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Don't forget to share the manifest with the rest of us, always interesting to actually see what's really inside the boxes! HC 20fts are indeed rare, although they seem to be common down @DJ Dangerous neck of the woods on the Iberian trade, and I saw my first Boluda 20ft HC on the M50 last weekend. Boluda only started serving Ireland(via a vessel share with Samskip) about 2 years ago now. 20ft bulkers aren't unknown though, with the BLS chemical logistics(and unit branded unit20) ones a common site on IWT liners from about 2012 onwards. Those are 9ft high though, rather than 9ft 6.

Those 20ft Bulk containers carry either lime or limestone for use in the steel industry. I can't recall the source for that, but I think it may have been from an article about Sun line in a shipping magazine a few years ago now.

The yellow and black boards would only be added when the weedspray was actually spraying. So maybe the coverage on the trip out to Bangor was considered satisfactory and there was no need to spray on the return, or the tanks were empty!

Would agree about the photography being poor, the cherry black Woolwich looked more like GNR blue in their pic of it!

With the very obvious exception of the boom, it doesn't look a million miles away from the one plinthed in Mallow:

Just to be a contrarian here, but Irish Rail carried wagonload freight up until 2006 when the Guiness contract ended, probably the last remnant of the Liner network, with all freight thereafter being in full trainload quantities. However, a small remnant of that network remains, in the weekly wagon transfers that run to/from Inchicore and Waterford to Limerick wagon works. It often feels like Irish Rail lost the revenue earning part of the services(the Waterford wagons ran with the Castlemungret to Waterford cement in later years, and the Dublin ones with the Guiness, which in it's last months worked as a combined Cork/Limerick service, with Limerick served by an out and back trip working from LJ, often including 1-2 wheelcarrier wagons) but were still left with the cost of crew and fuel etc to operate those services! I guess what you are really looking for is when the traditional loose coupled services stopped operating and were replaced by replacement Vac braked liner services. I think this would have been part of the Railplan 80 freight plan. I'm not sure if there are exact dates for services out there, but a trawl online might give some answers on when the replacement liner services commenced.

Payment reminders went out about a week ago before the stock arrived. If you haven't received one your best option is to contact us on the usual Accurascale support channels and the team can email you over an invoice

The train or the Tesco Luxury mixed Italian peel?

Not really an issue any more, as our new warehouse is a whopper that can pump out in the hundreds orders a day when in campaign mode.. So the difference between the start of the queue, and the bottom, is in hours not days

Nothing to see here folks

No doubt a few pints of Beamish or Murphys were consumed? Either that or a bad case of insomnia!

Just spoke to Mark, and he has a big re-stock from oxford including the Dublin Airport landrovers and the nice shunting tractors inbound, and they should hopefully be in before the end of the month(which ties in nicelty with payday).. Thought I would share here in case anyone wants to buy them local and save on the grief of shipping from the UK post Brexit

Lots and lots of loveliness should be up there really soon..........

Just plucking out these posts, as they illustrate a very important point.. The perception of people who haven’t bought the brand is one of poor QC etc, whereas the lived experience of people who bought Heljan's products is more favourable.. Were all past Heljan products perfect? No but they have some very fine models in the range that with a little bit of love and attention from the Accurascale team will remain available and provide in many instances the only OO RTR model of their prototype.. The high prices certainly didn’t help matters, but were in part a symptom of Heljan’s distribution chain. From my own perspective, I have a Heljan BOC gas tanker which is an excellent model along with a full rake of IRM/Heljan Esso tanks. Will I be buying more based on what I've seen so far, certainly, just as soon as I can get the stock I’m after into the warehouse!

Our system is set up to send invoices on the due date, so not sure how you would have got sent an invoice with a due date of 31st March unless you requested it, or one of the team sent it.. Feel free to drop us an email on support with the order no to look into it for you