GSR 800

Any update when this'll be out of interest.

Similar era to my own. C class, AEC's, laminates and park royals plus their tin vans seem like the most sensible choice in terms of long lasting locomotives/railcars/rolling stock. The railcars are an odd one though, not sure what the viability threshold is for railcars (since its basically two power units minimum, add on coaches etc?) Perhaps the lads can enlighten us on that one. Steam is a tough one, 00 works are doing the obvious choice with the J15s, doing preserved examples means you can run the RPSI mk2s with them but limited to those currently or recently in mainline service is down to GNR and NCC locos, which lack rtr rolling stock (other than CIE stock if IRM gets around to that) to run with outside their preserved examples. If IRM go with laminates or park royals then theres rolling stock for A and C class, AEC railcars, the 800s, J15s and 461 (and 462??) Choosing these because either long lasting or steam class with a preserved member(s). If they don't go for a GNR type I'd say the 800s would be the likely candidate. The Manors are just a test run for getting an Irish 4-6-0 lads At any rate, all rampant speculation, I'm probably totally wrong. I think this is quite interesting. The brits seem to be more cautious with regular announcements especially without samples available, almost to a point of paranoia. Makes sense I suppose, given how they are often screwed with poor quality models from certain manufacturers.. Here I certainly appreciate the longer notice time. I may be planning to build x kit or x commission or x batch built type or scratchbuild something. I had been considering a silverfox A class a good while back, certainly was glad I got the notice to save the euros for the proper deal.

I'm sure we'll get some Beautiful B1a's next....in my dreams anyway..

I'm wondering if there's any big european suppliers for parts similar to the likes of alan gibson, markits, slaters romford wheels etc. Any others worth a shot?

Same issue, no option for delivery to Ireland from what I can see

Mostly fine other than a weird tangent about couplers which was debunked and then the most nonsensical whinge about the nem coupler coming out hauling the weight of 67 coaches. I give him a lot of slack but this felt nitpicky. I've seen worse, saw a video of a lad reviewing an A class which had a handrail that came off. Now fair is fair, I expect everything to be in place when it comes out of the box, paid good money after all but his whinging about it being completely unacceptable was beyond me. Bad reviews get the views it seems

Attached to a Mogul, by the looks of it

They look fantastic, this one caught my eye The Lads better be careful now, I'm almost inclined to get one despite it not being at all my era or country of preference! Really stunning, the Deltics have a real presence about them.

he's based in the canaries, so ebay comes up as ebay espana, ditto with his links unless he specifically looks up the UK website

Aye I went with A15 first as I knew the Black n Tans would sell out quite quickly. Have to say though, A30 is a stand out among my diesels, you can understand where the lads from CIE were coming from with the original livery choice, even if it ended up weathering horribly. And a good few went on into the mid 60s with that livery, though completely filthy by that point! Really a stunning looking model in the silver.

Something arrived at Mullingar this morning... In 1963, A30, clearly a shed queen considering her lack of filth, waits with the Galway half of a train having arrived from Dublin. Her sister A15 trundles up from the shed to take the other half up to Sligo. Mullingar is currently being overhauled, dont mind the Achill Bogie, likely being saved for preservation!

shy of 40 left of the IRM website Bought mine yesterday, with the black n tan A15 they'll cover the 50s and 60s nicely.

Excellent video, some of those locomotives may be better known as contraptions. Don't think I've ever seen mid victorian railways modelled to such an extent.

Take it away Ronnie..

the best part being he offers the other three together for only 40 euro more...

Don't worry, he'd have to leave Dublin for that..

add another 0 and we're in agreement

I'd actually say the irish group is by in large much younger on average compared to the likes of the british modeller community. At least a dozen here in their 20s from what I can gauge, myself included. Actually planning to do a metal fabrication course sometime after uni too.. Donkey Kong came out in 1981 lad

https://geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9def898f708b47f19a8d8b7088a100c4 Very useful resource Historic 25" is the go to.

IRRS archives has some photos, Ernies has two i can see from a quick search OSmap

Thats what they are betting on, same with the bank text scams, half the time they are telling me theres suspicious activity on an account in a bank I dont have an account with. Not to say it's impossible but they only have to get it right once.

Kevin McAleer as Uncle Colm is excellent

Not sure, but they've done a big clean up of the Galway side of Mullingar station also (don't know if its IR tho). Though it badly needs it, beams have begun falling in from the canopy. There was also some discussion of reopening Hill of Down, though they could just be petitioning for it..

I'm almost certain there is a photo somewhere of the yard at Mullingar with a J26 in the background..

Poppys jig is the recommendation for putting together chassis square.