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Airport access won't affect us hopefully as we've switched to car ferries for overseas travel. I've had it with airports and low cost air carriers. It's so much more relaxing and enjoyable by sea. The modern cruise Ferries are fabulous. Overnight from Dublin to Cherbourg is impressive on W B Yeats.

Looking forward to Q4 when these are due. Will they have food trolleys on board!

Don't care what gauge it is as long as you can get an elevator down to a platform under terminal 2 or 1 and get a direct airport express train to either Pierse street underground (underground so no slow dart traffic impeding line speed) or Heuston underground, come up the elevator and board an intercity train. The Luas doesn't cut it, it's too slow and over crowded. The problem is politicians will screw it up by wanting many stops between the airport and city centre transport hubs to appease their constituents. It's why air travellers tend to use the heathrow express instead of the tube to get into London from heathrow. 15mins air conditioned v 60mins on an overcrowded smelly hot tube. I'm no longer a back packer, just want to get to destination quickly and efficiently in comfort. A train from Dublin airport to city centre should take max 15mins, not stop every 300meters to facilitate locals, its an international air transport hub.

. . . and pairs of baby GMs in consist ran most of the main line pax services with excellent reliability. B&T livery GMs hauling super train rakes still look well. Before the locos were repainted into supertrain livery too.

Cheers, it came from 00 Works a few years ago [GSR 475 (Ex CBSCR)]

Super photo.

interesting suggestions. The big hole seems that one cannot get off a dart or intercity train at connolly, go down an escalator to a basement platform and get a dart underground direct to the platforms at heuston or direct to terminals 1&2 at dublin airport and indeed terminal 3 which seems inevitable in the future (Ie air travel will eventually decarbonise) ps. As ferries likely to replace low cost air travel in the midterm perhaps also a direct dart underground from connolly to dublin port (ie for containers and pax).

Does anybody remember something similar to these at Houston in the 1970s, and the bay platforms at Westland Row?

Those pizza cutter wheels look scarily sharp should there be a mishap

Hi Kevin, @DiveController Platform ramps tend to be the issue as wagon chassis elements that protrude tend to fit under the platform edge overhang, but in Ireland ramps are square and the same width as the platform, unlike many BR stations where the ramps are tapered and curved. tapered ramps like these Hornby toy versions don’t foul wider bogies or wider stock. this is common on BR outline stations. @jhb171achill The Fountain of Irish prototypical knowledge explained to me tapered platform ramps are generally not used in Ireland. I have some MIR resin wagons that cannot run past scale distanced square platform ramps without fouling and derailing. Anyway it sound like it shouldn’t be an issue. I have my platforms a prototypical distance to stock (ie track centre), so alighting LLPs passengers don’t have to jump across 2 or 3 feet gaps from coaches to platform. Moving swiftly on, my goodness the amount of new models due to ship over the next 9 months is staggering. Will layout have to grow to stable all this new stock?

Thanks that's good to know.

@Warbonnet Fran, a question if you don't mind please and you may be in a position to answer. Have these fab looking Bulleid beet wagons been loading gauge tested so they can run past platform ramps at prototypical platform gaps to track (ie so the hanging door stoppers don't foul platform ramps). This is a problem I encountered with some other kit built beet wagons in the past. Many thanks in advance.

Fab

Irish Railway Models RTR (IRM here) Murphy Models RTR Silverfox kits Murphy models were announced due to re-run NIR livery 071 GM locos at the end of this year. For C lass and Hunslet Silverfox kits are your only route.

Funny by chance I just pre-ordered an AS pannier tank with DCC sound

Great idea, makes sense to make use of the same chassis tooling as for the beet wagons.

Eoin Fry to the power of 2! On another level. Respect.

Am I the only one who has never been to IKEA? Nor have I any desire to.

Thanks Stephen for info. Interesting variety. Will enjoy running these when they arrive early. The rake of resin ones I already have are not the best runners. What sort of weight are the models?

Thanks. So a factory rust weathering effect.

Excellent. Good news. They look stunning. Do you mind me asking what’s going on with the right hand wagon in the first photo at the top of OT? These should brake all sales records for an model Irish wagon which was the most numerous ever to run on Irish rails. Park royals and 22k in the pipeline. Jeapers it feels like only a few years ago we were limited to a small no resin kits for so much Irish rolling stock (MIR, PW, SF, etc).

Could the large old MGWR station complex in Athlone (ie disused now west of the river) one day be used to house a national transport Museum (ie with good rail access to Dublin and eventually in the future to NI via the planned reopening to Mullingar (aka the strategic all island rail review)? . . . and perhaps even be a maintenance and operating home for operating RPSI stock based in ROI. There was a lot of track and space there not so long ago. Large array of sheds and platforms, etc.

Over my head. Twitter wasn’t a tool I used.

Not my era either but they ran in Ireland and the livery is fabulous looking. Don't think they were pushed for the last 20 years of their life, just hauled so the DVTs were probably just a sort of brake van.