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17 hours ago, Noel said:

I cannot see how it could be economically viable for anybody to make a living out of it or even generate supplemental income that is proportionate to the hours of effort involved. Most that have done it seem to be motivated more by the love of doing it then the true economic cost.

Thats untrue. Can you find something else to chastise please, your whole 'oh thats lovely but I dont like it and neither should you' charade is getting boring and repetitive now

2 hours ago, Noel said:

rail is a handy way to get to Wexford.

Engineering works between Dun Laoghaire and Bray/Greystones that weekend, so maybe seek alternative transport

2 hours ago, amdaley said:

Heads up to anyone ordering anything from locomotion Models.

When I ordered a loco I paid £20 Delivery only to be charged a further €20 by courier UPS as brokerage fees  ?. This brought the Total Carriage price to over £37.50 which is excessive by some margin.

If I had known they were using UPS I wouldn't have ordered the item at all.

Further I will be ordering no further items from Locomotion Models as long as they continue to use UPS which is a complete rip off.

I would find it very surprising that they don't know the type of charges customers face by using UPS & I find it very disappointing that they don't inform their customers that they are using UPS as their couriers.

Been caught once but won't get caught again.

I did send them an email complaining but didn't get an answer.

No surprise there I suppose 

 

Standard craic on almost anything that is coming out of the UK now, they didnt say out loud that this was one of the effects of the B thing.

Get it send to friends in Norn Iron or use one of the parcels forwarding services (but not address pal), most UK retailers wont care, Ireland and overseas is less than 5% of their mail order output. Hattons so far is one of the few to set up for Irish customers

10 hours ago, thewanderer said:

It's not a MK3 though. It was a prototype coach for the European market.

It is, official BREL designation was MK3B, same as the MK3 DVT's in the UK. MK3 was HST stock only, MK3A was for hauled stock

2 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

That’s been in Inchicore for a while now, with a comical amount of no photograph signs all over it 

Whats in front of it in that shed will gain more interest from this forum though

Mainland? Didnt know Macclesfield was in Germany? 

17 minutes ago, murphaph said:

This was all before my time around here. Did these two chaps just vanish into thin air? I mean the modelling community in Ireland is small. Are they never seen at shows or anything? I'm not suggesting a lynch mob before anyone gets any ideas!

No, they got very upset when IRM arrived offering actual RTR models that were available and done properly. A certain degree of arrogance about both of them which can be compared to a rural Independent TD, how dare anyone question them or make something better than them. Not seen at shows because of this, the arrival of actual RTR models from genuine manufacturers and plenty of missing deposits/models, they were last seen at a show in 2018. One of them has literally disappeared, last seen in Cavan

Like a lot of cowboys on the scene, a flurry of initial activity, a small handful of happy customers, then drifted into the mire. No real paper trail either, just a handful of emails. Doubtful it would stand up in court either sadly - no receipts/invoices etc issued

9 minutes ago, Mike 84C said:

Was David the guy who ran DJ Models and had links to Dapol?  Rather a shame the loco never happened, maybe one for IRM to run with ? As the loco is/was visible on the preserved railtour scene, would it sell? only market research would establish. 

 

Totally different - but similar principles on a larger scale

39 minutes ago, Darius43 said:

* A bit harsh I know as No Nonsense Kits are cleaned up and improved Modern Transport Kits.

No longer available either, for their time they were good, but the gap has been well covered now

On 25/3/2023 at 2:56 PM, ttc0169 said:

It’s a pity that D&M ceased production,the De Dietrich coaches and Arrow railcars were made to a high standard,

Not the ones that I saw - they must have liked you or something if yours were good. Have had 2 rakes of De Dietrichs in for 'improvements' and the running qualities were shocking - they wouldnt run is an easier way to put it. But remember they are 'Ready to Run' quality made in someones kitchen...... Can think of 461 other reasons why they are best forgotten about in terms of product and service

Yup, always a treat everything in there, trains were almost a bonus, also the first time I heard gunshots for real, a story for another day 

57 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

They don’t get cheaper with volume. 

Certainly not, and if you want good stuff you pay for it too

The 645 idles and redlines slightly higher so theres a different sound which is noticeable especially on idle when 2 are together, its not been heard for a long time though, when 141/2 had their run to Longford and back....

12 hours ago, john R said:

 

Am using hornby elite controller 

 

That wont help your situation either sadly

On 11/3/2023 at 5:45 PM, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

It's greed

Its called profiteering. I've done well on adverts

If they were 50 quid each people would give out.

On 7/3/2023 at 4:32 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

Hornby Class 31 for €146,58 instead of €247,70 at Hatton's:

Hmm, wonder why..........

Its Hornby who have a rather poor reputation as a manufacturer of DCC equipment. The Roco Z21 system offers phone/app control and is a far better system overall. Hornby is a rapidly diminishing brandname now

On 19/1/2023 at 5:25 PM, Branchline121 said:

Yeah, it’s unlikely the Kingscourt line will reopen, but I like to think about it anyways. A spur to Kells like @Mayner said would probably be a better idea. I suppose it’s just that the greenway feels unproductive, seen as we already have one nearby in Ardee, but the reopening of the line would likely be unviable.

Most of the Kingscourt line is greenway'ed now, the original path to Kells is still there as the line that goes to Tara Mines is part of the original line from Navan to Kells and Oldcastle

2 201's sold for €500 anyway, they are out there

Been proven repeatedly now that hunt couplings are not the greatest thing ever, the ones I got for my Dapol JHA's were not great quality - at least they are cheap for what they are

1 hour ago, Gabhal Luimnigh said:

This kind of message is unnecessary really, it drives up the resale prices all round, surely it would be more beneficial if the production run was increased and the genuine hobbiest would have a less sense of panic. 

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...

On 27/1/2023 at 8:23 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

 

I suspect that you might sell a complete train for maybe €500 or €600, but not €900.

Adverts.ie is not eBay, it doesn't have the reach or audience, and it's not a timed auction site so the red mist is missing.

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

22 minutes ago, Branchline121 said:

Apparently they’ll even use a short stretch of the Kingscourt line for the Navan North station, it would be cool if they opened that line too. Oh well, at least I won’t have to travel to another county to see trains anymore!

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

13 minutes ago, Branchline121 said:

Called it!

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

2 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

 

Yup, and one that you now know about thanks to @Westcorkrailway, and can actually find thanks to the url.

You're welcome.

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

I'm heartbroken