Blaine

Not really, you want people to buy them now and not 'ah shur ill get it again', and then moan in a few years time when its more expensive and they missed the chance, a la most murphy models locos, 121 aside Also 2 of the 92 special editions were made in even less numbers than this...

But unlike ebay, Adverts is in Ireland, so people are not as terrified of VAT, postage or import fees

The Kingscourt line is now abandoned and some of it is in the process of conversion to a greenway, the short stretch, if its used will stop before the first former level crossing at the Navan-Kells road as all of the trackbed is still intact in that area, along with the track still being there, if disappeared under 21 years worth of weeds. Kilmainhamwood is the only place on the former line where it still looks like a railway station, its in reasonable order

https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2023/01/18/is-the-navan-rail-line-dream-back-on-track-cabinet-expected-to-sign-off-on-2031-start-date-for-e750m-project/ It is happening, but only signed off for now, it probably wont entirely follow the original trackbed closed in the 60's and lifted in 1964 either, as it needs to go closer to/into Dunshaughlin and bypass Kilmessan Junction, so the famous Station House Hotel can stay. A lot of the original trackbed from the MGWR route remains and most of the buildings too - Batterstown, Bective, Drumree and Kilmessan Junction Plenty of bridges will need to be build also, at least 1 if not 2 crossings of the M3 along with some major civil engineering work elsewhere on the route

Given a Park Royal coach is 2895mm wide - No. Irish Loading Gauge is bigger than the UK

And the one that a lot of prominent people involved in this scene are banned from for some reason. I'm heartbroken

Ah, a special group for special people

Aiming at the collectors market ultimately - how many of these are bought and run continuously for more than a few mins......

Aw god love you, you poor little chicken. 1 candle or 2?

It's a competitive market ultimately, not everyone is friends and you need rivalry to make better models to higher standards. Notice Accurascale pushed on with the 37 after Bachmann quickly announced theirs and it will be available soon Anything IRM is mass produced to a standard. OO Works are small numbers and hand assembled in the UK, basically pre-assembled whitemetal kits, compared to mass assembled IRM items. The IRM model will be a lot easier to get a hold of, along with better running and warranty backup. True RTR and not a niche manufacturer

They said the same about wagons and look what happened there

Au contrare, an IRM J15 will look better and more importantly run better than the OO Works ones.

On 121 grand a year to eat sambos, reply to 2 emails daily and read the paper, sounds like a grand job Anyway Irish Rail have loads of whistleblowers, they are called guards and train dispatchers....

Seen it being done plenty of times tbh, the 3 small dioramas across from the IRM stand at the Dublin October show all had them, just ambient sounds for each one

For The Sopranos fans in here.....

Look for a Heljan one, they were shorter. As used on the MRSI Loughrea layout, suitably regauged to 21mm. 121's and J15's sit nicely on them

Faster than the show!! Now bring on the moaners 'cant say you weren't told!!!'

Split - there was also a table in the old York Road depot - not sure if it worked mind, and the triangle for the 'cross harbour link' would have been around then - just!

Well you felt the need to point it out and share it here, you could have easily not done this, so by doing this you are funding him on youtube too

FOMO?? They will be marked as seconds anyway like the ones were at Raheny. 'Caveat Emptor' if you are later buying them preowned

Take it these are Worseley Works 'scratch aids' kits??

HO theres loads of work needed, but for 00 / 21mm a bit less

If you modelled the layout in 1/87 (HO) scale, EM is bang on for 1600mm / 5'3 gauge.