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    Nothing wrong with 233. But what most people on this forum don’t understand is that when a safety system fault occurs, it’s a service failure, end of. Safety is paramount. I wish all the experts would join the railway!
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    208 wasn’t removed in Dublin initially. 208 was sent north on the 16.50 which was duly failed at Clongriffin. Eventually returning back to Connolly where 208 was then removed and replaced with 209.
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    I would imagine there’s more bubbles of rust below their paintwork than cement bubbles behind 183! I cleaned of a fair bit of the original factory weathering very carefully with IPA. Then from memory just a little airbrushing to blend everything together.
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    183 and 209 through Ballyercall
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    It would have been interesting if one of the large box shifters had acquired Heljan would the same concerns been expressed by them! The simple fact is people are purchasing more carefully. Put a Murphy Models 071 online at £159 direct sale or from the local model shop at £239 and I have a funny feeling who will sell out first!
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    161 is replaced by a couple of 121's on the ballast turn.
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    A Class 017 at Ballyercall
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    Some of my favourite Murphy Models
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    So much here is thanks to Paddy Murphy. We have so many excellent models thanks to this man.
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    Sorry to hear this. I will never forget the one and only time I met him. After a long day walking round the Warley show at the NEC I met this small man walking the other direction. I said to him “are you Paddy Murphy?” Well as they say the rest is history. He dragged me in to Starbucks and out of this small bag came undecorated samples of the 121’s. For the next 3/4 of an hour I got a run down on the challenges the 121 represented to get right. A marvellous insight. Condolences to all the family at this difficult time.
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    084 passes through Ballyercall with a goods IMG_9824.mov
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    Stop the teasing and get it on my layout now! Love it. What about a MV and a 80 to go with it!
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    Some Irish Action
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    Up and running again!
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    I would have thought even with the limited Irish market the A class that had a service life of basically 40 years would have out sold the 89. After all if memory serves me correctly there were about 17 different running numbers manufactured. Class 89 in reality would have had a service life of little over 10 years in total at best on the east coast main line corridor. It really shows how limited the Irish market is, and the spike in demand during the Covid pandemic is well and truly over. Even the activity and model forums like this one or RMWeb is a lot slower these days.
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    NIR 80 Class and NIR MV’s would be my balance busters!
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    It’s one of those moments for IRM, disappointment for not producing enough, dissatisfaction for producing too much! I would image there’s a lot of people just getting things slightly more difficult at the present time with the costs of day to day essentials going up, plus many modellers having enough to satisfy. Plus the constant scare mongers on the main stream and social media platforms making some people reluctant to splash out on their hobbies. In North America there seems to be a lot of recent releases by the model railroad manufacturers ending up in bargain sections of shop websites relatively quickly, a process that usually took about 18 months to 2 years to happen. I am already buying too many Hunslets and I will purchase some coach packs but I will be sitting out the 800’s and ICR’s.
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    I can confirm, nonsense.
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    Traverser storage in place
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    Thanks that helps with the purchases.
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    Can someone please help with this question from the IRM team?
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    Bump this. Can anyone answer this before I place an order to lengthen my current sets?
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