heirflick Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 some interesting facts here... enjoyed that. any money carried on the IE net? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnthebox Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Thanks Heirflick, I enjoyed that, never came upon a phone box with £50,000, even a defunct one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 some interesting facts here... enjoyed that. any money carried on the IE net?[ATTACH=CONFIG]12390[/ATTACH] There was, at one time...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sallins_Train_Robbery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heirflick Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 thanks minister...completely forgot that one . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Also the GSWR had two pay carriages named Fairy and Sprite, I'm pretty sure they got held up and raided at different times during the Civil War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayner Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The great Dunleer cigarette robbery. Dunleer was briefly re-opened to freight for a couple of hours in the 90s when a gang literally hjacked a 40' container of cigarettes off the afternoon Dundalk-North Wall Liner. Duneer station was a secluded spot, robbers used a mobile crane to do the lift empty container found a couple of days later. The Great Train Robbery video I interesting just before the BR corporate image era, the train appears to have been placed on the Aylesbury branch at Cheddington next station south for examination after the robbery hence weed grown trackwork Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heirflick Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 (edited) must be a clip of that somewhere... Edited March 16, 2014 by heirflick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heirflick Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 (edited) extract from the irish independant.. A GUNMAN took four hostages on a train ride after using a hijacked crane to pull off a daring £1m cigarettes heist yesterday.The hijackers stopped the freight train at a disused rail station in Dunleer, Co Louth, and with the help of the crane loaded the container load of cigarettes onto a lorry and made their getaway... Full article here: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/1m-train-heist-and-the-gang-used-a-crane-26143883.html Edited March 16, 2014 by Garfield Shortened to extract to avoid copyright issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Re-creation in miniature - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-26970204 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Re-creation in miniature - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-26970204 . <img src="http://irishrailwaymodeller.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12806"/> That layout was in BRM a month or two ago. There was some amount of moaning over it on RMWeb as it was seen to glorify the crime. I thought it was very well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burnthebox Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Re-creation in miniature - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-26970204 . [ATTACH=CONFIG]12806[/ATTACH] That's what I would call reconstructing, very well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I wouldn't mind the layout, people make and display WW1 and WW2 dioramas, no-one suggests they glorify war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heirflick Posted April 11, 2014 Author Share Posted April 11, 2014 i think that is superb - good find Broithe:tumbsup: fair play to the lads concerned for modelling what is after all a piece oh history wheather people like it or not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warbonnet Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I wouldn't mind the layout' date=' people make and display WW1 and WW2 dioramas, no-one suggests they glorify war.[/quote'] Agreed, another one of the 'society of the constantly outraged' no doubt doing the moaning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I look forward to dioramas portraying Irish Republican actions on the railway up to 1921. Or maybe we're not ready to replicate that type of thing.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minister_for_hardship Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I look forward to dioramas portraying Irish Republican actions on the railway up to 1921. Or maybe we're not ready to replicate that type of thing.... Too soon? For a slightly later period, I was thinking of getting a suitably scaled Lancia armoured car and a wee power unit.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BosKonay Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 ModelShopBelfast do a great range of armoured cars... I've a few for a wee parade / riot I'm planning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenderg Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I've a few for a wee parade / riot I'm planning Some inspiration for your Riot Bosko ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broithe Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I look forward to dioramas portraying Irish Republican actions on the railway up to 1921. Or maybe we're not ready to replicate that type of thing.... Train de-railed behind here - https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=portlaoise&ll=52.978925,-7.322584&spn=0.00142,0.002411&hnear=Portlaoise,+County+Laois,+Ireland&gl=uk&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=52.978925,-7.322584&panoid=g1QWwdbqesS2JCDWhF0Siw&cbp=12,289.43,,1,15.37 ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Some inspiration for your Riot Bosko ... [ATTACH=CONFIG]13059[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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