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Ah go on, buy it… Seriously though, the loco looks to be recently overhauled with modern controls, touchscreens, etc. Hope they find a good home.

This is great to hear, the C&L are doing more than anyone to preserve BnM’s railway history. Not only that, they have so many preserved vehicles that they could open an entire transport museum. The top loco appears to be a Wagonmaster, the bottom a rebuilt one. Went to the C&L just a couple of weeks ago.

I thought I already had. Let me fix that...

Run out of bricks now! Will post picture(s) of ~5m of track sown so far. Any questions/suggestions/criticisms? If you feel there's any obvious problems then please let me know. Thanks.

Just two quick thread plugs- BnM preservation as I’m trying to organise a trip, and Ardree Quay because I need positive interaction to motivate me to work on it. Thanks!

Having been onsite before, the engines’ batteries have been removed and their coolant, oil, fuel, etc. tanks have been drained, so I doubt BnM would be rushing to play trains for us. I agree, should be great if we can get enough people interested, anyone please rate the thread five stars to try and get it to as many interested people as possible. Thanks!

Is the smoke oil working?

Ok, here are some pictures of the new roadbed, although it is incomplete as 9mm ply still needs to be added between the bricks and track, as well as ballast.

Again, any members in or near Laois, the Coolnamona trip is still going ahead of there’s enough people, please do express interest here. Even if you don’t live near Laois, could schedule it for the afternoon to allow people to travel. There’s also a good few motorway hotels only around 1km from the site, so if staying overnight is more convenient for most the trip can happen earlier.

Well I would propose Coolnamona, as it’s fairly easily accessible, has about 6km of track still in place, runs under the M7 and Dublin-Cork line which is an interesting focal point, has interesting infrastructure still in place that could act as part of some kind of museum, has 3 potential station sites, and has track running into large buildings that can be used as sheds/workshops. It’s also less than 1km from the nearest motorway exit and less than 15 minutes from Portlaoise station.

i could check, but I'd say you're close enough.

This post makes me angry, because I saw this model in person a day later and it refused to work. I don't think it likes me...

Probably “a while ago”. It’s all going fast now, if we’re going to do anything we need to hurry.

Jesus, so much has happened. Right now tracklaying is beginning on what is intended to be the permanent trackbed. It consists of a roughly 10in wide roadbed laid on two bricks, staggered and parallel to the track. Something like 9mm ply will be layed on this, then track in the very centre, then ballast. The reason there is so much clearance around the track is that I want to eventually add signals, and control these, and points, by basically a wire-in-tube method-similar to actual point and signal rodding, but made of steel wire and running in a plastic tube. There is intended to be ~3 "boxes", consisting of small lineside buildings that have a removable wall to access levers. The roadbed currently being laid is, IIRC, the FIFTH time I have begun tracklaying (anywhere on the railway), each time for what was intended to be the last time in that area. This is frustrating, but one of the side effects is that most of my track is quite clean, as I clean it every time I lay it down again. This may be the first time I have actually managed to get something actually visually nice going. Wish me luck, and I will share more progress updates in the next few weeks.

Don't really have any advice as I'm working on my first three layouts at the moment and haven't finished anything, but I think it looks good and wish you luck.

It wasn’t JHB’s fault, now- the courts were biased!

I see. I was confused because the two articles seemed to be referencing two incidents, but as they both seemed to have a similar location I thought they may have been two different perspectives of the same accident, one seemingly more informed, ie had clarified there were no fatalities. Unfortunately, I think you might be right about a seperate tragic occurence. I suppose we should not be surprised there are fatalities on the network, but it in no way diminishes the seriousness of it.

I should probably do something like this, as I have loads of “old” models that need some TLC as well. Great job, I can’t wait to see the Nellie and 3MT. What do you mean? Surely everyone with a 14/14 rank becomes immortal…?

I have to say I'm confused? The headlines describe it as a tragic accident, but the Independent article says it was a minor level crossing incident with no serious injuries, and the other story just says it was a “tragic accident” and goes into no detail. Are these referencing two different incidents?

Had this problem several times with a Hornby Magazine subscription, several issues arriving as the standard issue rather than with subscriber covers, which isn’t really a big deal, but with other issues simply never arriving. It’s probably just a general problem with Brexit etc. and although Peco will probably reimburse you, I personally would leave it as the publishers are hardly responsible. However, I was dealing with Key, who I’d trust a lot less than Peco!

Absolutely nothing to do with the topic, but love @DJ Dangerous’s new profile pic!

Ah ok, was confused as the material is obviously covering a broad subject. Thanks for helping, though.

Hi Ernie, just took a notion to try my hand at video editing, so thought I'd try to make something akin to the content of Britishit Rail Posting on YouTube and thought I'd use some Irish material. Tried YouTube and IFI player, but little luck and I was wondering if you had any clips of Supertrain, Arrow, black and tan and early diesels I could use. I don't plan on posting it anywhere except maybe this forum, as I don't have Facebook, YouTube etc. and I would avoid letting anyone in my year know I like trains. Thanks. PS-there may be some of the mentioned material somewhere on this thread, but there are 75 pages! Although I think all the photos are fantastic, it may start to drag at about the 5 year mark. All my respects go to you for keeping something like this going though! If it were me, I probably would have lost interest in about 2014 haha.

Any idea what era/region it is and of any specifications like if it's finescale, etc.? Might try and buy a few items of stock and send to them directly, but unfortunately I have about 43c in my Revolut account, so might be a little difficult.

You've replied to my garden railway topic, how did I not know you had one too?!