Horsetan

You don't have to go straight in, but approach from the side - the tool would be cranked like a dentist's mirror.

Maybe having fixed magnet positions isn't the solution. How about a magnet mounted on a handheld spade-type device that you slip under the couplings only when you need it?

Brian is brilliantly mad. He has worked in P4 and P87, but decided that Märklin's MiniClub Z-gauge was much too rough, so he came up with Proto-220. That's finescale Z, with correct clearances through pointwork and wheels turned down to correct width and flanges. He brought a demo P220 board to one show years ago, and all the pointwork worked flawlessly. This was in the days when my eyes could still focus on things that small. Completely mad.

Heljan did do some work for Hattons including, as it happens, the Beyer Garratt. You only need one motor in most engines, but the question is what type? Coreless motors - which are only now finding their way into RTR products - are more efficient but they do have to be matched to the job. You can't just stick any old coreless in there and expect it to take the abuse.

Will you be installing any signalling at all?

Saddle tank design is distinctive - is it a Neilson?

They outlasted the equivalent Great Eastern E4/T26 2-4-0s by about 4 years.

There's some very interesting footage in that website, including film of the County Donegal around the time of closure. I'd never seen film of the shunting tractor Phoenix moving until now....

They seem to have been widespread. There's at least one photo of a 650 taking the road to Ballina at Manulla Junction, when the station buildings still existed.

Signal spectacle plate design looks remarkably close to the type used by the Caledonian Railway, probably produced by Stevens & Co.

Probably try again some other time

'Tis only money.... *shrugs*

Auction fever!

If he didn't, it'll probably reappear on eBay for twice the price

Your parcel is probably bigger than mine, as I had no duty to pay...