Noel

That is a very long layout

Past Avenue was one of our grandchildren's favourite layout at the show. So much to see, so much action, so many micro scenes. Bog Road and Buffers lock also caught their eye. It was difficult to walk around and see the exhibits such was the density of the crowd on day one.

Purely personally i was hoping for a C class or a Sulzer 110 or even 113. The Hunslet to IRM standards will make a lot of people happy.

Bog Road was fabulous. My grand children were really impressed with it too. How did you take that photo, the crowds of people were so large it was nearly impossible to see some of the layouts the large hall was so crammed with people. Fantastic visitor turnout. Buffers lock was extraordinarily interesting. Grand children very impressed with the visuals and micro scenes

Unfortunately I’ll probably have to give it a miss this year if there is a parking issue. Sounds like the new venue will be a great improvement in terms of size, and circulation space instead of small little classrooms of years gone bye. Hope folks have a great weekend and enjoy the show.

Wow. What a find. Late coming to the party on this thread, this is one of the 1977 cast metal bogie versions I still have, I remember retaining and then weathering the chassis and under frames around 1978, because the day glow orange plastic was hideously bright and not CIE tan at all. As it was 1978 it was brush repainted by this then impatient teen. Nostalgia memory but those motor bogies were truly awful and unreliable runners from the tri-ang stable. Great find though and thanks for posting As its nostalgia day today here was my entire collection of Irish stock in the 1970s, top Lima BR mk1 coaches pretending to be some Irish coach, below the Hornby 'Slainte Express' or whatever they called it with the Hymek and Br Mk2 coaches in dayglo orange. I could not stomach the shiny chrome window frame paint so over painted with matt black paint to tone the coaches down a bit. Some old Rover/Tri-Ang tooled station buildings of that era too.

Yes hopefully, having spoken to folks at rails, they confessed that were caught off guard by the large batch of these coaches and had not anticipated the level of logistics to move them out to customers. I suspect it may be quite some time before there is enough pent up demand to re-run these, there were limited numbers of OO works J15s sold and I guess most of these coaches went to folks with J15s of some origin. As to Hornby TT120, respectfully I still think it's a dead duck, the betamax of model railways that missed the boat during the 1970s. Only time will tell. Unfortunately Hornby are in serious trouble but I for one would be sad to see the end of such an iconic and nostalgic brand name. Anyway brand names never die, only the businesses that once owned them, somebody else will snap up the rights to the brand name should the company ever fail. It'll be next week before I get a chance to play with my Hattons 6 wheelers.

Yes indeed that's a very big run and being sold out shows what surprising demand there was for old era stuff. Yet I suspect we might see these fetch big money on ebay in 10 years times as rare collectors items. Especially with the Hattons boxes. Me I just wanna throw away the box and play with them now It really is end of an Era with Hattons no more. Well done Hornby! My coaches arrived today, stunning, will play with them next week on Gort. Examining them today a few bits fell off, the negative side of hyper detailing perhaps, too hot to handle Delighted, I waited for these. Looking forward to receiving the IRM Park Royals when they are due to ship presume before end of 2024

They emailed me to apologise as the size of the consignment was vast due massive demand, they promised it would shipped in the coming weeks. OO Works J15 with sound ready haul

No Sign of mine yet.

I think I fitted Kadee no 18s to mine, possibly 19s. I'll have a look later.

Same

Printed in IWN magazine last month.

Yes it’s unfortunate that the UK and Ireland suffer a criminal, yob youth antisocial culture that is far less prevalent in more civilised European countries. Walk the streets of other European capitals late at night and you just don’t see such. Hopefully in time the rising tide of economic prosperity will raise all boats. None of us chose where we were born.

Ditto

Somebody paid for the machine and the private property it is located on (lease/rent/capital), probably also paying commercial rates. There's no such thing as a free lunch. In the old days free water and air pumps were seen as a marketing draw to bring people unto a retail site (ie filling station probably with a shop). Perhaps the pay per use hardware is more robust and therefore up to public abuse. Why do people want to blow up anything?

Those were the days

Had many a memorable jump seat on those old 100 series, they had steam gauge analogue cockpit instrumentation but at least had INS so no need for astro sights. Had 5 engines slung under the wings on occasion.

Stunning result. Less is more. The business for authenticity.

Absolutely Fabulous. I was fortunate a few years ago to sit in one of the 3 surviving cars that were made for the movie.

Yes only old Lima stuff with the pizza cutter wheels couldn't run on code 75

We often go down to Killarney for a few days eBike cycling around the lakes and the large national parks, we usually get the train down and 5min taxi out to the Lake Hotel for our cycling base, as its right next-door to Muckross Park, and 10min cycle into town of races to the National Park. One year we got a taxi from the train, and the driver quizzed us as to why the hell had we chosen to visit Killarney on the May bank holiday weekend because the lakes of Killarney rally was on. He exclaimed the locals evacuate that weekend so bad is the noise in the town and all the anti-social behaviour from some of rally followers with their baseball caps & coke can exhaust amplified Impreza pretends roaming and cruising the town complete with shopping trolly spoilers on the rear. I said we didn't know it was on and he barked the 'crowd' who come down to watch it all thought they are Colin McRae but in truth none of them could reverse a trailer into a silage pit. I said it can't be that bad, he barked the gurriers were so bad, 200 extra Garda had been sent down from Dublin to stop the idiots from wrapping themselves around telegraph poles and killing pedestrians. I expressed surprise. He enquired what we'd be doing and when I told me we came down for a cycling weekend, he replied "I tell ou now for sure, ou will be kilt schton ded if ou go out on wan of dem dam byeschicles, kilt schton ded I tell ou". Needless to say we were perfectly safe cycling inside the two national parks along the lake shore, but could hear the whine of the professional rally drivers in the distance. We didn't hear any of the shopping trollies raving their 1.2 engines at night as we were staying outside the town. I said to the taxi driver, surely all these young rally supporters bring good tourist revenue into the town, he said "Not a bit of it, sure day schleep in deyr kiars, and only buy chips and cans of beer to eat, no money for the gwuest houses or hutels". Anyway we weren't kept awake by any of it, but notice d the heavy traffic cruising the town the day we left.

I've had no problems with MM 121 or 141 running on Peco code 75 track. Apologies I have no experience running on other track systems.

This is fabulous. Track construction on another scale. Impressive and entertaining

Yes, we live down a farm lane and they leave stuff over the wall up on the road entrance. Fortunately inexpensive items. The most annoying thing is rain damage, once discovered a delivery of an expensive electronics appliance that suffered rain damage, they had no signature so after considerable toing and froing our credit card company refunded us and the retailer got the hit, which I presume they subsequently passed on to the courier company. Had they even phoned us we could have had it taken indoors instead of being left out in torrential rain for 12hrs. No amount of cardboard prevents ingress of water to inner contents. Dropping the contents over even a low wall causes quite a percussive shock to parcels. The lazy drivers could phone, text, or just ring the bell, but impatient they drop and run, signing themselves some soft of squiggle.