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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

Easily done! Generations of children who sat through your comprehension tests will be quietly smiling ! But the point about Worsley statnds / this stuff won’t be around for ever

The horse box may be something to do with Balmoral Show, which happens around that time of year. Sadly all that Google can tell me about the show grounds in 1964 is that the Beatles played there in November !!

Interesting stuff for you there @Mol_PMB! Fab stuff Ernie: shows just what interest there still was to be had in 1964. By this time steam on CIE was all but gone, but NI had a lot to offer ! I think the Larne shot shows stock on the line beyond the level crossing - that section of track is long gone.

Nothing in Sprinks I can find. From drawing style I think it’s pre 1930. My initial thinking was, given the amount of detail, that it could be part of a compensation claim for a malicious derailment (it was a bit of a hot spot for that in 1922-23). It’s not clear if the relaid track was a factor in the accident or had to be relaid because of damage done. The milepost location does coincide with a significant down gradient between Ballintogher and Dromahair. I suspect it’s a regular derailment as in the case of malicious action there would probably be attention drawn to something like ‘rail removed’ etc.

Just don’t run them at same time….JHBs pics on another thread show that it’s only from up above that the difference is really obvious anyway

Prob get away with GW crests in 4mm. Used on a WW GSR Drewry a few years ago

Love the way you are so imbibing our culture that you are now typing words as we say them….’loight’. Dread to think what you’ll look like by 17 March

Slaters do nice 4mm door handles. Quite easy to make your own simple T handles from brass wire too

Missed that one! Saw Allen’s announcement re Worsley shutting. Sad times - esp with my piercing saw skills!

Former Coastguard station

That’s excellent work. How are you producing the brick layering effect ?