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Colin R

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  1. Hi Guys is there any up date to this project?
  2. Hi Chris thanks for that, just recently someone else was looking for height data and was given this:- https://en-gb.topographic-map.com/map-kb57/England/?center=51.22612%2C-3.83904&zoom=16&popup=51.22828%2C-3.83318 I have used it and foundit to be very useful I have tried on Derry and so far it looks good. Thanks once again for your help in this matter. Colin R
  3. All I can say is 'Nurse the screens' what a fantasic sight and just so good, I would suggest one thing folks, you need to have two locos on site, so if one fails you have a second as a back up, you don't want to be open to the public for the one and only loco to have failed. But if you don't mind where the second one comes from I did hear that the Sri Lankan Railways had a couple of 5ft 6in gauge deisel locos for sale.
  4. There are a number of track systems out there, but sadly they are all mainly HOm if you want Irish 3ft the closes is Peco HOm but then you need to take knif to the sleepers and spred them out a bit to 10 mm centres which is about 2ft 6in centre to centre which I think is about average on the prototype some where about 3ft centre to centre. Peco or Dundas Models still do 00n3 wagon kits and Branchlines still do their isle of man and Dingle loco kits, the biggest problem is find a RTR chassie for any of the steam locos, there are power bogies that can be used under freelanced Deisels and Bemo still do it HOm rolling stock. The biggest supplier by far for etched parts is Worsley Works. Hope this helps Colin
  5. Oh goodie, a price war Weeeee! Seriously for a moment, I will wait and see what Leslie comes up with
  6. Sorry but I kept forgetting this is 2mm scale wonderful job.
  7. Even a yurt isn't that expensive, that said the seller must be living up my road as I am getting bombarded with requests to sell my house from so called estate agents , I don't mind since I have heavy metal music from one side and bhangra music on the other
  8. If you don't mind doing a bit of repainting and lettering most of the Dapol wagons can be purchase here https://www.dapol.co.uk/collections/wagons
  9. Wow really? https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p3519243.m570.l1313&_nkw=dapol+Irish&_sacat=0
  10. Hi John do you of anyone producing an etched Walschaert's valve gear suitable for the 500 class? Colin
  11. I was thinking that myself, I wonder how easy it would be to build as a model.
  12. I have known Mick man and boy which is more years than I care to remember, but if you think this is good, let me tell you he has also built four Backwoods Miniatures Lynton and Barnstaple 2-6-2T's and the Baldwin 2-4-2T in 009 and they run just as sweet. The last time I spoke to him he had just acquired a set of Worsley Works Donegal class 5 etches in 3mm scale and some code 40 rail as an experiment, but I have to admit that was in 2019 just before Covid took hold.
  13. Just over 8ft long. Oh well another thing to put on the Lottery win wall of must haves.
  14. Really! It looks bigger than that. I guess that if I wanted one it would need to be done in 4mm scale. But just out of interest do you have an approximate size length wise in 4mm? Thanks
  15. Dire I ask about the Chetwynd viaduct kit and which parts of the body do I need to get removed to pay for it .
  16. Bandon tanks er? well SSM do an etched kit, or I wonder if anyone makes a 3D print of them the problem with that is then fining a chassis for the body, they are no doubt a fine looking loco, but I don't think I could do with just one, plus I do wonder how I can justify them running into Downpatrick except for some sort of religious festival of which I am not aware of.
  17. Well the first bit of the rolling stock turned up to day and it is a Bachmann BR Mk1 BG coach in green, I know its not quite right, but at least it will keep the Park Royals company for now. Just got to figure out a way to install 21mm gauge wheelsets. I think there has been an article on how to convert one of these to it Irish sister.
  18. October But which one? Seriously I hope it is something which there where many of in the class and with a few tweaks you could produce a few variations on a theme hopefully it might be any one of the following :- Great Southern & Western Railway Class 101 or GSR Class J15 Or others could be the U2 or the W or WT NCC locos the W and WT i think have many common parts From the GNR(I) you could have SG, SG2 or the SG3 again some parts are interchangeable From South of the boarder you could have the classes 372 and 393 both 2-6-0 ex-Woolwich SR designs now this could fit in with a new accurascale model if they ever decide to make one, the only thing is I think the running boards may need to be wider for the Irish versions of these locos. Then of course everyone will want a class 800 wont they? The biggest problem I see for anyone making a Irish steam loco RTR model is the numbers in each prototype class.
  19. Thanks, I did see from a fly over google of inchicore that it looks like there are a number of older bogies carriage in store does anyone have any more details on them please. Thanks Colin
  20. So what old locos are still at Inchicore being used as a sound barriers?
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