Blaine

On behalf of the organising committee for the Model Railway Society of Ireland Model Railway Exhibition we would like to thank everyone - exhibitors, traders, sponsors and enthusiasts for attending our 2026 exhibition which exceeded all expectations and showed that interest in Model Railways in Ireland is very much alive Attendance figures were very healthy in total over the 3 days with Saturday being by far the busiest and Sunday/Monday having similar attendance figures Even the largest of exhibitions (e.g. any major UK show on a Saturday) get overcrowded, and by 2pm on Saturday the heavy crowds had decreased. A few new ideas were tried from previous shows and these worked well Onto 2028. Probably the same venue too, watch this space

Very latest floorplan + exhibitors list

Yes, overflow as per 2024

Latest updates including a list of who will be there https://www.mrsi.ie/exhibition-2026

Shortly

BUS From City Centre: Routes: 14, 15, 27, 27A, 27B, 42, 43 Stop ID: 671 - Nazareth House, Malahide Road. Route: 73 & N4 Stop ID: 1491 - Griffith Avenue - 2 min walk BUS to City Centre: Stop ID: 666 - Mount Temple School Please check the TFI website for all bus times and availability. The route of the 2026 Dublin City Marathon on Sunday 25th October will not affect the show this year - but getting there may, plan your journey ahead

Plenty of Free parking available

Travel Update

Currently on display in Drogheda Tourist Office

Very little if any of Cyril Fry's stock ran on that. Most of it was built by a guy named Tommy Tighe who worked in Inchicore for many years. Glad you dont like it, its been build to cater for a market, tourists. The City section is being upgraded too, as the original version wasnt great

Sold one for that price a few years ago, people will pay. Reference my previous comment here about procrastination, bought it originally for the original price of €159, remember those days...

Its Ireland, Us Irish are world champions at Procrastination, guilty of it myself with some IRM items 'I'll get it again, Ill pre order it next week'

They don't care ultimately, best way to support them is to do what you have done and find something else to do

or just poor maintenance...

Hi Jonathan, huge fan of your photos, useful and inspiring I helped out with the research for this model, and given I wasn't even 5 years old when they stopped regularly running on the Enterprise most of the info was gleaned from research both online and talking to people Past 1984 they were not common on the Enterprise at all - they were not as reliable then, plus I'm not sure if non-CAWS fitted locos were allowed south of Malahide then (which was the furthest that CAWS reached on the Belfast line then, was there special permission needed, loco inspector in the cab etc). I'm sure lack of maintenance etc ended push-pull operation, given the 111's didnt use it Coach lamp irons - I know BR MK2's had two, one high, one low, IR ones were both lower down, as long as there was a lamp iron there it was sufficient, later the two rule came into place. Hunslets only had one lamp iron, be it for a tail lamp, the GNRI white square to mark the rear of the train or occasionally a tour headboard. It was well out of gauge too The great irony of it all is that the Hunslets shared plenty of parts with the BR Class 20 and Portuguese CP 1400 locos, both of which are renowned for reliability and yet their NIR cousins didnt even last 15 years on the frontline

Happened for real frequently before TPWS days on NIR

Fantastic Cancellations, Well Done to All Concerned

Never South of Inchicore or Lansdowne Road. Thats as far as they got Thats the only lamp iron they had, and way out of gauge at that If Hunslets were regular visitors south of Dundalk after the Mid 1980's they would have had a second lamp iron fitted - this was down to the rulebook change after the Cherryville Junction crash - every Irish Rail train had to have 2 lamps fitted and not just one

Finally some movement https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/news/plans-for-new-navan-railway-published https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0524/1574920-navan-railine/

No, Inchicore and Lansdowne Road are the furthest they got

Date: October 24,25th,26th 2026 (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) Opening Times: 11:00 to 17:00 each day Venue - Mount Temple Comprehensive School, Malahide Road, Clontarf, Dublin 3, D03 DX79 The Model Railway Society of Ireland are proud to announce their next bi-annual Dublin show - to be held in Mount Temple School in Clontarf Lots more information to follow, and quite a few new layouts are expected to attend, many of which have not been seen in public before. This post will be edited as more information becomes available This show will see a return of the MRSI's Loughrea layout after some years off the show scene Lots more to be announced - show invites will be sent out shortly

Just ring them, not a huge operation and you will speak to someone quickly and directly by picking up the telephone, whereas emails may not be able to be replied to as promptly

Funeral details etc have now been released https://rip.ie/death-notice/padraig-paddy-murphy-dublin-rathfarnham-623457

You mean the line from Tara Junction to Kingscourt thats been entirely lifted and turned into a greenway?

If its not brand new it is 'sold as seen'. Not everyone in the scene is friendly or trustworthy, been proven several times now 'Caveat Emptor'