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I'd say commuters who use the line would take a 1 in 100 year flood risk to the current 1 in 1 year flood risk!

You would think raising the embankment, with a few large culverts to allow water to pass from one side to another would sort it out?

My brother picked up a couple of packs of modelling clay in Mr. Price for the kids to make stuff with - it could be pressed into service on a model railway I reckon

^^Exactly this^^ China don't see IP as a thing from what I have heard before.

Yep, I get the IP thing. Legally going after anyone but the factory selling these unofficial models is a waste of time

Except it is a copy - Paddy still has the full order he placed with the manufacturer. Press charges against the factory owner, not the people buying locos from Ebay - sure how are they to know anyway? Same as going after the drug dealers instead of the users/addicts I get the whole Intellectual Property (IP) thing - the factory are the ones running off extra copies to sell themselves, taking all the profit. This is who should be charged. Example - One of your relations knows you are into modelling Irish railways. As a present, they want to get you a model loco. Seeing them sold out on the Irish shops, they go to Ebay, and lo and behold, there's Irish locos for sale. They purchase one from the Chinese seller - should they be charged with handling stolen property? Should you if you received it from your aunt/uncle whatever? Daft...

Prosecuting someone for 'handling stolen property' is a bit of a dick move on his part IMO

Different gauge? Sure they might as well make it a bloody monorail in that case... SMH

One in the original grey livery on Adverts at the mo: https://www.adverts.ie/models/murphy-models-class-121-oo-gauge-model-mint-condition/32723266

You're not the only fan of a checkerboard pattern! https://www.rockarchive.com/prints/s/specials-the-spec001jf

I must get the finger out & do something like that myself, as I have no layout & a small shelf one would be good for practicing scenery techniques, etc...

I was going to say 'wheels'

Works are scheduled to take 12 weeks as far as I know, so yes, I'd say so!

I really enjoyed that! Great to see shots from locations you wouldn't normally see, being taken by the driver when held at a signal. Also, the background detail behind the pics gave it that extra too. I asked whether the recording was going to be uploaded to the IRRS youtube channel, for those that missed it, and it looks like it will be. I'd rewatch the show myself, as I did get called away from the show during the first half, and want to see what I missed!

Here's an update from November last year that ITV did: https://youtu.be/OUbZrXcMMqY?si=k-8vWn5Uak_4qPh-

Sometimes they will post a recording of the event - if they do, I'll stick it up here. That one good thing to come out of Covid lockdowns - the IRRS started holding these Zoom meetings. I am a member, and never made it to a single meeting in Heuston for any of the slideshow/talks, so it has been great being able to tune in to the online meetings!

ZOOM WEBINAR Thursday 21 March 2024 19:30 Iarnród Éireann in the 1990s An illustrated presentation by by Tony Cooke. Tony Cooke is a retired railwayman and driver, which gave him inside experience of the railway system. Tony will be presenting a selection of images from his vast collection showing Iarnród Éireann in the 1990s. Arguably the last decade of traditional railway operations before modernisation swept across the company from the 2000s onwards. THIS EVENT WILL BE ZOOM ONLY. Please click the link below to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86419759330?pwd=REE5b2NDdEloR3JBTkl1WE1HcjdkUT09

Nice! They got there in the end - hand delivered too! (for context - I tried posting them, but the parcel ended up being sent back to me due to some customs issue sending to the Canary Islands)

Here's a similar take on that sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cktlY8JfvQ

The new ones won't work with the older 141/181 models I saw it mentioned somewhere I think

Never been there either!

Sounds like cost-cutting measures went too far to me

I was thinking that's what it was, rather than 'paint bleed' on the model itself! Hail hail IRM's eye for detail!

Am I the only one here who can't drive a car? (I'm a biker, and never saw the point of a car when living in Dublin, with the traffic)

Plans have been unveiled for short-stay accommodation and a major model railway project on the Waterford Greenway at Kilmacthomas. Waterford City & County Council has commenced the Part 8 planning process for the project, situated at the village's former railway station. Labour Councillor Ger Barron says it's an exciting development for the local area - and outlined more details to WLR News. He described it as "a work of beauty". "In my view it will be a very big tourist attraction - people will love it when they see it. It's accurate in every detail, explains the history of the line and includes all of the features along the line such as towns, villages, tunnels, bridges and station houses." Cllr Barron explained that it will be built in a separate unit alongside the former train station as the existing building isn't large enough to accommodate the entire feature. The model railway was created by the late Lar Barton over a period of 30 to 35 years. source: https://www.wlrfm.com/news/model-railway-and-tourist-accommodation-planned-for-kilmacthomas-train-station-350518