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Can just imagine that room packed with soaked and miserable trippers on their way home looks great

Now that’s looking good. Know what you mean about time - always goes too fast when a projects’ going well!

That’s great Patrick - hadn’t realised the passengers were still on - sorry! I had Ardee or Castleisland in mind as they were up till 75 - freight only with occasional passenger specials.

Patrick - this is looking really good. I like how this will stand as a contrast to Brookhall in terms of dereliction versus flourishing! I think that you could probably stand to lose the enamel signs, although I very much like them. The reason I say that is that by the late 60s-70s such items were already attractive to souvenir hunters and dealers. I spent much of my youth soaking up the atmosphere of semi-derelict stations, hence my enthusiasm for your project. All that generally remained was either utiltarian, financially valueless, or too costly to uproot. On an unstaffed station (and Clogherhead, I suspect, would have slumbered much of the week) the local gurriers would quickly have had these signs and other ‘portable property’ away. Same goes for the posters, which may not have had much attention or renewal since the line’s partial abandonment. What you could do, and quite authentically, is have a damaged poster or two visible through the windows. I was looking wistfully through my own small collection of 7mm Irish posters and desperately feeling the desire to use them so I do understand your motives!

Say it out loud Patrick. It’ll deposit in your mind eventually. And you really don’t want it going over your head!

Fab stuff Ernie. Very useful detail for modelling. Notice how safety valves are not shiny brass / and look at the patina on that dome!

Maybe Patrick needs to look at the Kenmare branch next…http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway Stations L/Loo Bridge/IrishRailwayStations.html

Great stuff. Multum in parvo exemplified.

You never know Patrick. Hopefully it will tempt them towards Irish Blue…..

A place I know well and real atmosphere building here. Lovely work

Looks great so far Bob! This will be one to watch .

How’s your project coming along Bob? Got to confess, as I think we may have similar space and track plans in mind, your ambition to include passenger workings played a part in nudging me away from a goods yard diorama!

Thanks Angus - I managed to tune in and catch as much as was possible!

Thanks David. Funnily enough yesterday I looked up Robert Kosmider’s article in the Gauge O Guild Gazette doing a similar thing with Hamblings pre-war lithos. I have that Gravett book so will check it out….

I notice what you left until last Patrick….had I the space, it would be Manorhamilton I’d be building

For a while now it’s been apparent that my plan to build a slice of Florencecourt won’t happen immediately, as I just don’t have 12’ of convenient space to put up the main board fed by fiddles either end. But I was feeling rather guilty about the three baseboards and trestles I’d built two years ago for the project. I also really need some kind of layout on which to test out locos and stock - even just a bit of back and forth. Much head scratching and I realised I could use one of the boards to make an Iain Rice cameo, with two tracks fed by a cassette fiddle. This can stay up more or less permanently in the workshop. So a busy morning at our local community woodwork facility saw the carcass made……and painted in SLNC station colour of grey/blue. So if I can’t model Florencecourt - for all its simplicity - what on earth can I model? Why Enniskillen of course! Sounds lunacy but check out…..https://www.carendt.com/micro-layout-design-gallery/passenger-lines/ The Farthing layouts are also inspiring….https://farthinglayouts.blogspot.com/ - layouts built as various sections of a station. I had initially thought of modelling a segment of Dromahair goods yard to allow a shunting puzzle but that would rule out passenger ops. Then I recalled dear old Carl Arendt’s micro terminals as above. So I can model a section of the SLNC bay at Enniskillen. There was no run round so quite prototypical for trains to run in and propel out. The canopy will be at rear of layout - just have to work out how to imply that the station continues beyond ! Trains will be short but it’s better than no layout!! And in any case I am more of a rolling stock constructor than an operator at heart. With some thought and care, I could run the full SLNC timetable with the right stock. After all most services were by railbus so quite short in length - and the goods services would often shunt as far as the dock platform. Thus lots of scope for meaningful minimal space operation. Unlike anything I have done before this is straight out of Rice’s cameo layout book in terms of planning from day 1, rather than the suck it and see approach of previous efforts. Shunting, for instance, will be hands off - no space for electro-magnets so I am not using AJs. I have ordered a batch of Flippems from our own @Bob49 and when those arrive I will start experimenting with magnet placement.

Great. Lots of scope to let your imagination go in that little corner!

Excellent. My Latin teacher at school had the middle name ‘Lynn’ which was handed down through the family in memory of Surgeon-Major Lynn who had saved the life of a family member that day.

It’s very good indeed. By Colin Boocock who actually travelled on it.

184 is currently being restored for static display. Unlikely to steam ever again. 186 is too small for current mainline ops but far too big for Downpatrick- would cost far too much to steam.

Some NG lines are laid with steel sleepers. It’s more efficient for temporary construction lines etc which can be easily lifted and relaid -Google the Decauville railway system. At a guess that’s ex BnM track.

The Hattons range will not be 21mm friendly, I suspect. With footboards etc I imagine clearances would be tight

Rats. I’m in Portsmouth two days before best wishes for Sat!

Strictly speaking DJ I model 7mm not O gauge -o gauge being 32mm whereas my wheels are set at 36.75……

Fabulous. The SLNC pic is probably taken about 5pm - this is the 4pm ex Sligo passenger service crossing the 2pm goods out of Enniskillen.