RMweb Gold Popular Post Accurascale Fran Posted December 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted December 21, 2020 Hi everyone, Before we fully sign off for Christmas, we thought we would squeeze in one more launch! Welcome to our Accuraloads range! We have increased our range of OO gauge wagon loads to incorporate iron ore, aggregate, lime/dolofines and coal for our tipplers, as well as coal for our PFA coal containers, steel coils and welcoming our HUO coal loads back into stock. Due in January, you can check out all the info on them here: https://accurascale.co.uk/blogs/news/presenting-accuraloads and place your pre-order for them here https://accurascale.co.uk/collections/loads Okay, now I really am on my Christmas holidays! Cheers, Fran 20 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozzer models Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 PFA set ordered 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AY Mod Posted December 21, 2020 Moderators Share Posted December 21, 2020 Ok, I'll declare that I've seen and handled these; they're all excellent and I can't see them hanging around to be honest. 8 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BR Blue Posted December 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2020 I ordered some for my PTAs and PFAs. They do look good. The steel coils will also prove useful. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted December 21, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 21, 2020 OK, who nicked the beer kegs? Mike. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted December 22, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2020 (edited) 9 hours ago, BR Blue said: I ordered some for my PTAs and PFAs. They do look good. The steel coils will also prove useful. me too, plus HUOs. I've previously ordered the steel coils from Rails, with the Cavalex BBAs in mind. Edited December 22, 2020 by adb968008 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted December 22, 2020 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 22, 2020 22 hours ago, Enterprisingwestern said: OK, who nicked the beer kegs? Mike. Hi Mike, Currently being filled with Liffey water and will be landing in the new year Cheers! Fran 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2020 18 hours ago, Accurascale Fran said: Hi Mike, Currently being filled with Liffey water and will be landing in the new year Cheers! Fran Would that be straight from the Liffey or subsequently treated at an establishment in james Street? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rembrow Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 All this talk of the Liffey water and the Guiness nectar, brought me back to the last time the wife and I were in Ireland, visiting family in Tralee and Limerick. We had a day out in Dublin, travelled their by train from Limerick. At the end of a lovely day, we walked back slowly to the rail station, along the bank of the Liffey, past the Guiness brewery, foregoing the tour. We followed pedestrian signs for 'Railway Station' which brought us to Connolly station, problem was we needed Heuston station, who knew there were two main line terminii in Dublin, yours truly didn't, so a very fast route march took place, as we had to change to a branch line at Limerick Junction. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 If it's of use, iron ore comes in other colours apart from brick-red. Here's a link to an aerial view of the stock-piles at TATA Port Talbot:- https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Abbey+Works,+Margam,+Port+Talbot+SA13+2PH/@51.5776254,-3.7911922,637m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x486e66780e2b2e2b:0xcaa61108f97c51c9!8m2!3d51.5402337!4d-3.7431075?hl=en 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2020 On 21/12/2020 at 17:23, Enterprisingwestern said: OK, who nicked the beer kegs? Mike. Not me. ...Hic. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 5 hours ago, rembrow said: All this talk of the Liffey water and the Guiness nectar, brought me back to the last time the wife and I were in Ireland, visiting family in Tralee and Limerick. We had a day out in Dublin, travelled their by train from Limerick. At the end of a lovely day, we walked back slowly to the rail station, along the bank of the Liffey, past the Guiness brewery, foregoing the tour. We followed pedestrian signs for 'Railway Station' which brought us to Connolly station, problem was we needed Heuston station, who knew there were two main line terminii in Dublin, yours truly didn't, so a very fast route march took place, as we had to change to a branch line at Limerick Junction. You are not the only one confused by Dublin - my wife is from Belfast and in 1995 & 2000 we drove there for family visits via Fishguard/ Rosslare. Both times we headed North through Dublin without problem - both times we got lost in Dublin on the way back!! The first time we ended up turning left somewhere and heading for Dun L..........the other port (I won't embarrass myself by attempting to spell it!) and the second time we found ourselves crossing the Liffey via the same bridge we'd crossed in the same direction about 40 minutes earlier!! Eventually we found the N11.........and proceeded along it in the wrong direction! It was just as well we'd allowed lots of time to reach Rosslare....... 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BR Blue Posted December 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2020 30 minutes ago, Neil Phillips said: You are not the only one confused by Dublin - my wife is from Belfast and in 1995 & 2000 we drove there for family visits via Fishguard/ Rosslare. Both times we headed North through Dublin without problem - both times we got lost in Dublin on the way back!! The first time we ended up turning left somewhere and heading for Dun L..........the other port (I won't embarrass myself by attempting to spell it!) and the second time we found ourselves crossing the Liffey via the same bridge we'd crossed in the same direction about 40 minutes earlier!! Eventually we found the N11.........and proceeded along it in the wrong direction! It was just as well we'd allowed lots of time to reach Rosslare....... Its Dun Laoghaire. I should know as I grew up there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 23, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 23, 2020 [pedant mode] Dún Laoghaire [/pedant mode] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold adb968008 Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said: [pedant mode] Dún Laoghaire [/pedant mode] I highly recommend the Royal Marine hotel in Dun Laoghaire. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 24, 2020 I’ve spent so much on wagon modelling recently, I can’t afford the loads until pay day in January. Hope there will still be some left to order. I built these over the last three nights, Etched brass kits for coil cradles by Stenson Models. The instructions are so good even I managed to make them. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2020 Ireland's first railway ran from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire, or Kingstown as it was called then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold McC Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2020 1 minute ago, Colin_McLeod said: Ireland's first railway ran from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire, or Kingstown as it was called then. Correct! The service started in 1834, and had a 2 mile section run by 'atmospheric' railway, the first commercial railway of that type in the world. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BR Blue Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2020 Dublin to Dún Laoghaire was arguably the first commuter line in the world. It was actually originally built to standard gauge as far as I know. It was latter re-gauged to the Irish 5' 3". On its 150th anniversary in 1984, the electrification of the line was completed and the all commuter services since then have been electric. There was also an earlier railway, if you can call it that, as it had no locomotives, that ran from Dalkey quarry to Dún Laoghaire for the construction of the harbour. Horses were used to bring the empties back up but the wagons ran down by gravity. The "atmospheric railway" as mentioned was an extension of the line from Dún Laoghaire (Kingstown) to Dalkey and used the vacuum method to propel trains. Some of the route of the quarry line was used. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 19 hours ago, BR Blue said: Its Dun Laoghaire. I should know as I grew up there Thank you BRB, I vaguely recall this from the road direction sign - I recognised it well enough to realise I'd gone wrong somewhere! 1 hour ago, McC said: Correct! The service started in 1834, and had a 2 mile section run by 'atmospheric' railway, the first commercial railway of that type in the world. Wow, I didn't know that McC, very interesting! Did it actually work then? At just 2 miles it would have stood a better chance than the South Devon version. Any trouble with rats.....?! So it started the same year as the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway in Cornwall. (More info just gone up from BRB, good stuff!) 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted December 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2020 Don't you just love RMweb thread drift, yet still talking about railways. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halvarras Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Oops, guilty as charged. And.........back to Accuraloads (sorry Fran!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowlander Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 9 hours ago, Neil Phillips said: Oops, guilty as charged. And.........back to Accuraloads (sorry Fran!) Shh. He's on holiday :-) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
owentherail Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Hopefully the loads for ARC wagons wont be to flat. They often looked like they had a queue of camels in them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steadfast Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 So Whatley being generous with the loading isn't a new thing then? Jo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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