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Blaine

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Given a Park Royal coach is 2895mm wide - No. Irish Loading Gauge is bigger than the UK
  4. And the one that a lot of prominent people involved in this scene are banned from for some reason. I'm heartbroken
  5. Ah, a special group for special people
  6. Aiming at the collectors market ultimately - how many of these are bought and run continuously for more than a few mins......
  7. Aw god love you, you poor little chicken. 1 candle or 2?
  8. 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
  9. They said the same about wagons and look what happened there
  10. Au contrare, an IRM J15 will look better and more importantly run better than the OO Works ones.
  11. 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....
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Faster than the show!! Now bring on the moaners 'cant say you weren't told!!!'
  15. 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!
  16. 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
  17. FOMO?? They will be marked as seconds anyway like the ones were at Raheny. 'Caveat Emptor' if you are later buying them preowned
  18. Take it these are Worseley Works 'scratch aids' kits??
  19. HO theres loads of work needed, but for 00 / 21mm a bit less
  20. If you modelled the layout in 1/87 (HO) scale, EM is bang on for 1600mm / 5'3 gauge.
  21. They were attached to any loco that was to travel through the tunnel, or associated with Channel Tunnel trains, ie diesel locos bringing trains to the UK portal at Dollands Moor to hand over to 92's. This is why the EPS 37/6's had the cast Polos as they were intended to bring the Nightstar Channel Tunnel Sleepers as far as the portal, the Railfreight Distribution 'European' 47's had smaller painted on ones under the drivers side window, as they were bringing freight to the portal. The EPS 73's just got them to look cool I reckon, used mainly for Eurostar towing and recovery
  22. In short - no. Dont bite the hand. Just be thankful they are making these
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