Galteemore

Welcome Darius. You will find lots of fans for your work here - having seen it on RMWeb, NIR fans are in for a treat!

Last steam regular working from Belfast to Dublin was October 1966, worked by a WT.

Lovely stuff - lots of delicate framing there! And you can justify an SLNC one as late as 53…. .

http://worsleyworks.co.uk/4mm/4mm_Irish_Standard_Gauge.htm 2 car set here. Will be a basic etch only.

That looks really good

That’s an NCC Mogul. The NCC were the high priests of tablet exchange at speed, 60 mph was regular practice, as the main line north of Ballymena was single track. In mainland UK the practice began in the late 1880s I think http://lmssociety.org.uk/topics/singleLineWorking2.php

Colin, it’s just bad typesetting by the advertiser. All the Irish locos are prefaced by bold type, thus CIE. Unfortunately, BR classes are freely mixed in the list. This is simply a planned UK ‘superdeltic’ - class 51 - which never came to pass. The Irish kit was an E pure and simple. .https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Rail_unbuilt_locomotive_classes

Haven’t you got boxes to pack instead of disputing how many E class can dance on the head of a pin?

Nice plan. I’m leaving the wiring to the experts, but that right hand crossover would probably look better a bit further right - allow a decent 4-4-0s worth of headshunt as a loco release. Otherwise you will have to leave the passenger stock out in the bondu every time you run round, creating a shunting move that would be both unlikely on the prototype and inconvenient to you!!

That looks terrific!

I think the mystery was more that nobody ever seemed to have seen one of the E kits, as opposed to the well known A class! Mayner has answered this on another thread.

Yes, you’ll really stand out at a model railway show …..

Bet the guys in Avignon were gutted at missing out on a day in Stafford

Enjoy all this quality, ladies and gents - it wasn’t always like this. Received a 1978 Railway Modeller off eBay today (has an article on Castle Rackrent) and clocked this ad…..

He’s too busy to check the list this year. Sorting his paperwork for crossing the Irish Sea …

The hallmark of a good railway book, and a good Flickr site, Ernie!

Afaik this is the handover ceremony for 186 to the RPSI. A special was run from Belfast for the occasion.

Nice. That Portuguese engine has a bit of a Swilly vibe too!

Modesty forbids and all that, JHB, but here you are…. .

Sorry for the mistake, George - but the sentiment still stands !

Very nice Ernie. Noticed van on end of railcar set which was interesting-presumably a fitted one.

You’ve been looking at Port Lairge Wharf, haven’t you ?! Sounds intriguing…. These fine fellows are in Belfasthttps://maritimebelfast.com/our-heritage/steam-cranes/ , and ran on a quayside rail system

Nice layout too! More details please ?

It was delightful exhibiting Enniskillen on Belmullet this weekend but I also anticipated that I might have some work to do afterwards, and so it proved. When I compared the shots of the two ‘Large Tanks’ together, something wasn’t quite right. Mr Holman’s - on the left - had a subtly different smokebox profile to mine. Or to put it another way, mine’s slightly off! Drawing this had taken an immense amount of care and effort - the Irish ogee smokebox is a deceptively complex shape and the bane of many a railway artist - but I’d clearly messed it up a bit. There just seemed to be too much meat on the lower half of mine. On closer examination, I had left too much metal outside the rivet line. The circled pic clearly shows a huge flange of metal where there should be air! So out with the the files tonight (it wasn’t easy starting to file at what had taken much patient painting and finishing work….) and some trimming was done. The shape now conforms more closely to that carefully measured riveted line on the smokebox front, so hopefully looks a bit better, and more like the background photo of the real Enniskillen. I’ll be pressing the Archer’s rivets into service, I think, to patch up all the ones on the smokebox side I’ve filed off!