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Nenagh is interesting, single through line but with a siding to recess PW trains that itself contains a loop.

Three points, but instead of the usual passing loop and siding we have the goods loop once so characteristic of an Irish track layout.

Thanks to @thewanderer

1 hour ago, airfixfan said:

Ballymagorry from June issue of Railway Bylines

Looks like three points though, one visible, one semi-visible and one implied. Profligate!

7 minutes ago, Andy Cundick said:

Just a thought,what value do you add to something by taxing it? Andy.

Exactly, the whole basis of VAT is that it stops once it reaches the consumer. That's why there are the VAT margin schemes on second hand goods, goods that have been sold by a consumer to a business.

VAT is just a massive list of exceptions anyway, no one really knows it all, not even VATmen.

Does that ever happen? Yes it does, 01:32

7 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

There were several stations in rural areas where crossing was done with a siding only - even with passenger trains, as in Inver, Co Donegal, where up trains served the platform then reversed back into a siding to allow a down train to arrive. Once it had proceeded west, the up train moved forward out of the siding and headed towards Donegal.

I thought there would be, even if only to recess PW trains, but it seems there's nothing like that on the network now, just loops.

Manulla is perhaps the closest, the newer layout now recesses the Ballina shuttle and allows it be passed to/from Ballina, but does that ever happen?

The axis has tilted from east to southeast. I notice the South Wexford line is still receiving maintenance, so who knows.

Cobh, a trailing crossover, two points

Manulla, a reversed Z, two points

Midleton, just a fork, one point

and the winner...

Grand Canal Dock, one terminating line but yet..., zero points

The small print - Ireland only, excludes simple through lines and loops

5 hours ago, Northroader said:

Could you allow just two points, like the preserved West Clare does? Put your track down, and if you want the train pointing the other way, put the engine in the shed, raise your baseboard at one end just enough for your train to roll past, and off you go.

That's more or less what happened at Wingham Canterbury Road on the East Kent Light Railway

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/w/wingham_canterbury_road/1946map.gif

46 minutes ago, Irishswissernie said:

Copy of Fintona from Norman Johnston's excellent little book on the Tram.

I have a fair number of views in Ernie's Railway Archive in the GNRI Album but probably easier to search Fintona photos in the album header rather than wade through the 800 plus images.

 

 

There is more than a touch of the Continent in that trackplan.

Six points, that's more than Derry or Sligo!

6 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Historically, Fintona. the perfect tiny branch terminus

Trackplan? I guess they wouldn't have to reverse the horse but otherwise it sounds a bit loop and sidings, at least three points.

Manulla, two points in a reversed Z, now that's interesting.

That's just boring though.

I did think of Howth but that has trailing *and* facing crossovers, four points.

Not the loop and one siding places, that's three points!

But Midleton, just a fork, and Cobh, just a trailing crossover.

Any others?

7 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Am I seeing, in that pic, the loco frame cut open lengthways???? Buffer beam half cut across??

It's just a weird perspective with the smokebox door open between the toolboxes

11 hours ago, Robert Shrives said:

Trailer looks to be a trial for air con as well ... missing a complete window ..

I wondered about that, sometimes windows were replaced with no opening at all but nothing would surprise me.

If Tara Mines built a smelter and refined ingots on site then that would be heavy industry, otherwise I'm struggling.

You could draw some parallel lines on this photo and derive a relative proportion for the hopper opening

Shows a whole coach of hopper windows pre-Sealink livery.

22 hours ago, jhb171achill said:

Never noticed that before! Were they fitted only to the Sealink set?

They also seem to have been fitted as individual window replacements across the 70 Class

It's so detailed that only epochs will do. So forget about liveries, they're on the models anyway.

Pre-grouping - MGWR, BNCR, INWR, SLNCR

Grouping - GSR, NCC, GNRI, SLNCR

Nationalisation - CIE, UTA

Dieselisation - diesels

Rationalisation - block freight, no freight

Each model spread across epochs according to livery

How about straight points crossovers arranged like these to avoid reverse curves and create more space

If no Dapol then some Bachmann LMS porthole coaches are 60 feet

On 27/2/2021 at 9:04 PM, DJ Dangerous said:

BrExit, whether one is in favour of it, against it or on the fence, is offering an opportunity in the face of crisis for Irish retailers to expand their online presence massively.

Correct, but 100 years on and it's still the Brits fault. Let's face it, all the bright people left long ago.

Would be interesting to know what permissions, if any, were obtained for model ambulances bearing the red cross. Unauthorised use of that symbol is a criminal offence I think, following on from the Geneva Convention or similar.

53 minutes ago, murphaph said:

The negative effects we are currently experiencing on postal deliveries to Ireland are purely down to the UK leaving the single market and customs union in January.

Take it up with the Revenue Commissioners and your MEP.