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    new layout

    in Workbench

    Posted

    A4mallard, whatever way things are going for you, I wish you all the very best in the future.

     

    And I would second that, a great modeller who is a keen and active member of this community.

    Tara Junction.

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted

    Hi Noel, fantastic busy layout with loads of different trains running about. The ammonia, park royal sets and the Galway, caught my eye but they are all brilliant models. The TMD is also a hive of activity with so many locos on view.

    Passenger Fleet life span

    in What's happening on the network?

    Posted

    It's funny how Inchicore has changed.

     

    In steam days, they thrived with a fleet three times the size they have now, where apart from the 101s barely two locos were alike. Despite the best efforts of the GSR and CIE, standardisation was a foreign word. Forty year old locos and carriages, and even older wagons, were not only the norm - there were many. many examples approaching twice that age. And yet they maintained them all and the trains ran.

     

    Cue the diesel era, and compared to British Rail and its toytown "train company" successors, they suddenly developed an absolute anathema of anything that is non standard, anything that requires any effort, imagination or thought processes; witness the 2 or 3 standard types of train on offer today. It started with the AEC railcars. Then the potentially useful SLNCR Railcar B, and then the G class. If it wasn't standard, they didn't like it and didn't look after it. The AECs lasted half the time their equivalents in Britain did - less in some cases. Now, we have the Mk 2 and Mk 3 carriages scrapped half way through their reasonable lifespan. Comments about needing more maintenance may be more about lack of proper care than age - though if so, that itself can probably be traced to lack of proper government funding.

     

    So we have scrapped perfectly good Mk 3s and the excellent Galway set, and laid aside 8700 DARTS and 2700 class railcars - all barely out of their Hornby boxes........

     

    Mad....

     

    Hi jhb, The scrapping of the MK 2 fleet was probably on the cards as I think they would have required heavy Maintenance/major investment, some had serious rust probs. The purchasing of the MK 4 coaches and the policy decision to switch to ICRs spelt the death knell for the MK3s. The 071 hauled MK3 rakes were arguably the Pinnacle of intercity rail travel here, in terms of speed, comfort and reliability. This fleet could have been utilised more productively in terms of life expectancy and you would wonder at a decision to axe them at that point? Speakig of value for money from train fleets, what about that coach purchased from BR, ex HST TRFK No. E40513, it was converted to cafe bar No 6402, cost around £1,000,000 and saw 7 or 8 years of service here!

    What closed lines have people been on?

    in General Chat

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    I had a relation working for IE, I travelled many times down the D.S.E.R. sections to Shelton, Arklow and other stations, and on one occasion we had to open the long section (some pw work earlier in the day) Arklow-Enniscorthy, we had to crawl through the section to open it with a pilot on board and then we took the very late Rosslare-Connolly back through the section, it was an 071 with the PP mk3 set, that train was empty returning back to Connolly and it was put through it's paces on a very good road from Enniscorthy to Arklow. I was also on the South Wexford line with some of the most recent rail tours and I was on the footplate of some of the beet trains during the last season, including 121/141s and 071. I recall the 121 making very loud 'banging' sounds as she slipped approaching Taylorstown viaduct while paired with a 141 and pulling a heavy beet train up the bank. I was on the Blue Thunderer railtour that ran over the lisburn-Antrim section. I saw a great photo recently from the cab of the last weed spray train that ran up to New Ross, the line looked like a jungle with the rails nearly completely covered, once I also visited the short spur off the Wolfhill branch, to the Tegral factory in Athy.

    Basic question: why do my locos sometimes stop running?

    in Questions & Answers

    Posted

    The advice here is spot on Modelrailwayman. I only need a basic dc controller for a small layout and big Dave (Wrenneire), is the man on here for sourcing such a thing. I have had the same problem and it is definitely the Hornby controller that is causing the loco to stop after a few laps of the layout. When I tried a different (better quality) controller, the loco runs continuously and faultlessly. I was surprised myself but it seems that some of these basic analogue controllers should be avoided.

    MM201 Erratic running

    in Questions & Answers

    Posted

    Many thanks to all for the help and advice. I removed the dcc chip and replaced the blanking plate but the same problem persists, I'm using the analogue controller that appears in Broithe's pic and on the screen at the start of roxyguy's vid. The same controller is operating 141s and 071s fine. The loco was working fine on the dcc set up but it is a long time ago since it ran on that system and I have only wanted to give her a quick run on the dc with a set of push/pull Mk III set. She only runs for a short time then stops.

    MM201 Erratic running

    in Questions & Answers

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    Hi all,

    I gave my MM201, 222 a run (it has not had a run in ages), this eve on my small layout. The power supply is through a basic Hornby DC controller, the loco was chipped in the past but I now only bother running any of the locos on the DC as I find it fine for what I want in a small set up. The problem seems to be that the loco runs for a circuit or two of the layout then slows to a stop. It is very like it is causing a short as I have to disconnect and then reconnect the power supply before she will run again. I removed the dcc chip and tried running her with a blanking plate, in all cases she runs for a short time then stops. Would anyone have any ideas or suggestions about the possible problem and solution please?

    I have ran 141s this evening on the same set up and they seem to be running fine.

    Thanks in advance, Tommy.

     

     

    First photos of Irish Railway Models' ballast wagon (pre-production)

    in News

    Posted

    One good thing about being older is the memory the old lima and hornby stuff back in the day Masquerading as CIE rolling stock, one has some insight and perspective on how far Irish railway modelling has come in more recent times. The standard here is amazing and to think this level of detail is available in a model of an Irish freight wagon. Once again, a massive congratulations to all involved, it is a superb project.

    D.S.E.R. Stations

    in Irish Model Layouts

    Posted · Edited by BosKonay

    A bit of running with a C class heading a special for Shelton and a pair of GMs running light engine to Wicklow to pick up empty stock. Lots of work to be done on the PW and Scenery!

     

     

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    Characteristics of CIE MetroVick C Class Locomotives

    in General Chat

    Posted

    I remember them in Bray pre DART days on the old Push-pulls, they were a class that seemed to have been withdrawn very quickly in the end, considering the very restricted budgets and resources that CIE had to contend with at the time? I also remember sitting in the old restaurant on the second floor of the Busaras building and seeing them regulary slogging back and forth there in the city centre. As Dive says, they certainly got a new lease of life with the doubling of their HP output, I would love to see one on a rail tour some day or visit Downpatrick to see the class in action there.

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