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Lovely stuff Patrick. That early shot of it gliding to a halt at the platform is sublime! Good music too- I have come to associate Máire Ní Chathasaigh & Chris Newman’s version of ‘Lord Inchiquin’ with the SLNC as it was on a loop when I was finishing ‘Enniskillen’!

Lovely model - look forward to seeing what you can do with one!

Excellent stuff. I think @colmflanaganhas used one of these Adams Radial tanks before for a BCDR loco to great effect.

Very nice little article here: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/europeantraction.com/2017/06/10/cie-e421-class-little-maybachs-in-ireland/amp/

Hope all goes well Ernie. Brilliant stuff. The black U in your site is lovely too. Funny how old Us started black and ended blue, but other way round with new Us (some of them anyway!).

They aren’t Methfix ones by any chance ?

Steve Rabone is a fine S scale modeller. Those pics are gems / this is the CIE I recall. What a wonderful railway it was - basically a steam age system with the only significant change being a diesel at the front. Barring that, this was a railway and way of operating that a Victorian railwayman could have recognised. At the age of 13 I couldn’t articulate that but I recognise it now!

7’ is what I have off Peter Halton’s 1996 drawing

Ain’t that the truth!

Excellent. That A just floats along

That’s a lovely model too. Yes, I have the SLNC ‘wagon book’ from the IRRS too. That road vehicle one seems - logically enough - to have had ends that drop down over the buffers with fixed sides. 143 looks more like a ballast wagon, which would have fixed ends and dropping sides instead.

That’s great Ken - looks most interesting and a very nice piece of work. Those uprights are very distinctive- the SLNC had some similar types of bracing- see wagons to left and right of 143.

Great to see such a layout commemorated. My early realisation that Irish railways could be modelled came about the age of 6 when my dad took me to see Drew Donaldson’s system one day. And another day he took me to Fred Graham’s house where I saw clockwork blue GN locos with brown coaches. My Hornby class 37 just wasn’t the same after that! Glad that a few like you Colm had the wit to try and get the 4mm Irish scene going…

The setting’s not bad either !

Limerick-Foynes mixed

That’s delightful. The composition of the farm buildings below the viaduct is spot on - so often a ‘farm’ is just three buildings placed on a flat piece of grass, looking more like a barracks! The varied heights and angles here ring true.

For black engines, yes it’s gold and red. For blue engines, I think it’s gold and black. I found these in Fox recently which look ballpark for black engines.

No, they didn’t work main line trains like that. That terminus was a bit like a US ‘Union terminal’ with trains of other companies being worked in.

One of the most famous pieces of SLNC rolling stock was coach 9, a regular on the 7:20 ‘mixed’. Although it wasn’t really a mixed - simply a passenger train which bolted on any empty wagons left at Enniskillen after the 2pm goods had gone. Already an obsolescence when built in the 20s, its quirkiness delighted enthusiasts, from the coupe at the front to the longitudinally divided first class smoker/non-smoker. So I had to build one, my first ever scratch bogie vehicle. Used an Alphagraphix card kit as a drawing, but body fabricated from plastic card, using David Jenkinson’s inner/outer skin methods. It’s a bit tricky as the large windows on each end don’t make for structural strength. Bogies are Slaters 8’, cut down to 7’6. I finished it in the greyish brown that SLNC stock tended to finish up in. Although 9 was spruced up towards the end, the painting was done by a wagon painter and the finish quickly deteriorated. I have done her as she appeared c 1955, before the final repaint. Bizarrely enough, I have dim memories of seeing one of these SLNC coaches, despite being born a decade and a half post closure. In a field near Dromahair a farmer had half of one as a shed. It was near the road and a regular sight until c1980 for me. As a child I also had a painting of Lissadell and her coach on my wall. Image courtesy @Irishswissernie. Those early memories really dictated how I should paint up my No 9. It’s far from perfect, and I’m not completely happy with it, but it’s better than the No 9 I didn’t have a month ago! Taking photos does help identify some of the remedial work I will undertake - in time! You will see that ‘Enniskillen’ has also recovered from her recent cosmetic surgery……resin rivet patches in, spot repainted black and weathering gloop applied. Also interesting to see how short No9 actually is compared to a 6w - probably a requirement for getting round those bends in the SLNC route! Connoisseurs did consider the trio of SLNC bogies to be rather shorter in length than was desirable. Coach 4, the little saloon, is in the pristine finish as she was in 1950. Interestingly, David Holman and I have both made 4 and 9, but reversed the finish - his 9 is immaculate and his 4 is worn! Of course, now I post the pictures I notice the buffer that’s crept round !

Black livery was revised in 1934, giving way to first blue locos in 1936.

Indeed it would in that condition, which is her later state. Think she may have been green originally - and named. SGs are rather nice too.

UG is 5’1 drivers and a wheelbase of 15’ 7”. SG/SG3 had 5’1 drivers and wheelbase of 16’11”. E class is 5’ drivers and wheelbase of 15’. The E class are quite sweet little things

And as for the Prussian T18…. The BCDR did at least redeem themselves in the rebuilt 2-4-0, No 6…..

I suspect Ardee would also have been an early target for the GNRI bus service.

I have used cork before. I think that Chris Nevard’s DAS ballast would work well for the effect you want - gives that ash ballast look http://nevardmedia.blogspot.com/2011/08/creating-effect-of-ash-ballast.html?m=1