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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

I wouldn't go near anything that Space Karen has to do with!

Someone put together this horror themed movie of Thomas the Tank Engine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4SLJM9A2NA

You could do various era vans too - sheet the outside, and paint it yellow for the PWay plough van look for example, with the 'porch/veranda' at one end

Listening to this banger at the moment, but could be anything really! Back when I was in college, a few of us went for a drive down to north Spain to visit a friend, and we had a mix tape with this track on it - brings back good memories!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yAOMIzUBQA

30 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

With all the money in the world! I would love to see a narrow gauge rail system to all the remote villages in the country linking to a rail system covering each large town and city properly.

A rail link to the airport would do me! 

It's a no-brainer really

One thing I could see possibly being an issue is the pathing of extra freight services over the single track section to Tullamore.

Maybe this would be an issue, or maybe not

https://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/tullamore-tribune/1420917/exploring-the-possibility-of-tullamore-becoming-a-midland-s-freight-hub.html

'New' trains for Iran some years ago, or a 'look what we are doing for the country' type thing, where they just used a shot of our very own 181!

Lest we forget:

File the 'peak' over the cab down on a 66 and it'd look fairly close to a 201

Need to login to that site - can't see the pic otherwise

Mad price alright - shame I don't have a double of 112! 

I tried it, but it will only cycle through the pics in the individual post, not the whole thread. Be nice if it did though!

3 minutes ago, Patrick Davey said:

I was thinking it gives me an excuse to buy a box of Quality Street then I will have lots of shades to choose from!!!

Or back in the day, a bottle (glass) of Lucozade, with the orange plastic wrapper, that you could take off & look through for an orange-tinted view of the world!

Brilliant idea! Nice bit of 'thinking outside the box' that.

You could always give them a light wash with a yellow, to tone down the ice white light to a more old-time yellowish glow

PM sent

18 hours ago, BosKonay said:

Unless you received a cancellation, no. What will happen is the instalments will continue until the stock arrives then the balance will be due. HTH

The partial.ly email just took time to roll in - all set now for the IR & IE ones, paying over three months. So when they land, there will be still a balance for me to pay, but that's no problem. 

At least my name is in the pot now so to speak!

Hi DJ, yep, checked it on the Partial.ly website, and can only see my fully paid up ICR order.

That being said, the credit card was one that had expired at the end of last year, so that may have been the issue, although I would have thought it would have prompted to update the card

46 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Unless you received a cancellation, no. What will happen is the instalments will continue until the stock arrives then the balance will be due. HTH

I tried to place the preorder with partial.ly this morning, for the IR/IE locos. If I look under My Orders in my account, I don't see the order, and received no email to say the order had been placed.

Feck it, I'll dig out the credit card this evening and order them on that, and select pay in full

52 minutes ago, Garfield said:

 

Gents, just to clarify, Partial.ly is only accepted for pre-orders with at least a six-month lead time as goods are not reserved until payment is completed in full. The 141/181s are due in approximatley six weeks.

 

https://irishrailwaymodels.com/pages/flexible-instalment-options

I had a look at my orders section, and can't see the IR/IE locos I did the preorder on this morning with Partial.ly as the payment option (paid over three months) - was my order automatically cancelled? 

EDIT: ok, so "Preorder items that are imminently arriving, or in stock items, that order with partial.ly will be automatically cancelled. " - that answers that!

Cheers Murph - I backed out of the checkout, spotted the link, then proceeded - all good now!

10 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Now that Paddy has confirmed the RRP and arrival date (May) we're able to revert to our normal, no money down, preorders. There is also time for those who want to use the Partial.ly option to split the costs over the next 3 months (weekly, or monthly) if it helps...

Anyone who logged an Expression of interest, should have an email now with links to add those items to their carts for 'real' .

I have added locos into my basket, but at the checkout screen, I am not seeing any Partial.ly payment option?

EDIT: just spotted the Partial.ly option at the bottom of the screen!