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It’s a JM Design one…. Excellent models.

I think I’ll advertise €5 notes for £234 each. Please don’t ask questions about price. Seriously, this guy is downright offensive with this blatant attempted robbery.

Cheek of him….. “no comments on pricing”! 375 in brexitpounds is €440 - more than doubling his money BEFORE charges are added. Blatant gouging - I sincerely hope nobody buys it.

The "Flying Woodlouse"...................?

Yes - can't see the point myself of yer man posting it either - but that's the photographer's business, I suppose.... I liked the shot because it shows an ancient MGWR brake 3rd with a brand new tin van, and a wooden-bodied GSWR bogie....

Convert to euros and add routine post and customs, and you're pretty much exactly at €300..... Here we go again!

Saw that!

Yes, the farmers often got beet pulp back as animal feed. Some beet trains I’ve seen pictures of in the 1960s had up to half a dozen vans.

The weathering on the 2.4.0 is the work of “Dempsey”, of this constituency……

Looking very well….

The more whiskey you had in Manorhamilton or Belcoo, the more likely you’d see those guys on the last train home….

”…..ah, don’t get me wrong, the diesel’s way easier, but I’m too long in the tooth to learn them things. When it goes diesel in February I’m off to England, job in a bakery near me sister’s in Birmingham…. yeah, so this is me last beet season…”

It’s beet season. The empty wagons have arrived, plus a van to bring the beet pulp back to the farmers.

Variously fine gravel and crushed cinders out of locos….even sand….. according to the guy in charge of the PW when that pic was taken!

Could well be the same train! I’ll look for the link.

Indeed; but the wording of the initial bit is, I assume, verbatim from the photographer! So unless he changes his mind…. Before I read that bit I had emailed smugmug’s own “help line”; it was they who pointed this out to me……

Hi hexagon It seems I didn’t read the writings on it properly - it says that the particular photographer (whose details are private) does not “under any circumstances” grant permission for copies, nor enter into any correspondence! I must presume, therefore, that unless anyone knew him personally and might “put in a word” for someone else, it’s a dead duck…. The photo was of a steam train leaving Dunsandle for Loughrea. It’s not even that great a photo, but I like it!

I had a footplate run on one occasion when the official speed for the section was exceeded by over 20 mph!

Only saw a train on that line once - the daily goods crossing the street in Charlestown….. he only had about 4 or 5 wagons on…… superb choice and those drawings of the crossing cottage would be suitable - and easy to build - in many applications. Its making me wonder if I can fit a level crossing on my extension station….

Very many thanks, Jason, much appreciated. Enjoy!

Having seen the finished result, I would strongly recommend changing status from “interested” to “purchaser”; that will automatically propel you to the ranks of “satisfied customer”!

That issue applies no doubt to a number of types of vehicles “at the end of the train”; BR vans, Dutch vans, tin vans in their several varieties, EGVs and TPOs. You could always flog them on fleabay for €799.99 each + postage + customs + duty + import + delivery + taxes…..

Seems no probs with that. Those who live in the north may not be aware that down here the postal service treats all of Ireland as one unit; thus, if I post a letter from Cork to Coleraine, or Lifford to Strabane, it's local rate. I am aware that a letter coming the other way has to be treated as "international" postage. Same for parcels. Now, as far as actual customs are concerned, it seems that so far anyway, the "protocol", the Common Travel Area, either or both, results in no issues for parcels posted south to north - not sure about the other way round. It's when they travel from Ireland to Britain or vice versa that problems seem at arise. The only sure-fire way around it is for those of us who can, get anything ordered in Britain to be delivered to a friend or relative WITHIN Britain or the north, and for those who live in either, vice versa. I now have routine that whenever a relative (who lives in the UK) visits me, anything I've ordered online from a British supplier appears too!

"Adult" modelling has never been cheap anywhere, and where cheap models are available of anything, it's a case of compromising quality. ("You get what you pay for"). Undoubtedly, the words "compromise" and "quality" do not even fit in the same sentence in IRM-land. Any hobby is expensive at a serious end. Look at golf clubs / green fees, or what serious-head fishermen or cyclists cough up in support of their hobbies.....