MOGUL

On 20/5/2023 at 12:07 AM, ttc0169 said:

Two views from the junction this evening-from the ground up-and from the top down…!!!!

 

The chippy looks well Noel, is it the airfix kit with after market decals? 

5 hours ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

All gone now 

And a herd of Irish inbound to replace them?

5 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Still showing as for sale at the moment.

https://touch.adverts.ie/toy-cars-trains-boats-planes/murphy-model-class-141/30269541

That Seon Ruiz chap puts in a massive amount of offers. Pretty sure I've bought one or two things where he has offered and then contacted the sellers in private to withdraw his offer.

 

 

Adverts is a bit weird in that you can’t message the person unless you put in an offer.. If they set the minimum offer to €150 then you have to offer them €150 to even PM them! 

I wouldn’t ever take an adverts offer as binding till you speak to the person for that reason

2 hours ago, DoctorPan said:

Speaking with the day job's cap on, there's is a potential set of traffic flows that could open up with that section opening up in conjuction with what is being done further south with Foynes. Dublin Port is growing busier and with the reopening of Foynes, Ballina liners could be diverted down the WRC and down to Foynes, saving paths on the congresed Port- Athlone section and having to run around on the mainline at Kildare for Waterford liners. 

 

Again highly dependant on IWT and XPT switching ports to Foynes but who knows...

Very hard to see Foynes going back into handling containers, it's in the wrong place and doesn't have a big enough market to justify regular calls from a container vessel.. It was tried back in the early 2000s with parts for DELL in Limerick as the base load and didn't work out.. Even less likely to work out now that DELL is gone..

If anything we have too many ports handling containers, with Waterford suffering from it's proximity to Dublin and Cork, and recently Rosslare also now that it handles containers and has a regular service to/from Belgium which Waterford lacks(big missed opportunity for them).. 

To be honest, doubling all the way from Galway to Portarlington and from Kildare to Athy or even Carlow should happen before any more of the WRC gets built.. 

I have two magazines/one off specials on freight in the UK if anyone wants them.. Trying to declutter my office space/home gym to make space for a small layout

29 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I've never seen the Base Toys UlsterBus Tours one before.

Is it prototypical or imaginary?

I'm interested either way!

It's prototypical but waay before my time!

This website has a pic of one:

https://www.classicbuses.co.uk/+Ubus-77-82.html

Hello All,

I have a few model buses looking for a new home, might be a good scenic feature on a layout for someone, particularly Northern/Ulster based

Corgi OOC Leyland Leopard in Lough Swilly Livery..

 

Will there be a UTA Jinty on the way to haul that Giant wagon?

4 minutes ago, Broithe said:

Does your domestic supervisor need a new coat?

Get her a Ballybrophy coat. Ideal for going to exhibitions and trudging round model shops behind you.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334866370054

Only £160 - but, if you watch it for a few days, you'll get an offer of £120.

Is she worth that..?

Never knew a Ballybrophy coat was a thing.. Was it designed with the long wait on a windswept platform for the Nenagh branch line train in mind?

11 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Is there a web link to it?

The group is called "Irish Railways Buy and Sell - Models & Accessories, Memorabilia & Books"

But the add for the RPSI Cravens has been deleted(think it has been posted about 3 times now).. There are some RPSI Mk2s available at the moment though

3 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

So €85 each, plus postage, plus 23% of that combined value, plus a handling fee?

Probably works out as cheap ordering six of IRM's new Park Royals instead. That's a shame, as the Cravens' are lovely coaches.

Yep works out about  €67 for Vat on top, so an extra €22 a coach

€85 x 3 + €20(Post)= €275 * 23%= €63.25(VAT) plus €3.50(Admin fee) 

How that last post sounded in my head

39 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

How does this work for Irish buyers when it comes to import tax and handling fees?

Payable at the point of entry, so add 23% onto the landed value(cost of goods plus postage) and add on the admin fee..

18 hours ago, the Bandon tank said:

I hope there is no IRM stock in that one.

We have been lucky on that front so far..

But sometimes in shipping, shit happens:

161 sold, 142 still available 

Spotted this one facebook, the vessel is loading at Hammond lanes berth on the south side and the container stacks behind are in MTL.. Would be some job masking a painting a 40ft box into rainbow livery methinks! Maybe @Arran's next release?

12 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

Loco body painted.

Now awaiting delivery of a motorised chassis.

Cheers

Darius

Have always had a thing for Military railways(Christian Wolmar's book on the subject being a particular favourite), that is fantastic work! Will you be adding an oxford rail Boche buster to your layout to complement this?

47 minutes ago, Branno said:

I'll take one, based in Dublin.

Send me a PM, Dublin works!

21 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

@MOGUL's workbench is very quiet.

Too busy selling buses to other people instead of me?

No, have moved onto selling off some locos now! Even more work in that!

Hi All,

I have 2 of the Murphy's 141s in Supertrain livery, moving them on as they are too early for the time period I hope to model.

Both are in excellent condition, packed in the original boxes with the detail packs unopened..

Looking for €225/each plus P&P(or can meet in D7/D15 area), or if there is any interest would swap for 141/181s in IE/IR livery, or MK2Ds in IE/Galway livery

2 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

How dare you sell buses to anybody other than me???

Only found out after the event! Got €300 for two Irbus, an airlink and a EFE Bus eireann, which then bought two Murphy models 201s in the big IRM sell off a few months back.. Miss my buses but I kept a few good ones 

The NOT for sale pile! 

3 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Speaking of buses, I picked this one up for €20 including postage yesterday:

https://www.ebay.es/itm/403771029259

While laughing so hard at these two and the rest on Adverts.ie:

https://touch.adverts.ie/models/dublin-bus-46a-to-dunlaoghaire/23137265

https://touch.adverts.ie/models/dublin-bus-l-driver-under-instruction/29114627

 

Only one available in Ireland? Shit I sold mine to a guy in NI and created that guys monopoly!

There’s 2 on adverts also:

https://touch.adverts.ie/models/murphy-models/30009868

https://touch.adverts.ie/models/murphy-models/30090592

1 hour ago, Warbonnet said:

Hi everyone,

Thanks for all the pre-orders which continue to flow in, very positive. These were probably part of the last truly interesting era of coaching stock on the network, and we would dearly like to add to that range in time should these be a successful model sales wise. So, support it and you never know; more coaches from this era and we will seriously look at doing a top of the line heat van too. 

Which steam heat van would you like to see though?

Cheers!

Fran 

Dutch is the obvious choice, can go with the park royals, the IE mark 2a/bs and the RPSI mark 2s! 

And also with a heljan tank wagon for a DASH refuelling train

On 28/4/2023 at 12:05 PM, ttc0169 said:

A new arrival….MB8 

Thanks IRM for the speedy service

Fran must have a tired arm from singing all 504 of the certs.. It looks like he was just doing squiggles by the time he got to your Noel!