skinner75

9 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

Some “interesting” 6-wheeled coaches.

Look to be hand repainted French coaches - possibly Jouef/Playcraft?

Cheers

Darius

Same lad selling them on Adverts too:

https://www.adverts.ie/member/3407986/ads

No bother to tear up tarmac in the future if rails are to go back down. Sure the whole trackbed would need to be torn up & redone anyway, even if the old rails were still in place 

47 minutes ago, west_clare_wanderer said:

I'm starting to get worried England are going to win..... I'm still getting over the Czechia heartache. I don't want to be surrounded by gloating England flag wavers to compound it!  

I wouldn't worry about it! If Mexico don't beat em, they'll go on to meet either Brazil or Norway

I ordered a couple of the later, dual white stripe ones. I had already ordered several of the older single white stripe ones

17 hours ago, Auto-Train Original said:

what is the railway purpose of a emergency generator room and why would they need three?

Are they to provide power to the signaling in case of mains failure? 

18 hours ago, Darius43 said:

I see Model Railway Emporium has today placed a lot of Silverfox Irish railcars, locos and coaches on eBay.  Part of the Chris Dyer collection presumably.

Cheers

Darius

Are Silverfox still doing Irish items, or is Ebay etc the last chance to pick one up?

My offer was declined! 

1 hour ago, west_clare_wanderer said:

I'm tempted to offer €10

Go for it - I put in an offer of £15

Offer €30 for it

I hate managers. If I was in the army, I'd hate officers

1 hour ago, Mayner said:

Stainless steel stock sometimes tends to look quite battered and rough in close-up   Stock from NZR presitigious Silver Star express stored in Thames after 24 of the coaches were re-gauged and converted for use on the Eastern & Orient Express between Singapore, Malasia & Thailand

https://nzrailphotos.co.nz/photos/silver-star?page=1#lg=119&slide=2167

I suspect Irelands climate with its high humidity and rainfall & the use of unpainted aluminium had a lot to do with the poor weathering/severly tarnished state at CIEs 'silver locos and stock. 

NZR Silver Sar often appeared to be hauled by heavily weathered GM or GE locos which did not help the image.

Stored in the Thames more like! 

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How about kettles in Black & Tan livery?

Temporary, as the platform & trackbed will need to be raised when the nearby bridge over the river is raised.

Some dose had objected to the bridge being raised, even though this was the recommendation listed in a flood prevention scheme. The decision was made to install the bridge deck, so progress on the line could be made, then come back to raise it & the approaches at a later date

Could be from Sam's Trains playing with it on the carpet 

Give it to a kid to play with?

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On 24/4/2026 at 8:48 PM, Mol_PMB said:

Eeyore, perhaps?

A frozen lasagne? 

It's weird - I am fully sure that I saw the exact same slideshow presented by Ken previously. Crazy sense of deja-vu watching last night, that just grew the further into the show

Just a reminder that this is on tonight - looking forward to it!

THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2026 @ 19:30

“More Ramblings from the 80s” by Ken Fox

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That’s exactly it! The longer the live-stream went on and the more comments that popped up, the further detached from reality I felt.

There was one grounded guy in the comments section, like a voice of reason in a sea of madness, trying to anchor the discussion in reality, but he was overshadowed by the volume of odd comments.

Idiots will try to drag you down to their level, where they can beat you with their experience of being an idiot

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