Galteemore

This is lovely stuff, JHB. Your dad was a real old school railway ‘officer’ and I well remember his gentlemanly and quiet style - a glimpse into a world that we have now largely lost.

Nice job!!

Thanks David. It’s Roger’s. I’ve got a few learning points about building it to 5’3” - the lugs for 36.75 brake gear end up concealed under the folded in beams which need ground away at that point. Usual nice little compensated axle feature though. The CIE works plates are exquisite, although that’s not what I said when I was sweating them on.

Looks like a Palvan beside the brake, MM..

One of Mr Bulleid’s triangulated underframes. Suppose I’d better put something on it but am just liking its shininess for now!

You can only try - you’ll be amazed what you can actually achieve. Practice a few techniques and you’ll be well away. Have a look at Connoisseur Models website for O gauge kits. I learned how to solder and build brass kits from the advice there.

I do love that workshop David! It’s what I aspire to. Yours is pretty good too Robert. Tonight I’m modelling on the kitchen table which is best option right now. I think we can all find space to do something - even a small project. After all, many of the greats such as Peter Denny managed on a tray with a soldering iron heated in the kitchen stove.......

I like the sound of that idea, David. I have a corner of the dining room where Rosses Point sits, with cupboards for stock and tools underneath. Any serious work requires temporary possession of the table, and I don’t like cluttering it up for long hours (while I’m at work) with soldering kit whilst the family might want it for other purposes. My wife gets creativity (she works in a variety of mediums) and is very understanding but a soldering bench is not a pretty sight to inflict on her!!Working with plastic card is much easier as that’s much quicker to set up and take down. Much of my modelling requires a psychological self-kicking to get over the inertia of setting up the kit for a few hours work. I do draw comfort from Richard Chown who had similar issues. He’d go to the workshop even when he couldn’t be bothered - saying that he’d leave after twenty minutes if he couldn’t get motivated. Twenty minutes generally got him going!!

I was plugging through this for clues but missed that one!!

Charleville

Portlaoise ?

Ballybrophy ?

Limerick Junction?

Yes. I suspect - if it is Broadstone - that JHB has captured 129 on a trip down from Liffey Junction to swap the bus fuel tanks over. The livery would fit with the chronology.

It is possible, MM, as CIE retained a siding into Broadstone - until the 80s I think -to bring in fuel oil for the bus station.

Brilliant !! I have passed that many times and never knew that was the inspiration for Airfix (who made the original kit I think)

Thanks LM - he thinks it might be too! I spent a lot of my teenage time looking through his photos and remember that he did seem to take a lot of No 49 in various place, so it’s highly possible.

Showed this to my dad during a What’s App chat tonight - he was on pretty much every enthusiast trip in Ireland from 1959 till now. He thinks it’s Drogheda on a trip to Kingscourt. In fact I think I can spot him in front of 49’s smokebox...

Never mind my lovely horse - look at those lovely wagons! Showed this pic to my dad who made a brake van trip on the Tralee to Sligo goods at least once. What a journey that must have been...

Lovely work, Mayner. The grey paint on 650 is spot on.

Train description numbers - bit like airline flight numbers. Generally only displayed like this on the occasion of a lot of trains heading to same place or over same stretch of line in a short space of time. Used much more in GB - can imagine how confusing it would be for a main line signalman on a busy summer Saturday without them. In fact, I think a careful look at the stuff JHB has posted may reveal what the Irish occasion was that demanded such measures... Western Region image by Dick Blenkinsop btw

Looks fantastic David. That first picture alone shows how you have transformed the layout by flipping it over to a change of viewing side. Captures the look you are seeking wonderfully

The bilingual signs were a post Partition way of advertising that things had changed. Mind you, quite possible that a local Gaelic Leaguer would have chalked up a cheeky translation underneath the sign in the turbulent years of the Third Home Rule crisis !

Buy them while they’re hot Eoin.....some Irish items have disappeared from the range since last year’s catalogue...I’m not sure how often he reruns the Irish range when the etches run out.

These are Roger’s (Alphagraphix) Irish coaches in the catalogue ..very nice as Eoin says. I’ve built one of his English ones plus the hearse van which awaits transfers and final finishing