On 20/2/2024 at 8:16 AM, Horsetan said:

 

Update: the local post office has found the parcel and we have retrieved it!

It does look like it has either been drop-kicked or partly crushed in transit....

Bastardos!

11 hours ago, mmie353 said:

I contacted Rails about this and they said it may take several weeks for them to complete the process from Hattons. They told me they will be reaching out to those to placed pre-orders for them. So we wait a little more.... 

Also reached out to Rails, same reply. Maybe a little more time. But it does show how desirable the Genesis coaches are, given the lack of anything similar or better out there (rtr)

On 11/2/2024 at 8:17 PM, WRENNEIRE said:

Superbowl???
They want to think of a new name for it!
Answers on a postcard.......

What’s a postcard?  

15 hours ago, Noel said:

Watched this interesting video on Injection Moulding plastic process.

 

I would suggest changing the title to this interesting thread/video  as it will not be found in a search of the forum save one for leprechauns and the like 

Sign me up x3, then there are liveries, here we go… (well hopefully)

5 hours ago, Robert Shrives said:

I guess waiting on announcing original livery/ Hunslet project, well hopefully.

Robert 

 

 

On 16/2/2024 at 9:54 AM, jhb171achill said:

And the 1990s have returned in Malahide today. 

But the driver of the Enterprise took a wrong turning and ended up heading for Wexford….

Surely that’s the signalman’s fault, setting the incorrect road? Ah, now I understand how in old photos various stock got so far from home territory except none really got to West Cork (sorry, Jonathan, working on my accent still)  

On 16/2/2024 at 2:29 PM, Newtoncork said:

Great to see these Jonathan. Be great for the kids at the weekend! Actually more for the dads........

Wouldn’t be a bad idea for kids to see these running, recent posts showing concern for the permanent loss of interest in earlier eras with the passing of time and modellers

Would be handy to have one for mainline and secondery route NIR stock also

5 hours ago, LNERW1 said:

I really want to test that… there may not actually be a limit, as I doubt there’d be anyone on this forum trying to do anything malicious by typing up a ridiculously long title.

Not any more  

12 hours ago, BosKonay said:

 

Serious and liberal use of the slider on the progress bar required on this amateur video, first ten minutes discussing the card board thickness, recycling the box, the underside being white?!   some running near the end, start from there… 

3 hours ago, DiveController said:

Could someone just confirm for me what bogies are on the prototypes for the BDTS, grill car and generator vans and whether there are B4, B5 on both ends or just one end for each of the three prototypes please?

Thanks so much.

My 1981 book was on the missing list but was found near the re-numbering queue.....

So I was second guessing myself that possibly the 'kitchen' end of the Grill, the BDTSs or DBFO 813 might have had B5 bogies but the three generator van were the only ones to have B5s at the genny end 

1 hour ago, Horsetan said:

I see someone on Farcebook already flogging two NIR Mk2bs from Pack 2 for 130 Euros!

Some did want to put a prototypical rake together that required extra coaches but this is difficult with them being sold as triple packs

49 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

No the bogies just screw off. The pickups are connected by sprung tabs. 

There's a piece of luck, nice design

Could someone just confirm for me what bogies are on the prototypes for the BDTS, grill car and generator vans and whether there are B4, B5 on both ends or just one end for each of the three prototypes please?

Thanks so much.

55 minutes ago, NIRCLASS80 said:

Any word of deliveries to NI?

Mine just arrived Stateside and OMG!

Absolutely love the Blue & Grey livery, as for the BGW, like just WOW! Love the gennys, grill will definitely need weathering, not to mention the exhaust…. but the DBSO, beautifully lit, very well thought out, cab lit separately, stays on in reverse but on DC only right now for a Quick Look (can’t remember if that prototypical, wouldn’t fault it either way). Lights still on the capacitor when I lifted it off the track, wand easy to use. Honestly if you have the remotest interest in NIR get some of these. Need to stick a chip in 111!  

Ok, …… Hunslets!

(would someone give me a quick nudge and wink if there is any reason not to dismantle a perfectly good Class 20 w sound)

PS: Boxes are still green  

9 hours ago, Blaine said:

Thanks Mammy, can you tidy my room and make me some food while you are at it please?

More irrelevant trash  

On 17/1/2024 at 1:12 PM, spudfan said:

On 17/1/2024 at 1:12 PM, spudfan said:

This is an interesting piece on the new "green" hydrogen power for locomtives. How "green"  is the production of the new "green "fuel?

Both are very good reads.

Traction Technology: Are hydrogen locomotives the next big thing?

Traction Technology: Are hydrogen locomotives the next big thing? | In depth | Railway Gazette International

Gas-fuelled freight locomotive under development

Gas-fuelled freight locomotive under development | News | Railway Gazette International

If the links do not work, I will copy/paste the texts.

Given how little freight and passengers are conveyed by Irish Rail I wonder if this would make any significant impact other then to tick some boxes

On 22/1/2024 at 2:50 PM, irishrailways52 said:

interesting indeed. I often wonder how good electric is as well. would it be worth wile for Irish rail to build some sort of a wind farm or a hydro station for future network electrification

Not sure why they would bother, given this should already be in place by the Irish government. Have any fossil fuel powered generator station in Ireland been eliminated by green energy from, wind, tide/hydro dare I ask?

@BosKonay

Nothing urgent but noticed a lot of recent issues remaining signed in on iPhone 13 and signed the terms and conditions a dozen time already 

Wondering why mailing notifications for my Northern Irish models were sent by that company in the UK, Accurascale  

On 2/2/2024 at 7:10 AM, JasonB said:

Arrived this morning. One word. Stunning. 

 

Unless the color rendition is very off the boxes are blue? At least they’ll be easier to find in the sea of green  

On 25/1/2024 at 3:51 PM, BosKonay said:

once they are in we’ll send you a mail and the system will try the card three days later. You can log in at any time in the mean time and settle using any method you prefer too

The button to put them in the cart seems to be missing, PREORDER only except the two BnTs (luckily). I’ll try again today…

7 hours ago, Blaine said:

The information is in this very thread

 

And yet all you could type was this ?

On 31/1/2024 at 8:24 AM, Westcorkrailway said:

As of half an hour ago. Hattons website as stopped taking orders and the physical store is now closed. 
 

how will the pre orders work for the coaches? 

They will be produced per Hattons closing down letter but how and by whom will they be delivered is not known, so don’t bother reading the entire thread 

2 hours ago, Dempsey said:

Trick is to get her to buy them for you

True, and Valentines Day just around the corner

The next release from IRM in O gauge?

1 hour ago, irishrailways52 said:

perhaps we could bring 800 back if we had a hand like that to lift it over the too low bridges

Often wondered why with its enthusiasm to augment the railbed, CIE felt it needed to completed ignore and reduce the loading gauge?

On 4/1/2022 at 10:26 AM, WRENNEIRE said:

 

 

O Gauge by Bren Kelly, the blessings of God on his curly hair ! 

 

 

Would love one (or three) in this livery! Would be great to have some stuff in GSR. I imagine most people (including me) would buy one of these regardless of their modeling era, some would buy all three (including myself) and those crazy enough might even buy and reminder with 803 and 804 (me-self included one again )

There is still a lot interest in pre grouping and BR steam across the pond but almost none in Irish pre-CIE despite the population disparity. Lack of model availability of course doesn’t help either. 

On 7/1/2024 at 6:41 PM, jhb171achill said:

 

1.   00 Works GNR 4.4.0  

2.  00 Works GNR 0.6.0  

3.  00 Works CBSCR 0.6.0T  

4.  NCC Jinty

      18    19   O gauge  

5.  Bachmann "Woolwiches" in several liveries 

6.  00 Works J15s (2 varieties) 

 7.   IRM Steam Loco?   …..

8.   IRM Second  Steam prompted by renewed

      interest in Steam …….  

9.   IRM 800 class …….  

On 4/1/2022 at 6:02 AM, murrayec said:

The first of 2022 Fair dates;-

Due to the current Covid situation please keep an eye on here for confirmation of the Fair going ahead.

This year's flyer is sporting the 'Hibernia' in grey livery, one of the first locos to run on the Dublin & Kingstown Railway in 1834.

Happy New Year.

When is the IRM model due to arrive?