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Constitution Hill Shed has a nice ring to it...or perhaps Broadstone Low Level? Connaught Street perhaps?

Of course they will, Bob. I won't show the video until they do! Incidentally, it was great fun getting your lovely bogie coach onto the high level track. Thanks to @Galteemore I have a good "railer" and it slid on with ease - you certainly need them with the six wheelers! All part of Life's rich pattern!

Subtle weathering but convincingly grubby. Those are perfect Patrick.

Strange. Same thing has happened to me, but the opposite. About four months ago, my emails alerting me to a notification began going into my spam. Like you, I confirmed it not as spam, but it continued to happen. Then, I stopped getting email notifications completely. For no reason whatsoever, over the last four or five days, I've started receiving email notifications again.

IRM H VAN I got a set of IRM H vans and wanted to have a go at weathering them. The upper body was done only with weathering powders and the underframe was done with enamel paint.

After a few slow days, it's back to normal for me at the moment. But, I have just been reminded that any emails alerting me to an incoming PM on here are being popped into Spam by my Gmail account, despite me always confirming them to be 'Not spam'.

Happy Christmas to all followers of Tara junction.

We were at Odiham in 1967 & 8.

Any ideas for what kind of set up you’ll be modelling in terms of prototype? Looks a great start. We used to live in NW Hants between Basingstoke and Fleet……I modelled Kato N gauge out of the box back then!

Thanks Ernie and I really enjoy your Scottish photos 2

Phew, as it's the only forum I am on, I thought me auld phone was giving up the ghost

No, I wouldn't say so. All other sites are behaving perfectly normally. And apart from that, a lot of other members seem to be having some trouble on and off as well. Working fine at the moment. Strange. Thanks for the reply

One down, one to go... I remember now why I model other prototypes in O gauge...

Thanks for the interest guys, Mol as far as standards go I'm going for EM on 21mm and I do like your "Silver" engine, early days yet, my own motive power looks set to be a C class (in silver) and a G class (later type in black) and when new patterns are made hopefully a second (earlier) G class to be in green. Galteemore, I live in NW Hampshire so as you say not too far away. It's early days yet, points to build and sleeper bases are hopefully on their way to me, baseboards are part new build and part recycling, the design will be quite simple but we can look at this at some point in the future. John Bruce.

A lovely Christmas present for us - thank you!

If I build a second bitumen tanker, it's going to have Irish brakes! This is an unfeasibly large number of bits to solder together for such a small bit of detail - there are 4 layers of etch and lots of tiny bits of wire - and I had to drill out all those holes! Ah well, it keeps me out of the pub...

If I was, they’d be on the ground already!

Very nice indeed!

Hold on, are you a cat?

My Christmas tree, or the closest thing possible:

The NCC made good use of concrete structures from fence posts to buildings and had a concrete casting yard at York Road. One of their products was the goods shed at Doagh, built from cast concrete sections in 1916. I have a small goods area so I thought that a reduced size shed like the one at Doagh would be ideal. I have some photographs taken during construction - If I remember correctly, I photographed them from a page in a book at the IRRS premises. I presume they were official photographs by the NCC. The basic structure is bass wood, balsa and 2mm mdf cutwith a knife or on my small bandsaw. A machine that has proved invaluable for many projects on the layout! The shell is then overlaid with strips of Evergreen plastic to build up the features. There's also a picture of it in Ian Sinclair's book 'Along UTA Lines' during its lifetime. I made the base separately And now approaching completion. I'm not modelling any detail inside and the rear is just mdf. Time is of the essence! Some weathering will improve its appearance.

Fantastic pics!

Yes when we lived in Dublin for educational reasons it had to be south of the river. So anything north of O’Connell St was ‘here be dragons’

Happy Christmas DJ and all on the forum