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Are you winding us up?

Ground that can never be walked too often! There was almost a stay of execution for the SLNCR when talk was made of keeping Omagh-Enniskillen open as a long siding for cattle traffic from the west. Realistically it would have to have shut by about 1960 anyway I think. The PW was knackered and even the 1951-delivered tanks were ailing. As roads and car ownership developed in the SLNC catchment area, it would have been used less and less and was bound to collapse in the short term. Mind you, that doesn’t stop me imagining G and C class locos cascaded into SLNC ownership staggering on until the 1980s David Briggs did a nice ‘what if’ painting of a 2000s Enniskillen, with the SLNC under IE running.

Interesting Minister. I was thinking along similar lines so to speak. Much as I have enjoyed hot food on board, and sometimes a cup of tea is enough, its the unusual juxtaposition of pleasures which is delightful rather than the quality of the cuisine. Like Dr Johnson’s comments on a dog walking upright - one wonders not that it is done badly but that it is done at all. The ‘glory days’ I recall when trolleys appeared even on the early morning Newcastle-Stranraer, when a fresh cup of tea enlivened the Scottish lowlands are gone for ever sadly. The economics don’t stack up, and punters can get a drink and snack to take onboard from station facilities that are much more lavish than they were decades ago. Here on the Big Island it’s a luxury for first class and long distance. Indeed at least one TOC has scrapped it entirely …read why below. Interestingly, Chiltern’s London-Birmingham service is similar in timings to the Enterprise, and runs with similar loco-hauled stock, but manages without dining facilities. Pic from Railway Gazette https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15289458.rail-operator-announces-will-scrap-on-board-catering/

He does some very nice ones indeed, although this one cannot be 1950 as on that date the two Loughs were still in Manchester awaiting the SLNC’s long delayed payment …..https://www.painters-online.co.uk/gallery/davidb77/transport-paintings/285917/

Those Terriers make O gauge so accessible - relatively inexpensive and well suited to a small layout. That’s how the 7mm bug bit with me and started off my first layout……

B5 was for heavier loading. AFAIK the B5 was under the generator end, B4 at the other end.

Ideal way to start a small O gauge light railway terminus or shunting plank. Incredibly cheap !

Fascinating. Amazing to think those stores trains were still running as late as 1989.

One of the issues I had to address was how to ‘model’ the rest of the station. Enniskillen had a rather large station building which looms large in photos of the Sligo bay. It’s never going to be in focus on this layout but has to be at least suggested. I’m no artist but had a go, working very much off J H Ahern’s principles. A loading gauge and half-relief open wagon also help close off the scene a bit. I also sketched in a suggestion of canopies, pillars and shadows suggesting the main station platforms stretching beyond the Sligo canopy. Still a few tweaks but getting there. The layout is designed to be viewed side on rather than at this angle so a vague impression of depth is what we are after, really.

Must be possible with a CriCut or similar. Or one of the laser cutting kit companies might do a commission ?

Iconic loco. Fairly reliable for the era, as it could pick up over a longer footprint than the typical trainset 0-6-0. And you didn’t need DCC sound - growled away naturally!

On a diet of Gallagher’s, Guinness and beef stew I have little difficulty in imagining the mephitic conditions! I do know what you mean though…,

There was. Even more inaccessible as it was blown up by the Army c1970. The depression in the ground was visible for decades afterwards.

Wonderful. What a lovely conversation shot at Dromod. Unusual to see a T2 on the Irish North

I think, IIRC, the situation arose from full order books with GB loco manufacturers in the late c19th, so a few odd US locos found their way to these islands. GCR, GNR, Midland all had them. The first US import was actually as early as the 1840s.

@WRENNEIREmay weigh in here, but my own understanding is that these are production over/runs or maybe seconds. This is probably the supplier

Walsworth Models will make you an Irish O sentinel in brass for the price of a Dapol - or even less I think …..£154 built to your spec……and I have discussed the Irish variant with him so it’s possible to get an accurate one: https://www.walsworthmodelservices.co.uk/product-page/sentinel-y1-3

Fabulous work David. For what it’s worth, I think that the Swilly logo is an improvement!

Fabulous. Rowland Emmett in a kilt.

If you’re going for the authentic SLNC look you’re almost there

Amen to the above. And help is available http://www.55ng.co.uk/ check out the Irish layout ‘Ahascragh’ in the gallery section.

Agreed. Bit of T cut, stick a snail on the tender and you’re away. Small things like sticking on a smokebox door wheel will add instant effect.

Yes, quite Patrick. I am sure Leslie will be paying honour and tribute to the mighty and magnanimous railway that constantly propped up the poor old GN in its western extremities… .

Thanks - thought that would be the case unless separate 21mm brake mouldings were included. It’s worth it all in the end, we tell ourselves….

Interesting HT.How do the brake shoes work for 21mm? When I convert 6w chassis to 5’3” in 7mm scale I have to cut the brake hanger and shoe etches off and resolder 2.5mm further out - how does it work out in this scale and medium ?