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That whole area is fenced off now sadly, due to it being used for 22k railcar storage, so you wont be able to get close to it sadly

info@modelrailways.ie will get you the MRSI George

O'Connell Street safely loaded last night and now en-route to the NEC.........

Think of what the term 'BS' normally stands for A dreamer and a fool is all he is, safe to ignore

They were yellow at the end, both cut up fairly quickly too. The Crane at Whitehead is the former GNRI crane and the former NCC crane is at Downpatrick

Nail on head, particularly regarding personal hygiene The 2 previous years Ive exhibited there Ive stood on the roof of the restaurant to watch the flood in the door at 09.15 and 2 years later stood just close enough to the Bachmann stand to take in the spectacle of the bargain scrum - makes fat women at jumble sales look exceptionally tame.......

Enjoy it, wont be there for various reasons!! Also the North Down MRS will be there with their GWR layout

If you want to buy stuff Saturday, if you want to look at layouts Sunday!!

Ebay is not a measure of what something is worth - its a measure of what people are willing to pay

No, the Syndicate are based in the UK. But expect to shafted by either bookseller at Raheny for it

VW Brilliant Orange or Volkswagen Beetle Orange, as any good motor factors would say

A bit heavy handed, but buy a Bachmann Mk1 with B4 bogies (comb ebay, usually the regional railways ones had B4's), removed the body, cut the SF vans ends off and slot it onto the bachmann chassis. Will run better and smoother and to scale height. You then also have an open interior. Also add the water tank under the model

The sharper the blade the safer it is - requires less effort to cut materials (so your not applying too much pressure and it jumps) and if you do manage to cut yourself it will be a cleaner cut, not gouged and less chance of infection

Next time set the depth of field higher, put it into AV mode and go as high as you can - eg F22. You will need a tripod but it will be worth it

201-205 210-214 - the non push pull fitted examples

SF still has a pile of unsellable 105's to shift then!

112 now on display in Marks Models in Dublin (not the one thats on display in Belfast)

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Yes they did - when No4 was preserved the paint was carefully removed to reveal the original NCC markings underneath BTT

Asked him about it a few years back, but he was not interested, but no doubt if he did they would be like the rest of his items, nice if expensive.

I was on that train, 6400bhp, acceleration to humble an empty DART.........

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Didnt think the French or the Germans would be too interested in it really Anyway, Richard Branson is understandably not impressed, but his reasonings make for interesting reading (scroll down a bit) http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog

Hope everyone noticed that the 071's main headlights were painted orange too, proof again that Mr Murphy researched them well

Maybe now, but not when IE had it on loan,it was filthy, mostly as it was worked very hard on everything from expresses to beet trains The bigger picture is important though, you might want 209 and 230, but there has to be demand for 209, ie you and I might want it, but who else does. Personally Id love to see either 207 or 233 done, same way Id love any of the 111's in their earlier guises, but its been proven that the demand is just not going to be there for them, same way the blue 201's never sold in massive numbers. Im based in the South, but I enjoy modelling NIR stock, but no doubt its the whole 'grass is greener' scenario, so unlikely the demand would be there for any shade of NIR blue, apart from the one that spent a well photographed time running on IE metals and gained LED markerlights, although Id almost confidently say that all 3 111's have been to almost every corner of the Irish network