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On 5/5/2024 at 4:47 PM, derek said:

Ok, I have just completed the most enjoyable task of viewing all 71 pages of Tara Junction. (It was 70 when I began ). The thing is absolutely amazing Noel. The amount of stock you have is mindblowing. I read at one point that you had 60 locos on the layout with another 25 in storage! Saying nothing of the countless carriages and freight stock. Quite similar to my 3 locos( or not🤨)  I hope you never calculate what this has set you back (or your wife never does😀) Anyway it is truly a work of beauty, and the videos are brilliantly done. The little touches like people in carriages , lighting , no smoking signs........ it just goes on. Brilliant. And of course all the buses and cranes etc. Keep up the amazing work👏👏👏 I like it in case you hadn't guessed

Thanks Derek, much appreciated👍👍👍👍👍👍

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10 hours ago, ttc0169 said:

Summer sunshine in the park on Tara junction 

 

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Love the ice cream van. Quite the colourful item

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On this day 30 years ago-16/05/1994 -the Arrow railcars began operation on the Dublin Heuston- Kildare route,
To commemorate  this milestone we see 2601+2602 operate a special service though Tara junction.
As the year is 1994-we see 001 class locomotive 056 work a laden ammonia from Marino point to Shelton abbey,and 048 on the ballast hopper train. 
 

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On 21/5/2024 at 6:37 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

Lovely shots, @ttc0169! I missed the TJ posts at last week, delighted to catch up today.

Thanks DJ-I was enjoying the times arrow railtour last weekend hence no update from Tara junction-normal services are expected to return this weekend…

 

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Friday 31/05/1994,-summertime at the junction-we see…

112 working a Connolly -Belfast service
133+143 work a BELL liner from Northwall to Waterford 
174+130 work a Sligo-Northwall BELL liner
054 work a Ballina branch Park Royal set.

Thanks again to @Past-Avenuefor supplying the French style tail lamps that are fitted to the rear Park Royal coach-one of which is actually working…

 

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Locomotive 001 works the Tara junction.steam crane through the station-the superbly detailed Irish Railway Models open and flat wagons along with a brake van make an ideal companion to this late 1980s scene,
Well done IRM and Gareth Brennan for the brake van.

 

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47 minutes ago, ttc0169 said:

Locomotive 001 works the Tara junction.steam crane through the station-the superbly detailed Irish Railway Models open and flat wagons along with a brake van make an ideal companion to this late 1980s scene,
Well done IRM and Gareth Brennan for the brake van.

 

Superb as always! I remember seeing Bullied opens in trains like that full of oul broken up sleepers, chairs and fishplates.....!

At some stage, I hope to put together that all too common sight in the early 1960s - the lifting train! Sleeping van, brake van, and a number of flats (one or two with winches on them) and open wagons full of track fittings, with a couple of bogie flats with cut up sections of rail on them! Filthy green "C" up front..............

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1 hour ago, Davenport said:

Wow, looks great, can I ask which sound chip do you have in the A class?

Thanks Davenport-it’s the EMD power unit in 001. 👍

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After a suggestion from Philip Clampett and photos of the real “bubble”railcar 2751 from Colm O Callaghan-I set about altering a centre car from a three piece ICR,I had converted from a Bachmann 170 to the single car unit 2751,
Thanks to the gentlemen named above-2751 operated a test run from Inchicore to Limerick and return this evening,
The unit is seen here passing through Tara junction.station heading back to Inchicore.
 

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Looks excellent, @ttc0169! Was the real life 2751 given much work to do back in her day?

Also, can't help but notice how heavy the bus traffic is on the ramp leading up to the bridge...

If you need to divert some of that bus traffic elsewhere, I know a man!

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Sulzer locomotive 107 has been reactivated and has been restricted to work only with the permanent way open and flat wagons on Tara junction. 
 

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The superb IRM oil tank wagons arrive behind locomotive 018 with their first delivery to the MPD on Tara junction,

Another gem of a model-thank you IRM. 

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A video showing the quality and performance of the IRM fuel oil wagons as they are hauled and shunted around Tara junction by locomotive 018. 

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190+184 await a driver to start the locomotives before working the empty two axle cement from Lakeview freight yard to Limerick cement factory for reloading. 

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The superb detailed IRM IE Mk2 a/bs on Tara junction ,

Locomotive 220 which is in original livery passes through Tara junction working the 17:00 FO from Dublin Heuston to Ballina. 


130+143 pass through with the 15:00 Northwall-Waterford BELL liner,

174+133 work the 13:00 Waterford-Northwall BELL liner

054 works a relief Park Royal set from Athlone-Heuston. 
 

 I have added two of the MM Mk2s and the EGV 4601 to make a seven piece set. 
Day and night scenes below-bring back memories of me working the real coaches twenty years ago. 

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