Colin_McLeod

Very nice Jim. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing mine on the layout.

Price originally advertised by Hattons was £120 and £33 for four pack and single coach respectively. Prices on my invoice with UK VAT removed are £108.29 and £29.13 and these prices equate to £129.95 and £35.95 with 20% VAT. E mail from Rails explains slight price increase: [quote]Due to the time elapsed since the announcement of the coaches, along with additional production costs and increased shipping charges, a slight increase in prices has become necessary. We have endeavoured to keep any price increases to a minimum. If you wish to cancel your order, we are happy to accommodate this request. Please be aware that any future stock that becomes available for sale will be priced higher than the current pre-order price offered to you.[quote] Postage to Ireland is not free. The £0.00 charge appears because I had not yet, at the time of the screenshot selected my shipping option.

A meeting point every Saturday morning for railway modellers. I think the name of the postmaster was Cecil Robinson. Please correct me if I have the name wrong.

Included in my invoice.

My recent Rails' orders did have UK VAT deducted, and I paid Irish VAT to An Post

Just a though, but if DDs can't go to GC yet, could NIR and IR enter into some arrangement whereby the Enterprise is temporarily operated entirely by ICR sets with the DDs working to Galway or Sligo. If it's possible that would avoid the Enterprise returning to Lanyon Place and would enable GC rail operations to get started until the problem is sorted.

What will that involve? If the track is on top of it could that mean lifting the track, redoing the apron and track relaying and commissioning? OR Enterprise returns to Lanyon Place. Either way, lots of egg on faces

Anything to do with tbe Blackstaff culvert?

I have no problem with Health and Safety involvement to make sure everything is OK. That has always been the way with new railways. Not sure what the Assembly has to do with it, if anything.

Deltics on the Enterprise.

I can't believe they add 'train station to the names of the stations. How is Dundalk only a 'Halt'?

Not really strange from Dapol's viewpoint. Simple livery variation of an existing model and 'Hey Presto' an RTR Irish steam loco to modern standards ready to sell to all those Irish Modellers. It seems to have worked. So good they did it twice; in O and in OO

J C Pattersons and Fletcher's cycle shop, both in Lisburn sold Hornby Dublo and Meccano. I recall selling my Lego c 1972 and spending the five pounds realised buying a Duchess of Montrose set (BR maroon coaches) when J C Pattersons was stopping selling model trains. Their Meccano wassold off via Ulster Model Railway Club- Thank you Charlie Hamilton for organising that. I also remember window shopping as a young boy at Fairfield's ( I think that was the name), in the main street in Lurgan. I saved up for and purchased Triang clerestory coaches there. I recall they also had Hornby Dublo Suburban coaches, and my Dad bought me three of them.

Now that Peco are aware of problems with the delivery company, it will be Peco's fault if they continue to use them without getting things sorted.

Thanks Jonathan, it's difficult to find a picture of both ends of a train! I'll keep looking.

I'm reactivating an old thread in the hope of some information. I am placing an order with Silver Fox for a BUT set and have one question. Would a train, ever have run with a 700 series (side cabs) at one end and a 900 series (full width cabs) at the other? I like both types and am trying to make decisions without too much application of "Rule one".

Snap!

Is there a current veterinary report?

If 180 was the maroon coach that was at GVS sidings beside the tobacco factory, then shortly before it was removed I rescued this GNR(I) map which was in one of the compartments. Some pictures were also rescued by friends of mine who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty!

I find that An Post's Address Pal service works very well. You get a UK address in Hatfield Herts and An Post forward the item to you in Ireland. AND they fill in all the customs paperwork correctly. Details at: https://addresspal.anpost.ie/ They also provide you with a USA address. Only downside is if you are buying new items you end up paying both UK VAT and Irish VAT, but it is ideal for second hand items on ebay and avoids the high charges of their global shipping service.

@jhb171achill the motorist was not injured at Tweed's crossing. The person who was killed there was a passenger in the train. His mother and the motorist (who got everyone out of the car in time) were work colleagues. Her husband was Billy Tweed, part of the NIR PW team at the time.

Jonathan, I just spotted this post. It was the Tweeds Accommodation Crossing where the motorist stalled as you have described. At Slaght, the crossing was not working but the train came anyway, hence the train driver being tried for manslaughter. Two adults in the car died and two children in the car were seriously injured. One railway passenger died and 27 injured.

A superb model.

So who plans to travel on the last GVS train?