NIR

Do me a favour and delete my account bullyboy, I won't be making the same mistake twice.

That's ok, I don't want to be your friend, but I was about the only person on here expressing concern about corona 18 months ago, which should tell you something.

Nothing odd at all, it's time to move on.

That's ridiculous. The corona restrictions were too little, too late and are now too much, too long. Vote with your feet Leslie, let Warley die, get your money back.

Yes, it looks a bit MPD

The quintessential 1970s NIR siding as seen from a passing 70 Class - cut-down open, spoil wagon, ex-railcar hauled stock

Maybe people are expecting too much, detail and robustness? These things were a one off and they are as they arrived, it's not going to magically get better. I'm sure GM vacuum pipes are available from other sources anyway, maybe 3.5 rather than 4mm but who would notice.

I'm really tempted to model this, with railcar operated freight and some brutish mineral wagons laid up, maybe a strange-looking industrial shunter pottering about. Does this sound at all familiar?

Fintona analogues. GFM Broc, Suisse BAM Ballens, Suisse

The above three are all Interlaken area which is German but the French in this niggled me. Internet tells me it's a Vevey-Montreux-Chillon tram, runs along Lake Geneva https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vevey–Montreux–Chillon–Villeneuve_tramway I would guess they travelled between the two areas on the Golden Pass line https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenPass_Line

First two are Jungfrau Bahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungfrau_Railway Third is Brienz-Rothorn Bahn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brienz_Rothorn_Railway

That looks a lot like Niesen in the background, the first high ground you see going south on the Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon. Maybe Emdthal between Spiez and Reichenbach https://goo.gl/maps/nrD155RETCLW2VFP7 The background is pretty much uniformly high from there on into the Rhône valley, where the forest looks sparser, more Mediterranean.

The railway closed before I was born but that was certainly the colour of the Lough Swilly buses at that time.

It could, but because the conflict has changed orientation, from along a passing loop to across a switchback, two points would allow no simultaneous movement at all.

Interesting to ponder why a passing loop needs just two points while this, a passing loop folded back upon itself, needs four.