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Well THAT escalated quickly, was €150 plus P&P yesterday and still has 6 days to run.. https://www.ebay.ie/itm/186285329975?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=5282-175127-2357-0&ssspo=tAHV0Z9ASqi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=tAHV0Z9ASqi&var&widget_ver=artemis&media=FB&fbclid=IwAR29TgNMh9XzoZNKe-Jk_ZXF87jHYG7tn3ZLx-rWojLT6yy5CsJeVycvXOw

While what you say might make sense from a rail freight within Ireland point of view, it makes zero sense to a freight forwarder like me, where the rail journey is just a small part of the overall shipments transport.. Foynes is in the wrong place for services from Europe and has no large traffic generator near by to provide a base load to a container service.. It might work for some bulk traffic, but so could any port on the island, and if you are going to land in Foynes and forward by rail then there is probably a port nearby than is more convenient

Sounds like something that was heard from a driver in Heuston… This idea that there is some over arching plan to move services to Foynes( the same pops up with Shannon) is nonsense.. Ports(or airports) and governments have very little say in what services they get, as the services are operated by privately owned companies that go where the demand is.. Hence the Dublin centric nature of our shipping and airline routes

I was slightly pessimistic as I overlooked the grain/animal feed to Gain Feeds Portlaoise which previous ran from Foynes, Waterford(RH hall now demolished) and Dublin(doesn't want rail freight or Bulk traffic in the basin very much).. However again this is not a dead cert for rail traffic.. I have said it a hundred times, doubling Portarlington to Athlone would be the best spend of money on rail in this country, benefitting Passenger services to Westport and Galway as well as all currently operating freight services.. It should happen before WRC, Navan or even East Cork, but it just doesn't have the flash to it to get some local politician to put him back into it! With the extra Westport and Galway services(plus more container trains in the pipeline), that piece of track about to get even more congested!

Ah yeah but everything in the door so far this week was in January, now it’s a whole new month and nothing has arrived yet… Murphy models, sure that was last month

Last ever trunk from Hattons arrived this morning, not quite my best one eve but deffo a good one.. They will be missed but my wallet will be €150-€200 a month better off, till I figure out some other way to spend it!

While technically narrow gauge, Irish Steel haulbowline probably warrants a mention, maybe under some special category heading like commendable effort or also ran

Hit send/receive and check your junk folder! not stuck in my outbox anyway

It isn’t the end of January yet so it’s possible you’ll get your paws on them this month..

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

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

Only one?

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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