Colin R

20 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:

There might be one 141 left but tis fit for scrap (all crucial parts preserved) most of the 2700 class, a few broken darts and a few 201s. 
 

there is not to many diesel locomotives to go around at the moment!

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 

So what old locos are still at Inchicore being used as a sound barriers?

15 hours ago, Galteemore said:

 

• Accurate CIÉ Commonwealth bogies, with separate detailing where appropriate, that allows for the option of re-gauging to Irish Broad Gauge (21mm).
• Brake blocks aligned with wheels, allowing for the option of moving outwards for Irish Broad Gauge.

Thanks guys, the next question to ask is I wonder it the bogies will become a separate items at some stage

Something I should has asked before ordering but any of you guys know if the park royals will gauge out to 21mm?

1 hour ago, Galteemore said:

In which case you need this : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Irish-Broad-Gauge-Carriages-Introduction/dp/185780175X

Just ordered thanks

23 minutes ago, Galteemore said:

BNCR and NCC had a number of variants too. The BCDR ones were superior and the UTA kept them in service for longer than their NCC counterparts. 

I just need to find some photos of them.

Of course just down the tracks from Downpatrick you also have Downpatrick racecourse station, with yet another source of special's not sure what horse boxes would have been seen at that station.    

15 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Inevitably, today, it would have a diet of nothing whatever but 3-car CAFs, however, in the 1960s you've amazing possibilities. Through excursions from Dublin, as you mention, would bring the same sort of stuiff from CIE that appeared from time to time on specials on the Derry Road in its very last few years. Normal services would probably be MED sets, but don't discount ex-GNR BUT / AEC sets too; the latter either in CIE or UTA livery, plus steam in the form of Jeeps hauling a mix of ex-NCC or BCDR stock in UTA green, or ex-GNR stock in UTA green, CIE light green, black'n'tan, old GNR brown or old GNR navy & cream!

Wagons - mix of CIE (an eclectic mix itself), and both ex-GNR and the very individualistic ex-BCDR stock owned by the UTA.

Wow!!!!

Wow I hope the Boys at IRM are having a look at some of that as well. Thanks once again for the information JHB. As a foot note I have just ordered all four green Park Royals from this first batch, just not sure how many more green and or silver versions I will need.   

2 hours ago, Westcorkrailway said:

Just make current day downpatrick….think of the loco variety! 

To be honest that is part of the inspiration, a few 6 wheeler coaches, a couple of railcars bodies plus all my Irish loco kits, I would like to get some more details about there heritage rolling stock and a few wagons........ bingo

it might have to be one of those yurt tents https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/yurt/ 

At this rate I will need to sell the house and move in to a tent.

Seriously for a moment having now decided to build a layout based on Downpatrick would that had have trains of say 3 or 4 bogie coach lengths, there was a photo of a 14 coach six wheeler train set  on an old website but in the main platform but I think that was in the 1920/30's.

So let us believe that a station like Downpatrick survived to the 1960's so the layout would be based on a secondary country terminus that still had direct trains to both Belfast and Dublin, it wouldn't be mainline but at the same time it is still important enough to have those types of services.       

So just to be sure on this, which Park Royals are in the first batch, I see four green coaches which are now on my want list but i don't see one with a brake compartment or are they next? 

Of course, just to throw a spanner into the works IRM could follow Hornby's lead and produce almost scale 5ft 3ins gauge stock in 3mm scale running on 16.5 track 

31 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Frankly, without accurascale, IRM would be a one release a year part time effort. 

To be honest the amount of capital that has gone into the Irish model railway market is just incredible and someone somewhere has a lot of faith or is good extracting the money from investors.

Either way you guys have to be congratulated on what you have done so far, the old saying is you can never please all the people all the time will be so true.

As much as some of us would love to see a RTR Irish steam loco I guess you will have to choose wisely and I am guessing that IRM by itself does not have the resources to have a bad model that no one wants.

So as I see it you have two routes to choose from:-

1 A limited run of certain steam locomotive classes

or

2 a run of something a bit more generic such as a series of 4-4-0 tender locos where the design costs can be spread across say four or five different locos.

Regards

Colin Rainsbury  

HI guys I am thinking outside of the box here.

I wonder if a deal could be done so that John produces a run of say 20 wagons of each type and IRM could then do the importing and distribution bit, I wonder if that could bring the postage cost down to make it viable for a lot more of us to encourage this sort of joint working, what do you all think could it work?

Colin

I think the bank account could support a couple in green livery. 

The above station has always appealed and given I had the space needed would make a great model.  

I have wanted to model Derry/Londonderry for well over 20 odd years, but I have never had the space to do it justice. Also not living in the area had made it difficult to not do a survey and to get a feel for the site.

The hardest bit for me is to try and work out the various heights from water level up to the trackbed and then on up to the road level, you can only get so much detail from maps.

Colin  

Well hopefully there will be something a long soon for the A's to pull from the 1940's to the 1960's period.

Great Stuff, thanks for doing this 

That is why they have turned to TT:1:120 scale as no one else is doing anything yet, but there isn't enough out there to make me switch yet. I should say I already model OOn3 so I would hope that not before to long the 08/09 Diesel 0-6-0 will be out.

That should give some some food of kit bashing. 

I think I am getting my medicines mixed up Bushmills and Blackbush are from the same place, yet I am sure I used to have just as nice a whiskey from Dublin years ago. 

4 minutes ago, spudfan said:

There's some locally produced "medicine" you can get up here. Does not come with a fancy label or lots of EU stuff on the label. Come to think of it, it does not have a label. Anyway when you get some, you undo the top, put a lighted match to the top of the "medicine" bottle. If you get a nice blue flame you know you have some top quality "medicine". Not really sure how it works but when you imbibe some, your brain forgets that your body is sick.

I think I know that stuff, but to play it safe I tend to use a square bottle of brown liquid No 7 all the way from American, if I can't find either my Bushmills or my Blackbush medicines in time.

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