LIMA Murphy Models

[roxyguy]

Jays, all the British HO tooling must have been chucked so. I wonder is there anyone modelling British outline in HO?

 

Some of the plank wagons are tiny. You could nearly repurpose them as narrow gauge.

[Broithe]

Jays, all the British HO tooling must have been chucked so. I wonder is there anyone modelling British outline in HO?

 

There is quite a subculture out there - http://www.british-ho.com/ .

[WRENNEIRE]

Some of the HO bits were reshod with OO couplings

2 come to mind from the Irish range

The 4F loco and the Sundries wagon

[Warbonnet]

Jays, all the British HO tooling must have been chucked so. I wonder is there anyone modelling British outline in HO?

 

Some of the plank wagons are tiny. You could nearly repurpose them as narrow gauge.

 

The funny thing is that the HO stuff is scale accurate for the track it runs on.

[roxyguy]

Some of the HO bits were reshod with OO couplings

2 come to mind from the Irish range

The 4F loco and the Sundries wagon

 

I picked up one of those wagons (not with sundries on the side) with the OO couplings, quite like the length of it, I'll put it behind something.

[roxyguy]

The funny thing is that the HO stuff is scale accurate for the track it runs on.

 

Yeah, it got me thinking that we are the oddballs with OO, strange really.

[WRENNEIRE]

A small amount of our MRSI Anniversary OO gauge wagons have recently come to light and we are offering them to members of this forum

Priced at €15 each they are of a limited run of 250

If interested please PM me and I will arrange for payment and pick up

Ideally if they could be picked up at the next Stillorgan show , this Sunday, any Sunday that the Bray Wheelers show is on, next one is Sunday 17th Sept or finally at the forthcoming 3 day SDMRC show in Blackrock on the October Bank Holiday weekend 28, 29 30th

 

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Some RPSI coaches that seemed to have slipped through the net

 

1701, coach # 180

 

 

1702, coach # 301

 

 

1703, coach # 460

 

[Warbonnet]

Was going through some old magazines and came across this in the March 1976 edition of 'Model Railway Constructor'. It is Lima's proposed A Class model, which looks a lot more A class than what was eventually released. It seems to be a hand built body at least, any idea of its origins, Dave? HO scale too...

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Its a strange one Fran, Lima entered the British market in 73, and by 77 they had moved from HO to OO

HO sets with the Class33/A Class were in the shops late 76 early 77 so I am at a loss as to the history of this model.

[Warbonnet]

Its a strange one Fran, Lima entered the British market in 73, and by 77 they had moved from HO to OO

HO sets with the Class33/A Class were in the shops late 76 early 77 so I am at a loss as to the history of this model.

 

I stuck up on Facebook too and someone responded saying it was a heavily modified FS model. Lovely bit of scratch building!

[steventrain]

Wrenneire,

 

Have you any idea where the model came from?

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Never seen this before Steve, any chance of a bigger pic?

[Traingamer]

Never seen this before Steve, any chance of a bigger pic?

 

Is it a Marklin Diesel Loco commerating European rail operators. Please post entire photo.

[steventrain]

Is it a Marklin Diesel Loco commerating European rail operators. Please post entire photo.

 

It is Marklin 83019 Class BR216 special edition of 4000 piece in 1993.

 

Railway company logo from around the Europe.

 

[WRENNEIRE]

Cheers Steve

You can put that back in its box now

We dont need any of that Marklin stuff on this thread!!!

[WRENNEIRE]

The loneliness of the long distance train collector

 

I was at the Enniskillen show yesterday and a chap picked up a boxed Lima/MM mk 2 coach

Took it out of its box and turned it around

No second stripe on the reverse side, pal was not impressed, thought I was trying to fob him off with a dud.

I have this coach at shows for the last 12 months or more and never checked it out

It now sits in pride of place ( or will when I can open the press) in the collection

These are the little gems that keep us collectors happy!!!

 

Window has just been blemmed with Windowleen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 1, 2017 by WRENNEIRE

[Warbonnet]

Don't you have a MM mark 2 like that too, Dave?

[WRENNEIRE]

It's possible Fran, Haven't seen them in a while

Must get a secretary

[roxyguy]

Jaysus, that's a rare one. Kinda reminds me of an older lady with only one eyebrow painted on. . .

[WRENNEIRE]

Jaysus, that's a rare one. Kinda reminds me of an older lady with only one eyebrow painted on. . .

 

Sounds like a date that went wrong......

[WRENNEIRE]

Got up early for you people

I was so excited I couldnt sleep past 10am

So, its a HDI Jouef set.

It has a couple of odd features though

Made in Irelande, my other sets have Made in Ireland

Guaranteed Irish sticker, who remembers the Guaranteed Irish programme in the late 70's

Also has HDI on the sticker, never saw this before

Contents are listed in English, other sets have them listed in French/German

Instructions for Traffo in French

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to bed now I think

[Warbonnet]

Did you part with that railcar in the end for this?

[WRENNEIRE]

Under the "If I tell you I will have to kill you " rule I cannot answer that Fran

But there are now 2 new Lima Cadet wagons with picture box's , rather than the numbered box's in the collection!

Couldnt be arsed taking them out of the cabinet so hopefully this pic will show the difference

Still looking for a third numbered box if any of you collector types have one lying around

 

 

[murrayec]

Guaranteed Irish sticker, who remembers the Guaranteed Irish programme in the late 70's

 

I had a Fiat back in the 70's that was 'Guaranteed Irish' all the way from Grand Canal Street! does that count?....

 

Eoin

[WRENNEIRE]

Sorry to hear that Murrayer

We used to call them Fiat 1 2 many's

[Weshty]

Jaysus, that's a rare one. Kinda reminds me of an older lady with only one eyebrow painted on. . .

 

Sounds like the regular clientel in Sack's Nightclub (or Barry's if you were slumming it).

 

Ah the old Fiat 127, much cooler looking than the 128.

 

Congrats on the Joeuf Wrenner, though if Santa gave me that back in the day, I'd have taken a contract out on him.

Edited October 6, 2017 by Weshty

[roxyguy]

For my sins I've had a few Eye-talian cars. I had a Fiat that burst into flames. I was grand and warm waiting for help.

 

Love seeing those old Joeuf sets, just for for the slight weirdness of them if nothing else.

 

Keep it up Dave!

[Claretrainman]

Sounds like the regular clientel in Sack's Nightclub (or Barry's if you were slumming it).

 

Ah the old Fiat 127, much cooler looking than the 128.

 

Congrats on the Joeuf Wrenner, though if Santa gave me that back in the day, I'd have taken a contract out on him.

 

I'm still waiting for santa to bring me mine! hear that Dave! there is always this year!

[WRENNEIRE]

I'm still waiting for santa to bring me mine! hear that Dave! there is always this year!

 

Patience is a virtue old spiff

It has taken me over 5 years to track down this set

[WRENNEIRE]

The new RPSI Craven set

 

 

 

 

 

Coach 1505

 

 

 

 

Coach 1532

 

 

 

 

 

Snack 1508

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Probably need one of these as well

 

 

 

 

 

Some PW Work on the layout atm

Should have some vid by the weekend

[Warbonnet]

Looking great so they do. Picking up my own set tomorrow.

[Noel]

Probably need one of these as well

 

 

 

Hi Dave. Beautifully built and finished maroon GSV, but that's the GSV layout of RPSI B&T 3185 (BSK) rather than their maroon 3173. Does anybody have side on photos of both sides 3173? Thinking of bodging one from a Bachmann BCK

 

RPSI 3173 (BCK)

 

Bachmann BR Mk1 BCK

[WRENNEIRE]

Sorry about the quality, light was very bad

 

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