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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

There you go: https://www.studio-scale-models.com/TFreight.shtml

The "stock remaining" flags will only work with in stock items, and don't work for pre-orders unfortunately.. Those are a hard limit input into the system when we place the PO with the factory(at which point we are commited to the numbers), and once it's reached the system stops taking in orders.. From a quick check on our side, it looks like most coaches aren't far away from being sold now either, with some down to the last 1 or 2 units available to pre-order

Likely a park and ride style operation like M3 parkway, on the Northern cross route would make the most sense.. There seems to be very little left of the Boyne road branch, past the newfoundwell sidings that were used to load Ballast in the 90s.. This was to access Irish Cement(now premier periclase) rather than Drogheda port though.. Tom Roe's never had rail access

That was the MED's.. They were dumped in a Quarry near Crumlin Even if that Class 70 is still there, there would like be very little of it left.. 25+ years in sea air, would be a pile of rust with brambles growing out of it by now

Are you using a VPN that could be "spoofing" the website into thinking you are in Austria rather than Germany? Regardless of what pricing you see, once you get to the checkout and enter a shipping address, the correct shipping and VAT rate will be applied anyway..

It’s a charge of €3 on low value parcels, in lieu of customs duty.. We don’t use the low value procedure, we use a mix of IOSS and DDP depending on the order value.. With a 0% rated product like railway models, duty isn’t an issue, just VAT

IRM/Accurascale orders won't be affected.. Since the removal of the €22 import VAT exemption back in 2021, all orders arriving in Ireland attract VAT, even if they are duty free(like Railway models are). So we put a good bit of work into full VAT paid shipping for EU orders with our fulfillment provider before we moved the IRM fulfillment over to the UK, which means we don't rely on the low value order loopholes.. Those loopholes were always likely to be closed off once cross border e-commerce, particularly from China(the likes of Alibaba, Shein and Temu) took off and started affecting European business and employment.. This is just the next step towards that happening, similar to Trump removing the De minimis in the US..

Looks like the bould Craig!

Wasn't aware of that.. A quick reading of the wikipedia(never the best source of course), shows a gentleman who seems to have been on the wrong side of politics both Irish and UK! Thank God his second cousin Winston Churchill had good advice in 1940!

The full History of the wagons is in @Warbonnet's annoucement thread here: The Londonderry is a reference to the Marquis of Londonderry, who's family ran Colliery's in NE england as other posters have mentioned..

The traffic in coal from Dublin Port was from the CDL siding to Asahi, and I don't think Cawoods had any involvement.. The Cawoods flow as a short term flow by rail from Barrack Street to Arklow, with I believe Staffords of Arklow being the recipient.. The containers were shunted by road between warrenpoint(where the ship from Ellesmere port docked for the main NI flow) and Barrack Street.. The CDL yard itself could make a nice micro-layout, taking in part of Alexandra road and with the conveyor used to carry the coal accross alexandra road forming a nice scenic break.. Further down Alexandra road and the other side of that conveyor, the Boliden terminal could also make a nice micro-layout, with a prototypical wagon traverser being accessed by a sharp 90 degree turn off the main lines.. I would think there are plenty of other 90s/00s locations modellable including -Kingscourt, with a small pad and covered shed used to store Gypsum which was loaded by a wheeled shovel into 4 wheel wagons(available from IRM), and also the possibilty of timber traffic, which was trialled in the 90s.. With a bit of alternate history, this could have become a regular flow.. 4 wheel and 62ft timber wagons aren't too hard to scratch build using Dapol and Hornby underframes, and plasticard to make the head boards and stanchions.. - Ardee Road, Dundalk, which replaced Barrack street which handled kegs and containers.. A relatively compact site, with a nice bridge to form a scenic break.. - NW wagon repair shop, with clever use of sightlines/forced perspective the Ballast bank could also be incorporated - Cabra Cement depot(one I plan to do as time/kids/life permits), two/three sidings parallel to a twin track mainline, with bridges at either end for scenic breaks.. Cement trains arriving from the Heuston direction after a run around, and setting back into the yard.. The train would need to be split to be placed under the shed for unloading.. For added interest, a regular flow of passing trains made up of pretty much anything that ran on the Irish network transferring from Dublin port/Connolly to Heuston/Inchicore/Cork line.. Cabra also received a few deliveries of smokeless fuel(I believe in Fertiliser wagons) which could be easily modelled.. - Athy Cement Factory, a relatively compact siding alongside the Canal, with cement wagons being discharged into a silo for the factory Castlemungret and Platin are probably a bit on the large side, but a taster of them could probably be modelled, with clever use of a backscene to give the impression of a wagon loader as part of a bigger plant

Not an exact match, but the NER V4 Brake Van recently announced by TMC looks fairly similar to SLNCR No.6: https://www.themodelcentre.com/article/new-tmc-exclusive-ner-v4-brake-van-revealed?srsltid=AfmBOooSYrR7TJO0qAloJShZ5KjukJWibOsCsiAM56ou7pSdM_uTozmU

Second pic is Killiney rather than Sandycove, a rare mistake @Irishswissernie!

Most likely, they are being delivered using a side lifting trailer(which most trailers that lift the container off are), would mean parallel parking is a non-issue..The driver would just need spare either side of the container to drop his out-riggers, and a ladder to hop on top and attach the chains.. At a guess, I would say there is possibly some construction work going on nearby or else a flooring shop using this option to make up for a lack of warehouse space.. Most of the containers were shipped from Klaipeda in Lithuania, with an odd ball from Indonesia, so wooden flooring would be my guess at the load..

Good on, tell us... Who won the tug of war?

It was mentioned in a round about way in this article during the week: https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/spanish-firm-in-legal-challenge-over-awarding-of-650m-fleet-contract/a1117458650.html There doesn't seem to be any formal announcement of the tender award from any of the parties though..

In light of the news that the new Enterprise will be a Stadler product, I’m wondering if Noel had inside knowledge when he ordered his FLIRT??

The older tanks in the fleet must have been the best part of 25 years old, so these are long overdue, especially as the walkways etc on the old ones were very much the worse for wear! Hopefully, Givaudan will keep the Murphy's tanks on hire, and haven't replaced the entire fleet with these!