MOGUL

57 minutes ago, NIRCLASS80 said:

We’re these not due by the end of January?

It isn’t the end of January yet

so it’s possible you’ll get your paws on them this month..

17 hours ago, dave182 said:

As asked originally by Patrick early on in this thread, and again by Mayner, are any viable freight flows identified for this line? 

Much as I want this line to be successful, I'm struggling to find viable flows. Ore was the original one being mentioned, but with all that has happened with the price of zinc and Bolidon/Tara Mines this past couple or years I can't see that happening.

Is biomass a consideration? To Edenderry maybe? Like the Drax in the UK? Imported wood pellets from Canada.

The cement industry has been mentioned too, but what from where would need to go through Foynes Port?

And the renewables industry keeps getting mentioned. But what rail flows could this actively support? 

Containers then... I don't believe there is enough import export to the US/South America to support this. 

My own opinions. If anyone has other reasonable ideas, suggestions or information I'd love to hear your thoughts. 

 

 

The Pallas green mine seems to be the main one mentioned, but the mine itself seems to have made little progress towards actually happening, just some surveying etc..

One flow that seems to be confirmed if the delivery of rail to Portlaoise, which currently arrives via Waterford.. but this is just re-directing an existing flow rather than being a new to rail flow..

Containers, Foynes is in the wrong place and Ringaskiddy seems to have captured the deep sea market, having weekly calls from the US(ICL lines) and South America(Maersk line banana boat).. 

Other options were/are, exports of Baby food from Wyeth in Askeaton which is now closing and the movement of contamined soil from Roche(pronounce ROSH!) in Clarecastle which is currently being shipped from Foynes in 20ft containers on chartered vessels, however this project will likely be finished or nearly over by the time the Limerick/Foynes line is ready

9 hours ago, Rob said:

Nice addition- will look out for it.

What is the name on it?

Veynat, it’s the name of the french tank operator

9 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Hopefully it's not "IWTanker" because the likelihood of mixing up the W and the T while typing are pretty high.

Good thing there’s two T is in there, just in case 1 falls off

We have new tanks for people to keep an eye out for..

First one seen here bringing up the rear of todays down liner

Found myself in possession of an extra one of these, destination is Newry.. one of a run of 408 

model and box are in excellent condition 

looking for €50 plus P&P or collection in D7/D15

59 minutes ago, spudfan said:

Well the wife caught me browsing this thread and she said.

"So Mr Murphy has some new models coming out and I suppose you will want to get one? Well you know what that means...." 

Thank God to who ever invented the light switch.

Only one?

On 23/1/2024 at 3:13 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

 

We could do with a mainstream CMNL commission or two, or three, first. Those €80 and €90 eBay ones are a killer. Hatton's, God rest their souls, have a smashed up CMNL missing windscreen etc for £80 GBP!

It’s missing the engine cover as well, and I doubt spare parts would be available now

7 hours ago, Horsetan said:

For extra authenticity, you'd need some of the modern buildings to show signs of mica damage....

He’s modelling Dublin though, mica is mostly in the North west.. For Dublin it would be either pyrite, or defective insulation/fire proofing for Celtic tiger era buildings! Maybe a ghost estate or two also

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Just received an email saying that these are now available to purchase.

Did they sneak in under the radar, right under @MOGUL's nose?

Nope, sorry to burst the bubble but they are available to purchase rather than ready to ship..

Current ETA to us is rather fittingly just in time for St. Patricks Day!

I saw this today and for some reason the name Fran popped into my head.. Been a while since we have had an unusual subject turned into an IRM bus, although I think Creative Master rather than Britbus have the tooling for this one

1 hour ago, Ironroad said:

Any sightings of that slow boat from China??

Wasn’t particularly funny the first two times, age hasn’t helped it..

I literally posted a pic of the ship in the other thread on these coaches.. 

On 9/9/2022 at 11:26 PM, warb said:

Some thing different any ideas

Regards

Warb

 

Is this on set for a film or series, maybe hidden assets which was filmed in Shannon I think

42 minutes ago, Rob said:

They were still on the go over the last couple of years but rare enough- usually one or so on any one train.

@MOGUL would no doubt know exact dates?

Didn’t realise I had been nominated the in house expert on Dongs..

2005 to present, so too late for IE unit load but they do lease to a good few shipping lines including COSCO who are their parent and CMA.. More widespread around 2015-2020 but still in liners, we just do less 20ft biz now

On 16/1/2024 at 7:49 PM, Mayner said:

 The containers may have been a low cost alternative to replacing the 'Brown Vans' once used for York-Road parcel traffic with more modern vehicles. Similarly CIE sometimes used its side door containers as vans during the transition from loose coupled to Liner Train operation during the late 70s.

It looks like the NIR containers were only used in Northern Ireland, with Red Star parcels conveyed in BR Passenger and Parcel trains between Stranraer-Glasgow and points on the Mainland. 

Interestingly BR transhipped Railfreight traffic to Northern Ireland from rail to road at Stranraer Stockton Haulage depot.  

https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/stranraer-freight-traffic.162202/

Interesting thread, although not mentioned was the Ciba Geigy resin which was carried in curtainside containers and then tanks to Stranraer for shipping to NI via Larne.. 

1 hour ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Hey! Phrasing!

This is a family-friendly forum where a large amount of posters have a mental age under sixteen, please show some consideration!

Picture for context, his name is lumpy and he lives in my garden.. 

12 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

DHL delivered a few Hatton's parcels to me at lunchtime. Quite sad to think that there won't be any more, aside from the few held by Customs, and the Genesis coaches.

Some track that they were selling off cheap. I've already started chopping the sections down to size.

Looks quite good under the stock. Also have some transition sections to join the code 124 and 143.

Did anybody else get themselves any bargains in the closing down sale?

 

 

Have a very tasty trunk, including a Mcburney DAF in OO, a silverfox MK3 DVT and PP coach(slightly damaged), a model rail sentinel in GSR livery that’s been chipped and weathered and about 5 packs of Dapol containers(last Cobelfret in stock, dong fang and Hapag, Yang mings and unpainted 45fts)

Going to wait till the end of this month to see if there is anything else good to throw in there, maybe a 1:400 747 or something 

3 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

 

Nothing beats a nice brown box.

Speaking of, how useful are these for Irish modellers?

 

https://railsofsheffield.com/products/dapol-4f-028-152-40-ft-high-cube-container-zim-769411-4-727809-8-twin-pack

Not very, zim never had much of a presence in Ireland.. In fact they no longer have an Irish agency, and look after Ireland from their U.K. agency..

I have a pack of the dapol 20fts, I bought after getting 1 booking on the train from the Irish agent to deliver a 20ft to Ballina.. He was a pain in the hole, needed updates every two hours and didn’t understand why a factory that takes a hundred deliveries a week didn’t think his one 20ft container was a priority to offload.. Needless to say that was the only time I know of a Zim box being on the rails since 2005

22 hours ago, DiveController said:

My buddy, a boats captain, saw all my stock a couple of weeks ago so he’s in when the NIR stock is coming by.
Dive team ready to go for boarding  

Now you just have to figure out which box of 9-10000 you are looking for…

I’ll give you a clue, it’s reddy brown

7 minutes ago, skinner75 said:

I've a couple of 071 I have double of, along with several Baby GMs that I should let go of - put towards the new batch of MM 141/181

You can’t say things like that and no elaborate! 
 

any sniff of 071s sets tongues wagging these days 

21 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

They're just past Adavoyle right now, but there are cows on the line at Kellystown, and a man with a milk churn......

They are in a TEMU container like this one, should be offloaded at Dugort harbours tomorrow morning in time for the up mixed 

51 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Damn it, I could have commandeered a speedboat while doing the colonies last night and done some late-night pirating!

Arrrrrrrrr!

Now I see them!

 

 

Its out there somewhere, one of those little dots with COSCO written on the side..

I have a theme song for you and all, enjoy(it was stuck in my head for about 3 months thanks to the 2 year old!).. Beats Barney anyway

27 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Not wishing to detract from the excitement surrounding the Mk2D's, but the NIR Mk2B/C's can't be far behind them, can they?

Funny you should say that, they passed by you around 9pm last night heading North.. Vessel routed around the cape due to the Houthis, maybe we should have warned the shipping line they were in more danger off the Canaries from a man with a step ladder and army of Felines!

48 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Be good to know how much they are if they are that close!

That’s one for the man himself, I am but a small cog! 

1 hour ago, derek said:

Thanks for that. As I said, I know its out of your hands. You lads at IRM are very good at updates on your own projects and they are very much appreciated. Thanks again

Hi Andrew, I was under the impression that they were imminent as well, but we can live in hope. Don't suppose you have anything solid to base that on? 

Yes I arrange the shipping for Paddy, so probably know better than anyone where everything is! The MK2Ds should be here late this week/early next week..

141/181s, it will be tight if they are ready before Chinese new year in early February, but we should see them by Easter I would imagine 

On 2/1/2024 at 3:27 PM, Darius43 said:

The first wagon is a Midland Railway wagon from around WW1.  The second “well wagon” version is an LNER variant from the inter-war period.

Cheers

Darius

And more importantly, what Calibre is that Barrel?