Noel

Probably scenery files for railway simulator or game

EIE is almost half the price and offering quite a different experience. The BH is a much more luxurious offering, but quite different in that is like a cruise ship experience where the train is home for a few days (i.e. sleep onboard, unpack only once but visit many places). EIE involves the hassle of transfers every day to hotels with packing and unpacking. One of the reasons cruise ship holidays has become so popular is the convenience of "unpack once". BH is all about the train experience. Personally I'd prefer the EIE type of offering as you get to experience nice hotels. Not sure if the BH plan is to travel at night arriving at new destination by morning, but the distances are very short so can't see them needing more than 3hr for typical route legs unlike a cruise ship that usually take on 10hr passage legs overnight.

It is priced for a well established luxury market segment. Similar pricing to the top end Orient express services. £6,340.00pps for 5 night Orient Express v £5,714.28pps for 6 night Hibernian trip. It may be small but there is a market for such premium experiences.

Nice scene pic.

Yip It takes courage to sit on two chairs in front of a camera and make a video like that!

The video clip reminded me of "Bob" from the fast show

Nice pic from that wonderful era. The buffers on the keg wagon seem exceptionally long.

Thanks David. Do you know how to disconnect the powered bogies from the chassis?

Thanks for that feedback Railer. That's very interesting. Noel

Hi Folks Two questions for any of you have have already done this? How do you remove the lower plastic walkway chassis from a 141/181? How do you disconnect the power bogies from the main chassis? Thanks Noel I cannot find any more screws or snap fitting clips, but I'm sure they must be there somewhere.

Looks like it didn't sell. No picture of a box, nor the other side of the loco, nor an indication of its condition (i.e. new, mint, test run only or used). So perhaps folk not happy to buy at that price without enough info. They can be got with boxes in near mint condition for €100 from time to time.

Superb

One hour to go! 141 = Zero bids. http://www.ebay.ie/itm/CIE-B141-Class-Loco-Model-/262284503510? Not presented well in photos, looks covered in dust and the lower chassis seems to have had some strange rust weathering.

Question, were the mk3 corridor connectors magnetic or were they fastened together?

Yip one of mine wobbles too but the other doesn't. Mine are 'dog' rough runners and impossible to operate at prototypical manoeuvring speeds. They be great if they were for scalextric

Cheers JB. I assume the Mk2s can take the weather better than the Cravens which in turn can survive better out doors than the older vintage stock.

Both my 33s run like insane rockets, they are just useless at slow crawl speeds. Toys designed for the 70s to go roundy roundy at high speed and make little boys faint with excitement.

Thanks. Is the coaching stock stored indoors or outdoors?

Thank you

Good to hear. Are most of them up north or are there any at Inchicore? This is the coach I saw in Heuston (Kingsbridge) in the early 70s.

Thank you JB, thats better right side up

Is there an official presidential or vip coach in use anymore? I remember seeing Erskin Childers on board the Killarney train in 73 or 74. The old presidential coach back then looked like something from the 19th century, but a piece of historic art. Can't imagine anything as modern as a mk2 having much heritage value.

As ever great photos Kieran. Do you know why 226 was pulling and 8209 pushing the 16 auto balusters? Are the two locos electrically connected for driving from one cab, or do they have some form of comms between two drivers?

I though a CD or DVD motor would normally be run for a long time at a constant speed but very low loading.

Stunning