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And one can only imagine what happened the night that an SLNC wagon fell apart in the yard at EKN…interestingly, cattle traffic had priority over all else on the SLNC. Woe betide the driver whose tardy station work caused a delay to the ‘shipper’…. On one unfortunate day in 1956, Lough Melvin blew a cylinder cover on the climb out of Glenfarne with the afternoon goods ex EKN, and had to limp back downhill. The driver of the 7:20 later that evening was not amused to discover that he had to shunt the wagon loads off this train as well as his own. The crowd of cattle dealers travelling in coach 9 were even less impressed by the lengthy shunt at Manorhamilton that ensued !

Unless it’s pre 1892 in which case it might be 1 foot 9 inches too wide !

Thanks Ernie - nice view of 850. As for pic 2, we have finally found the prototype for those odd looking and misproportioned locos that appear on birthday cards, pub art and generic advertising…..

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Nice comment on the Donegal, Mayner! Here’s a similar effort on the SLNC. It’s the 1115 ex Sligo which was technically goods only but seems to have had enthusiast passengers in the final years. You can see some poking their heads out here In Dromahair. I think there’s also gricers in the signal cabin!

Great stuff Andreas. As we often say in modelling - wenn es richtig aussieht ist es richtig - if it looks right, it is right! Really captures look of loco.

It’s York Road, Belfast.

Yes, growing up in 70s NI when almost nothing went by rail, the sheer amount of freight still being hauled in the 60s amazes me.

Wilkommen, Andreas! Lovely models. More details on how you built them would be great - thank you for posting.

Drumkeeran Road had its show debut today. A nice local show - so local I could leave house at 9 and be home by 5. Layout has performed well with just a few glitches but nothing dramatic. Lovely to meet lots of people who took an intelligent and often informed interest in the layout. A few photos, including a rare passenger working by Blessingbourne…..

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What he said! A joy. Looks like a new-ish cement van in the siding. Thanks Ernie

Sadly, a WT and not a Z class - Lough Erne was well out of commission by 1984.

As far as the 450s go, anything that moved was better! Here’s a fascinating photo from that 1984 era. All is not as it seems - there’s a large black tank engine at the other end banking!! Photo on RPSI website by I Smyth

Has a Finaghy look to me….

Should be a nice little project. Those card kits eat blades though so a spare stash of SM blades would be handy !

Looks like the tag off a mail satchel or similar. ‘Big houses’ often had such things at local railway stations or post offices, to convey their post privately. One can still be seen at Florencecourt House, Co Fermanagh, which was used to convey the Earl of Enniskillen’s mail to and from the SLNC station there.

First item of C and L stock - brake van. Body is a 3D print mounted on an old Farish chassis - the built in moulded chassis was a bit sub par and needed broken off! Railings built up from plastic rod and entomological pins. Needs a bit of weathering but priority right now is building stock for Saturday’s show !! Have also created a little cameo of two locals chatting on the road….

Very nice. Note the classic SLNC nameplates of red lettering, and also red coupling rods and bosses - not often seen but just glimpsable here. The second view of 27 looks as if she’s near her withdrawal date.

You say that JB, but the Cavan and Leitrim did actually toy with the idea of a similar yoke over a hundred years ago for the mails! Lovely GN stuff - the amount of such historic iron ware that passed through our house over the years….,

Terrific work, Phil. The KS 2-6-0 is a lovely loco - look forward to learning more. Kathleen’s exciting all right - especially as it’s meant to be the start of a range ! Imagine - an NCC 2-4-2T or a C & M ‘Blarney’……Neil Ramsay has produced stuff in 45mm gauge - see below - but mass production makes it more available for us lesser mortals…..

If you get the livery of the cart right, it at least says ‘Ireland’ in a way that scale 4’ gauge track decidedly does not!

That makes perfect sense. Salmon pink…. in the 70s, we had an old hedge trimmer stored in the long byre - which had probably travelled to Dromahair on the SLNC when new - and every so often when the turf piled over it reached a certain level, you’d see those pink wheels !

Like it. With the NIR rail bus painted two tone SLNC green waiting in the bay…..

Looks like a half demolished loco shed.