MOGUL

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I have one of these that is surplus to requirements(Wrong era) and looking for a new home.. Box is a little bit careworn but wagons are in excellent condition.. Wagons are numbered 29,32 and 33 These were a limited edition of 504( I think) for Murphy Models done by Bachmann back in the 2000s Looking for €95 for the pack, plus P&P at cost or free for collection/meet up in D7/D15

Meanwhile in Ireland https://www.facebook.com/groups/1749560248594378/permalink/3114547215429001/ we are spoiling you now @murphaph

Still in stock in marks here for €7.99 and I think IRM might stock them too.. unfortunately Brexit killed the days of cheap small bits on hattons, they are only worthwhile if you want a trunk load of stuff..

Or a suppository Still no bites though! Seems to be loads on Hattons, not sure who they thought was going to buy all those models.. good cheap feed stock for kit bashing all the same.. some of the construction stuff in particular like the doosan digger and the excavator are great value at €5 a pop when filling a trunk

They are Bachmann 13.6m units from the 2000s, both companies were leasors I think.. I don't think they ever ran in Ireland, the only flow I know of was some being used for Supermarket traffic(Safeway?) in the UK, i'm going to say from Deanside Transit to Warrington Dallam.. But @Arranwould be better informed on the UK than me!

That's the cab of a Stobart "Victoria Jade" container truck.. It was I think €5 and provided you with 1) A pretty good container chasis once the extra bogie has been removed 2) A spare trailer bogie that can be used for kitbashing, I intend to use mine to make a timber drawbar trailer 3) A Volvo FH cab, not sure what livery I will put it into 4) A Stobart container, not Irish but again, suitable for a relivery job, thinking DFDS or Norfolk for mine.. I also have a stobart AEC dumper that I plan to respray into CIE livery, that was also €5

It is, we send 1 a week to Tenerife during the summer! And about 10-12 to Bilbao for mainland spain. And some now rail Waterford to Ballina..

Heading down between 9 and 10pm, shunting and loading generally takes about an hour.. can be later depending on the terminal, Thursday is normally busy so they train heads down for 11pm then

Hi All, I have some OO gauge diecast vehicles looking for a new home, Oxford Diecast Garda Landover, €5 never opened, and mint condition Corgi OOC Leyland PD3 " Queen Mary" Open Top Lallys of Galway Livery, €30 Still in original factory sealed box and includes limited edition certificate, 1 mirror came loose in box but could easily be glued back on.. Available for collection in D7/D15, or can arrange postage at cost Open to offers.. **New Addition** Corgi Collectors Club Limited Edition Scania R and Fridge Trailer in McGeown International Livery €50 In excellent condition and box also excellent

071 likely to work Saturdays down liner to Ballina

Not sure if it's better or worse than sending them to their deaths in a coal mine

Good Morning, Found the article, apologies about the scan quality, the magazine is about 8 years old now! OPDR had a long and storied history serving the islands, and nice looking containers too!

A close cousin of our IWT containers.. the Canaries has its own unique operators and containers alright, OPDr, Boluda etc.. Ships international had a good article about services to the islands from Seville a few years back, will see if I can find the article.. In my time in shipping, OPDR became part of Macandrews, which then was merged with containerships.. The result is a mixing of fleets, so we occasionally get OPDR units in from mainland Spain, and ship a mixture of containerships, Macandrews and lease boxes out to Tenerife

A new arrival this morning from Hatton's inspired me to get the finger out and dig out some models from the Attic.. Having a trunk order ready to go, I decided to add a pack of Dapols 40ft ONE line containers, which contain 1 Pink and 1 White container(they are a thing apparently, a quick check of matts place proved this to be so before placing the order) per pack.. At only £14 for two containers they seemed like a bargain! Image of a ONE line dry box in white/dove grey livery from Matts place: However, there are a few issues with these, the tampo printing is a little blurry with the container numbers and large one on the side also looking a bit bumpy.. Also, the boxes are labelled as 45G1s, which is a 40ft HC, however the models are for 8ft 6ins(DV) units! Nit picking a little perhaps, but when compared to @Arrans excellent ONE line offering(right height, and razor sharp printing!) they are a little disappointing.. I have numerous Dapol containers(Maersk 40fts, P&O 45fts, ZIM 20fts, CMA 40fts, the list goes on) but these are the first "miss" unfortunately.. I haven't bought the Hornby ONEs yet, as 3 is probably enough for now, but does anyone have any pics of those for comparison? Arran/Crails 40ft ONE bottom and Dapol 40ft ONE on top P&O FMBU 45ft showing dapol's normal high standard of printing Also discovered in the big box of containers while digging out the C-rail one box was a 20ft Bachmann that I started work on to convert it into one of the BLS bulktainers that are seen daily on IWT liners.. The work is a bit rough, but I hope to make new end doors and hatch covers from plasticard in the next few days to finish these..

@ttc0169Noel, just picking up on this conversation now.. Would I be right in saying that the Fert was offloaded on the stub of the Killala line, accross the level crossing? ie in Barretts yard?

Saw those, then realised they are less in euro in Marks Models!

I have a Eurolines bova Futura if you are interested, was going to list it but would rather sell to someone on here

Was 2014, you can see the curtains flapping on the second train in this video.Also of note is the 45ft reefer in a CPW on this train… The Norfolk line units on the first train also look like curtainside units, but watching on a phone so can’t be sure..

Simple answer is no, the Samskip units on the XPO liner are 45ft Dry Boxes or 45ft Reefers, not curtain siders like the model.. DFDS did run curtain siders to/from Ballina one of the summers they had the liner running, think it was 2017(videos on youtube should show these).. This was for export loads of recycled silage wrap.. So the container type has moved on liners but not in Samskip livery. Anyone who doesn't like a yarn/ramble can tune out now! I car share with a colleague(who formerly worked for XPO, but that's another story) who's main job is to move ~300 tonnes a week of coils from Europe to Waterford via Dublin and Waterford ports, about 50% of this is in Samskip curtainsiders like the oxford model.. He has a constant battle to get stock in, and when the weather gets bad in the winter, I’d swear his stress levels triple!

I think Samskip bought Geest, but also Seawheel(who's boxes have been discussed at length on her, Limerick to Waterford baby food) but Samkip are around a long time, they started with the Iceland/Nordics services and grew from there.. You would know better than me Arran, but are the Tesco units not 8'9" rather than 8'6, I remember reading that they were a lower height so they could be routed via the Settle and Carlisle when the WCML is closed..

For anyone looking for some containers suitable for 2020s railway ops, Dapol have another run of P&O 45fts that are in stock in Hattons.. We run 4-6 of these units to/from Ballina a week.. https://www.hattons.co.uk/526512/dapol_4f_028_015_pack_of_two_45_hi_cube_containers_p_o_ferry_/stockdetail https://www.hattons.co.uk/526516/dapol_4f_028_016_pack_of_two_45_hi_cube_containers_p_o_ferry_weathered/stockdetail They also have some of the old Style MOL(Mitsui) containers suitable for 80s/90s and some Maersk 40fts in stock for less than the cost of Hornby containers https://www.hattons.co.uk/351764/dapol_4f_028_103_pair_of_40_foot_containers_mitsui_lines_weathered/stockdetail https://www.hattons.co.uk/220220/dapol_4f_028_100_pack_of_two_40_foot_containers_maersk_mrku_and_msku/stockdetail

My best friends neighbour is similar, has a substantial and very nice mainly Fleischmann layout in his attic.. Was very proud of his live steam, which he said was far ahead of anything Hornby were making when he bought it in the early 2000s.. Was quite impressed when I showed him my IRM bubbles though, again wasn't aware how far Irish modelling had come and is unlikely to make the change at this stage..

You see them more than us Arran.. Dapol did that Argos box as a two pack with a co-op livery also, I bought a pack but again would be U.K. only.. Having said that I have seen Tesco less c02 containers in Dublin port, so models law applies!

I would confidently say never, nice livery though.. U.K. to Scotland only