Noel

The Red Arrows is a great coup for the air show. The Italian team are no slouches either. Hopefully the Air Corps will display some choppers and the Pilatus PC-9M rather than the heavily armed Cessna 172 stick insects

Fab pic. It's interesting to see the evolution of the loco bodies side by side in historical order from 121 through 141 and 071. Each evolution the side aprons under the sidewalks got shallower and shallower.

Thank you. Great photos. Pity about the lack of maintenance on Connoly shed with weeds and shrubs growing from the roof that will ultimately damage the brickwork. Locos look great though. Are the three locos going to be stabled there permenantly?

Thanks Dave. Does you remember what RRP they were back in 2007? I bought my first one new from Fry museum and vaguely remember it priced about €85 but I could be confused. I see the 4 eBay ones have been reduced from €165 to €150 with free post in Ireland. http://www.ebay.ie/itm/322193048295?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Noel

Yes as far as I know Chris Dyer still has new stock.

Cloud cuckoo land??? There are a shed load of MM baby GMs 161, 165, 188 and 182 for sale on flee bay, but for a staggering €165 each PLUS €20 postage, thats €185 each. Cloud cuckoo land prices when you can buy these new for under €120.

Very nice. I love the rural and natural atmosphere of this layout. It oozes nostalgia.

Who knows JB! Some commentators speculate that the exit may never actually happen, or if it does it may be highly diluted (EFTA, etc). Only time will tell and thats possibly two to three years away. I suspect common sense will prevail on trains here either way, just as it currently does on air flights between EU and USA, and flights between Switzerland and EU countries.

A truely superb piece of model architecture.

201s probably the least popular Irish prototype for models especially that bodge of a 1994 livery by IR

Travelling to Westport and back this week on a 22k it was refreshing to see plenty of freight trains, and decent lengths too.

Ditto

Incredible achievement. Pure class.

Is it HO scale or OO scale?

Yes but that livery has two stripes.

I almost feel like a heretic but the colour scheme seems rather dull and perhaps even less attractive when scaled down to model size.

It might actually cost less to part tunnel a pair of extra lines through the city centre which could allow intercity expresses overtake commuter traffic, than CPO all that high value property. And doing that just for Wexford and Belfast trains just doesn't seem to make economic sense. The money might be better spent bringing the dart under Heuston station, or cost less to build a large mainline through station where the Heuston line intersects the M50, with vast inexpensive car parking. Than rush hour access by road to intercity rail network becomes viable unlike now for most in the GDR. It can take well over an hour to get to Heuston by road at rush hour, and you'd be over half way down any of the motorways to Cork, Limerick, Waterford or Galway by then. The proposed park tunnel won't work because of the time it would take to get from north side or south side dart network to platform 5 at Heuston.

Rumours without photos are just that

Hi Stephen. FYI, it is working fine with the 'IRM old style' theme because the login UID + PWD are part of the page header and work ok. On the two newer styles 'Irish Railway Modeller Fluid' and 'Irish Railway Modeller Fixed' the 'login' link does nothing. Hope this helps. Noel PS: Recommend to other users do not log out, or if you do switch to 'IRM old style' at the bottom of the page and then login using the user name and password boxes on the page header. PS2: Possibly an issue with the cookie URLs on the newer themes (i.e. http: v https: in the cookie or login url page anchor paths). New Style URL for 'login' [noparse]https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/#login-box[/noparse] Old Style [noparse]https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/?styleid=3#login-box[/noparse] Works New Style [noparse]https://irishrailwaymodeller.com/?styleid=1#login-box[/noparse] Link does not work (i.e. page anchor does not exist '#') PS: The mobile theme also is working for login.

Four track on the dart line will never happen unfortunately as the city is just too small to bear the massive property cost. Just too small a population.

Yes thanks for those super interesting pics. The coaches do look great, but they seem to be just crying out for some delicate understated lining to give them a slightly more sophisticated look (e.g. gold, or yellow). Wonder why they are being transported to Dublin by road instead of by rail, unless they are not yet certified for operations.

It just looks so shabby and unprofessional to mix and match incompatible loco and coach liveries, never mind the black and grey is duller looking than grey waste from a dishwasher.

Nice pics as ever, but why is this stupid grey and black livery used on 201s hauling Green & Grey Intercity Mk4 coaching formations on the Cork main line? Are Irish Rail executives colour and brand image blind?

I see eBay has not adjusted the euro/gbp currency exchange rates to reflect sterlings nose dive today. GBP priced items are listed at the same Euro rates they were a week ago.

ROFLMAO - Brilliant