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49 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:
I’m the one going mad. I can see this CIE roundel as clear as day now, yet I couldn’t in 2016!
Eyesight improving in the span of 7(!) years isn't a bad thing...
Whatever the hell it is, it's still out in the field, though I haven't inspected it in a good long time.
An old H van isn't far from it, though riddled with shot at either end... practising for crows, apparently.
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I wonder if a new tradition will be started of kettles for Paddy's Day...
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5 hours ago, Galteemore said:
The only other train, I think, which crossed the border without checks, was the Bundoran Express, which avoided checks by not stopping at any stations in NI. Would have been a fine sight running round the curve of Enniskillen station.
In no particular hurry, since it apparently took seven hours to get to Bundoran...
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6 hours ago, Ironroad said:
I know railcars were used to operate the Enterprise service at some point post steam, but I don't think it was a straight switch from one to the other. I definitely did travel to Belfast late '50s behind a diesel that was substituted for a Jeep at Goraghwood and I didn't dream that.
Likely a regular train rather than the Enterprise, as Galteemore says
31 minutes ago, Ironroad said:There was a hard border at that time, I think all trains stopped at Goraghwood, for customs.
All except the Enterprise, customs were checked at Amiens Street and GVS so it could run nonstop.
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12 minutes ago, Ironroad said:
I don't think diesels operated all the way through to Belfast in the late '50s. I remember travelling to Belfast and the diesel was substituted with a Jeep at Goraghwood.
It was a BUT railcar set on the Enterprise after the VS class, so doubt that.
Did see a video in the early 1960s of a Jeep replacing two 141s on a Belfast bound train
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2 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:
The 22000's were a ballsy move, but are great value when you think of the price of a loco and coaches.
People are always talking about an Irish trainset. Well, this is more or less what a trainset would cost and entail.
I hope to order a few more of these further down the line but don't want to overcommit just yet, after just clearing the NIR coach pack balance and having some IR coaches with payment pending.
Plus, it's possible that we'll see Paddy's new run of 141's and 181's this year, plus we may have an IRM steamer, and we'd bloody better have 47' Flats and two-tone green Dublin Buses, all draining the budgets that little bit more.
Possible that others are in the same boat, unwilling to pre-order until they get their stuff together.
I think the 22000s were a pretty solid choice, some of the larger sets perhaps but they are the J15 or AEC railcar of the modern era, can't have a layout without them.
Part of me is almost hoping the IRM steam loco is not an 800, me SSM one has just had the chassis finished!
The other part of me has a list done out of all the things that need to be perfect...
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22 minutes ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:
Does anyone here have any interest?
I think I bought too many over the years , I seem to have about 15 too many!
List them out, the price you want, and post photos of them.
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14 minutes ago, connollystn said:
Great picture of the new Enterprise set, not a railcar I'm familiar with - did they last long in service?
BUT railcars, most were withdrawn in the 1970s.
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38 minutes ago, Broithe said:
Are they adding cocaine buns to the menu? That'd certainly make the train rides interesting
16 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:How many geigers can it count up to?
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8 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:
Two distinct possibilities.
The first and most obvious is:
The second is that "IN" The next month meant inside the next typical calendar month of 30 / 31 days.
Also possible that the lads can't focus on work because they're too distracted and laughing hysterically at this thread, like that Beecham's Hot Lemon cop.
"This year's first major IRM announcement is in the next month. "
Certainly carefully worded, perfectly ambiguous as to its exact meaning and has certainly drummed up plenty of hype...
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Took the opportunity to get 210 and some Irish buffer stops. Grand value for 210, saw her looking quite sorry for herself at Inchicore after I'd taken the wrong train from Drumcondra...
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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!
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1 hour ago, Sean said:
whos yer man?
Bosko
Unless you mean the lad asking, some welsh lad...
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15 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:
After the GSR 800's, of course.
It'll either be their first Irish steam announcement or if they go RPSI first, it'll be a while longer, IMO.
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11 minutes ago, connollystn said:
With Accurascale launching their version of the BR class 66 it's certainly intriguing as to what IRM's new major announcement will be. For me, it's down to the 201(new) and the 071.
Surely a 201 would be the most likely, and with that, there's the excuse to do De Deitrich and mark 4 sets.
29000 class would be the other ones....have they a nickname?
They remind me of caterpillars...
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8 minutes ago, the Bandon tank said:
Around 130€ when first released.
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
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not 750 euro so i guess this is a bargain...
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On 10/2/2023 at 6:25 PM, Patrick Davey said:
Lunch break tunes at the mill.
Jaysus Foster and Allen transcend time itself...Mick has some explaining to do next time I see him..
On 9/2/2023 at 7:48 PM, Patrick Davey said:
Mr. Weaver was very suspicious about the motives behind Sgt. Luke Farr's frequent visits to the roof of the mill.
"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"
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34 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:
It sounds like a bit more than they cost when they were new?
I've seen worse for the woolwiches.
Bunch of 121s have popped up
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1 hour ago, Mayner said:
The Developer started a RW Web thread on the "Next big step in 3D Printing" which appeared to be basically about the options for licensing his designs to potential customers for printing, as opposed to improving the quality of the end product.
The Shapeway's model is based on paying the designer a royalty on each model ordered, which leads to a temptation for developers to produce versions of an identical model in multiple scales to maximise income.
The Shapeways flexible plastic tends to be the default material chosen by designers on account of printability and low cost. A Shapeways resin printed version of the Clayton railcar is likely to cost 2.5-3 times the default version.
Interestingly some designers appear to be producing very good results in 7mm using FDM print technology, but likely to be rough from 4mm or N Scale https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/172854-wokos-bench/
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?
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44 minutes ago, KMCE said:
Yes indeed; the woes I had with the Clayton railcar made the process hardly worth the effort, however the cost of the base model (>€100) was too high just to cast it to the bin. Surface finish was very rough which is a great pity as the basic designs are good and deserve better treatment. I wonder does the developer know / care about the poor quality or he earning enough from unsuspecting buyers?
Sadly this does affect other suppliers as it can be hard to break down the general perception that all 3D prints are "poor quality"
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.
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1 hour ago, leslie10646 said:
Ian Sinclair presented a remarkable story of a UTA project to develop either the Queens Bridge station, or build a new station alongside Great Victoria Street as a possible terminus for the remaining BCDR trains (Bangor and possibly Comber lines). The services were planned to be run by the then new MED diesel units.
It was the GNR's staggering volume goods traffic (in early 1950s) over the Belfast Central Railway which largely killed the project, as the passenger movements left no room for the thousands of cattle and large traffic in sand, oil, coal etc.
Ian concluded by showing the work going on today to build Belfast's "Grand Central Station" (due to open in the next couple of years) on virtually the site planned in the early 1950s!
A brilliant piece of research and my heartiest congratulation to Ian..
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!
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23 minutes ago, Blaine said:
Been proven repeatedly now that hunt couplings are not the greatest thing ever, the ones I got for my Dapol JHA's were not great quality - at least they are cheap for what they are
I wonder how IRMs magnetic types will hold up in the longterm..
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1 hour ago, connollystn said:
Would suggest that there's more of a demand for models other than the 071. As for the 319 - can't see a OO being produced just for one customer unless, that is, you're willing to pay €500K. Still think it'll either be the B101s, C201s or DART 8100s.
The irony was lost on someone then..
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The GSWR 500 class
in Photos & Videos of the Prototype
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I think the 800s are looked upon with the hindsight of the postwar years with little to show for themselves. Had they been given the opportunity, I'm sure that discussion would not have been had. Equally, significant expense had already gone toward rebuilding the 400s, they decided after looking at the expense of 402s rebuild to cut costs where possible.
Interestingly, the 400s didn't compare particularly favourably to William Goulding, which could work at a similar pressure. I have yet to see a single photo of that locomotive, other than a three-quarter rear view of (what is apparently) her as a stationary boiler at Inchicore. One of the 500s met a similar fate.