one 071, and its not in one of my preferred IR/IE tippex liveries but I got it for a good(ish) price before the second hand prices went completely mad. However, given that there's still plenty of the new batch of 141/181s available I wonder if the market for re-runs of Irish locos is a bit soft at the moment?

Roger! Sorry about that commerlad, I don't know how I mixed you two up ... maybe it was the fish I had for dinner?

thats some nice looking benchwork and cabinets!

Good views of it in Dublin. Brought back memories of '99 when when I squinted at it from a mark 2 set on my way down to Rosslare Europort

Never heard of them either, but from that middle video you can clearly see they operate Spain's high speed fleet .. with a few 37s thrown in for good measure WH Davis vid was very interesting though, I look forward to Leslie's photos!

crikey .... that was a holiday to remember. Thanks very much for sharing, and I hope the treatment continues to go well.

According to this there were a couple of specials out of Westport (one had a connection from Ballina), another special from Sligo, and .........<checks notes>.... Dundalk. https://www.dublinpublictransport.ie/blog/irish-rail-adds-extra-trains-for-all-ireland-football-final

Didn't realise tractors had graduated to top link services but hey ... Massey is classy but if she ain't blue, she won't do!

I have the first edition of Iain Rice's Cameo Layouts book, are there many changes in the new expanded version?

I would expect there would be copyright issues (Irish and UK copyright law i think is pretty similar), whether or not the copyright holder is prepared to do anything is a different matter. If you want to avoid copyright issues, you could reference the Irish stuff - issue, page nos, author and title etc. so that people can go source the article themselves.

Part 2: I went and purchased two more pre-owned Cravens this week from the main Rails of Sheffield website. This time the ex. VAT value of the goods was below the €150 customs threshold. UK VAT was paid at point of purchase, as before and so was a £3.15 customs duties fee (I presume this is the €3 plus some sort of handling charges) ... and then that was it. The two carraiges were delivered to Dublin without any further customs charges or handling charges being applied by An Post. Something to note, the €150 customs charge threshold is calculated in the ex. VAT value of the goods before Rails added in UK VAT. Edit: Also I should note, the £3.15 customs duties fee was applied just once.

Agreed - it really makes these much easier to find in future.

I'd say, given that the painted sample has had a spin around New Junction, it’s safe to assume the model is currently being reviewed, or has been very recently, and that we can expect an update once they have some feedback from that process. To be fair, they’re very good at letting us know once they have news to share. I take the project status page with a large pinch of salt until the model actually moves into the “In Transit” stage. So many issues can crop up during the tooling and production stages that those deadlines are aspirational at best. That’s just the nature of the beast. Accurascale have a great crew of project managers, but there’s only so much they can do if a factory makes a mistake or if the FIFA Peace Prize laureate decides very strongly to make international trade and shipping rather more interesting than it needs to be.

Thats very restrictive - you should revert back to them to tell them why you can't sign the permission form.

well Richard does work at Accurascale ....