GSR 800

Are they adding cocaine buns to the menu? That'd certainly make the train rides interesting

https://galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-fm-news-desk/step-forward-in-redevelopment-of-ceannt-station-as-a-major-transport-hub/ News to me, only read about it when I got the IRRS journal this morning, from 2 platforms to 5. The new overall roof is akin to the original!

in inflation alone from 2007 or 2008 (think it was the latter when they were released but I was a child, so I don't remember) it'd be up to between 170-180 euro

https://railsofsheffield.com/products/pre-owned-irish-rail-class-181-cie-black-b188-diesel-locomotive not 750 euro so i guess this is a bargain...

Jaysus Foster and Allen transcend time itself...Mick has some explaining to do next time I see him.. "Balloons Weaver, Balloons, that's all I can tell you. The rest is classified." "Balloons?? Go down the road to the circus if you're looking for those...ya feckin clown"

I've seen worse for the woolwiches. Bunch of 121s have popped up https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275677629258?hash=item402faacb4a:g:R7wAAOSw~tNj5fR8&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoMTSj3SF54p7RJdZBKVjKzin8oj1eBtRRcTfSP7bSw%2BpTz4jSdaf%2FNZh6jtK%2BT8GISty9LFGwXyA37x63KD4O3Auzq2WWm5CQiXgdWs6fKSHjF9%2BL64Ttj561IxPUPatJVscO19hdSWyOEfUU5MONAM1vVjwvEK27EBjTzD87Lja0stk0ATEyifKuSqF9GYTRCr3Xt05R2hgjqovyFj9RM0%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8CLw7HJYQ

It seems like he thought 3D printing would evolve differently. I know someone who does prints of Warhammer 40k stuff, and he buys and downloads designs and prints them off. No reason something similar couldn't be done here?

I can certainly vouch for suppliers here like yourself and Killian. I think the quality of 3D printing these days can be excellent. Really a shame poorer quality prints turn a lot of people off an aspect of modelling I think has huge potential now and in the future as printers continue to improve. Shame the quality is poor considering the width of his offerings.

Seeing the site of GVS back to something of its former glory will be good to see, current station is pretty drab. Much more central location than 'Central' station, or is that why they started calling it Lanyon place so everyone would stop laughing.... ..I suppose theres a larger discussion on the new station to be had, for another thread. I like Queens bridge, it reminds me somewhat of Liffey Junction, being primarily for goods. Liffey Junction was an interchange for a while, and you'd better hope the connection was coming, because there was no way off the island platform! Unless you were brave/stupid.. Looking forward to see the model progress!

I wonder how IRMs magnetic types will hold up in the longterm..

Which is a very good thing indeed..

neither really gets it, 800 has a long sleek nose and the 170 looks frumpy and squat. We dont have to worry about either now we're getting the proper job

Those have begun to pop up ever since IRMs announcement they were producing them. Sell them off before they tank the price with highly accurate models.

the .xyz should really be a giveaway...

Big Old Boats is another youtube channel with a lot of good videos on ship sinkings, usually focused on Great Lakers. Gordon Lightfoot has many good songs, including some more rail related, including Canadian Railroad Trilogy and Steel Rail Blues.

Aye the 800s, along with the 400s and 500s were regulars during the brief period of the Cork Enterprise. Generally used the CIE platforms. Shame it only lasted a few years, but I suppose it took so bloody long...then again the Bundoran express took a similar time for less distance..

import and postage to here, around 80 euro all told..

Bit more work done on one of the train sheds today, few more struts and the last of the roofing added. Will need to buy more for train shed no.2. Needs a good bit of tidying up! Will need to do the Howth Platform/DSER canopy and finish the footbridge, along with a dozen other things. All in good time... .... B141 idles, her train having been shunted out to allow her to 'free' her from the platform. A15 arrives with the Sligo train as 141 revs up and heads off to the shed. "Could do with some jaysus buffers" said the Driver. "I know some lads in Carrickmines who do them" said the Guard.

Decent short youtube doc done on her sinking

They must be trying to pay for rent in Dublin for that money..

Looking at some other photos, almost certainly Galway. Telegraph poles line up, platform looks the same and a small building with a pitched roof, possibly an office of some kind is there also.

Very interesting stuff John. Any more info on the proposed O'Connoll St station? I'd imagine it'd be very cramped indeed! The idea of a US union style station served the major companies was where Amiens Central came from, though I wasn't sure of exact placement, though I figured it was central enough, being only a walk down Talbot street from O'Connell street. The design is somewhat influenced by minories in terms of track design.

A wee update: Amiens gets a revamp Amiens has been on hiatus for a good year. Wasn't happy with the limitations I was left with, especially regarding the yard which was left rather cramped and minimal. My solution was to invert or 'mirror' Amiens to the other side of the board, which I think makes it a bit more unique, but importantly opens up space for carraige sidings and the engine shed area. I also used it as an opportunity to rework the station throat. Just a few pics for now! Station throat. All platforms can be accessed, and can access the headshunt closest the shed. Through lines TBA. 134 waits for A15 to depart with a commuter to shunt empty coaching stock to the sidings. Passengers crossing the footbridge are glad for the lack of rain.

Looks excellent. White stuff is scaling from the water aye

Sure a fella looted a santa statue there yesterday in dublin. He's either a few days late or a year early...