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Excellent. And you can always purchase one of these if you wish to try it at home…..

Dark lined green. Later black with red/white/red lining. Vermilion to be precise in terms of the red! Some schools of thought suggest that the lining was simply red. Holding back the years ? This 2-4-0 model is believed to be a good likeness of the green. David Holman, Paul Greene, and others have modelled the black livery. Paul also has a J15 in green.

I think they actually recall the GSW extended cab sheets quite nicely ….

That’s very nice. I always liked the GSR 4-4-0s with outside axleboxes, but I think the top one keeps more of the grace of an original early Irish 4-4-0.

If that’s what an IRM box has to go through, how tough must the staff be? Only Army Ranger Wing vets need apply…..

Very nice. Also interesting to see a table linked directly to a running line, thus requiring a catch point.

Associated delay to production of scale 5’3 track range as fireproof sleepers are sourced.

Lovely photos. That Ballinamore one shows just how substantial the Irish NG could be - looks like a main line! And the Harcourt St shot shows two of the big gaps in Irish preservation - those GSW 4-4-0s were quite something, and a MGW 2-4-0 would really suit the RPSI’s current operating pattern, certainly for the short haul trains in NI.

I think you are right. I also think consistency is the key. Those early layouts basically all came from the same pair of hands making everything. On Continental layouts, almost everything also comes out of a box or high quality kits. Recent British layouts can easily be a pastiche of high quality models with fairly basic structures and scenery. What the weathering does in this instance is blur the edges of this juxtaposition so it doesn’t jar.

Must be something about the RAF and railway modelling. Mike Sharman was an ex RAF engineer (on Hercules C130s). David Jenkinson, the carriage guru, was an RAF admin officer, and Geoff Holt (another loco expert with numerous Wild Swan books out) was also RAF. John Charman, seminal figure in post war OO modelling, was an RAF pilot. To get vaguely back on your thread, J-Mo, I suspect that all were inspired by engineering excellence and innovation, so I think they’d be intrigued by what you are up to!!

Excellent. A lot going for this era, too - short trains and huge variety. Also scope for lots of interesting research….

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4T had been a bit of a disaster in Kerry as she had very poor brakes - something of a critical issue on the T and D. She was more popular in Ballinamore!

Most impressive work.

Wonderful view of Broadstone. Hard to believe, looking at that almost timeless image, that steam on CIE would be extinct in 4 years.

Very nice detailed corner, full of visual interest already. Good place to put a cameo scene, such as couple of mill workers on a fag break!

Norman Johnston’s book has an outline sketch on page 100. Also worth checking if the GN loco drawings published by the IRRS include them….https://irrs.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Digital-Drawings-List-22-UK.pdf

Very nice - bet @KMCEwill love it!

In certain regiments of the British Army @jhb171achillbeans are regarded as ‘not being an officer’s vegetable’. Here you are then….

Trolley service is ok and will indeed be missed by some, but this is what real on train catering means ….I hope it does come back on IE.

One of the lesser known episodes of the Afghan campaign was the relocation to a Kabul museum of several old locos by the German army. A location even more edgy than Strabane. Possibly.

Sorry to hear that David. Do you think some kind of fix is possible, please, either at this stage, or as part of the initial build. I have bought one which is awaiting building

Yes, Slaters are pretty much a 7mm concern - although I only really use them for wheels…..they do 5’3” axles, mercifully! Very nice work on yours Jb.

I built one years ago for a UK outline layout and it does have a vaguely Irish vibe - especially at the ends.

Chary of admitting or aspiring to ‘greater knowledge’ but Johnson’s book states that shed allocation ended under the UTA. This implies that it existed before. I am not aware of any published lists, of the kind that exist for the GSR in the 30s: IRRS may have GN loco dept records - and the Mallon collection in Louth CC archives may be a mine of information. I suspect that, otherwise, allocations may simply have to be inferred from the photographic archive - how frequently a particular loco appears at a particular shed. Thus AL class no 59 was, I think, an Enniskillen engine, and has been identified (in Johnson again) as the resident pilot loco. Enniskillen engines could always be identified anyway as the cleanest on the system !