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That’s a lovely little E class; and with the correctly painted green underframe, too!

Very pleasant day it was too, David - thank you! Really enjoyed being immersed in County Tyrone for a few hours.

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R8096, if they are 12mm, which if ancient they are likely to be, rather than 14mm. Beautiful work with the stock, Patrick. Only one thing missing from those buses/ Howden-Meredith wheels !

Nice shot of 16. Hard to believe that something so elegant was built as late as 1945.

Yes that’s what I’d figure. Very healthy traffic that day!

Not sure it’s the Cookstown goods as the NCC side closed in 55; only the GN line to Cookstown was still open in 59

I think this one is Clipperstown

Wonderful stuff. A railtour over this line in 59 was my dad’s first big railway trip. Knockloughrim is - or was until recently - fairly intact under modern additions! I have vague memories of it looking as it did in 59. The goods shed at Toome has an almost Far North of Scotland look.

Lovely. Looks really well thought out

Wow - that’s incredibly good!

Indeed it is

I used Kato N track for several years. I can’t comment on the HO stuff much but the key benefit is that Kato stuff is actually designed to be repeatedly taken apart and stored (Japanese homes often don’t allow much room for layouts so huge temporary systems can easily be built this way - running on the floor - and taken down). It’s got robust connectors and should give a reliable way of running trains without the ‘fishplate’ connectivity issues that often come with other sectional makes.

Interesting! Shows how tenders could swap around - that’s not a ‘typical’ J15 tender. There’s some fascinating photos out there of a PP scuttling round the Irish North c1957 coupled to a UG tender, which looks most unusual. Image by JJ Smith. Also a very nicely composed shot at Bawnboy Road. That platform at left is a very tempting project !

Interesting, Angus. Worth noting, perhaps, that the SLNC beyond Dromahair had corrugated buildings (the money running out?). Florencecourt’s goods facilities were also fairly unpretentious, being a mix of brick and wiggly tin. Images courtesy Ciaran Cooney

With all the sausages, eggs, milk and bacon on that train, I wouldn’t be fitting into anything afterwards !

Spectacular stuff. And much of that line still slumbering under its cover of greenery and debris. Lovely top photo with siding suggests a nice micro layout fed by cassettes either side

One of the intriguing ones is Portstewart, which had a tramway up until c1926 linking it to the NCC. When that closed, there was a a proposal to divert the Portrush branch to take in the town, which sadly never happened.

That is excellent and inspiring work, Ken. Nice version of a J26. In the 7mm world, r/c is probably the long term future as opposed to DCC, as some prophets are predicting. One exponent is Graham Powell, who produces big engines like this Bulleid, capable of pulling heavy trains at speed on a garden line, quite a challenge for a battery but he swears by the system. He uses a £4.99 motor with a homemade gearbox, too…. For an Irish scheme, an SLNCR railbus with battery and receiver in the trailer could work nicely…..;)

Is it an Eastern Region brake tender ? V nice work

Just what these are for !

Wonderful stuff. My grandparents farm had an outbuilding just like that with an external staircase. All whitewashed walls and red timber work back in the day. Really nice work and atmosphere is building well. You’d have a lot of customers if you launched this as a kit !

Excellent. Bit of a golden age for photographs now. Bought three SLNC images from two collections this week - both delivered very quickly via email and instantly available to zoom in on for detail. Big thanks to those who do this work / take a bow on their behalf @Irishswissernie!

Excellent stuff David. Great to see Fintonagh out and about again. Know what you mean about traders. Was at Gauge O Guild Kettering show on Sat, much time being spent with various traders-showing various bemused stallholders arcane photos of Irish rolling stock and asking ‘have you any springs like that ?’……and significant sums of money passed from me to Slaters, not to mention Premier Components who have a natty helical gearbox on offer….