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Absolutely spot on -thanks @Edo.

Thanks David - just wonderful. Pure Sligo Leitrim atmosphere ! Two hundred hours well spent. When you say cut down bogies, I’m keen to know a little more, as to how you did that. I have looked at the Slaters ones and wondered just how one could set about it......

Looking forward very much to this. My family holidays to grandparents in Dromahair c1980 were not exactly Bacchanalian beach extravaganzas, so to escape the confines of the farm, my dad (who had travelled the length of the Burma Road on freights) took us on ‘closed line safaris’. Thus we saw the SLNC remains regularly, (the trackbed at Soxline curves was about 1/4 mile away) but I especially remember Tubbercurry and the northern reaches of the Burma Road. Circa 1980 the line was slumbering almost intact -and really fired my imagination at the age of 9. Interesting to note that the WLWR felt the line could be worked by 4-4-2Ts.

Great stuff John. Neat little jig too....

Cheers Leslie - hate to be pedantic but it was 42 on the Inchicore workman’s train I was referring to!

This is wonderful. One hates to be greedy but Sir Henry on the 7:20 would be a lovely sequel ...

Yes, my dad knew her from the late 50s, I think. Always speaks very highly of how kind she was to him and his friends. I dimly remember her myself from travelling in the 80s.

Cracking IRRS London area programme on via Zoom this season. Just watched a wonderful slide show - including pics of ‘my’ F6 No 42 . Check out the London area website for details. Thanks to @leslie10646and the committee.

I have wondered that too, David. Cutting through 60 thou of NS is not much fun with a piercing saw...I also wonder about some of those CriCut or similar machines for cutting thin coach layers.

It never stays quiet for long....

My dad thinks it’s Mella Shannon

Terrific stuff, Ken. Also an ideal way for anyone who wants to dip a toe into modelling - as a neophyte or simply to try a new gauge (like 21mm ). Low outlay, small footprint, fast build time - what’s not to like? Looks a very convincing likeness of a port on the DSE...

Worth getting if you can is this stuff...specially formulated for card kits. I find it very useful..https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/product/50ml-roket-card-glue-deluxe-materials-ad57?gclid=CjwKCAjww5r8BRB6EiwArcckC0bFy4fpZRFFiFdIXqe_o9Y2-SmSowXgKW7vdrgrSYFd6foEJTMVHBoCfFoQAvD_BwE.

Great work! What glue are you using? Items like this are also v useful...https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143682025773

Yes, ironically the Courtmacsherry set above is one of the most uniform trains to be seen on 50s CIE!

Those aren’t 6w coaches, lads. They are Courtmacsherry bogies - very short bogie coaches used on the T and C. There are tons of other pics to support the case though !

I had this photo enlargement framed many years ago. It depicts what I think is an early 50s Garland Sunday train. The stock speaks for itself. Although hardly a typical Sligo Leitrim working, the image is full of charm - lovely 3/4 of the loco, H van in the goods siding, and the driver oiling round before setting off over hill and dale to Manorhamilton.

Looks v like a member of staff to me ! This is 1956 so maybe a little too late...

You do wonder about ‘progress’. Just remember what it used to be like, Leslie ! Proper GN food in the luxury of wooden bodied stock ....

Smoking wasn’t merely accepted or tolerated then: hard as it is to believe, it was seen as a healthy additive to one’s existence. 1930s and 40s newspaper ads trumpeted the health benefits of smoking and brands vied to be ‘the doctors’ choice’. ....

0-6-0 tender locos mostly. J18/19 or ‘Cattle engine’ on the MGW, J15 anywhere else really I think.

What do you like ? Watching trains run past or doing some shunting ? There are a number of clever plans which can even allow you to model a city terminus in such a space.... https://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/passenger-lines/ The curved layout looks fun, but a tight radius could look odd when running bogie stock.... what you should do, IMHO, is look at Iain Rice’s books such as ‘Cameo Layouts’ or ‘Compact Layout Design’....

Loving the rail joint noise! Nice clip - and Irish track too !

Or any less accurate than a track gauge that’s over a scale foot out !Modelling is all about the degree of compromise you can live with. I suspect that a beautifully finished 6w coach in CIE green would satisfy most of us even if windows aren’t quite right. Read what the 0 gauge kit manufacturer Jim McGeown says about his ‘generic’ 6 wheelers.....interesting perspective....I have cited it in full as he makes a few points along the way....I painted mine 30s SR green btw...seen here before I glazed it and sold it on to fund my Irish project ! Although based on prototypes the concept of these coach kits is that they are very generic and represent typical coaches that were built by all the railway companies. These kits have been designed to provide the modeller with an economical coach that can be built in a reasonable weekend modeling session to a level of detail suitable for running on a layout. The modeller can then paint the coach in their chosen railways livery. By painting and lettering in say LNER brown livery a set of these coaches will capture the look and feel of a typical LNER rural branch line train made up of inherited pre grouping coaches. Your friends will probably make comments like "I see that you have modeled the coaches used on the Campbellwick Green branch in October 1936". You can then nod sagely and secretly smile to yourself knowing that the most distinguishing thing about coaches is their colour and lettering. Painted chocolate and cream they have the look of some of the South Wales railway companies coaches that were absorbed by the Great western and painted LMS maroon a Midland appearance and so on. The possibilities for these coaches is only limited by your imagination.

Absolutely - join the IRRS. Amazing online photo archive, quality journal going back decades - and the London Area talks are now going online! You are also supporting the archive which is a great legacy for the future...