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Those are the same ones back again, likely someone had them in their trunk.. When you click the adds, they were listed on the 6/12.. Maybe someone realized they had over paid!

Was just coming on here to post that, great minds think alike.. Fairly sure that’s one of the dickey mk2ds that didn’t sell for ages as there was a livery issue

Wouldn’t be surprised if a certain someone had it on eBay for £450 plus £25 shipping by next week! Not sure if Hattons started checking eBay for priced but their pre owned has gone pricey the last while, they had cravens in the original livery at £96 for ages, think they sold 2 at that price but there’s one still up..

I received 3 books from @iarnrod in the post this morning.. Thanks Noel! On page 40 of Philip Horton's Locomotives and Recollections I spotted this, quite a small photo so sorry about the orientation but was the best way to get a good quality shot with my phone.. Its a Transamerica spider tank like the one @Arran released a few years back https://shop.c-rail-intermodal.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=72_73&product_id=171 on hire to BELL lines, and with a BELL line logo(coincidentally Noels thumbnail!) Nice easy container for someone to model with some home brew transfers for their BELL liner to add some variety

Two vessels due in, first one tomorrow and second one Wednesday morning.. 6 cars per vessel.. So transfers Monday to Thursday every day,

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076 works todays down liner, this one is IWT3499, with the up train today and tomorrow's down train being IWT3500.. Work commitments mean I won't get out to see that one but close enough!

The doors on the Wec boxes have inset handles, that’s why the door looks strange from the inside.. this showed up in Ballina today, 20ft with 8ft 6 in yellow square like your TESU box

Finally finished this one after over 2 years.. Not the tidiest work but was glad to finish it in the end and it was only €7 for the kit.. Completing this one has given me a spur to make a few more kits while waiting for my base boards to be made, so have a Sherman crab in the pipeline also Airfix ME109E in 3/ JG51 livery, France 1940

Makes more sense in terms of time period!

076 is on IWT, not sure what the second loco is.. 232 is/was in timber

Looks like a standard 20ft 8ft 6 box, 33.2CBM on the door confirms it.. The sign looks like a caution 8ft 6in one, must be a very old box(can't make out on the CSC plate on the door) Were you there hunting strays?

Next ICR centre car deliveries are due to Dublin at the start of December.. First vessel is due 4/12 with 6 cars Next vessel is due 5/12 with 6 more And a final vessel is due 17/12 with 6 more cars..

What's the tank on the tank transporter, looks like a Challenger but in North African camoflage? Fantastic modelling by the way!

Without stirring the pot.. IRM moved some track panels for Maam when they released the As, supported Tailte tours on their inaugural run and dontated funds from the sale of ballasts to the DCDR to preserve the real thing.. Wonder if hattons could be convinced to contribute towards rescuing a 6 wheeler, there is a suitable candidate just down the road from Maam after all!

It's nothing like a scamell scarab, but I think it is a Scamell, the script on the bonnet looks like their logo.. Likely a later design than the Scarab but with similar intended use or for use as a terminal tractor shunting semi-trailers onto the ferry.. What the model name is, I haven't the foggiest, doesn't seem to be much online about their smaller vehicles

Just got my shipping notification.. Can't wait for tomorrow

Not strange at all, the current schedule has no train in NW from Saturday morning till Monday afternoon.. The weekend sees both sets of flat wagons and normally a timber stabled in Ballina.. This coming Monday is an exception, as due to engineering work in Tullamore the down train will run on Monday instead of Saturday.. Probably the first down train on a Monday in about 9months

Yes it is true, myself and Ciaran Cooney had a good chat about it at the weekend after seeing the diorama at the MRSI show.. Ciaran, who is an expert on these things reckons there are very few photos of trains on the branch, but his excellent article on sidings in the IRRS journal a few years ago included a few.. He reckons the track layout in the mill was limited, with a loop and a siding/headshunt down the side of the brown roofed(intake) shed.. Here are some pics I took by way of a photo survey in May 2021, the mill is up for planning for the dreaded buy to let apartments, so see it while you can! The foliage hides it, but the small brown roofed shed has a sliding door on the side that looks like it would have received H Vans: The end wall of the brown shed looks like it was open, and has been covered with corrugated after closure.. not sure if rail sidings ran in under the roof or not This shot is taken on the railway line side of Canal looking along the alignment into the mill, the parapet looks in decent condition, and a small pillar still stands in the canal for the skew of the bridge.. the bridge itself was an industrial looking arch girder jobby

Aughinish inports it bauxite in large bulk vessels, mainly from Brazil.. It then exports finished alumina by sea in smaller vessels around Europe.. A friends Grandfather was a ships captain with Arklow shipping and a regular run for him was from Aughinish to Blyth with Alumina, from Blyth the Alumina is railed to Fort William and Lynemouth.. Aughinish receives and ships all its tonnage by sea from its own berth in the river rather than the main Foynes operation.. Tara never shipped from Foynes, and have their own terminal in Dublin port so this is unlikely.. However Foynes did ship Zinc that was railed from Silvermines, on behalf of a Canadian company called… Mogul!

Tis a sad scene in my office today, the pride of my bus and truck fleet has been boxed up and will be dropped off to the Post office tomorrow On the plus side, I will be a couple of hundred better off coming into the weekend to fund my IRM ferts and a few more bits and pieces.. It feels a bit like selling my knee caps to buy new earlobes, the things we do for love! Now the only question is, will Paddy take my first born as payment for 141s,as I'm running out of things to flog, soon it'll just be me, a desk and boxes of railway models!

How many models have you released Chris? Without giving away too much detail(not my place to do it), I can confirm this one has some substance to it

They can handle 45ft palletwide containers, but not reefers as they are slightly too wide due to the thicker/double skinned walls.. There is no 5ft add on, the Irish Rail pocket wagons were always 45ft long, and besides their design concept are not related to the UK pocket wagons(KTA/KQA/) that are 40ft only..

Monday's are normally quiet, and the Coca-Cola plant in Ballina had a few shut downs last week for Maintenance to bulk silos and Anniversary Celebrations.. This week is flat to the mat from now until at least next monday!

I think BELL might have had some of the earliest 45ft container also.. Bachmann have been flogging their boxes for years as LEG1s for years, when you compare them to the Dapol tooling like that the difference is clear.. Same issue applies to their 20fts, I think they are 8ft 9 or so.. Tis a shame Dapols printing has gone to shit, as it used to be fairly sharp(ECS boxes they did are very good, will stick up pics tomorrow)and they are the only ones with European 45ft HCs tooled up