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John Harcourt was at TCD around then and will know something! It had long gone by my time there. Nice view of F6 33 too...

Cracking stuff - the old Larne boat train coaches? Would have loved a trip over Ballyboley Hill in those!!

Thanks Angus - it was only mock outrage really. Much as I love the SLNC it’s not really up there in the elegance stakes - whereas a Robinson loco could give an SECR 4-4-0 some serious competition. I’d actually spent hours last night analysing SLNC BP drawings....as it happens I was also mulling over a WLW loco myself. Not sure I fancy the task of balancing an 0-4-4T though...

Angus, this forum is not the place for making inflammatory remarks...... ‘A touch of class in comparison to the SLNC Beyer Peacock tanks’ !!! I think I need a cup of tea now after that .

Farish did an N class but is getting rather hard to source. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=n+gauge+n+class&client=safari&hl=en-gb&prmd=sivn&sxsrf=ALeKk01KR-BsPuIHX4FCJz0OoF8svISwxQ:1588829708061&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj23-3yg6HpAhWIiFwKHe6LAmIQ_AUoAnoECA0QAg&biw=375&bih=553#imgrc=xHQstmqbtO03tM Union Mills Models do a Dean Goods in N....image here as they don’t have a website...https://www.hattons.co.uk/422146/union_mills_2460um_gwr_class_2301_deans_goods_0_6_0_2460_in_gwr_green/stockdetail.aspx

Well said! Wonderful books ....

Nice work. Is that a Farish Duchess I see?

This thread is seriously disruptive. I am now imagining how wonderful a model of Ballysodare would be c1905 - with a daily parade of colour including MGWR green and blue, WLWR maroon, and SLNC green/black...

The Bing loco is clockwork, MM. I’m also suspicious that Spray Tan Fresno has 63 Bing clockwork locos kicking around! Such things rather fun in action though and there are still a number of devotees of coarse scale clockwork and steam operation. Fine scale modelling it is not - but atmosphere in abundance!

Nice work Noel. Spoked wheels set it off, too. lol Leslie - Richard does the same trick on me with IRRS drawings!

Big issue is the tapered boiler. Otherwise not far off - esp in N

Lovely work ! Proper modelling and good use of a classic product.

Brilliant pics. Dev features large, of course, but also Sean T O’Kelly and Sean Lemass. Thanks for these ! P

It’s still one of the nicest features of the London Underground, too!

Excellent sharp work. As you also suggest, building like this actually gives you a real insight into what stuff on the real thing was actually there for!

The right hand pair are Tans but the rest are, properly speaking, Auxiliaries, who were a different cadre. Note how one is a former RAF pilot. This may even be the man who had a short lived career in the Irish Air Corps until his 1920-21 service record was examined!

Thanks everyone! It’s been a learning experience in lots of ways and being such a small stage makes things easier. The chickens - yes, Angus, that’s down to Michael Hamilton - and they are painted as Rhode Island reds just as at Dromahair ! Lovely shot of the morning goods ex Sligo - with someone obviously hitching a ride on the empty coach..., Good idea on magnets - can also facilitate a time travelling layout by swapping buildings over!

Keen to crack on with a new stock project, I knew I had to finish off some scenery first. So I stripped the buildings off and took the chance to photograph 42 in a position that isn’t normally possible with the platform in the way. And you can see one of the things that needed sorted - the levitating building! A problem that can bedevil layouts is not having the buildings embedded into the ground. So everything at Rosses Point has had a bead of DAS clay rubbed into the base to blend it in. I’ve also installed telegraph wires (which have been tightened since the pic!) and a primitive ESB supply pole....and some chickens ...which had a nice informative result. I sent my mother a pic of the chickens as one of my earliest memories is being scared stiff of such things on visits to grandparents in Leitrim. This prompted a reply from her describing how she used to go to Lisgorman Halt with her mother and collect boxes of chicks off the railcar...a story I hadn’t heard before.

Great stuff, Angus. Sligo is a great prototype as it had inflow from three directions: three Irish cities had lines terminating in Sligo : Belfast via GN/SLNC, Dublin (MGW) and Limerick (WLW) - it has a harbour and lots of motive power variety. And thanks to the Civil War there’s no overall roof to worry about!

My daily commute to school in the 80s! Agreed - 70 class plus semaphores made it rather congenial. Lots of interesting relics back in the day such as Courtaulds sidings, harbour line at Carrick, plus Greenisland back line and narrow gauge action in Larne. Around 1949, with all those still in action, would have been fascinating (and don’t forget the tramway under the line at Magheramorne!).

As Eoin says, they are quite spectacular things in motion - and require some care in operation! My brother got a meths fired Bowman equivalent loco running. They are delightful things. Some brave souls manage it in mainstream O gauge - favourite sight of mine at the Kettering show.. .

Another top tip is to lightly coat the brass with a patch of ordinary 145 solder in the area where the w/m solder is to go, rather than attempting to solder the w/m directly on to brass. So for a chimney, for instance, I put a small patch of solder around the hole in the boiler, then get the low melt solder out. Also, wash off the work with Cif or Viakal after every solder session or the flux starts getting nasty and turning green...not good for your kit in the long run. As Mayner says, take good safety precautions. Lots of good advice on brass work here.http://www.jimmcgeown.com/Print Off FAQ Booklet pdf.pdf..

I have a vague memory that spoil trains were in use for the jetty at Cloghan Point, which was a fuel facility for Kilroot Power Stn

Nice start. Reminds me of a few sheds I’ve seen in north Leitrim.