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  3. Railway related Modelling

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  4. Non Irish Railway Modelling

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  5. Shops, Manufacturers & Services

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    • Update - text on Wexford now complete. Photo selection (200!) finalised and extended captions written and fact-checked. Proof-reading in progress. Maps & diagrams chosen, but captions to be done. Five photo captions to be extended in the light of new info. Permission obtained to publish 3 or 4 images which aren’t Barry’s. We meet to finalise everything the Friday after next, then arrange meeting with publisher. After that it’s up to him! Meanwhile after a lengthy break (life gets in the way) I’m back on the Kenmare project. Captions written for what photos I have so far, bar 3 or 4; text maybe 3/4 finished, though I want to re-do one if the chapters and include more info in another. Only one chapter but touched yet; another (about operations) needs a little tweaking, and I await clarification on several issues from the extremely few people left who coherently remember the line.  Such are the machinations of putting these things together!   
    • John Allen was considered a pioneer in his day particularly in the development in scenery and photography. The layout was mainly a stage for him to take beautiful photographs.  John died in 1972 and the layout was destroyed in a fire shortly after. A more modern emphasis in layout design is an American track planner called Bill Beranek. Among the principals he espouses are: Walk Along Mainlines Narrow Shelves Long Mainline or Branch-line Runs  Trains Traveling Through Scenes Once  View Blocking Peninsulas Staging Yards (both hidden & open) Prototypical Operations It’s worth watching him on YouTube, you will learn a lot. Even if you have a lot of space it does make sense to start with something smaller and incorporate into a larger later. It has taken a year for me to get my layout to get to the operational stage, i.e. baseboard built, track laid and wired but no scenery yet. I retired a few years ago but would never have found the time to get that far while I was working.
    • How will the current Roblox situation affect this game? Seeing how Roblox is facing legislative pressure in the US and the stocks are falling down the stairs? Has a plan of migrating the work to another platform been considered?
    • All six (3 articulated coaches) to Tramore according to Locomotives of the GSR & other published sources. Possibly 2-4 coachs possibly used regular services, strengthended to 6 coaches to handle peak traffic Races & Hoildays.  
    • ..... I found a preproduction 071 and 141, happy days!
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