Galteemore

That’s a really nice model. Can you tell us more about it?

Yes, I was thinking Airfix for a cheap trial one.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324557016104

LMS 4F is 5’3” and can probably be acquired fairly cheaply if you go for an older one.

That half model is really useful! That looks a pretty ancient open frame motor. Is the new Hornby model smaller ? As you say, may be better going for an 0-6-0 of some sort, with separate bogie. What size drivers are on a Bandon tank ?

Really impressive George

Looks close enough, David! Nicely applied

Coaling plant was built c1945, I think Ernie. The top photo has a 1920s feel in terms of loco condition, but the bottom one puts me in mind of the rundown of BCDR steam c1950.

Surely it has to be Duke Ellington ? ‘Take the A Train’

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?