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my friend Leo has put this photo from inchicore out on facebook

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Hello All , can anyone tell me where these small casting are fitted on this model ?

Thanks Noel .

Thanks for your help guys , does this photo confirm that they are NEM pockets ?

Hello , can anybody help , is this an NEM pocket ? it is a Marklin wagon .

looking for 50 euros O.N.O. for these plus postage ( 12 euros ) in Ireland. 

collection possible in North Dublin .

Paypal preferred.

thanks guys , I took another look and now I am wondering about the Marklin startup system.

https://www.maerklinshop.de/maerklin/maerklin-start-up/?p=1

2 hours ago, David Holman said:

 The important thing for me is to appeal to and nurture creativity in children. So many toys these days seem to have limited value beyond the first few days, or indeed hours. Even Lego focuses on kits that build just one model, rather than packs that enable multiple things to be built as primers to, in effect, scratchbuilding your own stuff from the bricks and components they offer.

 Yes, basic Hornby train sets can be expanded and there are loads of second hand bargains out there too, but those push along, wooden train sets and tracks that can be built and rebuilt in endless combinations are what fire the imagination, particularly for a four year old.

 Spent all my career in primary education, finishing up as a schools advisor and one of my favourite jobs was doing lesson observations and especially in what we call Year R, with the four and five year olds, where the children have lots of opportunities for creative play and those wooden train sets go down a treat. 

 When you think about it, model railways, at any level, are a brilliant way to engage children's minds, not least because they expand into so many other areas, like buildings, scenery, road vehicles and so on. Back in the day, with my Year 6 class, was given a Triang Big Big Train Set. An oval of plastic track and a battery powered engine. This was pre 'national curriculum' but CDT was just becoming popular, so the class project that term became the model railway and showed to kids how to make a simple building from a fold up card 'net' and they all went on to adapt it into houses, shops and so on. With 30 in the class we soon had a whole town, which got lit up with batteries and bulbs and Lord knows what else. Wrote stories, did loads of maths, science, history and geography too - all based on an old plastic train set.

 So, sorry for the sermon (great question though!) but there really is nothing better than creative play for developing children's minds, while we are all still learning how therapeutic it can be ( for all ages), in these challenging times too. 

Thanks for the sermon David , it is very helpful.

Thanks everyone  for the other comments.

I have been looking online and it seems that the lego system addresses your point in that anything made from lego can be dismantled and rebuilt in a different form . There are lego train collectors out there doing that. I am thinking of a lego train system to be followed by an 00 scale set in a few years. The problem I see with  LGB is our weather !!  

Thanks Galteemore . He is 4 .

Hello all , anyone any opinions about the best way to introduce a child to the hobby. He is too young for the finescale models we like ,so what might be the best beginners system .

Lego train ( maybe in the garden ) ? 

OO scale starter set ( eg. jouef junior set ) ?

6x4 layout somewhere in the house ?

any thoughts?

https://dublininquirer.com/2021/12/22/for-175-years-keeping-the-trains-running-has-been-a-family-business-at-the-inchicore-railway-works

14 minutes ago, Warbonnet said:

Vitrains did a similar thing with their Class 47, which was a nice model but came in a large kit of parts as it was produced in Italy. It ended up heavily discounted as everyone bought the Bachmann fully finished alternative and now it is no longer offered. The Irish market is so small that offering alternatives like this would not work. Also, the labour in China is lower as previously stated, so it would not reduce the cost of our models that much in the grand scheme of things. It would only have a larger impact if we manufactured locally. 

Honestly, China is the only game in town still if you want high detail, high quality at a reasonable price. 

the market is so small here that it clearly would not be viable to manufacture locally . With the exception of ECM trains .

The RTR market is peculiar to railway modelling. I have a small quantity of ROCO minitanks. When they were supplied (almost )fully assembled by Herpa , the more expensive ones would cost about 45 euros. Now I can buy a kit of parts for the same model from a shop in Germany (Arsenalm) for 20 euros.  

2 minutes ago, Warbonnet said:

You might be, but 20-30 other customers for each one of you would not be. 

I'm sure you are right , but it might be interesting to know what the cost difference would be.

If assembly costs are a large part of the cost , I would be happy to assemble pre finished kits as per the KATO models example.

I have a couple of MM locos and they came with small packets of parts to be fitted by the purchaser .

got this 47' flat from shapeways recently. it will easily pass the 2ft test. , though it does not have large flat panels like a coach would have.

Hello , anyone know what loco  this is  ?

Hello guys , A friend has sent me these .They are from the 1940s . Anyone recognize the locations ?