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Indeed it could. It’s actually better than the photo he took just a few minutes later or earlier which features in this book. The engine is clearly in fine fettle, ready for the hard climb up Kilmakerrill summit. When this pic was taken - May 57 - Enniskillen was the most recently shopped SLNC loco and the most mechanically sound loco in the fleet.

Indeed he does. Thank you ! Fabulous pic

Delightful. Windows are exquisite

They do take a long time!!

Got a copy and thoroughly recommend-some v useful drawings for modellers

EBay can be good. Other suppliers include Metalsmith and Squires. About 15 thou thickness will do a lot of modelling needs.

I also use Roger’s chassis and that’s right. The wires are soldered solid at one end only. This allows both alignment and flex as necessary. Good little system. I even took it off one coach when scrapping it and it was robust enough to fit to a new build. The old coach incidentally, an MGWR mail van, was donated to an English modeller who turned it into a mess room! You can still see the mail bags through the window….

Nice clean work thus far. How will you arrange the wheels in terms of movement - is centre axle sliding ?

Glad all went well. Really hope I can see this layout for real soon - love the atmosphere and always good to see Sir Henry making an appearance. Know what you mean about the uniform - can’t imagine what it must have been like fighting in NW Europe in that gear in either heat or damp - can’t imagine it dries quickly. I’m quite happy to keep my historical re-enactment to 1/43 scale!

Excellent stuff. For a small stone built station, try Florencecourt. Alphagraphix do a kit - just ensure you get 4mm scale one http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/Railway Stations F/Florencecourt/IrishRailwayStations.html#Florencecourt_20060620_002_CC_JA.jpg

Gorgeous model of a significant and fascinating prototype. For forum members who may not know the story - and the role these locos played in WW2 artillery action - it’s here : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_D3/12

Fabulous. Could easily be Larne Aluminium or Carnlough Limestone

What a beautiful little engine. Really captures that dainty Peckett look. The platework has a nice patina about it.

I was pretty sure IE and NIR were still in business ?

Lovely. What a splendid use of your talents. Those old ‘Nellie’ locos have a real charm. Jim McGeown uses them as basis of his 7mm starter kit….http://www.jimmcgeown.com/Loco Kit Pages/Starter Loco.html

Very nice. Shades of Dave Rowe’s seminal 009 ‘LLareggub’……

Excellent. Thats quite the set-up you have

Now that’s more like it. Well done !

To Abbey Road via Penny Lane ?

IRRS Ardnacrusha tour says yes. 1962. I suspect you are only including 4w coaches for completeness, but for the avoidance of doubt, they were not a fixture of the Irish scene within living memory

Her crew are off fishing in the stream, so?

Sounds like a plan! Pity that GNR had turned away frombuilding railbuses from then - what an elegant railbus that would have made in GN colours. Image from Sunrise models site

Very nice John. The UTA did actually take steps to resolve the buffer issue by fitting large dimension buffers to the rear of the locos, which 27 still carries.

Fabulous. One of the most unique Irish models out there. And also, incidentally, a model of the last SLNC rolling stock to work the line under power - 2 years after closure! Photo evidence I recently came across shows 2A, shorn of trailer, apparently helping with lifting work near Manorhamilton in the summer of 1959!

In normal traffic, Hunslets were still used on push-pull within NI as late as 1990