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Got some . 5mm static grass and leaves from GModel Scene - Supplies for railway modellers and builders! and had a go at a hedge for the hotel. Need to sort the lights in that next as I am sick of looking at it roofless That looks fantastic, What Railway is that from? any chance of a few more piccies. When I laid the track I did no thave the Transporter wagons at the time so did not allow for it. I might make up a mast from some brass and use the arms from one of the RTR jobs. and place it outside the siding. Wont look right I reckon though.

That's fab!!!

Ah... thank you Paul. That makes perfect sense now you point it out. Those bits were vaguely bothering me but clearly not enough to make me read the instruction sheet properly! It does say "upright panels can now be fitted along the top edge of the side flares". As to why Kieran and I both made the same mistake, builder fatigue might have something to do with it. The relevant instruction is close to the end of a long list. This should be a joy to fix Cheers, Alan

Can only agree with the comments above. Lovely stuff.

Fine work John and certainly looks well worth it.

Two fine 4-4-0s!

Almost as if the two Courtaulds loco have taken a spin down from Carrick!

Cheers Darius

The only part of the PP body kit I bought that was in any way near done was the basic tender body, so this bit was actually done for me. Here’s my finished tender pre-painting, if that helps, Alan. The tender is not level - that’s deliberate as it makes the loco carry the weight for adhesion purposes.

Alan, I admire your work on the PP, but I need to point out an error on the tender. The coal raves or guards sit on top of the flare of the tender sides. I noticed Kirley built his tender for his AL class loco, the same way. Is it an error in the instructions? Kind regards Paul

Great job, Nelson (as always!) I am not sure whether this loco, in this livery had red connecting rods, though this became a UTA standard with their lined black livery, I'd need to check. But a superb job nonetheless! That's BCDR green. The green carried by 30 in Cultra is co9mpletely wrong - it should look this colour. I think the lining was cream or pale yellow. It's still in BCDR livery, but has a new UTA plate. It nis possible, or even loikely, that the UTA's experimental dark shade was something broadlky similar to this, though the picture here shows it looking more "olivey" than it was.

Also Mk 2a Fk 4113 ex BR 13469/19469 4114 ex BR 13471

As always, any additional info, corrections or feedback would be greatly appreciated. This is currently unfinished, so it may look untidy for now. Mark 2A Mark 2A Open Second (41xx) 4101-4102 = Both fitted with IC80 seats. 64 seats, 2 toilets. 4108 = Fitted with ex-Park Royal seats: 64 seats (previously 48 in BR ownership) and 2 lavatories. 4110 = Fitted with Park Royal seats: 64 seats, 2 lavatories. Mark 2B Mark 2B Open Second (41xx) 4109 = Formerly 19512 in BR ownership and was a Corridor Second as built, it was fitted with 42 seats and 2 lavatories. (no image unfortunately) Mark 2B Buffet Open Second (44xx) 4401-4402 = Formerly 19489 & 19497 in BR ownership, and were a Corridor Second as built; they were fitted with 36 seats and a single lavatory. Mark 2C Mark 2C Open Second (41xx) 4103-4107 = all fitted with 54 IC80 seats and 2 lavatories. 4111-4112 = 4111 (ex-19521) was never converted, damaged by fire, and was eventually scrapped in 1992. 4112 was 19553 in its BR days. The latter was fitted with 52 IC80 seats and 2 lavatories. Total: Mark 2A: 6 Mark 2B: 3 Mark 2C: 5 (Technically 6, but 4111 never entered service) 4108, 4110 and 4402 were moved to the West Clare Railway for preservation, although the first two were scrapped sometime in 2022. 4106 is also preserved, currently serving as a ticket office and gift shop at the Waterford & Suir Valley Railway.

Had me in a fit of giggles Don’t mind me asking but how did u make the video

Preferably not.

Thanks If I manage to find recent pics at their new home I’ll send them here

I think a Jeep modelled in the experimental green livery would be very interesting to see. This was my model done a few years ago, with U2 class number 80 “Dunseverick Castle”, in dark olive green.

So I bought this recently and have started putting things together. Right now I've just recreated Dublin as it is, though with the Northern quadrupled and a few loops everywhere else in presumably laughably unrealistic locations. A lot of time was spent in the books calculating rolling stock numbers and then dreaming about how many more services you could slip in if 2700s were built better and lasted more than ten years, among other such things. I haven't even gone past the Dart (Plus) and Heuston-Connolly on the Luas, there's a lot more to go. And yes, there are stubs towards Broadstone and Harcourt Street.

CAF worked 0800/1050 02.12.25

Well, you won't find it here.

After coming home this afternoon I got to work Problems leech onto me when it comes to setting up tracks no matter how big or small and thankfully it was only one Lima tracks didn’t connect to the power track and made wood seem more conductive So I replaced them with horny bread track cleaned the tracks and dog hair before placing them And for something so complicated yet so worth it, it runs smoother than butter IMG_4391.mov IMG_4393.mov IMG_4395.mov

I was supposed to do some electrical work under the layout but gave into temptation & did some scenery work instead. Here are a few photos of work done to the back wall & right hand end of the layout. Electrical work is definitely next on the list.

Great. Sometimes that’s all you can do - and it’s enough. It was eaves brackets for me tonight

Been struggling with motovation at the moment to do anything major, but have been doing the odd little thing here and there. Been building one of the wills platelayers hut. Seen here after a coat of paint

Excellent. It’s a real feature of the loco and sets it off nicely !