Galteemore

Yes, all that’s often required is a suggestion. A level crossing gate at the end of a line suggests continuity in a way that the normal buffer stop does not! This was my rather poor effort when I modelled 1930s Southern (based on Basingstoke/Alton Light Rlwy).

Sounds like a nice plan. Such a simple layout needs a rationale though, as in real life a terminus normally needs some kind of goods facility etc. Wingham (Canterbury Road) is about as basic as it gets, and it was atypical.http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/wingham_canterbury_road/ Are you going to pretend these facilities are offscene? Or perhaps this could be Portaferry Harbour, for passenger traffic only, a short extension from Portaferry proper.

Clearly the mouse is lapping most of us here !

Yes. Could be a ‘free to free’ working.

Interesting photo in Sprinks’s SLNC history book showing the 1115 goods from Sligo after entering NI - with a car on a flat wagon at the back.

I don’t mind greenways if done sensitively. Ireland was over furnished with railways and most of them have no rationale for resurrection - not even my beloved SLNC! If a greenway gets people enjoying fresh air and their heritage, that’s all good. Programmes like this can do a lot of good, and are only enhanced when the images are accurate. It’s all part of that respect for the past. Look at this heritage trail sign from Fivemiletown, which shows the pride they have in their railway history - they get the loco shape right and didn’t just grab a ‘train’ off some graphics library ...I can overlook it being an 0-8-0.....

I think Tim Moriarty has some stuff on this in various IRRS journals.

Nice use of an Airfix signal box to create a Waterford style tribute. Good use of space and the vertical dimension.

We live in an age where atmosphere matters more than accuracy. You’d think that as we are apparently more sophisticated and educated than ever before we could at least spell and use grammar effectively - how often does that lapse! A century ago, a visiting Englishman once criticised a Dublin street preacher for an overly technical commentary on Catholic doctrine. When the talk had finished, however, he heard two Dublin working men dissecting the arguments with analytical precision. My grandfather, who was a shipyard cabinet maker with a limited education, had a bookshelf that would not be common now and could discuss literature with the best of them. Just been reading an American academic textbook which says that education is now about drawing out our inner gifts rather than teaching us things....good luck with that!

The Union Mills engines are fairly robust things Tony and should run well. I used them a lot when modelling in N. What are you cleaning with ?

Lovely period piece. Hierarchy of hats in evidence. Flat caps working on the loco - bowler hat watching !

IPA - the industrial stuff, not the beer - is great for getting crud off. Amazing how much dirt it will get off, even from wheels and track you thought were ‘clean’!

This is wonderful. Model railways can be evocative in a number of ways - such as echoing the railway we know or can remember, and many of us choose to do that in our modelling. What you are doing is another dimension entirely - bringing to life and colour a world that no one can now remember. This is just glorious - the railway that Yeats, Wilde, Pearse, Carson and Synge knew.

Nice to see the CBSC tank earning its coal. Nice Beyer cab windows - can see something of a family likeness to the Welshpool and Llanfair locos here

I asked another question and here’s his answer.....there was a side exit to pier past harbour masters office and I expect that the hordes went through that my own early memories do not recall being brought through front door. I seem to remember being brought in from the Commons which was and is a public area twixt old harbour and Millisle Road halt.

Asked my dad who had his first experience of steam standing on footplate of a Co Down loco there....The space twixt the platform end and street entrance consisted of a very small concourse with booking office on right ladies and gents facilities on left. There was an Easons bookstall on the platform which was covered in only a short way towards island platform. Street entrance looked little different from a domestic house, top storey removed in the 30,s

Very nice. Looks like a Hawthorne Leslie?

Nice. Shades of Connolly in some ways

The SLNC style spoked bogie wheels suggest that a badly weathered ‘ancient west of Ireland maroon’ version may be inbound. ...

Looks really good! Any differences in font etc will disappear under a gentle dusting of weathering powders...

Thanks everyone. She moves, and here’s video proof of her prepping the 7:20 mixed ! Bit of fine tuning needed but no shorts or binding apparent so it’s hopefully minor tweaking.....the motor is still free floating and not all pickups are live so that will smooth things out...the track and wheels aren’t gleamingly clean either. Quite how she is moving at all is a mystery - if you look in the cab the reverser is firmly in mid-gear with regulator shut ! Loads to do yet but this was pathetically pleasing

If only there was some reliable textbook on the subject of Rails to Achill...

Nice to see it stars Michael Trubshawe, who had recently played a very sympathetic Railway Inspectorate official in ‘The Titfield Thunderbolt’.

An interesting photo in its own right. Looks like one of the WC locos as painted for a movie contract. Colin Boocock’s Irish Railway Album pictures the same loco at Inchicore in 57 in the same paintwork rather the worse for wear. Note the scroll decoration on the cab roof.

I think there’s also the spoke issue. The Irish locos had conventional spokes whereas the English ones had standard LNW ‘H’ style spokes.