Flying Snail

Apparently you'd also need to be emissions free @jhb171achill. My pot belly runs on Guinness, so thats probably no good anyhow

steel under frame and wheels ... go on, you know you want to

Now that we've seen he's a dab hand at the old metal work too, I fully expect him to decide to mount it on a steel under frame and wheels by summer .... watch this space!!!!

You'll have an old pot belly stove in there, surely?

Hands down the best 1:1 scale model of a SLNC (or any company's) van to grace these pages This is a really great project, I really enjoy following it. Well done @Gabhal Luimnigh!!!!!

Updates as of last Tuesday here:

Just watched it now - nice video of a great layout!

Nice looking loco!

It looks like a couple of J15s had gearbox issues in Raheny in 2022 ....

They're moving fast, I see 186 is already out of stock and three more are already down to single digits!! I have a few on their way to me, but I was holding out until pay day to see if I would grab a couple more .. looks like I'll miss that train

Bulleids looking very well in a wonderful setting: Borris looks excellent. The A class weathering job looks class too!

I've bought recently from Rails. Its relatively straight forward - no customs charges (and no UK VAT), but you will have to pay Irish VAT and the customs handling fee

I'd buy that too DJ! It will be 80 years since the foundation of CIE on 1st Jan next - wouldn't it be a nice way to celebrate the anniversary by putting out a real-life 201 in a lined green livery with flying snail logo? Maybe some of the IE employees on here can stick that in the suggestion box next time they're passing the Board Room?

I got in touch with Rails' customer service today to see if there was an update on the pre-orders for the Hattons Genesis coaches. This was their response: "We haven't yet started to raise the orders for the Genesis coaches but will be doing so in the near future. As long as you had a confirmed preorder with Hattons, we will fulfil this preorder." So, no updates yet but it looks like we can expect to hear from them soon

I've just seen the email too. Great to see the 071s on the way later this year - I had thought they'd be behind the 201s given that that 201 liveries had been announced before