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Will have to await the outcome of police investigation to establish if this was just darwinian criminal thugs, or a well planned terrorist attack. If the latter the implications are extremely worrying for rail transport.

Too small scale, methinks. If you wanted to do that on a railway, the tonnage/speed of the train would be weaponized in a critical area to create more havoc and loss of adjacent trains, buildings, infrastructure. We've already seen attacks of the Spanish and Japanese rail networks. Individuals have routinely thrown bricks and other objects at trains from elevated positions such as the Glanmire tunnel approaching Kent station and even tied a poor donkey to the rails at one point. Incapacitating the driver of a train approaching a station could have profound consequences although I presume the locomotive still has some form of 'dead man's handle' (pardon the expression)

If you do a conversion on the chassis could you post some pics of the steps, please?

Great series of photos, John. Lovely station building. Great to see these for modeling and even to select preassembled 'look-alikes' for the rest of us!

I have found ESU Lokpilot to be a pretty advanced chip particularly for double-heading 141/181/121s. The CVs are easy to adjust which may be necessary to get all functions working on the 201s which have unusual electronic set-up/architecture.

Think Noel is not into 201s but that's good to know as I also have a rake of 141/181s that will need to be done and I intend to do some consists:)

The video includes earlier CIE publicity material including the Cork Glanmire Road-Alexandra Road B&I liner Irelands 1st company train and footage filmed or the introduction of the Supertrain in 1972.

 

Interesting to see CIE filmed the Supertrain on the South-Eastern, publicity included a poster of an aerial photo of the train passing Avoca village. I always thought 001 looked really well with the roof painted black.

 

The modernisation plan was pared/cut back radically as CIEs financial position worsened, while most of the freight part was implemented, it took another 30 years to upgrade the track and signalling to modern standards.

 

The plan was a lot more wide reaching than just freight and basically involved total route modernisation in addition to the new trains.

 

Push-pull trains were to be used on Dublin-Waterford & Dublin-Limerick passenger services, some freights were planned to go out by one route and return by another. At one stage there were plans to serve Waterford and Wexford with one sundries train serving South Eastern & Kilkenny line depots.

 

The bogie fertiliser wagons with their steel mesh doors were originally nicknamed Long Kesh wagons. Sundries traffic was originally to be carried in block trains of 60' sliding door vans.

 

Some of the H&S stuff is scary, I wonder how may of those Inchacore workers in the video ended up without some form of occupational disease. Internationally railways were never good at looking after their workers health

Probably why it failed, John. Difficult to be competitive without the infrastructure. Wonder how much it would cost now, 23m punts then, billions now. It would be interesting to see if that had been implemented how the network would look now and whether the railways would be in greater usage for both passenger and freight, like European counterparts, not to mention the huge socioeconomic benefits.

There's surprisingly little news attention to this story - http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-11-08/police-investigate-reckless-attempt-to-derail-a-train/ - seems to have been rather a near thing.....

Neanderthals!……….. pity they weren't still driving it on there, a swift buffer up the a*** is what is required there!

Fair play Richie, i'm trying to pluck up the courage to take the plunge, if it goes wrong plan B will be licking white metal dust!

Errr,….. just for those who didn't actually read the thread, that toxic metal dust is not advised:puke:

Great clip Dave!

Really? Can you explain why this item is so valuable or it's just a nice little nostalgic piece?

Anyone know the history of the model? Lovely looking piece

You will have to pick it up in person, because apparently it doesn't post!

Like the spoils, Kirley. Very authentic to the photos. Nice job!

Any luck with the next episodes?

If anyone finds it on youtube, please post a link, thanks to snapper for the last one

Surprising they have managed to maintain those relationships:cheers: Maybe Blaine could be their new public relations officer to foster those:-bd. To be fair, I think that Ed's curtness on a thread about Gatwick gennys just spilled over onto Noel. How do I sign up to join MRSNOD4?

Anyone familiar with the Kemilway brass kit of a footbridge? Know how much they're worth?

Here's a couple of quick videos....

 

The first one just has the loco standing still while I run up through the engine notches. The second one is 142 shunting some container flats. It was difficult working the throttle while trying to film everything with my phone but hopefully you'll get the effect of the engine sound!

 

 

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Sounds good to my uneducated ear. Nice to hear it. Made me smile!

Filed a mental note, I'll be sticking with the Loksound when I get to sound unless we have something newer by then.

States that the video is private…. you didn't post the one of you and the missus , I hope:rolleyes:

I'll be visiting Seamus's store later this week to collect my order and some DCC conversions, so I will ask him what the story is as regards further resprays of the galway EGV to either IE or IR livery (i.e. black or orange roof).

Noel,

You're becoming a bit of a regular in Port Laoise. What DCC conversions?

Just trying to get these done for the IRRS show happening in Cork Monday night in the Metropole Hotel. These are MIR white metal Flats , Not a clinical as SSM effort for sure. Weighty though!! Every thing soldered on this bar the brass bearings for the wheel axles which were super glued on. Primer is on now so coupling hooks got on tonight if I don't fall asleep after marching around town today with the other 10k of people.

 

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Also a repaint into the Grey livery on one of the MM models 071s..number 078.

 

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Now, it's a unique Limited edition:tumbsup:

blast, four letter word getting in the way... work 25 notes is for nothing!!

Don't worry, George, they can charge you double!

Sorry mate! I'd say Graham will do another batch if these have sold out. You should e-mail him.

I may order a rake of the new coaches from Mr TrainMan when they come in Supertrain and throw this in;)

I ordered the last re-spray off Graham so finally after months of searching i got one, finally completing my Mark 2 rake but blew my layout budget in doing so!

On a cheerier note, you HAVE one and I don't yet……..hang on, now I'm depressed:(

Sorry

 

If I recall correctly.

 

Sounds like they have short Kadees fitting which will draw the coaches at least two mm closer together than the factory couplers.

Ooops, silly me. I was trying to fit railway, irish, etc into the acronym:ROFL:

The great thing with Kadees is that you can lift out a coach without derailing the whole rake unlike Hornby style couplers. The Kadees couple up easily and tend to make a rake more tolerant of less-than-perfect track. The Cravens do have prominent buffers and tend to buffer-lock on tighter curves.

I don't think the buffers locked but the inner ones might have pushed against each other on the curve causing a derailment (that may be what you meant by buyer locking). It didn't happen with my other cravens that had the Hornby style couplers. Wonder if the previous owner fitted ones that were a little too short closing the coaches too close together BK, what's iirc?

Try Alan Gibson as well, (4MM91) the Midland Railway footbridge stg£ 52

 

An etched brass kit that makes up into a common platform mounted footbridge design of the Midland Railway although it does also

contain within the frets, alternative sides that will ‘convert’ it to examples used by the Glasgow & South Western Railway. Photo taken from his catalogue

 

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Thanks Weshty:tumbsup:

Are you familiar with the Kemilway brass kit of a footbridge similar to what you just put up there?