Galteemore

So sorry to hear this Noel. Prayers and best wishes as you get through this.

Tinplate is great for loco building as long as you can keep the rust off it!

Scope here for a 4 Yorkshiremen sketch….‘Young modellers today, I remember when we had to mine our own brass’. ‘Brass?! - you were lucky. I once had to built a Claud Hamilton in full GER livery with working motion out of gravel I found in’t road’…..

Fabulous - looks like a blast wall between house and garage ! That’s a very fine model.

Amen to all that Ernie. Praying it’s a short and successful stay

Yes. Royal Irish Fusilier. Unarmed and alone. Clearly before the IRAs 1956 campaign kicked off !

also a lovely - and rare - segment of a QL class at work

And you’re one of the few modellers who can do just that !

Yes, it almost looks HO beside an OO model! That would be a major rebuild- all you could really salvage from the body would be the sides as you’d need new - or substantially new - roof and ends

Excellent - it’s a particularly fiendish chassis !

Fab Paul. Any chance they might be scalable to 7mm, also door class nos etc?

Off topic but love the clever headboard on that KAM pic! That pic at YR is just what I remember - stuff like that lay mouldering on the sidings for years there.

Logged in to IRRS and had a look. Fabulous pics of Abbeyleix station yard being lifted in 1964 https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishrailwayarchive/53449700965/in/photolist-2pr9doB-2praFWn-2pwo1Lv-2pwC8UG-2pwxcAc-2pwE193-2qEpsuv-2qEwci2-2qUMN3f-2pwCCTC-2pwDq2V-2pwE18X-2qEwc2q

That’s really rather lovely. And your helpful illustrations of how you do things give hope to lesser mortals !

One way is via IRRS archive on Flickr (need to be IRRS member). That often yields such things