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Thinning out my North American loco collection.  

Athearn SD-40 in Santa-Fe livery.   Very good runner, DCC ready.  A few scuff marks on the box,  Not aware of any issues but please study the phots as these are part of  the description of the loco.

Athearn SD-40 in Southern Pacific livery.   Very good runner, DCC ready.  Very good box box,  Not aware of any issues but please study the phots as these are part of  the description of the loco.

€85.00  €75.00 each plus post or both for €150.00 posted within Ireland.

For photos please see my old ads.

An Atlas BC Rail Dash 8-40B  running No. 3902 with factory fitted DCC decoder on board.   Very good runner and all lights working . 

DCC address reset to 03

€130    €120   including registered post within Ireland.

Well you can never have too many class 37's,  there were 309 real ones....     

Not sure if  this the correct  section to post this topic in,

Depending on the make of the decoder and if the CV's have been altered, it should still work on normal DC with a decoder fitted.  

8 minutes ago, Dempsey said:

Unfortunately it was a compromise I had to make with the space. Thank you though for your suggestion. 

If you are using set-track then the Peco track geometry is the same as Hornby. As previously mentioned, Peco much better quality track than Hornby.

11 minutes ago, GSR 800 said:

Same issue, no option for delivery to Ireland from what I can see

Strange for an Irish company not shipping to/within Ireland?  ;\)

Once the Deltics, 37's and 31's are 'Hoovered' up will we get a class 50?    

Saw one of Pam's trains  YouTube videos once.  That was enough!!!    

Great images of the HSB,   Was there in 2004 and again in 2005.  One place I would love to visit again. 

Would this one be any good?  https://www.hattons.co.uk/886529/lima_l305301_po86_mk_2b_fk_first_corridor_w13493_in_br_blue_grey_pre_owned_good_box/stockdetail 

A great idea,  Would be nice if more countries could do something similar to encourage use of public transport.

I can recommend Hobby mad.  I have had several orders with them and very good service.  Very good range of Vallejo paints and competitive prices too.

No connection with them apart from satisfied customer.

Regards,  John

On 15/4/2022 at 12:44 PM, amdaley said:

Check the Hattons customs label when the package arrives & see if its ok.

It seems with An Post  it depends who scans your package as to which way things will go.

Its a mess with them but what's new

Should of updated last week.  I paid the VAT and Anpost fee and amazingly the item arrived the next day.   

When the package arrived all seemed to be ok with it, I did not notice anything different to previous orders,  so seems to have possibly been Anpost mess-up when item was scanned, (when I put in the tracking/custom's info from Anpost it said sender unknow) anyway, I contacted Hatton's and emailed them the Anpost receipt and correspondence and they gave me a full refund of the VAT & charges.

2 hours ago, randallator said:

If only there were a club member with American stock who had specifically booked the 2 dates for the show off work so they could run said stock on Bushville, also as its a club layout rule 1 does not apply

Why should rule 1 not apply to club layouts?   

13 hours ago, amdaley said:

The best thing is to contact Hattons. 

I did contact Hattons, they have changed their policy a bit, they say they will refund the VAT but not the handling charge!  This is a copy of the email that that I sent to  the CEO at Hattons yesterday, along with his reply.   I know the admin fee is 'only' €3.50 but that is not the point, is it a ploy from Anpost to see how much more money they can try and get out of people?  

"Hi John

Thanks for your order and email. Our policy is that shipping and duty is paid for by the customer. I agree that admin fees are not welcome, and we honestly do our best to make a "level playing field" to stop any customers feeling this way. I am working on ways for us to process these more seamlessly, so in the future there are no (or reduced) fees like this

Anpost  are back to their antics once again.  Today in the post had a card telling me I have to pay customs charges on my recent order from Hatton's.   Does not say what it is for until you put in the customs/tracking info on the Anpost website.

After last summers shenanigan's with Anpost things appeared to be fine until now.  

As usual Anpost customer service were helpful as usual, Not!!!

Nice work there,  plenty of detail in a small space.

10 hours ago, mmie353 said:

It is getting crazy with the prices on eBay, I know everyone is entitled to ask what they want for their models an it looks like there are people out there that will pay them prices, as long as people will keep buying models at crazy prices, the more and more we will see of prices going up. I was going to start looking for 3 071s and trying to keep an eye out for them, I wonder what prices they would command at the moment on eBay. 

I currently have an 071, No. 080 listed in classifieds. https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/classifieds/item/9-murphy-models-071-class-loco/

I will have to amend the pricing on my listings that I have put on here in the classifieds earlier lol...  

9 minutes ago, Sean Hogan said:

Delays are not due to hattons it is when the goods arrive here is the problem.

Yes that's why I was asking if anyone had any problems recently.

Has anyone had any orders or delivery's from Hatton's this year?   If so did you encounter any problems or delays?    Ordered an item on 5th January, posted 6th January, Royal Mail 3-5 day delivery, as yet 20th January nothing.   

Pity Hatton's don't use DPD to ship to Ireland. Ordered an item from Screwfix.ie on Monday, it being shipped from England and will be delivered today.  If DPD can deliver why can't Anpost?

Don't know if An Post have sorted their issues with incoming parcels yet,  I ordered an item from Hatton's on Tuesday 26th Oct and it was delivered today Friday 29th with out any issues.       

Hopefully a sign of things to come??

What's the matter with people these days!

https://westernpeople.ie/2021/10/18/anti-social-behaviour-causes-two-hour-delay-on-mayo-train/?fbclid=IwAR2KPtxBUlWdn8HxhGF6j6MJvTVxtF3IIeo-MO6qW5_ukOiHf_WBseO3C7M

13 hours ago, amdaley said:

There's one common denominator in the above, well actually there's two, British & Chaos but the first one definitely caused the second on both occasions 

You mean Boris & Chaos....