Grange Castle

And some announcement it is too ! Right up my street, had a great chat with Paddy about it. Photo doesn't do it justice at all.

Grange Castle Gardai finally received their new uniforms this week. Roads Policing unit detaining a shoplifter they've come across, quickly assisted by public order unit after a few locals turned hostile.

10 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said: Is that a Tiny City police van? Lovely! Yeah it's a tiny Merc Sprinter, there's a tiny iveco on the way too, not quite finished yet

Newest Garda vehicle on its way to join the fleet.

Small update Station is now built (Terry Ottley) its based on Dunboyne as I want to have a modern style station. I've designed a footbridge to match which will hopefully be done soon.

The Irish Rail / Stobart Rail Civil Engineering partnership has commenced and equipment has started to assemble at Grange Castle ahead of the project to rebuild the Station area. Works include Realignment of track Ballasting Building of platforms (currently passengers have to jump ) Installation of shelters and Bus set down areas to front of the Station. Project is expected to take anything from couple of weeks to couple of years depending on a number of factors, mainly consisting of time available, mood, football on TV and whether or not beers need to be consumed

Something which will feature a lot in Grange Castle is the Emergency Services. Mostly made up of Dublin Fire Brigade, Garda, Irish Coastguard and Civil Defence. Here we have a response to a Fire Alarm activation in the Station

Simply superb great detail

Some more of the buses seeing daylight again

They were actually all releases. The latest ones ( 13A & 51B) are from IRM, the 25A and 103 are from Britbus and were released a long time ago. The 103 is actually modelled on a cityswift that was on loan to Bus Eireann at the time and carries Bus Eireann markings along the side. Rare enough the 103 model, apparently some of the batch was lost which makes it even more scarce.

Can't believe I've left it so long to get my arse in gear, opened box 2 and forget I actually had some of this Think I've had 2 Xmas mornings this week

Some more unboxing

Evening lads. Haven't posted in a long time although I have been keeping an eye on the site. A lot of what I see posted has me very jealous ! And although I haven't posted I have continued collecting so hopefully this year I will really get stuck into putting it all together. For the moment I might just post some of what I have in the hope it gives me the kick I need to get the layout built. The layout is set in West Dublin and will be a decentralised transport hub it will have a 4 track station accommodating Intercity, Commuter and eventually Dart West services. A bus hub at the train station will provide services to Airport and Ferryport via m50 as well as local and expressway services meaning passenger traffic can avoid city centre. The plan also includes a stobart/irish rail depot which will be the drop off point for containers going to Dublin port. Layout is running around attic so has decent amount of track length. But a word of warning, I very much plan this to be MY layout, there WILL be eras mixed, wrong stock running together, stuff that's generally wrong etc. I'll be honest I don't know the details on trains etc, I just like them ! I don't mind negative feedback, I will learn bits along the way. Anyway thanks lads I'll post a few bits I uncover in the boxes over the next while.